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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Dimension X: “Almost Human”, first broadcast on May 13, 1950. Old-time radio science fiction.

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Charlie Starbuck, a radio operator at the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons, picks up a strange signal on a restricted frequency that claims to come from the moon. The message asks for help from Cornelius Otterburn, a physicist reported missing in 1945. Bureau records chief Henry Timkin is intrigued and invites science writer Jefferson Fylo to investigate. The story is part of the X Minus One series, first broadcast on May 29, 1955, on NBC.

With Henry Timkin, Charlie Starbuck, Jake, Mr. Wade, Jefferson Fylo, Cornelius Otterburn, Seamus O'Brien, Dr. Paul Aarons.

Listen for: The strange message from the moon and the list of missing persons that appears before the men are reported missing

First aired on May 29, 1955.

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Exploring Tomorrow: “First Men On The Moon Aka”, first broadcast on January 22, 1958. Old-time radio science fiction.

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Walter Feline, an associate professor of anthropology, wakes to find that alien beings called Zanns have conquered Earth and taken the surviving specimens of its life to a zoo. He is held in a room with a woman named Grace Evans. The Zanns, who believe they are immortal, learn that other animals in the zoo are dying, and they demand that Walter reveal how he is causing these deaths. The transcript covers only the first part of the episode. The episode is from the series X Minus One, first broadcast on May 22, 1955, with Alex Scob as Walter and Laurie March as Grace. Walter and Grace are kept under questioning as the Zanns press for an explanation.

With Walter Feline, Grace Evans, George (a Zann).

Listen for: The Zanns' questioning of Walter about the dying animals, and how the Zanns' belief in their own immortality shapes what they do.

First aired on May 22, 1955.

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Commander Corey and cadet Happy investigate a burglary at the Maris Design and Development Company, where a vault was broken into and valuable antiscope plans were stolen. Maris and his chief engineer, Chiller, pass a brain-a-graph test, and Corey finds fragments of broken glasses in the vault. A visit to Ward Stokes, a precision machinist with a workshop, leads the pair to a hidden room that duplicates Maris's private office. The episode, from the Space Patrol series, first aired on November 29, 1952.

With Commander Corey, Happy, Howard Maris, Chiller, Ward Stokes, Dr. Preiser, Captain Scoville, Bauch.

Listen for: Corey and Happy searching the Maris vault and the hidden duplicate office, and the rising tension when Stokes and Bauch realize the investigators have found them

First aired on November 29, 1952.

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Planet Man: “ep07 Kidnapping Order”, first broadcast in 1950. Old-time radio science fiction.

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