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Space Patrol
Overview
Space Patrol is a science fiction adventure series that was originally aimed at juvenile audiences of the early 1950s via television, radio, and comic books. However, it soon developed a sizable adult audience such that by 1954, the program consistently ranked in the top 10 shows broadcast on a Saturday.
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Seasons
Season 1 (1950)
No overview available.
53 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Treachery of Mars
1950-12-30Buzz Corry, the Commander of the Space Patrol is in route from the planet Terra to Earth. He is accompanied by Cadet Happy, a new Cadet and winner of the Corry Scholarship. They spot what appears to be a derelict guided missile. As they move to destroy the derelict, its engines fire and the missile launches toward the commander's craft. The missile narrowly misses and changes course to intercept. In reality, the missile is a disguised ""cosmic"" bomb controlled by Major Gorla from his fortress on Kars. The Major is assisted by Matra, an assistant to Terra' Secretary General. Together they plan to conquer the United Planets beginning with the murder of Commander Corry.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: The Lethal Lady
1951-01-06Marta enlists the aid of Lt. Krasnoff a disgruntled Space Patrol to steal top secret materials and to destroy Commander Corry. Krasnoff holds a grudge against Major ""Robbie"" Robertson, United Planets Security Chief. Krasnoff paralyzes the Major with a ray gun and disengages the magnetic force control causing Buzz and Happy's rocketship out if control and into freefall seconds before landing.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 3: Intrigue in the Cabinet
1951-01-13Cabinet member Baron Von Kreitz hatches a plot to overthrow the General Secretary of the United Planets. The Baron sends Lt. Groat to prevent Commander Corry from delivering a report on Venus to the General Secretary. The information is passed to the Assistant Security Chief Tonga, who is wounded and partially paralyzed and imprisoned in the aft compartment of her space car. She manages to activate the ship's magnetizer, leaving a cosmic static trail. This signal allows Commander Corry and Cadet Happy to track her space car to the Baron's hideout on Earth's moon.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 4: The Agra Ray
1951-01-20Carol Carlisle, the daughter of the Secretary General, is testing her invention she calls the ""Agra Ray."" The radiation from the device enables plants to reach full maturity within a number of hours. However, the ray may be perverted into a powerful weapon with the capability of turning entire cities into stone. Unknown to Ms Carlisle, her assistant is agent of Prince Greegor of Mercury. The lab assistant steals the Agra Ray and kidnaps Ms Carlisle, transporting them to Mercury, where Prince Greegor plans to threaten Terra, the Capitol of the United Planets.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 5: The Ivy of Death
1951-01-27Due to an extreme food shortage in the Juniper system, Major Robertson and Tonga are to transport the Agra Ray to prevent starvation in the colonies. They are met by the sinister Goron, posing as the Agricultural minister, He leads the to his headquarters at the foot of Cornicus' crater. He plans to steal the Agra Ray to force the growth of the ""ivy of death."" The vines give off a suffocating dioxide which he plans to use in destroying the Unite Planets.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 6: Trouble on Saturn's Third Moon
1951-02-03Tonga is dispatched to Saturn's third moon after reports of trouble at the Cosmic Radiation Plant #1. Tonga's investigation leads the dismissal of the hot-tempered Captain Kronk. Kronk avows revenge and Tonga is shot with a shock rifle. Commander Corry and Cadet Happy arrive and rescue Tonga, but they are unable to capture Captain Kronk. However, they do arrest Kronk's assistant attempting to abscond with embezzled payroll accounts from the plant.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 7: Solo Flight to Jupiter
