The Cosmic Ray Detector: Space Patrol (May 9, 1953)

“The Cosmic Ray Detector” is an episode of Space Patrol, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 9, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Commander Buzz Corey and Cadet Happy of the Space Patrol investigate the theft of cosmic ray detector crystals from a Space Patrol agent on Terra 5. Suspect Dolph Rambo, a known gem swindler, is watched at the spaceport, where the crystals are hidden in a necklace. Secretary-General Carlisle's daughter Carol is about to travel to Jupiter to give a lecture. The episode is from the Space Patrol radio series, broadcast on May 9, 1953, and the cast is not named in the material provided.

Terra 5 and the Space Patrol headquarters, then the spaceport and Jupiter City on Jupiter.

Characters: Buzz Corey, Happy, Carol Carlisle, Ed Happy, Dolph Rambo, Burton Henshley, Secretary-General Carlisle

Listen for: Listen for how Commander Corey tracks Rambo and Henshley from the spaceport to Jupiter City, and for the hidden necklace that Carol finds in her luggage.

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.