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Now for a visit to the Secret Squadron Hall of Fame!
Gee, the Secret Squadron Hall of Fame!
Yes, Jack, and every one of these great athletes is a member of the Secret Squadron.
For example, Crazy Legs Hirsch, one of football's all-time, all-time greats.
And Florence Chadwick, world famous English Channel swimmer.
And here is Duke Snyder.
His four home runs during the 1955 World Series led the Brooklyn Dodgers to their first world championship.
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On a mountaintop high above a large city stands the headquarters of a man devoted to the cause of freedom and justice.
A war hero who has never stopped fighting against his country's enemies.
A private citizen who is dedicating his life to the struggle against evil men everywhere.
Captain Midnight.
What's the matter, Iggy?
You nervous?
Who, nervous for me?
I'm not nervous.
This time we're testing the effect of the bomb on personnel and equipment.
Personnel?
That means people, doesn't it?
Don't worry.
The bombardier in the dropped plane could lay that bomb in your hip pocket.
That's what I was afraid of.
Observer, will please put on your dark glasses.
We'll get him son.
Well, gentlemen, you've just witnessed our baby bomb.
And we want to thank you for the opportunity.
Boy, if that's your baby bomb, I'd sure like to see a papa bomb.
We will, Icky.
The General has invited us to come back and see the big one go off.
In 48 hours, weather conditions permitting, of course.
A message, sir.
Thank you.
This is for you.
Thanks.
See you here for Big Shot.
Yes, sir.
Thank you again.
Who's it from?
Tut.
What's up?
He doesn't say.
He wants us to be back at headquarters at once.
Come on.
I hope Tut isn't in trouble.
We'll soon find out.
Calling Secret Squadron Headquarters.
This is SQ-1 in the Silver Dark calling Secret Squadron Headquarters.
Come in, SQ-3.
This is SQ-3.
Go ahead, SQ-1.
What's up, Tut?
No details now.
Somebody may be monitoring us.
But it's about your friend, Dr. J.P. Hartley.
I'll have your car ready to roll when you land.
We'll run out.
Dr. Hartley.
A medic?
No, he's a scientist.
One of the great ones, Zicky.
What's wrong?
Well, obviously something big.
Tut will tell us all about it when we land.
What's the rush?
I promised Miss Hartley we wouldn't waste a second.
I promised myself a hot shower.
What's the problem with Dr. Hartley, Tut?
Mrs. Hartley hasn't seen or heard from her husband in three days.
She's worried.
Three days?
Did she say any more?
No, she was too upset.
She wants to talk to you.
Mrs. Hartley, I realize your husband often went away for long periods on confidential
business.
What makes you think this isn't one of those occasions?
Oh, because he always tells me so before he leaves and calls me as often as he can while
he's away.
But this time he left without saying a word.
Didn't you think that a little unusual at the time?
Well, not at first.
You see, he's...
My husband is sort of absent-minded, always has some problem on his mind.
He seemed preoccupied when he walked out with those government men.
I thought he was seeing them to their car, but I...
I haven't seen or heard from him since.
How did you know they were government men?
Oh, they said so.
Mrs. Hartley, do you mind if Tut and Icky look around while I make a phone call?
Not at all.
The phone's right there.
Captain, midnight.
I do hope you could...
I'll do my best.
Thank you.
Will you please let me have the Pentagon in Washington?
He always keeps his notes on his work spread out before him all the time.
May I look through them?
They're gone.
What's gone?
The notes.
I typed them for him myself.
I had them right here.
When did you last see them?
The night before my husband left.
They were right here.
I'm sure they were.
Mrs. Hartley, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but those were not government men who
came here for your husband.
The Pentagon has no record of any government men being sent here to see Dr. Hartley.
Icky, get some water.
Mrs. Hartley's doing fine.
I just got her a nurse.
Nice work, Icky.
What'd you find out from Dr. Hartley's worksheets?
Well, Icky, he was evidently working on a process to reach perfect cold, the temperature
of absolute zero.
Super deep freeze, huh?
No, a new super metal that can be produced only at a temperature never before achieved
by man.
He calls his new metal protonium, and if he succeeds in making it, he may have the answer
to high powered rocket engines, even space travel.
Plutonium would line the rocket tubes.
It could withstand the tremendous heat of supersonic speed, and it might even resist
the heat of a nuclear blast.
Like the one we saw this morning, huh?
Hey, Dr. Hartley's really got something.