1951-02-10Cadet Happy makes his first solo flight to the Jupiter Space Port. Unfortunately, he acquires an unwelcome passenger named Lucky. Lucky is by trade an embezzler who is fleeing with Jupiter Trust Company's funds. To insure Happy's silence and cooperation, Lucky threatened to kill Carol and Commander Corry.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 8: Cosmic Dedris Waring
1951-02-17The United Planets Chief Astronomer discovers a planetoid has exploded. He sends an urgent report to Major Robertson at Space Control the debris posses a danger to all space raft in the area. Commander Corry, Cadet Lucky and Carol are returning to Terra from Earth when their space craft is struck by a meteor. They find themselves in dire straights: unable to navigate, unable to communicate, and venting oxygen through a hull rupture.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 9: The Planos Epidemic
1951-02-24The owner of six lead mines on the moon Planos reports that an epidemic is spreading through the mines. Berger, the owner asks for assistance from the United Planets. Commander Corry, Tonga and Cadet Happy are dispatched on a rescue mission with the needed serum to halt the disease. However, Burger and his assistant are trying to keep quiet a secret discovery of a rich deposit of Exonium. Captain Happy discovers Leckner tampering with the atmospheric controls in one of the mine shafts. In a struggle with Cadet Happy, he unknowingly inhales a lethal dose of the concentrated bacteria.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 10: Tunnel of Escape: Tunnel of Death
1951-03-03Warden Sovak and his head trustee, Erik, have been arranging for prisoners to escape provided they can pay the appropriate fee. The prisoners are lead out through a tunnel which passes under an irrigation canal. After the report of three prisoners escaping the supposed escape-proof facility leads to an investigation. Commander Corry, Cadet Happy and Major Robertson carry out the inquiry.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 11: The Perilous Sleep
1951-03-10Episode 12: A Vacation at Lake Azure
1951-03-17Episode 13: Theft of the Zeta Ray
1951-03-24Episode 14: Blackmail on Saturn
1951-03-31Episode 15: The Man in the Radurium Glove
1951-04-07Episode 16: Under the Red Lake of Jupiter
1951-04-14Episode 17: The Counterfeit Commander
1951-04-21Episode 18: Mysterious Mission to Canali
1951-04-28Episode 19: The Major's Dilemma
1951-05-05Episode 20: Isolation in Space
1951-05-12Episode 21: The Tourist Trap
1951-05-19Episode 22: Dangerous Intrigue
1951-05-26Episode 23: The Secret Injection
1951-06-02Episode 24: The Treacherous Technicians
1951-06-09Episode 25: Beyond the Rim of Space
1951-06-16Episode 26: Race Against Death
1951-06-23Episode 27: The Lost City of the Carnacans
1951-06-30Episode 28: The Deadly Weapon
1951-07-07Episode 29: The Legend of Wild Man's Ridge
1951-07-14Episode 30: Way Station to the Stars
1951-07-21Episode 31: The Hidden Reflector
1951-07-28Episode 32: The Dangerous Discovery
1951-08-04Episode 33: Spaceship on the Edge of Forever
1951-08-11Episode 34: The Underwater Hideout
1951-08-18Episode 35: A Big Wheel Named Ferris
1951-08-25Episode 36: The Vindictive Brother
1951-09-01Episode 37: Photograph of a Traitor
1951-09-08Episode 38: The Couragous Traitor
1951-09-15Episode 39: The Theft of the Scrambler
1951-09-22Episode 40: Prometheus Bound for Destruction
1951-09-29Episode 41: Immediate Disaster
1951-10-06Episode 42: Lunatics from the Future
1951-10-13Episode 43: The Space Patrol Code Belt
1951-10-20Episode 44: The Floating Image in Space
1951-10-27Episode 45: Secret Peril
1951-11-03Episode 46: The Parasite Disc
1951-11-10Episode 47: The Secret of Terra
1951-11-17Episode 48: Jungle of No Return
1951-11-24Episode 49: Prison of Deadly Gas
1951-12-01Episode 50: The Sacrifice
1951-12-08Episode 51: Flight of the Galaxy
1951-12-15Episode 52: Fair Exchange
1951-12-22Episode 53: The Counterfeit Puzzle
1951-12-29Season 2 (1952)
No overview available.
