What happens
Space Patrol: The Time Pirates is a 1955 episode of the Space Patrol series, aired February 19, 1955. Buzz Barry and Happy find themselves stranded on a deserted sea coast in the year 1591, after the criminal scientist Dr. Scarno uses a stolen time-travel method to send them back fourteen centuries. Scarno and his assistant Hugo Blomer travel to the past themselves, where they encounter a pirate ship and its crew burying treasure on the shore. Buzz and Happy, meanwhile, struggle to survive and plan their escape from their unfamiliar surroundings.
A remote sea coast on Earth in the year 1591, and the spaceport in the Andes mountains in the 30th century.
Characters: Buzz Barry, Happy, Dr. Scarno, Hugo Blomer, Commander Corey, Bill Bristol
Listen for: Listen for Dr. Scarno explaining the time-travel effect and the treasure plot, and for Buzz and Happy discussing their situation after being left in 1591.
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.