The Secret of Sub-Level 7: Space Patrol (May 16, 1953)

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“The Secret of Sub-Level 7” is an episode of Space Patrol, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 16, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Cadet Happy and Commander Corey of the Space Patrol investigate a message slipped to Happy at a Terra exhibition, warning of a plutonium theft. The note points them to Edmund Vogel, an analyst who denies writing it. When Corey and Happy return to Vogel's apartment, they meet Victor Drumlin, who claims to be a business acquaintance. Drumlin then knocks them unconscious and heads for the spaceport to stop Vogel from leaving on a Jupiter-bound ship. Space Patrol, Saturn City and the Space Patrol series are the setting, and the original air date is 1953-05-16. The lead actors are not named in the transcript.

Terra and Saturn City, in the 1950s-era future of the Space Patrol series, including the Terra exhibition, an apartment on Einstein Terrace, the spaceport and underground Sub-Level 7 of Saturn City.

Characters: Commander Corey, Cadet Happy, Edmund Vogel, Victor Drumlin

Listen for: The note slipped into Happy's belt, Vogel's denial, and Drumlin's sudden appearance at Vogel's apartment.

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.