The Radio Planet
Space Patrol
Space Patrol
Space Patrol cover art
Radio

Space Patrol

ABC

ABC · 1952–1955

Broadcasts

157

Cadence

Fortnightly

Rated

PG

Since

1952

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.

1955 · 11954 · 51953 · 51952 · 1

Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files

Clean transfer · 1 of 40Listenable · 1 of 40Rough but complete · 38 of 40

Source collection

Old Time Radio Researchers Group

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Space_Patrol_Singles

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.

JFMAMJJASOND
1952
1953
1954
1955
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

Start here

Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1952, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. How Buzz Cory Became Commander · 4 Oct 1952
  2. 2. The Sleep Walker · 10 Jan 1953
  3. 3. The Prisoners of Pluto · 25 Apr 1953
  • 01

    How Buzz Cory Became Commander

    4 Oct 1952 · 7 min

  • 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

  • 04

    The Sleeping Demon of Saturn

    1 Aug 1953 · 29 min

  • 05

    Rescue from Planet X

    17 Oct 1953 · 29 min

  • 06

    Venus Tulania Mystery

    19 Dec 1953 · 28 min

  • 07

    The Strange Case of Pilot Prentiss

    6 Feb 1954 · 27 min

  • 08

    Tests of the XK3

    10 Apr 1954 · 28 min

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.

If you liked this

More to explore

Chosen by the same editors.