Yeah, so have the people who've got Dr. Hartley.
Any idea who they might be?
Enemy agents.
Yeah, but he walked right out with them.
How absent minded can a guy get?
He wasn't being absent minded, Icky.
He was probably drugged.
One of our great scientists in the hands of enemy agents and us without even a clue.
Except his bill for a propagidium.
Propagidium?
Never heard of that.
Must be one of the new drugs.
Well, then it shouldn't be too difficult to trace.
You stay here and see what else you can get out of Dr. Hartley's notes.
Icky, you and I will make the rounds at the supply houses.
Pardon me.
Me too.
Did you see who went into that store?
They bumped into me, the clumsy fools.
Then you bumped into Captain Midnight.
Captain Midnight?
Yes, that's our invoice.
We're the only ones who carry propagidium.
Propa...
Who'd want to buy it?
I can't even say it.
Propagidium.
Could you tell me what the properties are?
It's a substance that combined with certain other chemicals produces extreme cold.
May I see some of it?
Of course.
We just have this 10 gram sample left.
The man you bumped into as you came in took all we had left in the house.
He must be a big scientist.
No, but he works with one and was authorized by him to pick up the propagidium.
We don't sell this without the signature of an established scientist.
It's dangerous stuff.
Well, could you tell me the name of the scientist?
Of course.
J.P. Hartley.
He's ill right now and that's why he sends his co-workers.
Thanks.
Come on, Icky.
Well, they're gone.
Let's go.
What are you doing, Todd?
Well, I think I got enough from Dr. Hartley's notes to reconstruct part of his experiment.
It might suggest a clue.
That's a good idea.
Here, try this.
It might help.
40 grams of propagidium.
40 grams?
Where did you get that?
Never mind where I got it.
Use it.
Well, it certainly will help.
Now we'll find out how cold coal really is.
And I'm going to find out how hot hot is in that shower.
That is, if no one has any objections.
Objections?
Just the opposite.
Well, just about ready.
I'm with you.
All right.
Now turn on the neutralizing field.
Now we'll add the propagidium.
All right, turn on the fuel generator.
Now the hydrogen source.
Turn off the fuel generator, quick.
That stuff broke that.
It was made of unbreakable glass.
The coal could have done it, but I doubt it.
All right, Mr. Aristotle Jones, what's the idea of turning down the lights and shutting
off the hot water?
You nearly froze me to death in that shower.
Tough didn't do it, Ackey.
Well, then you did it.
That's what did it, huh?
a. Ball
must weigh over a hundred pounds a hundred pounds a little bit of metal why you
can't miss something I don't believe it hundred pounds.
Right.
Much weight on where to come from was formed in the flask of absolute zero that
little ball is a particle of plutonium the super metal Dr Hartley was looking
for what's that got to do with freezing me to death in the shower while that
little metal ball was being formed it absorbed all the heat and light energy
from all over the building this means Dr Hartley has succeeded.
And his enemy agents must have the secret of this stuff too.
General. The weather is forced us to move up the test for a big shot to tomorrow at
fourteen hundred and we'll be looking for you Yes sir thank you General but I
guess there are thank you General. You're going to be able to make it I mean
we're right in the middle of looking for Dr Hartley we'll be back by tomorrow
afternoon I can keep in touch with that in case of any new development warm up
so that I can. Put me close on.
What you mean we're going to. Time out now to relive something that happened
recently at headquarters. Testing something that right I'm going to clear up
some confusion about the contents of these jars all are called food drinks and
they're all mixed with milk so you might think they don't make the same kind of
milk drink but really there are three entirely different kinds here now these.
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they're still primarily flavorings but here we have a real food supplement
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Those are the Soledad Mountains up ahead.
Looks hot as a furnace down there. Well it never drops much below a hundred. That
must be the target area for the bomb in that general vicinity. Boy if it's that
hot down there now imagine the heat when Big Shot goes off. Bring it around 280
degrees and drop to 2,000.
What do you see? I don't believe it. You don't believe what? What is it? The field
of ice. Ice in that hot furnace? Take a look for yourself. Ice in the middle of a
hot desert. Look at that magnometer.
There's a strong magnetic field down there. Hey the compass is going crazy.
Wait a minute. Ice in the middle of desert a strong magnetic field it all
adds up. Dr. Hartley. Right if we follow the source of the magnetic field it
should lead us to him. Hickey set it down on that plateau over there. Yeah but that's
where they're gonna drop Big Shot. No not for another two hours. Well okay. We better
put on our parkas. It's liable to be colder than we think.
