What happens
Commander Buzz Corey and Cadet Happy of the Space Patrol are captured in a scientist's laboratory on Venus by Prince Baccarati, who forces them to stay bound while a vacuum pump slowly pulls air from a chamber holding a volatile chemical that will explode. Earlier, Baccarati's henchman Dr. Malengro described a torque ray, a weapon that twists matter apart, and the prince learned that its inventor, Cyrus Kennebec, was retired on Venus. Baccarati has traveled there to force Kennebec to build the weapon for him, and the episode follows Corey and Happy as they struggle to free themselves while the pressure in the chamber rises.
A small laboratory on the planet Venus, with later scenes on the planet Planet X in the Space Patrol's future
Characters: Commander Buzz Corey, Cadet Happy, Prince Baccarati, Dr. Malengro, Cyrus Kennebec, Tascos Arini
Listen for: The pressure indicator on the vacuum chamber as it nears one hundredth of an atmosphere, and Happy's instructions to Corey as they work to free themselves
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.