Big Finish Day returns for 2024, bigger and better than ever, to celebrate its silver anniversary. With the production company, who make audio dramas in the worlds of Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, Space: 1999, Star Cops and more, celebrating 25 years, details for Big Finish Day 2024 has been announced. Paring up with the Doctor … >
The documentary plans to explore the origins and cultural impact of the iconic Eagle spacecraft. A Kickstarter campaign has launched to support the making of a documentary on the creation of the iconic Eagle spacecraft from Space: 1999. If funded, The Eagle has Landed aims to be ready for the show’s 50th anniversary in 2025. … >
As Big Finish’s Space: 1999 lands for a third box set of audio adventures, we talk to Mark Bonnar about the show and his love of audio. The latest volume of Big Finish’s Space: 1999 is out today. The audio drama sees Mark Bonnar star as Commander John Koenig, reimagining the drama of the original … >
The documentary telling the story of the film and television pioneer premieres in April. Last November, we reported on Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted, announced as an original BritBox documentary. Now the trailer has arrived to give us a first taste. A Life Uncharted will use over thirty hours of previously unpublished interviews to share … >
New books about 80’s Doctor Who Producer John Nathan-Turner and Space: 1999 are on their way from Telos Publishing. Thanks to a teasing Facebook post, we already have three titles on our 2022 reading list… The John Nathan-Turner Doctor Who Production Diary 1979 – 1990 Drawing on documentation from the late producer’s personal archive, it … >
Enthused by the positive critical reaction that greeted the release of Breakaway, an updated retelling of the pilot episode of ITC’s 1970s TV sci-fi romp, Big Finish have now released the first volume of three Space 1999 audio dramas. With the moon launched into deep-space and pushed through a worm-hole, the fate of humanity back … >
If, like myself, your earliest television memories include Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor, Bruce Banner’s transformation into the Incredible Hulk and the terrifying combination of Rod Hull and Emu, then it’s likely that lodged somewhere in the back of your mind will be images from the mid-‘70s sci-fi adventure series Space: 1999. Executively produced by Thunderbirds … >