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(dramatic music)

(suspenseful music)

- Okay, Venus?

- Okay, Steve.

- Right, let's go.

(space vehicle whirring) (dramatic music)

(triumphant music)

(engine roaring)

(upbeat jazzy music)

(dramatic music)

(ominous music)

(alarm blaring)

- Don't ask questions, Steve.

Fire all boosters. Full power.

(engine roaring)

We're right in its path.

Fire top retros.

(engines roaring)

Steve, Venus, hang onto something.

(dramatic music)

(whimsical music)

- For a minute | thought we'd had it.

Are you okay, Matt?

- Yeah. Yes, Steve.

How about you, Venus?

- Gee, that was better than a rollercoaster.

I'm okay, though, apart from a few bruises.

- What happened, Matt?

- A planet has broken orbit, Steve.

(ominous music)

| calculate it will collide with Planet Membrono

in 21 days.

- [Steve] 21 days. In space that's no time at all.

- If Membrono is doomed,

we've got to make sure the planet is uninhabited.

(dramatic music)

- Approaching Membrono now, Steve.

- Roger, Matt.

Just going into orbit. Fire main retros.

(dramatic music) (engine roaring)

I'm sending Robert back to Central Control, Professor.

- Roger, Steve. Nose cone ready to go.

(suspenseful music)

- Here we go.

(rocket roaring)

(eerie music)

(engine whooshing)

(mysterious music)

(dramatic music)

Touchdown A-okay.

About to patrol planet.

(eerie music)

- Steve's leaving Fireball Junior now, Venus.

(space vehicle whirring)

(eerie music)

(space vehicle whirring) (eerie music)

- No sign of life, Professor.

- As we thought, Steve.

| don't think there's any point in exploring

any further, do you, Steve?

- | guess you're right, Professor.

But I've got a strange feeling I'm being watched.

(eerie music)

(eerie music)

(ominous music)

(dramatic music)

(suspenseful music)

| guess my imagination's playing tricks on me.

The place is deserted.

Okay, Professor, on my way back.

(ominous music)

- Steve's about to lift off, Venus.

- Okay, Professor, I'll tell Robert to stand by.

Stand by, Robert, for Fireball Junior

- [Robert] Standing by.

(engine booming)

(eerie music)

(dramatic music)

- Prepare to receive Fireball Junior, Venus.

- Roger, Professor.

Prepare to receive Fireball Junior, Robert.

(metal thudding)

(eerie music)

(saucer humming)

(dramatic music)

- There goes 5390 green.

- So if the planet is destroyed, Steve,

it will not really matter.

- That's right. There's no evidence of life.

- But you did have a feeling

that you were being observed.

- Now, now, now, Venus.

None of your feminine intuition.

Let's stick to the facts.

There's no life there.

So when it's destroyed

it will mean just one planet less to worry about.

(dramatic music)

- [Steve] Well, Robert, we're on our way home at last.

- [Robert] On our way home. On our way home.

- Fireball to Space City.

Patrol Code 8 terminated.

Entering Earth's atmosphere now.

Roger, Fireball, XL5 standing by.

- Fire retros, Robert.

- [Robert] Fire retros.

(explosion booming) (dramatic music)

- Venus, | can see an object

just coming through the clouds.

- | got a glimpse of it then, Matt.

I'd swear it was saucer shaped.

Hey, you don't figure

it's a flying saucer, do you, Professor?

- Now, Steve, don't start that again.

- Yes, Steve, you'd feel a bit of a toot

if it was just another sunspot.

(laughs) It's gone now anyway.

(gentle music)

(engine whirring)

- Touchdown A-okay. Cutting power.

(mysterious music)

(saucer humming)

(dramatic music)

- There it is again, Commander Zero.

- | don't wanna know about it.

How many times do | have to tell you

there's no such thing as a flying saucer?

- Yes, sir.

- But Commander, we definitely saw something

that looked like one.

- Now listen, Steve, you're just tired out

after the trip.

Do me a favour, will ya, and just forget it.

- Okay, okay, have it your own way.

I'll go and make out my report.

See you later, Venus.

- Okay, Steve.