The magnetic field is coming from inside that cave.
We see we were able to complete Dr. Hartley's experiments without the
interference. Perhaps I am too cautious Oreck. But knowing that Captain Midnight
is looking for us makes me anxious to conclude our work as quickly as possible.
All we have to do is collect the finished notes. The plutonium sample is
too too heavy to carry. So we leave Dr. Hartley's machine here to the ice. Dr.
Hartley must be down that passage. Let's hurry up and get him. Now that's much too
dangerous for both of us to go in there. We may be trapped. You go on back to the
plane. I'll keep in touch by pocket locator. Roger.
Dr. Hartley. Dr. Hartley.
SQ1 calling SQ2. SQ1 calling SQ2. Come in SQ2. SQ2 to SQ1. Go ahead SQ1. I found
Dr. Hartley. I thought he was dead but he's apparently in a state of suspended
animation. His body temperature is down to freezing. Looks like they've been
keeping him alive on drugs and plasma. I'll come and help you carry him up. No you sit
tight. There are stimulants here. I'm gonna try to bring him around. Now don't leave
the plane unless I call you. Out.
I fears were not unfounded. It's Captain Midnight. So it is. But how? Oh perfect. Now
we can eliminate two very valuable members of a decadent society. That's right.
There's enough reserve power in the field generators to keep him running for days.
Yes but at times entire amount will be buried under tons of ice. That's right.
Let's get out of here or we'll be frozen alive ourselves if we don't hurry. Right. We can
reach the helicopter in half an hour. Then we can radio our superior officers.
Mission accomplished. SQ2 calling SQ1. Come in SQ1. SQ2 calling SQ1. Come in. Please come
in SQ1. Big shot's due to go off in a few minutes.
SQ1 to SQ2. I'm sorry I came in. Somebody put the lights out. You gotta get out of there.
Big shot's due to go off in a few minutes and that cave's pointing right at the target
area. I've got to save Dr. Hartley. Well step on it will you number one or we'll all be
vaporized. Dr. Hartley. Dr. Hartley can you understand me? No more Zorak. No more. That's
all I can tell you. This is Captain Midnight. Can you hear me? Captain Midnight. We've got
to get out of here. I'll help you. The door's locked.
The controls. They're on full force. Turn them off quickly.
They're stuck. They're frozen. I can't move them. Is there any other way out of here?
No. Calling SQ1. Calling SQ1. Come in SQ1. This is SQ1. Over. The drop plane's approaching
target. Try the hermey band Nicky. Try and stop them. We're frozen in here. We can't
get out. Calling army PGX1. SQ2 calling PGX1. Emergency. Emergency. SQ2 over.
SQ2 to SQ1. It's no use. The GI band is jammed. I can't get through. Hang on. I'm coming in
after you. Get into the air and climb fast. Get as much altitude as you can before that
bomb goes off. I can't just leave you there. You've got to. Now take off. That is an order.
Out. Will do. Out.
SQ1 calling SQ2. Are you still up there? Come in SQ2. SQ2 to SQ1. Come in. What happened?
Are you sure you're still alive? We're okay. What a break. Set it out if you can find a
cool spot. Get us out of here before the radioactive fallout begins. I'll be right down. Have you
got it out of Jiffy? Did you make it Dr. Hartley? I'll help you. How can we ever thank you Captain
Midnight for saving my husband's life? Dr. Hartley deserves credit for saving both our
lives. You see when his machine was turned up full blast it created absolute zero which
absorbed the absolute heat created by the bomb. Purely unintentional reaction. And your
equipment doctor, was it destroyed in the blast? The room that held the machine was
buried under tons of rock. Fortunately for us the room in which we were being held had
been reinforced. What I can't understand is how Dr. Hartley could be frozen alive and
still live to tell about it. Well that's not a new technique. Lowering the body temperature
and sustaining life with drugs. Those men brought me out of my coma only when they needed
information. In my drug condition I told them everything. I don't think that information
will do them much good. They were in the target area when the bomb went off. They couldn't
have escaped it. Well it's been a busy couple of days so if you'll excuse me I think I'll
take a hot shower. And uh, will you please not give me that absolute zero stuff until
after I'm through Aristotle? Because I need to shower real bad. For once Ichabod, you
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