The run
- Network
- ABC
- Years active
- 1952–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 157
- Genre
- science fiction
The mission of Space Patrol was to bring law and order to the interplanetary frontier. Each episode centered around the Space Patrol crew commanded by Commander Buzz Corry, as the crew jumped around the universe in Terra V.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. How Buzz Cory Became Commander · 4 Oct 1952
- 2. The Sleep Walker · 10 Jan 1953
- 3. The Prisoners of Pluto · 25 Apr 1953
- 01
How Buzz Cory Became Commander
4 Oct 1952 · 7 min
Broadcast on ABC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
The Sleep Walker
10 Jan 1953 · 28 min
Broadcast 10 January 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
The Prisoners of Pluto
25 Apr 1953 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Space_Patrol_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
The Sleeping Demon of Saturn
1 Aug 1953 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Space_Patrol_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
Rescue from Planet X
17 Oct 1953 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Space_Patrol_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
Venus Tulania Mystery
19 Dec 1953 · 28 min
Broadcast on ABC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
The Strange Case of Pilot Prentiss
6 Feb 1954 · 27 min
Broadcast on ABC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Tests of the XK3
10 Apr 1954 · 28 min
Broadcast on ABC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on ABC
ABC in 1952–1955
Other series the network carried while Space Patrol was on the air.
Same seasons
science fiction on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The rocket age
Dimension X put Bradbury and Asimov on the air with sound design as the special effect. Every science fiction audio drama since is working in that studio.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Space Patrol
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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