A Space: 1999 commentary podcast from the makers of Bondfinger.

Head shot of Barbara Bain from the title sequence of Series 1 of Space: 1999. She looks impossible to startle.

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Barbara Bain

Collision Course

At the end of the episode, Barbara and Martin stand at a window. Martin is  wearing a skimpy robe, revealing an unnecessary amount of chest hair. He's  not making eye contact with Barbara, who is looking at him with concern.

Season 1, Episode 3.
First broadcast on Thursday 18 September 1975.

Episode 3 · Saturday 30 December 2023

Moonbase Alpha is on a collision course this week, ineluctably destined to crash into a giant pustulent planet. Or is it? Commander Koenig — overcome by the charms of Queen Margaret Leighton — doesn’t think so, and so he turns up to Main Mission in his pyjamas like a Moonie and threatens to gun down anyone who attempts to prevent the collision, including, upsettingly, our own Barbara. But — inevitably — it all turns out for the best, and we end our second episode in a row staring out the window contemplating the metaphysical metamorphosis we have wrought.

Recorded on Friday 29 December 2023 · Download (60.4 MB)
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Force of Life

In a darkened sick bay, Barbara is crouched, looking up at us. Lying on the ground in front of here is the frozen body of a bearded young man.

Season 1, Episode 2.
First broadcast on Thursday 11 September 1975.

Episode 2 · Saturday 25 November 2023

An eerie blue glow invades Alpha and takes control of a young Ian McShane, who suddenly becomes prone to bouts of German Expressionism and freezing attractive young people from the 1970s. A star is born this week, in Force of Life.

Recorded on Friday 24 November 2023 · Download (59.5 MB)
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Breakaway

Barbara stands in front of a window in sick bay, her eyes wide and her lips pursed. She looks concerned.

Season 1, Episode 1.
First broadcast on Thursday 4 September 1975.

Episode 1 · Saturday 28 October 2023

September 13th, 1999. A nuclear waste dump on the moon is destroyed in an explosion so violent and so catastrophic that it creates a major science fiction show on ITV and the commentary podcast which tells its story. But before that, we witness some harrowing deaths, some attractive moustaches, and the quivering emotional restraint of Dr Helena Russell, from which this podcast gets its name.

Recorded on Friday 27 October 2023 · Download (68.7 MB)
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