The Capture of the Red Falcon: Space Patrol (May 15, 1954)

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“The Capture of the Red Falcon” is an episode of Space Patrol, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 15, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Prince Baccarati, the exiled twin brother of the defeated villain, plots to recover a hidden family fortune after Commander Corey of the Space Patrol visits him at the Venus Rehabilitation Center. Baccarati's twin, now reformed, reveals that the treasure lies in a remote retreat in the Venus storm belt. Corey and his cadet Happy travel there to recover it, while Baccarati's associate Eman Druga follows them in a private cruiser. In a violent windstorm, the Space Patrol men are attacked with a heat projector and pursued through the storm. The episode is part of the Space Patrol series, with its original air date listed as May 15, 1954.

Venus, including the Venus Rehabilitation Center, a remote mountain retreat in the storm belt, and a hangar, with Jupiter City as Baccarati's hideout

Characters: Commander Buzz Corry, Happy, Prince Baccarati, Eman Druga, Ligot

Listen for: Druga's ultrasonic heat projector attack in the Venus windstorm, and the moment the hangar door is closed against the storm

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.