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Space Patrol - "On the Ice Cap of Planet X" (1953) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Ed Kemmer and Lynn Osborne return as Commander Buzz Corey
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  Speaker 1: and Cadet Happy in Space Patrol. Originally broadcast by ABC
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  Speaker 1: on October 10th, 1953, this is episode 54, On the
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  Speaker 1: Ice Cap of Planet X, written by Lou Houston and
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  Speaker 1: directed by Larry Robertson. On Planet X, Corey and Happy
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  Speaker 1: hold the captured Prince Baccarati as he is compelled to
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  Speaker 1: release people enslaved in the Endurium Mines. While evacuation ships
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  Speaker 1: gather for the freed captives, the two space patrollers face
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: a dangerous situation on the frozen polar cap alongside Granu,
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  Speaker 1: a giant native of the planet. We now take you
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  Speaker 1: back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Wheat jacks, rice jacks, and good, hot waltzms present Space Patrol.
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  Speaker 2: I adventure in the wild, vast reaches of space. Visions
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  Speaker 2: of daring in the name of interplanetary justice. Travel into
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  Speaker 2: the future with Buzz Corey, commander-in-chief of the Space Patrol.
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  Speaker 2: In today's transcribed Space Patrol adventure, Buzz and Happy are
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  Speaker 2: in the frozen polar region of Planet X. Pursuing Prince
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  Speaker 2: Baccarati into the shaft of an Injury Mine, they're unaware
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  Speaker 2: of a huge figure lurking behind a shoulder of rock.
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  Speaker 3: I hear them downstairs.
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  Speaker 4: Are you going to tell me when it's in?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I'll be there in five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, hey!
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  Speaker 4: Happy, what's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: Something's got me.
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  Speaker 4: It's lifting me off the ground. It's a giant native.
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  Speaker 4: It's crushing my chest.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give him a blast with my rake.
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  Speaker 5: You are you big fuzzy gorilla.
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  Speaker 4: Finish them off, Granu.
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  Speaker 3: Finish them.
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  Speaker 2: We'll return in just a moment with today's exciting Space
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  Speaker 2: Patrol adventure on the ice cap of Planet X.
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  Speaker 6: Someone new will come aboard Commander Corey's rocket.
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  Speaker 3: Ship.
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  Speaker 6: Someone new will enter the pilot's compartment. and take over
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  Speaker 6: the controls of the commander's great space rocket Terra 4.
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  Speaker 4: And that someone can be you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you may be the lucky space patroller who wins
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  Speaker 2: the rocket ship Terra 4 for your own clubhouse, a
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  Speaker 2: huge rocket clubhouse, and $ 1, 500 cash. That's what you can
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  Speaker 2: win as first prize in the amazing Name the Planet contest.
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  Speaker 2: And here it comes, pulled along by an honest-to-goodness full-size
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  Speaker 2: motor truck, a giant silver and scarlet space.
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  Speaker 7: Rocket, Terra 4.
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  Speaker 3: What a rocket!
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  Speaker 7: Length, a terrific 35 feet. Big as an airplane.
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  Speaker 2: Weight, a gigantic 10,000 pounds. Equipment, specially outfitted as a
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  Speaker 2: clubhouse on wheels. And what a clubhouse! It's got real
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  Speaker 2: bunks built in and lockers for space gear. Electric lights,
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  Speaker 2: cooking equipment. Just about everything you need for camping, hiking, sightseeing, trips.
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  Speaker 2: Any kind of adventure, any place you'd want to go
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  Speaker 2: in your Rolling Rocket Clubhouse. And space patrollers, all it
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  Speaker 2: takes to send the giant great rocket clubhouse and the
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  Speaker 2: motor truck and $ 1, 500 rolling toward you is one word.
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  Speaker 4: And that one word is.
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  Speaker 5: A name for Planet X. A name for Planet X.
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  Speaker 6: A strange, mysterious new planet 5,000 times bigger than Earth.
