Space Patrol - "The Search For Asteroid X" (12-13-52)

The Search For Asteroid X (Aired December 13, 1952)

The success of the TV show spawned a radio version, which ran for 129 episodes from October 1952 to March 1955. The same cast of actors performed on both shows. The writers, scripts, adventures and director were quite different in radio versus TV incarnations. Naturally, the series lacked the adult sophistication of such shows as X Minus One, which focused on adapting short fiction by notable genre names as Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. But as a throwback to the sort of Golden Age space opera popularized in the 1930s, the days of science fiction's infancy, by pioneering magazine editor Hugo Gernsback, Space Patrol is prized by OTR collectors today as one of radio's most enjoyable adventures.

 

THIS EPISODE:

 
December 13, 1952. ABC network. "The Search For Asteroid X". Sponsored by: Ralston cereals. Commander Corry and Cadet Happy are on the trail of the Saturn Syndicate with the help of a human computer. Bela Kovacs, Dick Tufeld (announcer), Ed Kemmer, Ken Mayer, Larry Robertson (producer, director), Lyn Osborn, Mike Moser (creator), Norman Jolley, Lou Huston (writer). 29:41. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.