Husky Becomes Invisible

plot
Professor Haggerty discovers that the eggs of the Abas – birds native to Mars – have a special protein in them which can cure the disease known as the “floats”.  Raeburn sends Dart and his crew to Mars to collect some of the eggs.  While they wait for the game warden at the forest where the Abas live to return from patrol, Dart and Husky visit Professor Zeffer at his laboratory.  Zeffer has discovered that his new star measuring device also has the ability to make objects disappear.  Husky accidentally activates the machine and is made invisible.  When Professor Zeffer tries to reverse the process, he discovers that living beings cannot be made visible again by his machine.  The game warden returns and Dart goes with him to collect the eggs.  After several unsuccessful attempts by Dart to take one of the Aba’s eggs, Husky manages to sneak them away safely.  Back at Space Headquarters, Dart asks Haggerty if he can help Husky.  Haggerty tells him to take Husky back to Zeffer’s laboratory, put him in a portable freezer in the star measuring machine and turn the machine on and then off.

notes
Professor Zeffer’s machine would re-appear in the Hairy Men of Mars.
The Abas are an endangered species; there are only twenty left on Mars.

credits
a National Interest Picture production
produced by Roberta Leigh and Arthur Provis
directed by Frank Goulding
created & written by Roberta Leigh
voices by Libby Morris, Dick Vosburgh, Ronnie Stevens, Murray Cash
puppetry by Martin & Heather Granger, Joan Garrick
electronics by F.C. Judd
space consultant: Colin Ronan
recordist: Cyril Brown
dubbing editor: John Beaton
RCA sound recording
script assistant: Denise Kaye
cameraman: Arthur Provis
editor: Roy Hyde
art director: Roland Whiteside
models: Derek Freeborn
special effects & animation: Bill Palmer, Brian Stevens, Bert Walker
2nd unit cameraman: Jimmy Hopewell