THE HUMAN TRAP - Space Patrol 1950's Science Fiction TV Series

space Patrol

I inventor in the wild vast reaches of

paper visions of Daring in the name of

interplanetary Justice

travel into the future with Buzz Corey

commander-in-chief of

space Patrol

brought to you by the checkerboard super

cereals we checks rice checks and good

hot Ralston

hey I wonder what this thing is for

hey what's going on it's better I know I

can't move my arm is some kind of force

holding me blizzard he can't

move

standby for exciting action on Space

Patrol in just one moment

hi gang come in a little closer I want

you to see this model rocket

neat isn't it has a powerful mortar too

but a high-powered motor is no good

without fuel when you press the starter

nothing happens your motor wouldn't turn

over either if you didn't feed it and

what you feed it makes a terrific

difference with ordinary fuel

you get ordinary performance

but supercharged with super Fuel and boy

watch her go

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you've got a powerful motor too feed it

right and you can count on our Rip Roar

on a rocket start so my advice is get

supercharged every morning with a good

breakfast that includes a super

checkerboard cereal-like rice Chex now

come in Jack Nas here it is Gang one of

those super cereals that helps keep

space patrollers supercharged rice Chex

delicious rice checks super crisp cause

it's oven toasted once twice three times

and look at that modern bite size design

for super easy eating the only

bite-sized rice cereal in the whole

universe that's rice Chex so when you

pull into that Filling Station remember

what the commander said about the right

kind of fuel and say fill up Mom rice

kit

here's the package to reach for at your

Grocers

he's got an unbelievable speed headed

straight for Earth is a strange guided

missile so fast is it approaching and so

mysterious is its nature that the radar

Warning Systems have failed to alert

Earth space control in time to stop it

that's the gap between the oncoming

missile and the planet Earth rapidly

Narrows an automatic warning signal is

flashed to All Space Patrol ships

including the flagship terrifier piloted

by Buzz gory commander-in-chief of the

space Patrol in answer to the code

signal the commander immediately

established Direct Communications with

space controller what's his Target

Lieutenant where's the missile headed

with a capital Commander I'm tracking

myself and a personal strike near the

outskirts

destroy the entire city and everybody in

it

pick up it's playing off it's got ahead

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one minute the capital city is there

and the next is completely destroyed

all those people why

why commitment come out of Corey are you

still there Corey here what happened

I think sir

nothing

we haven't quite recovered from the

shock ourselves Commander

when the missile struck thought we'd had

it it didn't explode

what a relief nothing but a dud yes a

dud that can explode any second

Lieutenant listen carefully yes sir

Evacuate the area completely I mean

everybody I'll start at once be prepared

to give me the exact location of the

object as soon as I land what about

disarming it sir that's why I want the

location Lieutenant I'll take charge of

disarming it but Korea

you can get dozens of volunteers to

disarm that missile I've told you you're

the Commander in exactly why I can't ask

anyone else to do it

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if you're willing to stick your neck up

then call me in

the two of us will handle it

Commander yes sir could you make that

the three of us

or I'd have the three of us

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and not far from the outer boundary of

the earth Capital City rests the

mysterious missile

a potential Force perhaps capable of

disintegrating the entire area silently

the object lies in weight apparently

ready to unleash its power in one

blinding flash at the slightest touch if

it happened to be the wrong touch

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I don't recognize the design

it is one of ounce

foreign

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okay

Commander do we have to touch it

we can't move it happy

I blow it up it would destroy the entire

city

can't just leave it here

might go off anything

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over here

thank you

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foreign

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ah

yes sir

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slow and easy

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thank you

I don't know what

we were gonna do when we got who was

thinking this instinct

thank you

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Commander look

look a hatch a hatching the side of a

missile I don't get it it must be some

kind of a spaceship maybe there's

something or somebody inside there

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foreign

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this didn't come here to bring somebody

here then maybe it came to take somebody

away

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things could be a lot worse though major

but if this thing started to take off

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speaking my big mouth

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that's radio control line yeah

we do something Commander the

instruments are out of our reach and we

only have four we can figure out

speed and destination by lining up in

the Stars Commander do you think it

could have come from some alien

civilization well an alien probably

wouldn't be familiar enough with human

curiosity

from a set of trap like this curiosity

the weapons said dismissal of the Earth

must have known that humans were

naturally curious

this curios curiosity that goddess I

guess we can expect to land on one of

the planets in our own system right

how I live in Flagstaff

doesn't make any difference now

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hey I'm academic course control over

right when the Rockets cut that's it all

right we're being landed

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thank you

foreign

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oh my God

Robbie

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bring the new victims into the chamber