Pick me up and we'll go back to my place.

I've got a real cool disc | want you to hear.

- Sure thing, Venus.

- | took your lazoon home this afternoon, Venus.

He sure is cute.

- | Know. Thanks for taking care of him, Commander.

(bright upbeat music)

- Say, how is that lazoon of yours anyway, Venus?

Can he speak yet?

- You just see when we get home, Steve.

(gentle music)

Come in, Steve.

| expect my lazoon is in the lounge.

(door clicks)

(eerie music)

(dramatic music)

There he is.

Now wait for it, Steve.

Come on, wake up, you lazy pooch.

- Welcome home.

- That's what he learned in three months

since we brought him back from Planet Calevio.

- That's great, Venus.

He sure looks as though he means it too.

- Well, he is a lazy lazoon, Steve.

Come on, let's have some coffee and listen to the disc.

(saucer humming) (eerie music)

(water splashing)

(radar clicking)

- Unidentifiable object landed at Oteno Beach, Commander.

- [Commander] Oteno Beach! Let's see.

That's where Venus has her beach house.

(eerie music)

(radio whirring)

(upbeat jazzy music)

- Scan up roll negative.

- Roger, Lieutenant.

Switch back to radar signal.

Keep tracing area.

(eerie music)

(upbeat jazzy music)

- Help yourself to coffee and sandwiches, Steve.

I'll play the flip side.

(bright upbeat music)

(lazoon squawking)

- Welcome home.

- No, no, Zooni, you've got it wrong.

You only say that when someone is coming in.

(lazoon squawking)

- Welcome home.

- He is welcoming someone, Venus.

My guess is we've got a visitor.

- | don't like it.

The radar screen is unchanged.

- Okay, I'll sound the alarm.

(alarm blaring)

- The warning system.

My ray gun, it's in the hover car.

(alarm blaring) (ominous music)

(dramatic music)

(alarm blaring)

(suspenseful music) (alarm blaring)

(dramatic music)

- Hello? Commander Zero.

What is happening?

- We've located a strange object near your house, Venus.

- Steve's gone to look around now.

(suspenseful music)

(ominous music)

Find anything, Steve?

- No, but there was someone or something here all right.

Your lazoon is not so dumb as he looks.

(suspenseful music)

(water splashing) (saucer humming)

Venus, look!

(saucer humming)

- The object is moving away from Earth.

(telephone ringing)

- | Know you'll think I'm toodiq, Commander Zero,

but I've just seen a flying saucer.

- We know, Steve.

We're getting a radio fix on it now.

- Good, I'll be right with you.

- Roger, Steve. I'll alert Professor Matic.

- Thanks, Commander.

Come on, Venus, we're gonna track that saucer.

(dramatic music)

All systems go, Matt.

- Prepare for liftoff, Steve.

(engines roaring)

(thrusters booming)

- [Steve] What's the course, Commander?

- Saucer is on 2170-red at steady, Steve.

- Did you get that, Matt?

- [Matt] Roger, Steve. 170-red.

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(upbeat jazzy music)

- [Steve] Saucer located, Professor.

- | see it, Steve. It's slowing down.

(upbeat jazzy music)

- Stand by to release interceptors if necessary.

- Roger, Steve.

Coming into range now.

- It's moved out of range.

- Get moving, Steve, or we'll lose it.

- It's no good, Matt, it's leaving us again.

- Yes, Steve. It's as though it wants us to follow.

(suspenseful music)

(mysterious music)

- We're approaching a planet, Professor.

- Why, Steve, that's it. It's Membrono.

The doomed planet.

(ominous music)

(saucer humming) (eerie music)

- The saucer's landed, Matt.

I'm going down there.

- But, Steve, the other planet. It'll collide.

- I've gotta find out about this flying saucer, Professor.

- [Professor] Then I'm coming with you, Steve.

- Okay, Professor, I'll take over here.

(dramatic music)

- Ready to detach nose cone, Venus.

- [Venus] Roger, Steve.

(steam hissing)

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(suspenseful music)

(engine roaring)

- Watch your step, Matt.

We don't know what's waiting for us out there.

