Gamma Rad Studios · Rocket City, Maine York · Est. 1945
Rocket City's home of the radio serial. Five programs, four soundstages, one hundred and fifty official Fission Girl products, and a commissary that never closes. Heard nightly after the news on the Planetary Broadcast Network.
From the office of the President · For immediate release
Monday · November 2, 1953 · 9:40 P.M. E.S.T.
Earlier this evening, a recording session of The Adventures of Fission Girl in Studio 4 was interrupted by what our engineering department is describing as an unscheduled atmospheric event.
Miss Stella Reed, who has given voice to the Half-Life Heroine with such distinction, is resting. Production will continue on schedule.
Gamma Rad Studios reminds listeners that Fission Girl is a fictional character. Dr. Ida Bainbridge, the physicist on whom she is loosely based, died in 1941. Any transmission suggesting otherwise is unauthorized and should not be listened to, though it is going out on 1480 and the Studio cannot, at this time, stop you.
Reports that Miss Reed was "taken" by "visitors" are irresponsible and bad for merchandise.
Will Fallar
President, Chief Executive and Head Writer, Gamma Rad Studios
Studio 4 is closed until the floor stops glowing. Tours of Studios 1 through 3 continue as scheduled. Visitors are asked not to touch the circle.
Every program is written, performed and sound-effected under one roof. Live audiences welcome; tickets at the stage door.
Mondays · after the Evening News
The Half-Life Heroine and the crew of the Eureka defend the nuclear family from Captain Carcinogen, Kaiser Moto and the Space Krill. Created in 1945 by Kirby Neil.
Status: Recording. Cast changes pending.
Fission Rangers HQTuesdays · 7:30 P.M.
The law on Saturn wears a tin star and rides the rings. Rustlers, ice pirates and a saloon in the Cassini Gap. Our most popular spin-off, and Fission Girl's new beau.
Status: On the air.
Ride with the posseWednesdays · 9:00 P.M.
Private investigator Lucius Vane takes the cases nobody upstairs will touch, and some nobody downstairs will either. Every episode ends with a bill, paid in something other than money.
Status: On the air. Sponsor sought.
Thursdays · 10:00 P.M.
An anthology of the inexplicable, introduced by a narrator the cast has never met in person. Scripts arrive by pneumatic tube. Nobody remembers installing the tube.
Status: On the air.
Fridays · Midnight
Low-country tales told by the Swamp Keeper from his porch, recorded on location in Studio 3, which has been flooded to the knee for authenticity since 1949.
Status: On the air. Bring boots.
The Foley Stage · Studio 2
Every ray gun you have ever heard on the radio was made on this table. Press a pad (or keys 1–9). Record a take, play it back. Follow the cue sheet if you want to see what the engineers saw.
Cue sheet · Fission Girl, ep. 2-A · page 14
FISSION GIRL: Marie, stay behind me. Something is coming through the—
SFX: THEREMIN, RISING.
SFX: THUNDER SHEET.
CAPT. CARCINOGEN: You're too late, Fission Girl!
SFX: RAY GUN. RAY GUN AGAIN.
MARIE: I'll hold them off, ma'am! cut. W.F.
(page 15 was not recovered)
That is not in the script. Something in Studio 2 answered the cue. The lights went green. The engineers left the board running and went to lunch for three days.
Photographed for insurance purposes and released to the press by mistake. The Studio would like you to know that every item in this picture has an ordinary explanation. It would also like the picture back.
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Recorded live in Studio 1 for the Planetary Broadcast Network
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