The Invisible Enemy: Space Patrol (December 4, 1954)

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“The Invisible Enemy” is an episode of Space Patrol, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 4, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Commander Buzz Corey and his cadet Happy are transporting the captured criminal Clayton Slake to a rehabilitation center on Venus. Their prisoner's accomplice, Benton Rock, works with the master criminal Ralph Boger, whose electronic device makes spaceships and people invisible. Rock and Slake use the invisibility field to reach the Terra V's control cabin and turn the tables on the space patrolmen. Corey and Happy then track Boger to a hideout on Venus, where a trap is set. The episode is a Space Patrol adventure from the ABC radio network, first broadcast on December 4, 1954.

Interplanetary space aboard the spaceship Terra V, and a hideout on the planet Venus

Characters: Buzz Corey, Happy, Ralph Boger, Clayton Slake, Benton Rock

Listen for: How the invisibility field lets Rock and Slake reach the control cabin, and Happy's account of the trap in Boger's Venus hideout

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.