Buzz Corey and Happy investigate contaminated food shipped from a chemical farm on Venus. Their agent Tonga has gone undercover there as a chemist and has discovered that a racket is bribing workers to poison the hydroponic tanks of farms that refuse to pay protection money. Corey and Happy head for Venus, where they find the farm of Milton Eagle and his associate Richard Baxter, and they soon face hostile forces involving sun mirrors and a captured agent. This is the opening portion of the Space Patrol episode The Space Shark, which was broadcast on December 6, 1952.

With Buzz Corey, Happy, Tonga, Milton Eagle, Richard Baxter, Ms. Burns, Ms. Williams.

Listen for: Tonga's warning call to Corey that she has discovered how the food is being contaminated

First aired on December 6, 1952.

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Planet Man: “ep08 Billy and Jane Need Help”, first broadcast in 1950. Old-time radio science fiction.

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