What happens
Buzz Corey, Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol, pursues the Cobra Gang leader Emil Gargoth after Gargoth escapes from the Terra hospital where he was held. Corey and Cadet Happy trace a mysterious freezing device, the zero ray, to inventor Ulrich Rensler, who has been hiding at Meteor Lake on Venus. Gargoth and Rensler flee the lake in a private cruiser, and the story follows the Space Patrol's pursuit as the two men head toward Mars. The Space Patrol series aired on radio, and this episode's original broadcast date was March 27, 1954.
Terra, the planet Venus at Meteor Lake, and the planet Mars near Lowell City
Characters: Buzz Corey, Happy, Emil Gargoth, Ulrich Rensler, Dr. Arnold, Mr. Clark
Listen for: The eerie freezing effect of the zero ray, and the Space Patrol's chase from the hospital to Venus and onward toward Mars.
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.