Space: 1999 Breakaway Audio Drama [DOWNLOAD]

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Space: 1999 will launch on 13th September 2019 with the pilot episode Breakaway!, which has been adapted and reimagined by Nicholas Briggs. This release date has been chosen because it is 20 years to the day after the Moon was blown out of Earth’s orbit (according to the original series’ opening titles)! This feature-length first story is split over two CDs, with a further hour of behind-the-scenes interviews and extras on a bonus disc.

After the Apollo missions of the 1960s and early 1970s, space exploration was very nearly abandoned as public pressure mounted for money to be concentrated on problems down here on Earth. 

But, by a whisker, funding was granted for a base on the Moon. Greatly expanded, it became the international Moonbase Alpha we know today. 311 personnel serve in a perfect, self-sustaining, artificial environment – their mission statement: ‘to forward the frontiers of human knowledge and science’.

Dateline: 13^th September 1999. The interplanetary Meta Probe is due to be launched from a platform orbiting the Moon. What could possibly go wrong?

Director: Nicholas Briggs

Producer: David Richardson

Script Editor: Jamie Anderson

Executive Producers: Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery

 

Cast

Commander John Koenig	Mark Bonnar
Dr Helena Russell	Maria Teresa Creasey
Professor Victor Bergman	Clive Hayward
Commissioner Simmons	Timothy Bentinck
Sandra Benes/Alpha Computer/Sian Springer	Susan Hingley
Commander Gorsky/Paul Morrow/Alan Carter	Glen McCready
Dashka Kano	Amaka Okafor
Petra Nordstrom	Jules de Jongh

Duration: 180 mins