Journey into Space: The World in Peril

Oct 5, 2024 5:19 AM

Author:Charles Chilton,Full Cast,Don Sharp,Alfie Bass,Andrew Faulds,Guy Kingsley Poynter

The complete third series of this classic BBC Radio sci-fi drama epic - plus extra bonus material.

Charles Chilton's classic radio sci-fi series Journey into Space thrilled listeners between 1953 and 1958, attracting almost eight million people to its gripping tale of the far future and the thrills of interstellar travel - the last radio programme in the UK to attract a bigger evening audience than television.

In this, the third series, Captain Jet Morgan, Doc Matthews, engineer Mitch Mitchell and radio operator Lemmy Barnet once more set out for Mars, but this time alone. Their orders - to discover all they can about the threatened Martian invasion of Britain. Jet and his comrades are stretched to their limits as they take on the awesome Martian power, and when they learn the astounding secret of the invasion plan, there is a race against time to warn a defenceless Earth...

Production Credits

Written and produced by Charles Chilton.

Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips.

Cast

Jet Morgan - Andrew Faulds

Mitch - Don Sharp

Doc - Guy Kingsley Poynter

Lemmy Barnett - Alfie Bass

Other parts by David Jacobs, Alan Tilvern and Pat Campbell.

First broadcast BBC Light Programme, 26 September 1955 - 6 February 1956.

Reviews

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