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Planet Man - 3 Episodes From 1950

Produced in about 1950 by Palladium Radio Productions, "The Planet Man"
is the golly-gee-whillikers saga of Dantro, an intergalactic
troubleshooter for an organization known as the League of Planets - "the
law enforcement body for peace and justice in the celestial world."
(Think of him as an outer-space version of Marshal Matt Dillon - "It\'s a
chancy job, and it makes a [planet] man watchful...") With their center
of operations situated on Planeria Rex, "the capital of the planets,"
the League sends their water-carrier Dantro out into the celestial world
to maintain law and order "whenever danger threatens the universe."

"The Planet Man" is a graduate of the Space Patrol/Tom Corbett, Space\\xa0
Cadet school of old-time radio drama, serving up plenty of breezy,\\xa0
not-to-be-taken-seriously adventure fun. Marston is a great\\xa0
megalomaniacal comic villain, very similar to the bad guys in the\\xa0
Columbia Studios serials who were always griping about their bungling\\xa0
subordinates and their inability to follow orders. But the series\\xa0
utilizes other colorful villains as well -- particularly a pair of\\xa0
Brooklynese dese-dem-and-dose space pirates named Slick and Blackie who\\xa0
sound like refugees from a Monogram B-gangster pic. And yet, the show\\xa0
showcases ideas that will be used later in other, classic sci-fi films:\\xa0
one particular story arc echoes the Cold War paranoia of "The Invasion\\xa0
of the Body Snatchers," in which the nefarious Marston manages to\\xa0
dehumanize Dantro and others with his handy-dandy "Hypno-Ray."\\xa0