What happens
Buzz Corey and Happy are aboard the luxury passenger spaceship Supernova, bound for Saturn, while investigating a suspected theft. Mark Grayson, a young field man for Solar Technics, is carrying valuable microfilm concealed in a ring on his finger. Buzz and Happy become involved after entering Grayson's compartment, where a game of three-dimensional chess is underway with a stranger. The story is part of the Space Patrol radio series, first broadcast on August 8, 1953, and the transcript includes sponsor messages that have been left out of this guide. The episode's full plot is not covered here.
Aboard the passenger spaceship Supernova, en route from Earth to Saturn, and at Saturn's headquarters
Characters: Buzz Corey, Happy, Mark Grayson, Clark Rucker, Walberg
Listen for: The three-dimensional chess game in Grayson's compartment and the scene in the rubbish disposal chute
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.