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  Speaker 2: The home of the cruel Prince Baccaratis. But I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you more about that in just a few moments. And
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  Speaker 2: more about the 1,750 other terrific prizes you can win
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  Speaker 2: in the Name the Planet contest. And now, today's Space
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  Speaker 2: Patrol adventure on the ice cap of Planet X. Commander Corey,
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  Speaker 2: at last, has Prince Baccarati in a position where the
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  Speaker 2: evil ruler of Panadex can be compelled to liberate hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of human beings when he is forced into virtual slavery.
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  Speaker 2: With Buzz holding a ray gun on the power-mad Prince,
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  Speaker 2: Baccarati has reluctantly ordered a fleet of his ships to
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  Speaker 2: come to the Polar Cap to transport the captive natives.
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  Speaker 4: To their homes farther south.
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  Speaker 2: From the ship, the commander is now supervising the evacuation
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  Speaker 2: by means of a short-range spacephone.
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  Speaker 5: While Cadet Happy guards Baccarati and his.
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  Speaker 4: Assistant, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Maloney.
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  Speaker 4: Corridor, Carson, come in, please.
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  Speaker 3: Carson here, Commander.
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  Speaker 5: How many men are left to be evacuated?
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  Speaker 4: Around 400, sir. They're mostly thugs, but there's two technicians
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  Speaker 4: here assigned to help me. That's them. You handle them
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  Speaker 4: all right?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think so, sir.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Carson, notify me when the last man is aboard.
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  Speaker 4: Corridor out. All happy?
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  Speaker 8: In an hour or so, we'll have every one of
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  Speaker 8: those natives down in the valley where the ships can
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  Speaker 8: pick them up.
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  Speaker 5: What about Carson and the men from the other planets?
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  Speaker 5: Are they going with the.
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  Speaker 4: Natives, sir?
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  Speaker 5: They'll have to. They'll be dropped off with a group
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  Speaker 5: of natives that are going farther south.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you mean they'll live with.
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  Speaker 5: The natives until our space patrol ships come to get them?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, we'll take care of that arrangement as soon as
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  Speaker 8: Baccarati's ships get all the natives safely home.
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  Speaker 4: You're taking quite a bit for granted, aren't you, Commander?
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  Speaker 5: You aren't counting on your men rescuing you, are you, Baccarati?
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  Speaker 5: Don't forget, this is an enormous planet, Commander. I control it.
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  Speaker 5: And there are just two of you.
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  Speaker 9: The nearest space patrol ship is millions of views away.
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  Speaker 5: When you give the order to cut off the defenses,
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  Speaker 5: they'll be here soon enough. Did it ever occur to
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  Speaker 5: you that my men might refuse to let the space
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  Speaker 5: patrol into Planet X? They might even defy my orders
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  Speaker 5: to keep from being invaded.
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  Speaker 4: I thought of that.
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  Speaker 5: But there are plenty of people on Planet X who
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  Speaker 5: hate you.
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  Speaker 8: They don't want to stay here. And when they get
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  Speaker 8: a chance to escape, they'll help. Don't worry about that.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: Look what happened right here in your inferior minds. Even
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  Speaker 5: your own men wouldn't work.
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  Speaker 4: Carson calling Commander Corey.
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  Speaker 3: Emergency.
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  Speaker 4: Corey here. Go ahead, Carson. We've lost one of our thugs.
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  Speaker 10: This big grano I told you about.
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean you lost him?
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  Speaker 10: Four or five big thugs jumped him just as we
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  Speaker 10: were getting him aboard the mining cars. He broke away
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  Speaker 10: and ran toward the mine shaft. Shall I send some
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  Speaker 10: of my men after him?
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  Speaker 5: He's a thug and used to this cold climate. He'll
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  Speaker 5: stand a better chance here.
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  Speaker 3: Let him go. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Are all the natives in the cars now? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Ready to shove off to the valley whenever you give
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  Speaker 4: the orders.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be right out, Carson. Happy, put Baccarati back after
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  Speaker 6: Malangro and lock him up.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be back as soon as the last car has
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  Speaker 6: gone down the grade.