(eerie music)

(dramatic music)

The entrance of the saucer is open, Matt.

- Yes, Steve, but | don't see anyone.

(eerie music)

(dramatic music)

- Who are you? Don't move or we fire.

- He, uh, he doesn't seem to hear you, Steve.

Wait. He's pointing at something.

- What is it, Matt?

- It's Fireball Junior, Steve.

He's trying to tell us something.

- What can he want?

- [Man] Bring the robot out of your spaceship.

- Did you hear that, Matt?

The voice is coming from the direction

of Fireball Junior.

I'll play along with him. Get Robert.

- Now, now you stand quite still

until Steve Zodiac gets back.

- Do not be alarmed, earthling.

Put away your weapons.

- He's speaking through Robert.

- |am transferring my thoughts to the robot, Steve Zodiac.

We are of superior intelligence,

and have been observing your planet Earth for years.

- You didn't lead us all this way to tell us that.

- No, Colonel.

We have been in existence longer than any civilization.

We have learned the futility of war.

Now we only want peace.

We have banished all weapons,

but now we will suffer in consequence.

- How can that be if you're devoted to peace?

- Because we have no means of destroying

the moving planet which threatens our world.

(ominous music)

- But | checked this planet.

- | know, Steve Zodiac, | watched you.

But we live on our moon.

You see, it is a reverse pattern to your own earth, up here.

- Do you mean to say if Membrono is destroyed,

your moon will go out of orbit?

- That is correct.

We need your help desperately.

You are good people.

Please destroy the moving planet

with your powerful missiles.

- We'll be happy to help you, old fella.

| guess it's in a good cause.

Let's go, Professor.

(dramatic music)

(metal thudding)

Here we go.

Course instructions, please, Professor.

- It's DA 3990 blue, Steve.

- [Steve] Roger, 3990 blue.

(rocket whooshing)

- Stand by with interceptor one, Steve.

(dramatic music)

- Standing by.

- In range.

- In range, Steve.

- Master guidance system UHF.

- Master guidance system UHF.

- 10 seconds.

- 10 seconds, Steve.

- [Steve] Standing by to correct course.

- Six seconds.

Five, Four,

three, two, one.

Zero and go.

(missile whooshes)

(explosion booming)

- It's no good, Steve.

The interceptor isn't powerful enough

to stop the planet moving.

- What would happen if we fired three interceptors

at once, Matt?

Would it start an atomic chain reaction?

- Yeah, it could, Steve. It's worth a try.

We have the range, Venus.

Stand by for interceptors two, three and four, Steve.

- Standing by.

- Five seconds.

- [Venus] Five, four,

three, two, one.

Zero and go.

(missiles whooshing)

(explosion booming)

- All interceptors bang on target.

- It's working. The planet is a pool of fire.

- We're right in its path.

(suspenseful music)

- Steve, if it doesn't burn itself out soon,

we really will be a fireball.

(dramatic music) (fire crackling)

(suspenseful music)

(explosion booming)

- Gee. That sure was a close one.

- The saucer, Steve.

It's leaving Membrono.

(saucer humming)

Well, that's gratitude for you.

He didn't even wait to thank us.

- That's life | guess.

- [Man] Thank you, Earth men.

We are pleased that your planet has progressed so well.

We will see each other again.

| am in your debt.

Perhaps one day | can repay you.

- Well, whaddya know?

- | know one thing, Steve.

Commander Zero will read our report

with a little more belief this time.

Now we all know that there are flying saucers, after all.

(saucer whirring)

(upbeat jazzy music)

~ 1 wish | was a spaceman S

~ The fastest guy alive

< I'd fly you round the universe f

f In Fireball XL5 I

~ Way out in space together J

~ Conquerors of the sky

My heart would be a fireball

A fireball

f Every time | gazed into your starry eyes f

¢ We'd take a path to Jupiter

~ And maybe very soon J

~ We'd cruise along The Milky Way f

¢ And land upon the moon J

¢ To a wonderland of stardust J

f We'll zoom away to Mars S

My heart would be a fireball

A fireball

~'Cause you would be my Venus of the stars