Space Patrol

Space Patrol

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.

Seasons

1. Treachery of Mars

Air Date: 1950-12-30

Buzz 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.

2. The Lethal Lady

Air Date: 1951-01-06

Marta 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.

3. Intrigue in the Cabinet

Air Date: 1951-01-13

Cabinet 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.

4. The Agra Ray

Air Date: 1951-01-20

Carol 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.

5. The Ivy of Death

Air Date: 1951-01-27

Due 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.

6. Trouble on Saturn's Third Moon

Air Date: 1951-02-03

Tonga 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.

7. Solo Flight to Jupiter

Air Date: 1951-02-10

Cadet 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.

8. Cosmic Dedris Waring

Air Date: 1951-02-17

The 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.

9. The Planos Epidemic

Air Date: 1951-02-24

The 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.

10. Tunnel of Escape: Tunnel of Death

Air Date: 1951-03-03

Warden 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.

11. The Perilous Sleep

Air Date: 1951-03-10

12. A Vacation at Lake Azure

Air Date: 1951-03-17

13. Theft of the Zeta Ray

Air Date: 1951-03-24

14. Blackmail on Saturn

Air Date: 1951-03-31

15. The Man in the Radurium Glove

Air Date: 1951-04-07

16. Under the Red Lake of Jupiter

Air Date: 1951-04-14

17. The Counterfeit Commander

Air Date: 1951-04-21

18. Mysterious Mission to Canali

Air Date: 1951-04-28

19. The Major's Dilemma

Air Date: 1951-05-05

20. Isolation in Space

Air Date: 1951-05-12

21. The Tourist Trap

Air Date: 1951-05-19

22. Dangerous Intrigue

Air Date: 1951-05-26

23. The Secret Injection

Air Date: 1951-06-02

24. The Treacherous Technicians

Air Date: 1951-06-09

25. Beyond the Rim of Space

Air Date: 1951-06-16

26. Race Against Death

Air Date: 1951-06-23

27. The Lost City of the Carnacans

Air Date: 1951-06-30

28. The Deadly Weapon

Air Date: 1951-07-07

29. The Legend of Wild Man's Ridge

Air Date: 1951-07-14

30. Way Station to the Stars

Air Date: 1951-07-21

31. The Hidden Reflector

Air Date: 1951-07-28

32. The Dangerous Discovery

Air Date: 1951-08-04

33. Spaceship on the Edge of Forever

Air Date: 1951-08-11

34. The Underwater Hideout

Air Date: 1951-08-18

35. A Big Wheel Named Ferris

Air Date: 1951-08-25

36. The Vindictive Brother

Air Date: 1951-09-01

37. Photograph of a Traitor

Air Date: 1951-09-08

38. The Couragous Traitor

Air Date: 1951-09-15

39. The Theft of the Scrambler

Air Date: 1951-09-22

40. Prometheus Bound for Destruction

Air Date: 1951-09-29

41. Immediate Disaster

Air Date: 1951-10-06

42. Lunatics from the Future

Air Date: 1951-10-13

43. The Space Patrol Code Belt

Air Date: 1951-10-20

44. The Floating Image in Space

Air Date: 1951-10-27

45. Secret Peril

Air Date: 1951-11-03

46. The Parasite Disc

Air Date: 1951-11-10

47. The Secret of Terra

Air Date: 1951-11-17

48. Jungle of No Return

Air Date: 1951-11-24

49. Prison of Deadly Gas

Air Date: 1951-12-01

50. The Sacrifice

Air Date: 1951-12-08

51. Flight of the Galaxy

Air Date: 1951-12-15

52. Fair Exchange

Air Date: 1951-12-22

53. The Counterfeit Puzzle

Air Date: 1951-12-29

1. Flowers of Death

Air Date: 1952-01-05

2. Cosmic Smoke Guns

Air Date: 1952-01-12

3. Lost in the Snow Cap Region of Mars

Air Date: 1952-01-19

4. Explosion on Morehouse Five

Air Date: 1952-01-26

5. The Evil Guardian of Harpola

Air Date: 1952-02-02

6. Hit by a Meteorite

Air Date: 1952-02-09

7. Planetoid Plot

Air Date: 1952-02-16

8. Victim of Amnesia

Air Date: 1952-02-23

9. The Lieutenant's Revenge

Air Date: 1952-03-01

10. The Mind Readers

Air Date: 1952-03-08

11. Slaves of the Exonium Mine

Air Date: 1952-03-15

12. Abandoned in Outer Space

Air Date: 1952-03-22

13. The Great Bank Robbery

Air Date: 1952-03-29

14. The Mysterious Moonquakes

Air Date: 1952-04-05

15. The Phantom Fleet

Air Date: 1952-04-12

16. Trouble on Titan

Air Date: 1952-04-19

17. Sacrifice to the Moon God

Air Date: 1952-04-26

18. Uncertain Death

Air Date: 1952-05-03

19. nvasion

Air Date: 1952-05-10

20. A Threat to the United Planets

Air Date: 1952-05-17

21. The Threat of the Thormanoids

Air Date: 1952-05-24

22. Jungle Jeopardy

Air Date: 1952-05-31

23. The Scheming Sibling

Air Date: 1952-06-07

24. Danger on Mars

Air Date: 1952-06-14

25. Mission to Mercury

Air Date: 1952-06-21

26. The Deadly Ray Gun

Air Date: 1952-06-28

27. The Force Barrier

Air Date: 1952-07-05

28. The Iron Fist

Air Date: 1952-07-12

29. The Derelict Space Station

Air Date: 1952-07-19

30. The Mystery of Ancient Egypt

Air Date: 1952-07-26

31. Mystery of the Pirate Ship

Air Date: 1952-08-02

32. Emergency Flight to Mercury

Air Date: 1952-08-09

33. Blackmail at Lake Azure

Air Date: 1952-08-16

34. The Hidden Map

Air Date: 1952-08-23

35. The Green Mold of Mars

Air Date: 1952-08-30

36. The Galaxtic War

Air Date: 1952-09-06

37. The Energy Thief

Air Date: 1952-09-13

38. Sabotage of the Jupiter Run

Air Date: 1952-09-20

39. The Star Raiders

Air Date: 1952-09-27

40. The Code Breakers

Air Date: 1952-10-04

41. Errand of Mercy

Air Date: 1952-10-11

The 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.

