Editing Journey into Space (section)

=== ''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)
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|Elizabeth Proud
|Cassia
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|[[Patrick Barr]]
|Nichols
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|David Bradshawe
|Wrist radio / Countdown voice
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|Graham Faulkner
|Pilot / Talian
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|[[Stephen Garlick]]
|Controller / Radio voice
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|John McAndrew
|Videophone / Junior officer
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|Sion Probert
|Control / Sotteer 2
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|Christopher Scott
|Sotteer 1 / Harry
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|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.
|}