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  Speaker 2: After locking Baccarati in the aft compartment, Happy returns to
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  Speaker 2: the controls to wait.
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  Speaker 4: For Commander Torrey.
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  Speaker 6: Meantime, Baccarati paces his narrow quarters and glares at Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Malangro.
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  Speaker 5: You're supposed to be a scientific genius, Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Malangro. Think of something.
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  Speaker 5: Get me out of this. already have, Your Highness. Well,
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  Speaker 5: don't let's hear it.
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  Speaker 4: The last car is about to pull out now.
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  Speaker 9: A bunch of those big, stupid pots and a few technicians.
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  Speaker 4: Excellent.
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  Speaker 5: When he comes back, we have a surprise for him. Well,
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  Speaker 5: what is it?
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  Speaker 11: When the commander searched this compartment for weapons, he overlooked something.
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  Speaker 11: This secret panel in the bulkhead.
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  Speaker 5: Look, Your Highness.
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  Speaker 4: But there is nothing in it.
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  Speaker 5: I beg your pardon, Excellency, but there is this. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: just a metal cylinder?
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  Speaker 4: What good is it?
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  Speaker 11: It contains Xenarium-12, under pressure, an irritant gas. It should
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  Speaker 11: enable us to overpower Corey and the cadet and resume
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  Speaker 11: control of your ship.
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  Speaker 4: Splendid! Splendid!
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  Speaker 5: How did it work? Just press the small lever on
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  Speaker 5: the end.
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  Speaker 4: No wonder gas affects us, too.
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  Speaker 11: If you point it directly at Corey and the cadet
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  Speaker 11: and then cut it off, they'll get by far the
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  Speaker 11: worst of it.
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  Speaker 4: He'll have the advantage.
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  Speaker 5: It will be easy to grab their weapons and knock
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  Speaker 5: them out.
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  Speaker 3: Good. Give me the cylinder.
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  Speaker 2: As an icy wind whistles bleakly through the mountains, a
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  Speaker 2: train of mining cars begins its journey down the grade
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  Speaker 2: to the valley several miles below. Commander Corey watches the
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  Speaker 2: last car around the curve, then returns to Baccarati's ship.
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  Speaker 2: As he closes the inner hatch, he turns the heat
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  Speaker 2: control of his thermosuit to zero.
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  Speaker 5: If I ever have to come to this part of
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  Speaker 5: Planet X again, I'll wear a space suit. I always
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  Speaker 5: think of those poor guys having to live up here
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  Speaker 5: month after month, digging in durium in this cold wild. Well,
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  Speaker 5: it's all over now.
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  Speaker 4: Hope.
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  Speaker 5: Get ready to blast off, Happy. I want to be
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  Speaker 5: up over the valley when Baccarati ships get here to
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  Speaker 5: take the men away. All right, sir. Oh, can I
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  Speaker 5: take off this thermal suit? It's pretty warm here in
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  Speaker 5: the ship.
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  Speaker 8: Leave it on, Happy, just in case. Those ships start troubling,
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  Speaker 8: shoot us down. We'd better be dressed for this planet.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: But would they dare shoot at Baccarati ships?
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  Speaker 8: Put yourself in the place of the men who heard
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  Speaker 8: the space-affirming message. Where was Prince Baccarati ordering more than
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  Speaker 8: a thousand slaves released and returned to their homes?
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  Speaker 5: That would sound odd coming from Baccarati.
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  Speaker 4: You bet.
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  Speaker 5: They know something's up, but they don't know what. Still,
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  Speaker 5: his regular gang probably would carry out.
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  Speaker 4: His orders without question.
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  Speaker 6: But suppose one of those ships is piloted by someone
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  Speaker 6: who wants to escape from Planet X.
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  Speaker 4: A captive pilot.
