What happens
On Mars, astronomer Dr. Benzinger arrives at the Mars Observatory and finds his colleagues in distress: skyrockets from the gambling town of Mars City are fogging their photographic plates. After a town council meeting goes nowhere, Benzinger and his colleagues turn to Harry Harvey, owner of the Red Sands casino, hoping to change the outcome. The episode is part of the X Minus One series, first aired March 21, 1956, and features a story by Jack McKinty, presented in dramatized form.
Mars, the Mars Observatory and the gambling town of Mars City
Characters: Dr. Benzinger, Dr. Morton, Dr. Spiegel, Harry Harvey, Pusher
Listen for: Harry Harvey's offer to the astronomers and the arrival of the skyrockets
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.