Classic Cartoons - Space Angel-Incident of the Loud Planet-Part One
Transcript
00:00And Scott McCloud, Space Angel.
00:15Blast off for another exciting adventure in outer space with Scott McCloud, Space Angel, in the story of Incident of the Loud Planet.
00:30Our story opens at Earth Control on a routine day. The dispatchers are about to okay a Venus Junction space freighter launch.
00:42Venus Junction, Venus Junction, this is Earth Control, over.
00:45Earth Control, this is Venus Junction, go ahead.
00:49Here's your party, Chief.
00:50Space freighter 005, this is Earth Control. Request granted. Launch your cargo capsule on orbit 2.76.
00:58Earth Control, this is space freighter 005, roger. Releasing cargo on orbit 2.76, over.
01:11Hey, what's this?
01:15Oh, no, it couldn't be.
01:22Master Control, Master Control, this is Station 7, alert.
01:26This is Master Control. What's wrong, Bill?
01:29I'm recording red alert in sector 045, over.
01:33Station 7, red alert, sector 045, roger.
01:37Hang on, Bill. This is Master Control. Put me through to the Chief. This is an emergency.
01:44Come in, Earth Control. What's up?
01:46Disturbance in sector 045, Chief. Source unidentified. It's jamming communications.
01:52Check all stations and verify. And move, man.
01:55Check. All stations, stand by for fix on unidentified signal and report.
02:01Roger, Master Control.
02:23Oh, Johnny, you haven't touched a bite of your lunch yet.
02:27How long do you think you could keep this up without making yourself sick?
02:32You've got to eat.
02:34I'll eat, Mom. I'm just not hungry yet.
02:38Oh, dear.
02:40I'm okay, Mom. Just leave me alone, please.
02:43No, Johnny, I won't. It's high time we put a stop to this.
02:48Johnny, it's no use. He's gone. He's not coming back.
02:52He is, too. I'm going to find him if it takes all my life.
02:56Don't stop me, Mom. Someday I'm going to find that wild planet.
03:00It has to come back. It has to.
03:03Oh, Johnny, dear, it's too late.
03:06It's too late.
03:08It's too late.
03:10It's too late.
03:12It's too late.
03:14It has to.
03:16Oh, Johnny, dear, it's just no use.
03:19Oh, how I've prayed.
03:21Mom. Mom, that's it. I found it.
03:25Look. It's the wild planet.
03:27We found Dad.
03:29Oh, Johnny. Johnny, do something.
03:32Yahoo, you know it.
03:34I'll beat the game.
03:36Hit the bearing computer recorder.
03:39And now what?
03:41That's it.
03:42In a minute we'll know the position and speed of the planet Sonics.
03:45And Earth Space Control can send searchers after it.
03:48I did it, Mom. I did it.
03:50I produced an element that can't be found any place on Earth.
03:54But, Chief, we put the data through the analyzer and it's unable to locate the source.
03:59Hmm. Put me through to the Starduster. It's operating in that area.
04:03Maybe we can get some missing data from the Space Angel.
04:06Okay, Chief. Stand by.
04:13STARDUSTER
04:19Urgent signal from Master Control, Scott. It must be the Chief.
04:22Right, Crystal.
04:24Master Control, this is the Starduster. Go ahead, Chief.
04:28Scott, there's a strange signal coming from the direction of your patrol area.
04:32Have you seen anything?
04:33Sure have, Chief.
04:35And our wave detector registers sonight. It's getting stronger.
04:39Sonight? Are you sure?
04:41I'm afraid so, Chief. We haven't had a blast yet.
04:45Here it comes!
04:55Scott! Scott! Are you all right?
04:58So far, Chief, but...
04:59Hey, Skipper! Our automatic guidance system is knocked out!
05:03We're coming apart at the seams!
05:05She's out of control!
05:12Wow!
05:14We've stabilized, but... What's happening, Scott?
05:17When we blasted into that sonight belt, it threw us out of control.
05:21And when I chopped off the power, the sonight waves took over and are pulling us along in their wake.
05:27Hmm. Now we're churning along with it like a chip of wood on a gigantic wave.
05:32Yes, Skipper?
05:33But how do we get out of this?
05:35Just hang on to your hats.
05:37But how do we get out of this?
05:39Just hang on to your hats.
05:41It's going to be quite a jolt. Better strap yourselves in now.
05:44This is it. Right, Skipper?
05:46All okay here, me lad.
05:48Let her rip.
05:50I'm going to pour on all the coal she can take and blast free.
05:53We hope.
05:55Whoa!
06:04Whoa!
06:06Whee!
06:22Whoa!
06:24That felt like an elephant was standing on my middle.
06:27That's enough of that for one day.
06:29Horace, you're just getting old.
06:31Earth Control. Earth Control, this is Starduster. Over.
06:36Starduster, this is Earth Control. Go ahead.
06:39Earth Control, this is Starduster. Clear pad for landing. Priority one.
06:43Roger, Starduster. I'll notify the chief. Take pad three.
06:55Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
07:19Chief, this is Master Control.
07:21A space angel just landed on the Starduster.
07:23Splendid, Master Control. Send the space angel right in.
07:27Yes, sir. And call Dr. Mace for an immediate conference.
07:31Dr. Mace. Yes, sir. Right away, sir.
07:33My viewer was knocked out and never did get a glimpse of the asteroid.
07:37The sonight wave at that point was two space units across, Professor Mace.
07:41Hmm.
07:43From that angle, I would say the sonight waves must have been transmitted from Earth.
07:48The sonight asteroid only magnified them and bounced them back.
07:52Then sonight transmission could knock out any spacecraft that got into the path of its transmission?
07:57Not the path of transmission, Scott.
08:00It's the bounce-back wave from the greater source of sonight that is dangerous.
08:04That's why we've got to find out who, when, where, what is broadcasting this thing.
08:09We're running the recorded data through now.
08:12We'll know exactly where it's coming from in a minute.
08:15Come in.
08:16Pardon me, Chief.
08:18There's a young boy out here who says he's been broadcasting sonight.
08:21I thought you'd like to talk to him.
08:23Would I? I'll say I would. Send him in here.
08:26Your computer pinpoints the sonight transmission in the 1200 block on Pine Street, right here in the city.
08:35And where do you live, young man?
08:371240 Pine Street, sir.
08:40Young man, don't you know that transmitting sonight is against the law?
08:44Yes, sir, but...
08:46Do you know you almost killed a space angel?
08:48Now, Chief, don't be so tough on him.
08:50It was the only way to locate the wild planet Sonex through harmonic response.
08:55And my dad was lost on it over three years ago, and I found it.
08:59I have the computer tape, and...
09:01Wait a minute. Slow down.
09:03The boy makes sense.
09:05The planet Sonex was in this area three years ago.
09:09And Professor Kendall, who went out to survey it, has never returned.
09:13Scott, this looks like a job for the space angel.
09:16Oh, boy, the space angel.
09:19Roger, Chief. I'll, uh...
09:21I'll notify the space angel to have the Starduster ready for blast-off first thing in the morning.
09:26Scott, is the Starduster all ready to blast-off on schedule?
09:29Ready, willing, and able, sir.
09:31Crystal's helping Professor Mace check out our new tracking gear, and Taurus is directing the loading of supplies.
09:37Where's the space angel? Can I meet the space angel?
09:41Uh...
09:44Uh, no, Johnny. He's, uh, already...