PARTY LIKE IT'S SPACE:1999

SHUT THE PARTITIONS! We’re sitting on a time bomb!” SFX is perched behind Nick Briggs in a west London recording studio as he directs a crucial scene from “Breakaway”, the inaugural offering from Big Finish’s new Space: 1999 audio adventures. Based on 1975’s first episode of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s much-loved live-action show, the doublelength drama shines a new light on how Moonbase Alpha came to be blasted away from Earth into the far-off depths of space.

“It’s not quite the case that I just wrote and wrote and suddenly it was, ‘Blimey, I’ve got two hours!’ but it was very nearly the case,” laughs Briggs, who also supplies the script. “You just find yourself with lots of interesting character interactions, and that just made the story longer.”

Having fervently watched the original series when it first aired in the mid 1970s, adding Space: 1999 to Big Finish’s sizeable roster