Editing Dan Dare (section)

====Radio Luxembourg serial====
[[Image:dandare.jpg|thumb|This ad for ''The New Adventures of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'' serial appeared in the ''[[Radio Luxembourg (English)|208]]'' magazine in March 1952.]]
''The New Adventures of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'' aired five times a week on [[Radio Luxembourg (English)|Radio Luxembourg]] for five years from 2 July 1951. Dan's voice was  [[Noel Johnson]], who also played [[Dick Barton]] on BBC radio.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,258523,00.html Obituary: Noel Johnson] ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref> Each episode started with the command "Spaceships Away!". The 15-minute show was sponsored by [[Horlicks]] and on 3 March 1952, the 106th episode of Dan Dare was heard that Monday night with different episodes on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7:15pm. Although the dramatisation was recorded on wax discs for broadcast, the original discs were lost or destroyed.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://downthetubes.net/?p=3531 | title=Dan Dare's Holy Grail: Radio Luxembourg's Dan Dare Radio Show| date=2008-04-03}}</ref> Until recently no copies had ever been recovered but in late 2011 two episodes were found as part of the Lost Shows Appeal, orchestrated by missing episode hunter Charles Norton. The recovered shows were "Under Sentence of Death" (episode 76), aired on 21 January 1952, and "The Lost World On Mars" (episode 53), aired on 19 March 1953.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wiped.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/lostshowsappeal2011.pdf |title=lostshowsappeal2011 |access-date=2012-05-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121051042/http://wiped.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/lostshowsappeal2011.pdf |archive-date=2013-01-21}}</ref>