The Mysterious Meteor: Space Patrol (February 14, 1953)

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

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What happens

Buzz Corey and Happy investigate a meteor that crashes into a park in New Arcadia, Arizona, on Earth. Professor King examines the glowing rock, and steel tools vanish when they touch it, suggesting the meteor is made of reversed matter. By mistake the meteor is loaded onto a cargo ship bound for Venus, and Buzz and Happy race to overtake it. The episode is part of the Space Patrol radio series, and the transcript does not give its original air date or the actors.

Earth, New Arcadia, Arizona, and then the planet Venus, in the 30th century

Characters: Buzz Corey, Happy, Major Robertson, Professor King, Bill Craig

Listen for: The meteor destroying steel and nickel on contact, and Professor King's explanation that it is matter in reverse.

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.