52 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Flowers of Death
1952-01-05Episode 2: Cosmic Smoke Guns
1952-01-12Episode 3: Lost in the Snow Cap Region of Mars
1952-01-19Episode 4: Explosion on Morehouse Five
1952-01-26Episode 5: The Evil Guardian of Harpola
1952-02-02Episode 6: Hit by a Meteorite
1952-02-09Episode 7: Planetoid Plot
1952-02-16Episode 8: Victim of Amnesia
1952-02-23Episode 9: The Lieutenant's Revenge
1952-03-01Episode 10: The Mind Readers
1952-03-08Episode 11: Slaves of the Exonium Mine
1952-03-15Episode 12: Abandoned in Outer Space
1952-03-22Episode 13: The Great Bank Robbery
1952-03-29Episode 14: The Mysterious Moonquakes
1952-04-05Episode 15: The Phantom Fleet
1952-04-12Episode 16: Trouble on Titan
1952-04-19Episode 17: Sacrifice to the Moon God
1952-04-26Episode 18: Uncertain Death
1952-05-03Episode 19: nvasion
1952-05-10Episode 20: A Threat to the United Planets
1952-05-17Episode 21: The Threat of the Thormanoids
1952-05-24Episode 22: Jungle Jeopardy
1952-05-31Episode 23: The Scheming Sibling
1952-06-07Episode 24: Danger on Mars
1952-06-14Episode 25: Mission to Mercury
1952-06-21Episode 26: The Deadly Ray Gun
1952-06-28Episode 27: The Force Barrier
1952-07-05Episode 28: The Iron Fist
1952-07-12Episode 29: The Derelict Space Station
1952-07-19Episode 30: The Mystery of Ancient Egypt
1952-07-26Episode 31: Mystery of the Pirate Ship
1952-08-02Episode 32: Emergency Flight to Mercury
1952-08-09Episode 33: Blackmail at Lake Azure
1952-08-16Episode 34: The Hidden Map
1952-08-23Episode 35: The Green Mold of Mars
1952-08-30Episode 36: The Galaxtic War
1952-09-06Episode 37: The Energy Thief
1952-09-13Episode 38: Sabotage of the Jupiter Run
1952-09-20Episode 39: The Star Raiders
1952-09-27Episode 40: The Code Breakers
1952-10-04Episode 41: Errand of Mercy
1952-10-11The crew miscalculates, and instead of going back in time to 1952, they end up in Nazi Germany in 1942 in the middle of a world war.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 42: Underwater Treachery
1952-10-18Episode 43: The Electronic Man
1952-10-25Episode 44: Treachery on Terra Five
1952-11-01Episode 45: Frontier Epidemic
1952-11-08Episode 46: Powerdive
1952-11-15Episode 47: Three Exiles
1952-11-22Episode 48: The Shakedown
1952-11-29Episode 49: The Human Trap
1952-12-06Episode 50: The Chase in Time
1952-12-13Episode 51: The Deadly Sunbeam
1952-12-20Episode 52: The Conspiracy
1952-12-27Season 3 (1953)
No overview available.
52 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Human Targets
1953-01-03Episode 2: The Rifle Arsenal
1953-01-19Episode 3: The Stolen Prisoner
1953-01-17Episode 4: The Deadly Flower
1953-01-24Episode 5: Runaway Planetoid
1953-01-31Episode 6: Radioactive Cave
1953-02-07Episode 7: Trip to Deimos
1953-02-14Episode 8: Operation Rescue
1953-02-21Episode 9: Survival in the Ice Desert
1953-02-28Episode 10: Space Fatigue
1953-03-07Episode 11: Threat to Terra
1953-03-14Episode 12: Jail Break
1953-03-21Episode 13: The Laughing Alien
1953-03-28Episode 14: The Vital Factor
1953-04-04Episode 15: Space Mail Robbery
1953-04-11Episode 16: The Space Wanderer
1953-04-18Episode 17: Big Impersonation
1953-04-25Episode 18: Electronic Space Storm
1953-05-02Episode 19: The Deadly Glacier
1953-05-09Episode 20: The Mutation Bomb
1953-05-16Episode 21: Phantom Space Ship
1953-05-23Episode 22: The Green Plague
1953-05-30Episode 23: The Fraud of Titan
1953-06-06Episode 24: The Man Who Stole a City
1953-06-13Episode 25: Gigantic Space Knife