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  Speaker 5: He'd do anything to get.
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  Speaker 6: Rid of Baccarati.
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  Speaker 4: He'd blast us out of the sky before we could
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  Speaker 4: warn him. Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going back out and get Baccarati. It might be
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  Speaker 6: handy to have him near the space of foam when
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  Speaker 6: his men show up.
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  Speaker 4: Don't blast off till I get back.
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  Speaker 5: You're coming, Meningo.
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  Speaker 4: Get ready to rush them when I release the gas. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: your highness. All right, Baccarati. Come on up front. We're
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  Speaker 4: blasting off. George Commendor, just as you say. Get his gun, Meningo.
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  Speaker 3: No, you don't.
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  Speaker 5: I can't get the gun.
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  Speaker 4: Come on. We'll get out of here. of the ship.
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  Speaker 5: Hurry, while Tori can't see through the airlock.
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  Speaker 4: Happy, stop them. Happy, stop right where you are, Baccarati. Brian,
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  Speaker 4: stop the cadets. Hurry, Malingro. They're both blinded.
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  Speaker 5: But, Your Highness, we can't go outside.
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  Speaker 4: Will you come on?
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  Speaker 5: Out the outer edge. Goodbye, Corrie.
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  Speaker 4: Highness, where can we go?
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  Speaker 5: We'll freeze to death. Into the first mine shaft. It'll
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  Speaker 5: be warmer there.
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  Speaker 11: They'll crack us down and we're unarmed.
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  Speaker 9: There's a spaceship hidden in the cave. If we can
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  Speaker 9: make that, we're safe. Come on, into the shaft. Hurry
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  Speaker 9: before Corrie sees us.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 4: Wood out of the wind.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, it's still cold.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Lepanus, look.
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  Speaker 5: A man, a monster. Back in the ship.
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  Speaker 4: He's coming toward us.
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  Speaker 3: Use the gas on him. I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I jumped the cylinder jumping out of the ship.
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  Speaker 3: Highness, you come save me. Who are you? Me, Granu, overseas.
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  Speaker 3: Granu make all thugs work hard. Oh, yes, Granu.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, I've heard of your loyal service.
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  Speaker 3: Take Granu with you in Skyslide. Granu work for you always.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Granu.
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  Speaker 4: But there are two wicked men here.
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  Speaker 3: They are trying to harm me. They are bad men.
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  Speaker 4: Do you understand?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Granul, understand. You must stop them.
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  Speaker 2: Press back against the wall of the shack.
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  Speaker 4: If they come in here, kill them.
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  Speaker 3: Kill?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, they're coming. Granul, don't let them get past you.
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  Speaker 4: Stop them, or you will stay here forever.
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  Speaker 5: They must have gone into this shack, have they?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: You were right about the gas wearing off, sir. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I still smoke, though.
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  Speaker 8: They're running through the shop, and I'd be able to
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  Speaker 8: help stop them.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Happy, what's the matter? Something got me.
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  Speaker 4: It's lifting me off the ground.
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  Speaker 7: It's a giant frog.
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  Speaker 4: I'll give him a blast when I wake up. You big,
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  Speaker 4: fuzzy gorilla.
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  Speaker 3: Finish them off, then. Finish them.
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  Speaker 7: We'll return to space patrol in just a moment. Look out!
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  Speaker 3: Clear the way!
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  Speaker 7: Here it comes!
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: America's best-looking, best-riding bicycle, the Schwinn Varsity. The bike with
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  Speaker 2: three-speed gearshift for double-fast pickup and two-wheel handbrakes for double-safe stopping. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's the bike 750 of you space patrollers are going
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  Speaker 2: to be riding because the second prize group in the
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  Speaker 2: great Name the Planet contest is 750 Schwinn Varsity bikes.
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  Speaker 4: Gang, there just never was a contest like this before.
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  Speaker 2: A contest in which you have a chance to win
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  Speaker 2: a huge rocket pub house on wheels and 750 chances
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  Speaker 2: to win a Schwinn bicycle.
