What happens
Commander Corey and Cadet Happy investigate the disappearance of Frank Michelson, a mining figure whose Venus millennium discovery has drawn dangerous interest. Michelson is taken by two men, Zalabar and Parrish, to the jungle settlement of Caravan, where a derelict warehouse on Meridian Street becomes a prison. Corey and Happy follow his trail to Caravan and find themselves in trouble among the rotting bales of picatero plant fiber. This is an episode of the Space Patrol series, first broadcast on 19 December 1953, and the story continues into a rescue attempt in the Venus jungle.
Venus, including the Space Patrol headquarters on Terra, the Paris Space Hotel, and the jungle settlement of Caravan with its warehouse at the end of Meridian Street
Characters: Commander Corey, Cadet Happy, Buzz, Frank Michelson, Zalabar, Parrish
Listen for: Michelson's dictated message about postponing action, and the storage bin scene where Corey and Happy realise the fumes are deadly
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.