1953-06-20Episode 26: Space Patrol Microscope
1953-06-27Episode 27: The Theft of the Terra Five
1953-07-04Episode 28: Mysterious Ocean in Space
1953-07-11Episode 29: The Stolen Evidence
1953-07-18Episode 30: Traitorous Triangle
1953-07-25Episode 31: Crash Landing
1953-08-01Episode 32: The Brain Machine
1953-08-08Episode 33: A Dangerous Smoke Cloud
1953-08-15Episode 34: The Black Falcon's Return
1953-08-22Episode 35: The Mystery of Planet X
1953-08-29Episode 36: The Trap of Planet X
1953-09-05Episode 37: The Primative Men of Planet X
1953-09-12Episode 38: The Hate Machine of Planet X
1953-09-19Episode 39: Black Falcon's Escape form Planet X
1953-09-26Episode 40: Resonance Impeller
1953-10-03Episode 41: The Ice Demon of Planet X
1953-10-10Episode 42: The Slaves of Planet X
1953-10-17Episode 43: The Giant of Planet X
1953-10-24Episode 44: The Iron Eaters of Planet X
1953-10-31Episode 45: The Falcon's Web of Planet X
1953-11-07Episode 46: Castle's Destruction on Planet X
1953-11-14Episode 47: Valley of Illusion
1953-11-21Episode 48: Doom of Planet X
1953-11-28Episode 49: Alien and the Robot
1953-12-05Episode 50: The Robot's Escape
1953-12-12Episode 51: The City of Living Statues
1953-12-19Episode 52: Mystery of the Missing Asteroids
1953-12-26Season 4 (1954)
No overview available.
44 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Phantom Space Pirate
1954-01-02Episode 2: The Space Vault Robbery
1954-01-09Episode 3: The Pirate's Escape
1954-01-16Episode 4: The Amazon's of Cydonia
1954-01-23Episode 5: The Monsoon Trap on Cydonia
1954-01-30Episode 6: The Men-Slaves of Cydonia
1954-02-06Episode 7: The Deadly Radiation Chamber
1954-02-13Episode 8: The Plot in the Atomic Plant
1954-02-20Episode 9: The Blazing Sun of Mercury
1954-02-27Episode 10: The Big Proteus Shingle
1954-03-06Episode 11: The Escape of Mr. Proteus
1954-03-13Episode 12: Mr. Proteus and Poison Gas
1954-03-20Episode 13: The Revenge of Mr. Proteus
1954-03-27Episode 14: The Capture of Mr. Proteus
1954-04-03Episode 15: Baccarrati's Z-Ray
1954-04-10Episode 16: Marooned in the Past
1954-04-17Episode 17: Evil Spirits of Great Thunderbird
1954-04-24Episode 18: The Fall of the kingdom of Zarra
1954-04-30Episode 19: The Prisoners of the Giant Comet
1954-05-07Episode 20: The Demon Planet
1954-05-14Episode 21: Lost in Galactic Space
1954-05-21Episode 22: The Hidden Treasure of Mars
1954-05-28Episode 23: The Martian Totem Head
1954-06-04Episode 24: Trapped in a Pyramids
1954-06-11Episode 25: The Underwater Space Ship Graveyard
1954-06-18Episode 26: The Giant Marine Clam
1954-06-25Episode 27: Marooned on the Ocean Floor
1954-07-02Episode 28: Mystery of the Disappearing Space Patrolmen
1954-09-04Episode 29: The Space Patrol Periscope
1954-09-11Episode 30: The Space War
1954-09-18Episode 31: The Defeat of Manza
1954-09-25Episode 32: The Giants of Pluto III
1954-10-02Episode 33: The Fiery Pit of Pluto III
1954-10-09Episode 34: Manhunt on Pluto III
1954-10-16Episode 35: Mystery of the Stolen Rocket Ship
1954-10-23Episode 36: The Atom Bomb
1954-10-30Episode 37: Danger: Radiation
1954-11-06Episode 38: The Exploding Stars
1954-11-13Episode 39: The Dwellers of the Prime Galaxy
1954-11-20Episode 40: Terra, The Doomed Planet
1954-11-27Episode 41: Revenge of the Black Falcon
1954-12-04Episode 42: The Sorcerers of Outer Space
1954-12-11Episode 43: The Defeat of Baccarratti
1954-12-18Episode 44: A Christmas Party for Happy
1954-12-25Season 5 (1955)
No overview available.
9 episodes