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  Speaker 7: And gang, listen to what you've got a thousand chances
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  Speaker 7: to win.
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  Speaker 2: Third prize group, a thousand pieces of regulation space patrol equipment.
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  Speaker 2: 250 Autosonic Rifles, 250 Outer Space Helmets, 250 Space Patrol
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  Speaker 2: Emergency Kits, and 250 Stainless Steel Space Patrol Wrist Watches.
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  Speaker 2: And remember, all it takes to win the Rocket Clubhouse
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  Speaker 2: or a Schwinn bike or one of the other big
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  Speaker 2: prizes is a name for Panadex. You just named that
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  Speaker 2: tremendous new world, 5,000 times bigger than Earth.
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  Speaker 4: Planet X, land of man-eating plants.
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  Speaker 2: Enormous monsters, kingdom of the archenemy of the Space Patrol.
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  Speaker 2: And gang, this is the easiest contest you've ever heard of.
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  Speaker 2: The contest in which everyone, yes, everyone can get a
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  Speaker 2: free prize.
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  Speaker 4: So be on the lookout, because in.
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  Speaker 2: Just a little while, I'm going to tell you how
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  Speaker 2: you can enter the exciting Name the Planet contest and
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  Speaker 2: get your free prize. And now, back to our Space
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  Speaker 2: Patrol adventure on the ice cap of Planet X. fleeing
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  Speaker 2: into the shaft of the Endorium Mines on the polar
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  Speaker 2: ice cap of Planet X, Baccarati and Malangro encountered Granu,
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  Speaker 2: a member of a race of shaggy giants that inhabit
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  Speaker 2: the Arctic regions of the remote planets. Knowing that Granu
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  Speaker 2: has been driven away by his fellow tribesmen as a trigger,
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  Speaker 2: Baccarati promised to help the abandoned native if he would
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  Speaker 2: attack Buzz and Happy when they entered the mine shaft.
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  Speaker 3: Granu, finish them!
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  Speaker 4: Finish them, I tell you!
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  Speaker 3: Finish?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, kill them!
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  Speaker 4: Don't you understand?
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 3: Kill?
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  Speaker 4: No. Pogs not killed. What do you mean, Pogs don't kill?
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  Speaker 4: Didn't your own tribe drive you away? Didn't they leave you.
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  Speaker 3: Here to die? Tribes not killed, Granu.
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  Speaker 4: I thought you were going to obey my command. Granu obeyed.
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  Speaker 4: I must tell Granu to stop men.
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  Speaker 3: Granu, do this. Now take me in Skyslip.
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  Speaker 4: Take me where Granu can find food.
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  Speaker 3: All of those Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Savage, Your Highness, let's get to that ship before.
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  Speaker 4: We freeze to death. We might as well go in
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  Speaker 4: our own ship now. But first, I'll just relieve Corey
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  Speaker 4: and the cadets of their mess.
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  Speaker 3: Granu, I'm with you. Granu worked hard, Your Highness. Granu
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  Speaker 3: made other men work, too.
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  Speaker 4: Your usefulness is all I can say. Ever see a
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: ray gun, Warren?
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  Speaker 3: A ray gun? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: It works like this.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Gran will like that. Let Gran play with Reagan.
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  Speaker 4: It's amazing. Shoot again. Gran will want to play.
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  Speaker 12: Smart.
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  Speaker 4: It worked out.
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  Speaker 3: It just took.
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  Speaker 4: A little longer to numb that primitive nervous system.
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  Speaker 3: What a monster. Well, maybe he did finish playing with it,
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  Speaker 3: I bet.
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  Speaker 4: But just to make sure... What are you doing here, Hems?
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  Speaker 9: I'm turning the heat control on the thermo seat to zero.
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  Speaker 9: Lying here in the sub-freezing temperature, they.
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  Speaker 4: Won't last 20 minutes.
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  Speaker 5: How about the sun? You'll revive it in an hour.
