There was also a Space Patrol radio program with the same actorw and many of the same characters , places and premiums, I recently got acquainted with the radio version of Space Patrol. I left copious notes at the Starlog Forum, This is a compilation/abstraction of those notes.

I thought I would be disappointed by the primitiveness but I was wrong. I like it more the more I listen and I may end up liking the radio adventures more. Rory Coker reports he did like them more and Warren Chaney told me that Ed Kemmer liked them more, also The audio quality is a bit uneven but I was made aware of that going in and that is normal for this kind of thing; overall, though, I have no gripes about that. I have not doubt that the equipment that would have fixed that, such as auto-level and things is available but this could not be done at a reasonable price for the market. I might look for other sources to see if I can't get better audio quality on the episodes that, on this edition, aren't that good. I tried contacting Cadet Bruce to see if he had any of the radio shows but the Mailer Daemon kept spitting my emails back at me.

The writing seems to be crisper and the scene design seems a bit tighter. Don't forget, radio presentation was far more developed than TV and TV requires a lot more other things that radio doesn't, such as visual orientation, choreography, stage management, SP/Fx and audio-video co-ordination. Indeed, many of the awards that SP won were for those other things and it was much of that which accounted for the high quality of the whole package that was Space Patrol

About the radio show, these are some observations in no particular order:

• The atmosphere has a wider range including a touch of audio "file moir" in some cases where the bad guys get a bit seedier than on TV
• The radio stories are quite different. There's a lot more gunplay, Also they make more use of the "atmosphere ship", which should simply have been called an "aircraft". The stories are very in keeping with current radio adventure. There is less "sci-fi" type of problems than on the TV show and more police action.
• If you are a Bela Kovaks fan: Rejoice! He's in about 2/3 of the episodes and Virginia Hewitt does a few non-Carole parts and they get more use from Tonga.
• They are set against a technologically advanced background with bad guys using advanced technology of the time.
• Baccaratti is better set up with quite an organization behind him. Also he is described as a "subversive" rather than a "super-criminal" and is a more imposing figure. There are fewer of the hi-tech gadgetrt like going through walls and "wolf plants".On the TV show, Prince Baccaratti's twin brother is Zara, born a few seconds before Baccaratti. and they are both of the House of Zara In the radio versions Our Beloved Prince is Zoltan and Baccaratti is the family name. I have an incomplete inventory of episodes, but apparently Zoltan is called the Red Falcon. The two bothers still hate each other's guts.
• the major form of non-aerospatial transport is by what they call "surface car", not "jet car" and there are a lot more driving "scenes" than on TV
• The aero-spatial weapon is the "cosmic torpedo" and not missile. In general, what are called "missiles" on TV are called "torpedoes" on the radio version, Buzz Corry's ship has rear cosmic torpedo launchers I'd like to see this Terra I; although on the INternet, it seems that the Terra I is gradually becoming the drawn ship that was used as Kit Corry's cruiser which is now morphing into a runabout
• There are a lot of "atomo" things "Atomo-torch", "atomo-truck" and "atomo-light"
• They refer to, and use a lot more, the Brain-O-Graph.
• Canali has not been mentioned once. On the TV show, it was the main venue for activities on Mars. The Martian "big city is called Lowell City.
• Space seems to be more inhabited and developed than in the TV show; and much less vast and wild or frontier.
• According to the radio programs DESIGN FOR DISASTER. That introduced the Space Patrol Periscope, this unit behaved differently in a gravity field than in space, In space it could see millions of miles and through buildings. Incidentally one of the bad guys' name is Mathiew Sneed who is really an agent for an interstellar invason force. Although, the Thorminoids on the TV show had an ally called "Captain Quick"
• The use of hyperspace ("star drive") for time travel does not show up until 1955 and it is discovered by a criminal scientist by accident.
• They get a lot more mileage out of Tonga. Oh, I sadi that already.
• They also had a way of "telegraphing" things in the scenes. For example when a climactic fight is about to end, Corry usually says "Had enough?" and in one of the many fights, the bad guy says "Okay; I've had enough."
• The sound effects were far more limited in kind.
• There seem to be all kinds of rayguns: some that can blow out rocks, some put you to sleep and some paralyze. There were a lot more bullet guns. One story centered around an elk hunt on Venus. In another episode the bad guys were firing at Corry and Hap with bullets, In the TV version, thses kinds of weapons were in museums. The radio stories have much more gunplay, I don't recall many scenes on TV of persons being shot or shot at.
• Planet X is more develped than on TV and remains around after the Baccarrati episodes are over: There is some company formed to asess and bring the resources of said planet to economic fruition. In the TV program, it disappears.
• In the radio program the big body of water on Venus is the Venusian Sea. On the TV program, it's the Caloric Ocean.
• I've not heard the Carnacans mentioned once on the radio
• The radio did reference a lot more of the classic Space Opera/sci-fi technology, like specific referenced to artificial gravity, microfilm books (the TV version showe happy with a paper "manual"
• DU (Distance UNit: 30 Miles) is used much more in the radio version than the TV one
• The TV stories featured much more in the way of aliens.
• On the radio there are no "space cars" but "private cruisers" are a dime a dozen
• The space helemts in the radio programed could open in the front. On the TV program they used the bubble helmets
• The radio program seems to have gotten more mileahe out of the Monoview space helmet by a factor of lots than the TV show
• The radio show commercial head honcho was a guy called "Captain Dick Tufeld", later to be the voice of the Lost IN Space robot. On the TV show, he doesn't even show up
• There are more orbiting installations such as a facttory orbiting Venus and a platform orbiting Mars.
• Most of thr freighters are robot-ships
• Did I mention that they get a lot more use from Nina Bara and Virginia Hewett?