The City of Hidden Doom: Space Patrol (December 11, 1954)

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“The City of Hidden Doom” is an episode of Space Patrol, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 11, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Commander Buzz Corey and his partner Happy travel to Jupiter to protect the governors of the five other planets, who are gathering for a conference there. The criminal Bojou, who can make himself and others invisible, is a known threat to the conference. On Jupiter, Corey and Happy use invisibility belts and special spectacles to track Bojou and his accomplice Rubek to a warehouse. Their pursuit leads them into a hidden trap, and a bomb is soon placed in the atmosphere plant of Jupiter City. The Space Patrol is racing against time to find it and stop the explosion.

Jupiter City on the planet Jupiter, including a warehouse, a hidden room, and the atmosphere plant, in the 23rd century

Characters: Commander Buzz Corey, Happy, Bojou, Rubek

Listen for: Corey and Happy's race against the clock to find the bomb in the atmosphere plant

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.