Editing Journey into Space (section)

== Special episodes ==

=== ''The Return from Mars'' ===
In 1981, [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]]'s ''Saturday Night Theatre'' slot ran a special [[science fiction]] series, featuring stories such as ''[[The First Men in the Moon]]'', ''[[The Chrysalids]]'', ''[[A Fall of Moondust]]'' and ''[[The Technicolor Time Machine]]''. Charles Chilton was asked to write a new one-off 90-minute episode of ''Journey Into Space'' for this slot, and ''The Return from Mars'' was the result. The plot was an approximate continuation from the end of ''The World in Peril''. The episode was broadcast on 7 March 1981.

In addition to the [[#The main characters|main characters]], other characters in ''The Return from Mars'' included:<ref name="TWIP booklet"/>

{| class="wikitable"
!Actor
!Character(s)
|-
|Elizabeth Proud
|Cassia
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|[[Patrick Barr]]
|Nichols
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|David Bradshawe
|Wrist radio / Countdown voice
|-
|Graham Faulkner
|Pilot / Talian
|-
|[[Stephen Garlick]]
|Controller / Radio voice
|-
|John McAndrew
|Videophone / Junior officer
|-
|Sion Probert
|Control / Sotteer 2
|-
|Christopher Scott
|Sotteer 1 / Harry
|-
|John Webb
|Supervisor / Radio
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Episode
!First broadcast
!Brief plot summary
|-
|align="center" |1
|align="center" |7 Mar 1981
|Jet Morgan and his crew return to Earth from Mars, only to find they have been missing, presumed dead, for more than thirty years.
|}

=== ''Frozen in Time'' ===
This was a new episode based on the original series, with David Jacobs finally taking the role of Jet Morgan (who has aged while the rest of his crew were in suspended animation owing to a systems malfunction). Charles Chilton wrote the one-hour play which was set in the year 2013. It was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday 12 April 2008. This was released by BBC Audio in January 2009.
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{| class="wikitable"
!Part
!Played by
|-
|Captain Jet Morgan
|David Jacobs
|-
|Mitch
|Michael Beckley
|-
|Doc/Ed
|Alan Marriott
|-
|Lemmy
|Chris Moran
|-
|Astrid
|[[Emma Fielding]]
|-
|Jensen
|[[Stephen Hogan]]
|-
|Radio Operator/Film Voice
|Kate Harbour
|}

Music by David Chilton;
producer/director Nicholas Russell-Pavier.

{| class="wikitable"
!Episode
!First broadcast
!Brief plot summary
|-
|align="center" |1
|align="center" |12 Apr 2008
|March 2013. The Ares' crew awakens from suspended animation and, low on fuel and technologically outclassed, goes to rescue a mining operation on Mars.
|}

=== ''The Host'' ===
A further new episode based on the original series by Chilton, written by Julian Simpson starred  [[Toby Stephens]] as Jet Morgan.  Another one-hour play, it was set in the year 2079.
Broadcast as [[The Saturday Play]] on Radio 4 on Saturday 27 June 2009.

{| class="wikitable"
!Part
!Played by
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|Captain Jet Morgan
|[[Toby Stephens]]
|-
|Mitch
|Jot Davies
|-
|Doc/Enceladus Control
|[[Alan Marriott (voice actor)|Alan Marriott]]
|-
|Lemmy
|[[Chris Pavlo]]
|-
|The Host
|[[David Jacobs (broadcaster)|David Jacobs]]
|-
|Edie
|[[Jana Carpenter]]
|-
|JJ Andreev
|Basher Savage
|-
|End credit narration
|Charles Chilton
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Episode
!First broadcast
!Brief plot summary
|-
|align="center" |1
|align="center" |27 Jun 2009
|Jet Morgan and his crew discover a digitised personality aboard an abandoned space freighter, intent on making mankind a dispensable stepping stone to a new chapter in evolution.
|}