at once

look at him go see what he did here

comes the winner a checkerboard kit

he's got what it takes he's supercharged

supercharged that's me I start each day

the checkerboard way checkerboard Yes

siree

and here are the bite-sized checkerboard

cereals rice checks and wheat checks

checkerboard yesary gang space

patrollers have to have a breakfast that

supercharges them let me show you

look at him go you can't find out a ship

like that without a good breakfast under

your belt so do as every space patroller

does every morning check out with

checkerboard rice checks is one way of

doing it why space patrollers would fly

from here to the Twilight belt of

mercury just to get their spoons into a

bowl of rice Chex it's super flavored a

sure enough space cereal there's space

inside for milk and great jump in

Jupiter checking out with wheat checks

is like riding into space on the tale of

a comet it's super powered full wheat

and it's got that modern bite-sized

design for easy eating so gang get the

checkerboard super cereals today rice

Chex wheat checks and to warm up your

mortar good hot Ralston for a good

morning a good good morning you gotta

check out with checkerboard checkerboard

cereal super good make you feel super

super good

checkerboard and the good good morning

to you good morning

and now back to space Patrol

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here

happy

hey look at this rig

I wonder what this thing is for

what's going on

I can't move my hand i'm held by some

kind of horse

buttons Blazers he canceled

you will not

who said that where are you I don't care

speaker over there sir

it's a robot excellent

you are very discerning

this is a robot this is what's doing the

talking

we're involved in cybernetics all right

cybernetics so it's the same kind of

instruments we use in electronic brains

yeah but what's it for I don't get it

I can explain it to you who are you I am

sandor a creator of this mental Bank

well if you know so much maybe you can

get me out of this I'm afraid that is

impossible

my robot has selected you to be first

first what do you mean if you two come

with me I will show you I'm not leaving

here until you release my Cadet if you

insist I shall have to use Force

take him Robbie

my arm I can't move

oh

foreign

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you may go now

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that'd be all right half don't you know

me

he can't recognize you he has just

contributed his mental powers to my

robot

in this fashion I have created a mental

Force capable of controlling the entire

United planets

oh what about these people what happened

to them they are left with just enough

intelligence to do my bidding there's no

Wills of their own they make excellent

servants as you and major Robertson will

Commander

guess again

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get him away knock them back into this

missile here until we are ready for him

and now major enter the chamber

I'd rather be shot and perhaps you'll

get your wish

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thank you

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major Robertson come to me

you want me come get me

and you win

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foreign

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you

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you may go now

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ah major Robertson back so soon good

now your first Duty will breathe to

bring your commander here

I'm sure he'll appreciate that

go bring Corey here

[Laughter]

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all right

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thank you

thank you

all right sandal let's get it over with

of course

I trust you won't mind an audience it

isn't every day that a

commander-in-chief of the space Patrol

submit submit to my mental Bank

all right robot

something Trump

there we are

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um manual control

annual control

here it is

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all right

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all right stand on your feet

what happened what happened what what

noise

that's why

where'd you get it my military space

come on when the headpiece made contact

it's short enough through the circuit

breaker

now use a manual control

the mental powers to happy and major

Robertson the scene will be done to all

the rest now if you show us where your

spaceship is we'll head back to Terror

how you feeling Robin I feel fine

Commander are you kidding that I feel

great but smoking Rockets what'd you say

I said smoking Rockets how do I get to

be a major that's the fastest promotion

I ever got happy

I don't mind being a Cadet but look at

the nose that goes along with the deal

hey Sandra wait I gotta make a

correction right away

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stand by for a preview of next week's

exciting action immediately following

this important message or I'll use space

patroller

winter time again more than ever space

patrollers need a breakfast that

supercharges them here's their answer a

base Patrol breakfast with good hot

roster the delicious hot super cereal

you bet rain or shine ice or snow space

patrollers can't take a chance that's

where you'll find me on a cold winter

morning with a bowl of good hot Ralston

the best hot cereal you ever tasted so

take some good advice from your

commander when the morning's cold make

the cereal good hot roasting instant or

regular a swell tasting silver cereal

that helps us silver charge you try them

with brown sugar mmm boy

thank you

Professor Hatcher who wasn't neither

professors that wanted to take a modern

invention back into the past yes but

refused to allow it whatever experiment

he tried we changed a course of history

so much that the United planets and all

its inhabitants could suddenly cease to

exist

if the man who tried

the chase in time next week on Space

Patrol

thank you

foreign

just reading here in the newspaper about

a boy who saved somebody's life ever

wish you could do something like that

well you can

join my space Patrol blood boosters now

here's what we do we try to get more

people to donate blood to the Red Cross

when you get a person to donate blood

you save a life so boys and girls join

my space Patrol blood boosters today

be sure to hear us face Patrol on ABC

radio every Saturday consult your

newspaper for time and station and be

sure to join us again when space Patrol

is brought to you on television too buy

those bite-sized cereals in the red and

white checkerboard packages

rice jacks

good hot Ralston and sweet chat

thank you

foreign

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