Crash Landing: Space Patrol (February 7, 1953)

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“Crash Landing” is an episode of Space Patrol, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 7, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Commander Buzz Corey and Cadet Happy pursue the criminal Don Vio, who has stolen an evidence pouch from them on Venus and taken Carol Carlisle, the Secretary-General's daughter, as a hostage. Vio demands a space exchange and threatens to detonate a cartridge in Carol's spacesuit. Corey agrees to his terms and sends Happy out to find her, but the trap is plain. The story follows the pair's attempts to track Vio's ship to its hideout on Mars.

Venus City, Venus, and later space and the Tharsis Hills of Mars, in the twenty-fifth century

Characters: Buzz Corey, Happy, Carol Carlisle, Don Vio, Bob Henry

Listen for: Corey's plan to stage a crash landing near Vio's hideout, and Vio's threat to detonate the cartridge in Carol's spacesuit

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.