The Queen of Space: Space Patrol (November 15, 1952)

Space Patrol, old-time radio on Stupid Potato

“The Queen of Space” is an episode of Space Patrol, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 15, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Buzz Corey and Cadet Happy board a spaceship at Neptune City Spaceport to track down a traitor against the United Planets, but Brax Cardo ambushes them and locks them in a compartment with a hidden explosive. Earlier, Buzz sends Tonga, posing as a magazine writer, to investigate a string of accidents on the outer planet passenger runs. Tonga begins gathering information from Jelna Fenton of Transorbit, whose rival line has been losing ships. The transcript ends with Buzz pursuing a private cruiser that has left Neptune with Tonga aboard, as a tense standoff develops over the open space-phone.

Neptune City Spaceport and the space lanes between Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in the 25th century

Characters: Buzz Corey, Happy, Tonga, Jelna Fenton, Brax Cardo

Listen for: Buzz Corey's confrontation with Jelna Fenton over the space-phone as her cruiser pulls away from Neptune with Tonga aboard

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.