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  Speaker 8: What do I care what happens to this wooly bard there?
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  Speaker 4: Whether he lives or not, he can't harm us.
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  Speaker 3: Can he?
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  Speaker 4: I suppose not, your Hems. Then let's get going. I
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: have something to tell you.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Now, if you turn on the space-a-phone and contact my ships. Yes, sir.
• 17:39
  Speaker 11: Something's wrong here. Look, the space-a-phone panel is smashed.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Smashed?
• 17:46
  Speaker 12: What?
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: It is smashed.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: How did that happen?
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: During my scuffle with the.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Cadet, I must have pushed him into it after I
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: shoved the gas in his face.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: All the miserable luck.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: If we don't contact those ships, they'll carry out the.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Rescue after all. Perhaps we can intercept them.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: I got it.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: We'll let them pick up those slaves.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: They'll head for my castle and space upon other instructions.
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: Those slaves won't be sorry they didn't stay here in
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: the Endurium mine.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Let's blast off.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Less than a minute later, the reverberations of Baccarati's rockets
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: die out in the frozen air, leaving only the sound
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: of the arctic wind to sweep across the polar ice
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: cap of Canadex. Finally, in the dim light of the
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: mine shaft, a figure moves and its difficulty sits upright.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: It is Buzz Corwin.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Shivering with cold, he looks around, first at the dead-happy
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: still form, then at the shaggy hulk of Dranu, the
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: giant fog.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Fingers, clumsy with cold, he finally turns up the heat control.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Of his thermal suit and does the same to Happy's.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: A moment later, Happy stirs, opens his.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Eyes, and looks at the camera.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Hello, sir. Hey, you're still alive.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: For the time being.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Somebody turned our heat control to zero.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, sir.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: But mine's warming up now.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Hey, where's that thing that grabbed me and slammed me
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: against the side of the shaft that Uh-oh.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: She's harmless now, huh?
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: A ray gun put him to sleep.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Well, then you got him after all.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: I didn't do it, huh? Then who did? Baccarati. Oh,
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: wait a minute. Baccarati wasn't on him.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: He is now.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Our guns are gone.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Now let's take a look outside. The ship?
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Although I've got a pretty good idea what you'll see,
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: or rather won't see.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Yep, it's gone.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Well, this is just dandy. Stranded on this ice cap
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: a million miles from nowhere.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Hey, listen.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Back in the shack.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: It's the dog.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: He's coming to you.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Hey, we'd better get away from here before he comes
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: after us.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: If he wants to get us, he's going to do
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: us any good to run.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Besides, I don't think he'll hurt us.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: No.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but look what he did to us before.
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: I know, but this man is an outcast, driven away
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: by his own people.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: He knows he's stranded here.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: I think he'd prefer company, particularly since he knows the
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: company he can lick.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Hey, and he knows these mines pretty well. Maybe he
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: has some food stashed in him.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Come on, Tapp. Spread a shoe.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: You're Granu, aren't you?
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: We're your friends, Granu.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: You not have ray gun?
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: No, we have nothing that can hurt you. We don't
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: want to hurt you.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Granu can hurt you. We know that. We proved it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: But you're not going to hurt us, Granu.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: You not afraid of Granu?
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: You not hate Granu?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: No, we don't hate him.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: You take Granu in big sky, Fred? Take him fine, too?
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: No.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Skyslade? He means a space sled.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: People probably use sleds. Like the Eskimos on Earth use
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: simples again.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, sorry, Granu, but our space... I mean, the skysled
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: we came in is gone. Prince Baccarati took it. Prince
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Baccarati means anything to him.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Highness, bad man. Highness, lie to Granu. Granu's not worth
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: a Highness.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: You take Granu and Skyslade Granu work for you. Well,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: you don't understand, Granu. There is no Skyslade. No, wait
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: a minute.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: When Dr.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: Rottis saw he couldn't go to Paris, he escaped from
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: the ship. Would he have done that if he was
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: sure to be stranded here.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: And there as well? He could have surrendered, stayed in
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: the ship and waited for another chance. Granu, is there
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: a Skyslade somewhere near the mine? Yes. Come.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Granu, take it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: We'll still have.
