Shipment to Tiranna: Space Patrol (August 28, 1954)

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“Shipment to Tiranna” is an episode of Space Patrol, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 28, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Commander Buzz Corey of the Space Patrol investigates the theft of confidential records from a Mars office and a series of stolen industrial machinery. His investigation leads him and Cadet Happy to Lowell City on Mars, where they search the apartment of Rexford Ames, a former employee suspected of taking the documents. Assistant Director Anton Zorba has pointed them toward Ames, and the pair soon find themselves locked in a closet by two men named Smeade and Jorgen. The investigation continues as the Space Patrol tracks the suspects to a cave on Saturn's fifth moon.

The Space Patrol central office and Commander's office at headquarters, Mars and Lowell City, Saturn's fifth moon, and interplanetary space.

Characters: Buzz Corey, Happy, Anton Zorba, Rexford Ames, Parker, Matthew Smeade, Jorgen

Listen for: Listen for Zorba's phone calls to Smeade and the warning about tetrahedrite, and for how Buzz and Happy trace the suspects to Saturn's fifth moon.

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.