42. Underwater Treachery

Air Date: 1952-10-18

43. The Electronic Man

Air Date: 1952-10-25

44. Treachery on Terra Five

Air Date: 1952-11-01

45. Frontier Epidemic

Air Date: 1952-11-08

46. Powerdive

Air Date: 1952-11-15

47. Three Exiles

Air Date: 1952-11-22

48. The Shakedown

Air Date: 1952-11-29

49. The Human Trap

Air Date: 1952-12-06

50. The Chase in Time

Air Date: 1952-12-13

51. The Deadly Sunbeam

Air Date: 1952-12-20

52. The Conspiracy

Air Date: 1952-12-27

1. The Human Targets

Air Date: 1953-01-03

2. The Rifle Arsenal

Air Date: 1953-01-19

3. The Stolen Prisoner

Air Date: 1953-01-17

4. The Deadly Flower

Air Date: 1953-01-24

5. Runaway Planetoid

Air Date: 1953-01-31

6. Radioactive Cave

Air Date: 1953-02-07

7. Trip to Deimos

Air Date: 1953-02-14

8. Operation Rescue

Air Date: 1953-02-21

9. Survival in the Ice Desert

Air Date: 1953-02-28

10. Space Fatigue

Air Date: 1953-03-07

11. Threat to Terra

Air Date: 1953-03-14

12. Jail Break

Air Date: 1953-03-21

13. The Laughing Alien

Air Date: 1953-03-28

14. The Vital Factor

Air Date: 1953-04-04

15. Space Mail Robbery

Air Date: 1953-04-11

16. The Space Wanderer

Air Date: 1953-04-18

17. Big Impersonation

Air Date: 1953-04-25

18. Electronic Space Storm

Air Date: 1953-05-02

19. The Deadly Glacier

Air Date: 1953-05-09

20. The Mutation Bomb

Air Date: 1953-05-16

21. Phantom Space Ship

Air Date: 1953-05-23

22. The Green Plague

Air Date: 1953-05-30

23. The Fraud of Titan

Air Date: 1953-06-06

24. The Man Who Stole a City

Air Date: 1953-06-13

25. Gigantic Space Knife

Air Date: 1953-06-20

26. Space Patrol Microscope

Air Date: 1953-06-27

27. The Theft of the Terra Five

Air Date: 1953-07-04

28. Mysterious Ocean in Space

Air Date: 1953-07-11

29. The Stolen Evidence

Air Date: 1953-07-18

30. Traitorous Triangle

Air Date: 1953-07-25

31. Crash Landing

Air Date: 1953-08-01

32. The Brain Machine

Air Date: 1953-08-08

33. A Dangerous Smoke Cloud

Air Date: 1953-08-15

34. The Black Falcon's Return

Air Date: 1953-08-22

35. The Mystery of Planet X

Air Date: 1953-08-29

36. The Trap of Planet X

Air Date: 1953-09-05

37. The Primative Men of Planet X

Air Date: 1953-09-12

38. The Hate Machine of Planet X

Air Date: 1953-09-19

39. Black Falcon's Escape form Planet X

Air Date: 1953-09-26

40. Resonance Impeller

Air Date: 1953-10-03

41. The Ice Demon of Planet X

Air Date: 1953-10-10

42. The Slaves of Planet X

Air Date: 1953-10-17

43. The Giant of Planet X

Air Date: 1953-10-24

44. The Iron Eaters of Planet X

Air Date: 1953-10-31

45. The Falcon's Web of Planet X

Air Date: 1953-11-07

46. Castle's Destruction on Planet X

Air Date: 1953-11-14

47. Valley of Illusion

Air Date: 1953-11-21

48. Doom of Planet X

Air Date: 1953-11-28

49. Alien and the Robot

Air Date: 1953-12-05

50. The Robot's Escape

Air Date: 1953-12-12

51. The City of Living Statues

Air Date: 1953-12-19

52. Mystery of the Missing Asteroids

