Space Force (ep02/06) Towards the Unknown
0Space Force is a BBC Radio science fiction serial, broadcast from 4 April 1984 to 17 June 1985.
Written by Charles Chilton, it was originally intended to be a sequel to his Journey into Space series (broadcast in the 1950s), using the cast which had just made a one-off revival of that series ("The Return From Mars"); while this idea was dropped late in the development of the serial, the four characters are nevertheless essentially the same as those from the earlier series, albeit with different names.
The first series begins during the northern summer of 2010. Both series seem to initially mirror the first two Journey Into Space stories before branching off into quite different plots.
Space Force is the name of the team's spaceship, rather than the name of an organisation. It should be mentioned that it is nothing to do with that terrible American TV series of the same name.
Main Cast:
Captain Saxon Berry ... Barry Foster ... (Jet Morgan)
Lodderick Sincere ... Tony Osoba ... (Steven Mitchell)
Lemuel "Chipper" Barnet ... Nicky Henson ... (Lemmy Barnet)
Professor Magnus Carter ... Nigel Stock ... (Doc Matthews) Initially, the first series was simply known as Journey into Space, with the subtitle A Tale of the Future added by the Radio Times, but within the BBC it became known as Journey to the Moon.