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: I hope he knows the difference between a spaceship and
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: an excavating machine.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Wow, look at the strides he takes. Hey, hey, Grano, uh.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Hey, Grano, how much farther is it?
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: I'm about to drop.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Not far. Sky sled, round corner.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Hope he knows what he's talking about. So do I. Hey,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I see a light ahead.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: The shaft is widening.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: There's something big in the opening.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: There's a skyslip. It's a ship, all right.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Hey, hurry up, Grant. Get a move on.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I thought you were tired. But not now.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Up the ladder, Hap. It's only an atmosphere ship.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: A few moments ago, you would have settled for a
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: 20th century bicycle.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I know, but....
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: With a space job, we'd stand a chance of getting
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: off this planet. You'll worry about that when you've got Baccarati.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Watch your head, Granu.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: The top of that hatch is pretty low for a
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: man your size.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Secure the hatch, Hathaway.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: This isn't a bad little ship, sir.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Stand by to blast off. Standing by, sir.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Oh, where are we headed, sir?
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: To find Baccarati.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: We've got to give him something to worry about before
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: he has time to bring misery to those people waiting
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: in the valley.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Ah, there is the castle, Meringo. In a few minutes,
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: I'll be in my tower.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Watching those worthless slaves go to their doom. Your Highness.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: The identification signal. Oh, what about it? So the ship
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: can get.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Through the electronic force field around your castle.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Isn't it working? It should be automatic.
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: Must have been damaged when the spaceport was built.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: We'll circle the castle until they recognize my ship and
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: cut the fill.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: How about that?
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Ground emplacements around the castle. They're firing at us.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: The fools?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Can they recognize my ship?
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: The idiots! We're hit!
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: They got us!
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: We'll head back north for those hills.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Losing altitude, Your Highness. If we can make it over
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: the hills, we'll stay.
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: Perhaps they've tried to contact you by space attack.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: We can't reply. We can't even receive. They sent out
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: no identification signal. But don't they know my ship when
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: they see it?
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: They figured some imposter was aboard. It's just the sort
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: of trick Corey might try to gain entrance to the castle.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: But Corey's in a mindset. Up on the polarized gas.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: But your men don't know that. Your Highness, we're going
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: to crash.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Let go of me, you fool!
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I will hurt you, Your Highness. How do I know
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: until I stand down?
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Stop asking foolish questions and get me out of this mess.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Sure, Your Highness.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Look, it's a small atmosphere, sir. Get your seat, it's
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: going to land. Don't stand there gibbering. Get that hatch open.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Yes, illustrious one.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: In a few moments, you'll be back in your castle.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Yes. Come on, come on.
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: What are you waiting for? Well, where is the pilot
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: of this ship? Is this any way to greet your ruler?
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Welcome aboard, Baccarati.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Hurry!
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: No, no, don't reach for that gun, Baccarati. I'll do it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Thank you. I'm glad to see you weren't hurt in
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: the crash. It'll make it easier for us to get
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: to the force field and into the castle. How did
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: you find this ship? We had a guide.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, and you'll be happy to learn that your men
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: carried out your orders perfectly.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: We just heard a space drone report that the natives
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: have all been returned safely to their homes.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: And now we're going to have you arrange to let
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: some space patrol ships in to pick up the technicians
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: from the United States. I'm sure you'll cooperate, Dr.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Latter, when you see your guard.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: He's crouching in the corridor waiting for him.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: It's fog.
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: Close the hatch, Happy.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Stand by to blast off. Standing by, sir. Standing by, sir. Hey,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: there's the granule. Hey!
