Mike Moser
Director
Space Patrol (1950)
Season 1
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.
Released Dec. 30, 1950
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Family
Keywords: imdb.psychotronic-series, imdb.30th-century, imdb.rocket-ship, imdb.outer-space, imdb.spaceship, imdb.distant-future, imdb.live-broadcast, awards.emmy-award-nominated
Production Companies: Mike Moser Productions
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Treachery of Mars
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.
Dec. 30, 1950, midnight
S1E2 - The Lethal Lady
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.
Jan. 6, 1951, midnight
S1E3 - Intrigue in the Cabinet
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.
Jan. 13, 1951, midnight
S1E4 - The Agra Ray
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.
Jan. 20, 1951, midnight
S1E5 - The Ivy of Death
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.
Jan. 27, 1951, midnight
S1E6 - Trouble on Saturn's Third Moon
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.
Feb. 3, 1951, midnight
S1E7 - Solo Flight to Jupiter
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.
Feb. 10, 1951, midnight
S1E8 - Cosmic Dedris Waring
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.
Feb. 17, 1951, midnight
S1E9 - The Planos Epidemic
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.
Feb. 24, 1951, midnight
S1E10 - Tunnel of Escape: Tunnel of Death
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.
March 3, 1951, midnight
S1E11 - The Perilous Sleep
March 10, 1951, midnight
S1E12 - A Vacation at Lake Azure
March 17, 1951, midnight
S1E13 - Theft of the Zeta Ray
March 24, 1951, midnight
S1E14 - Blackmail on Saturn
March 31, 1951, midnight
S1E15 - The Man in the Radurium Glove
April 7, 1951, midnight
S1E16 - Under the Red Lake of Jupiter
April 14, 1951, midnight
S1E17 - The Counterfeit Commander
April 21, 1951, midnight
S1E18 - Mysterious Mission to Canali
April 28, 1951, midnight
S1E19 - The Major's Dilemma
May 5, 1951, midnight
S1E20 - Isolation in Space
May 12, 1951, midnight
S1E21 - The Tourist Trap
May 19, 1951, midnight
S1E22 - Dangerous Intrigue
May 26, 1951, midnight
S1E23 - The Secret Injection
June 2, 1951, midnight
S1E24 - The Treacherous Technicians
June 9, 1951, midnight
S1E25 - Beyond the Rim of Space
June 16, 1951, midnight
S1E26 - Race Against Death
June 23, 1951, midnight
S1E27 - The Lost City of the Carnacans
June 30, 1951, midnight
S1E28 - The Deadly Weapon
July 7, 1951, midnight
S1E29 - The Legend of Wild Man's Ridge
July 14, 1951, midnight
S1E30 - Way Station to the Stars
July 21, 1951, midnight
S1E31 - The Hidden Reflector
July 28, 1951, midnight
S1E32 - The Dangerous Discovery
Aug. 4, 1951, midnight
S1E33 - Spaceship on the Edge of Forever
Aug. 11, 1951, midnight
S1E34 - The Underwater Hideout
Aug. 18, 1951, midnight
S1E35 - A Big Wheel Named Ferris
Aug. 25, 1951, midnight
S1E36 - The Vindictive Brother
Sept. 1, 1951, midnight
S1E37 - Photograph of a Traitor
Sept. 8, 1951, midnight
S1E38 - The Couragous Traitor
Sept. 15, 1951, midnight
S1E39 - The Theft of the Scrambler
Sept. 22, 1951, midnight
S1E40 - Prometheus Bound for Destruction
Sept. 29, 1951, midnight
S1E41 - Immediate Disaster
Oct. 6, 1951, midnight
S1E42 - Lunatics from the Future
Oct. 13, 1951, midnight
S1E43 - The Space Patrol Code Belt
Oct. 20, 1951, midnight
S1E44 - The Floating Image in Space
Oct. 27, 1951, midnight
S1E45 - Secret Peril
Nov. 3, 1951, midnight
S1E46 - The Parasite Disc
Nov. 10, 1951, midnight
S1E47 - The Secret of Terra
Nov. 17, 1951, midnight
S1E48 - Jungle of No Return
Nov. 24, 1951, midnight
S1E49 - Prison of Deadly Gas
Dec. 1, 1951, midnight
S1E50 - The Sacrifice
Dec. 8, 1951, midnight
S1E51 - Flight of the Galaxy
Dec. 15, 1951, midnight
S1E52 - Fair Exchange
Dec. 22, 1951, midnight
S1E53 - The Counterfeit Puzzle
Dec. 29, 1951, midnight
ABC
30 min/ep
6300 min
Dec. 30, 1950
Feb. 26, 1955, midnight
Ended
NR
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