The Magic Space Pictures: Space Patrol (March 14, 1953)

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“The Magic Space Pictures” is an episode of Space Patrol, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 14, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy investigate the theft of image reactor equipment from a Space Patrol security lab. Technician Juro Vanik, who has vanished, is suspected of the theft. Corry and Happy track his ship through the planetoid belt, where a prospector named Trog Barrett lives in a cave. The story is part of the Space Patrol radio series, first broadcast on March 14, 1953, with Buzz Corry in the lead role.

Space Patrol headquarters, the spaceport and planetoid belt near Mars and Jupiter

Characters: Buzz Corry, Cadet Happy, Juro Vanik, Trog Barrett, Jeff Fisher

Listen for: Corry's use of the image reactor controls and the tense chase through the planetoid belt

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.