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: An exciting preview of next week's Space Patrol adventure in
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: just a moment.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Easy as one, two, three.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Gang, that's how easy it is to enter the Name
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: the Planet contest and get a free prize. One, go
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: to your nearest Weatherbird shoe store. Two, the Weatherbird shoe
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: man will give you your free prize, a swell-looking interplanetary
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: coin album with three real space coins inside. Terrific coins,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: big as a half dollar, with designs of planets colored
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: in starlight silver. So good-looking, you'll want to collect them
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: and trade them with all your pals. And three, right
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: there in the coin album, you'll find your Name the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Planet contest entry blank with easy directions for sending in
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: your name for Planet X. Now, if there's no Weatherbird
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: shoe dealer in your neighborhood, find where else to get
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: your coin album and entry blank while looking on the
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: back of a package of good hot Wollstone, either instant
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: or regular. But make sure it's a new package with
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: a picture of Commander Corey or Cadet Happy on the front.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: So hurry, gang.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Start now to win the.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Rocket Pubhouse or one of the 1,750 other big prizes.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Get your free coin album and entry blank and enter
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: the Space Patrol Name the Planet contest at your Weatherbird
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: shoe dealers. And now, a preview of next week's exciting
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Space Patrol adventure. Buzz and Happy are in the control
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: tower of Prince Baccarati's castle, ready to force the prince
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: to permit a rescue squadron to reach Planet X. Suddenly,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: apparently from nowhere, Baccarati's assistant, Murdoch, produces a weapon.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Commander, Murdoch's got a gun. Drop it, Murdoch. Murdoch, we've
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: got blast.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Cartridges in our hand.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: You shoot us, you blow up the whole tower. Better
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: hold it, Murdoch.
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: Murdoch.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Have you lost your mind? One more step.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Be sure to join us again next week for the
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: thrilling story, Rescue from Planet X, when Wheat Chex, Rice Chex,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: and Good Hot Walton again present Space Patrol! Space Patrol,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: created by Mike Moser, starring Ed Cameron as Commander Corey,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: and Lynn Osborne as Cadet Happy, was written by Lou Houston,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: produced and directed by Larry Robertson, executive producer Mike Devery.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Other players were Bela Kovacs, Norman Jolly, and Ken Mayer,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Nick Tufel speaking. Now, don't forget to tune in next
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Saturday and every Saturday when Wheat Chex, Rice Chex, and
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Good Hot Waltham again present Space Patrol.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Dick Tufeld in Los Angeles reporting on a plane that
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: can fly 1,000 miles without refueling, the North American FJ-2 Fury. Now,
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: in a moment, you'll hear from the well-known test pilot
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: on this Navy jet fighter, J.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Ray Donahue, Jr.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: The Fury is a carrier-based plane armed with four 20-millimeter cannons.
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: It flies 650 miles per hour at an altitude marked
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: at 45,000 feet.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: It's length, 37 feet.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Now, J.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Ray Donahue, Jr., recorded at Edwards Air Force Base.
• 29:37
  Speaker 12: Supply of supersonic speed, the test ballot must have plenty
• 29:40
  Speaker 12: of energy. That's why I always get a good night's
• 29:43
  Speaker 12: sleep and start the day off with a good breakfast
• 29:46
  Speaker 12: cereal like rice checks or wheat checks. They have plenty
• 29:49
  Speaker 12: of energy, and they taste mighty fine. And I know
• 29:52
  Speaker 12: that you'll like them, too.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: No other cereal, puff or plate, contains so much nourishment
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: in such concentrated bite-sized form. So take a tip from J.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Ray Donahue Jr., Bob Love, and other top test pilots.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Make your cereal rice checks, sweet checks. Be sure to
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: see another exciting Space Patrol program on your local ABC
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: television station.
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: Consult your local paper for time and channel.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: This program is broadcast to our armed forces overseas through
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: Space Patrol came to you transcribed from Hollywood.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: This is ABC Radio Network.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Space Patrol, episode 54, on the ice cap of Planet X,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: has concluded. Good night, and thank you for joining us.