Air Date: 1953-12-26

1. The Phantom Space Pirate

Air Date: 1954-01-02

2. The Space Vault Robbery

Air Date: 1954-01-09

3. The Pirate's Escape

Air Date: 1954-01-16

4. The Amazon's of Cydonia

Air Date: 1954-01-23

5. The Monsoon Trap on Cydonia

Air Date: 1954-01-30

6. The Men-Slaves of Cydonia

Air Date: 1954-02-06

7. The Deadly Radiation Chamber

Air Date: 1954-02-13

8. The Plot in the Atomic Plant

Air Date: 1954-02-20

9. The Blazing Sun of Mercury

Air Date: 1954-02-27

10. The Big Proteus Shingle

Air Date: 1954-03-06

11. The Escape of Mr. Proteus

Air Date: 1954-03-13

12. Mr. Proteus and Poison Gas

Air Date: 1954-03-20

13. The Revenge of Mr. Proteus

Air Date: 1954-03-27

14. The Capture of Mr. Proteus

Air Date: 1954-04-03

15. Baccarrati's Z-Ray

Air Date: 1954-04-10

16. Marooned in the Past

Air Date: 1954-04-17

17. Evil Spirits of Great Thunderbird

Air Date: 1954-04-24

18. The Fall of the kingdom of Zarra

Air Date: 1954-04-30

19. The Prisoners of the Giant Comet

Air Date: 1954-05-07

20. The Demon Planet

Air Date: 1954-05-14

21. Lost in Galactic Space

Air Date: 1954-05-21

22. The Hidden Treasure of Mars

Air Date: 1954-05-28

23. The Martian Totem Head

Air Date: 1954-06-04

24. Trapped in a Pyramids

Air Date: 1954-06-11

25. The Underwater Space Ship Graveyard

Air Date: 1954-06-18

26. The Giant Marine Clam

Air Date: 1954-06-25

27. Marooned on the Ocean Floor

Air Date: 1954-07-02

28. Mystery of the Disappearing Space Patrolmen

Air Date: 1954-09-04

29. The Space Patrol Periscope

Air Date: 1954-09-11

30. The Space War

Air Date: 1954-09-18

31. The Defeat of Manza

Air Date: 1954-09-25

32. The Giants of Pluto III

Air Date: 1954-10-02

33. The Fiery Pit of Pluto III

Air Date: 1954-10-09

34. Manhunt on Pluto III

Air Date: 1954-10-16

35. Mystery of the Stolen Rocket Ship

Air Date: 1954-10-23

36. The Atom Bomb

Air Date: 1954-10-30

37. Danger: Radiation

Air Date: 1954-11-06

38. The Exploding Stars

Air Date: 1954-11-13

39. The Dwellers of the Prime Galaxy

Air Date: 1954-11-20

40. Terra, The Doomed Planet

Air Date: 1954-11-27

41. Revenge of the Black Falcon

Air Date: 1954-12-04

42. The Sorcerers of Outer Space

Air Date: 1954-12-11

43. The Defeat of Baccarratti

Air Date: 1954-12-18

44. A Christmas Party for Happy

Air Date: 1954-12-25

1. Lair of the Space Spider

Air Date: 1955-01-01

2. Web of the Arachna

Air Date: 1955-01-08

3. Collapse of the Spider's Web

Air Date: 1955-01-15

4. The Androids of Algol

Air Date: 1955-01-22

5. Double Trouble

Air Date: 1955-01-29

6. The Android Invasion

Air Date: 1955-02-05

7. The Wild Men of Procyon

Air Date: 1955-02-12

8. Marooned on Procyon IV

Air Date: 1955-02-19

9. The Atomic Vault

Air Date: 1955-02-26

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Rating

6.3/10

Release Date

1950-12-30

Episodes

210 (5 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

Mike Moser Productions