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Journey Into Space

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Journey Into Space is a BBC radio science fiction serial created and written by Charles Chilton, first broadcast beginning in 1953, following the crew of the British spacecraft Luna and its successors on a series of missions including a landing on the Moon and journeys to Mars. At the peak of its popularity in the mid 1950s it drew an evening radio audience larger than any competing television broadcast, an achievement often cited as the last time British radio drama outdrew television head to head, and it remains one of the BBC's best remembered science fiction productions of the pre-television-dominant era.

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Release Year
1953 1
Country
United Kingdom 1
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Original Language
English 1
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Source Journey into Space (Wikipedia)
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1. Journey into Space (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, first_aired
    1953 09 21
  • Infobox, country
    United Kingdom
  • Journey Into Space, Description, original language
    At the peak of its popularity in the mid 1950s it drew an evening radio audience larger than any competing television broadcast, an achievement often cited as the last time British radio drama outdrew television head to head, and it remains one of the BBC's best remembered science fiction productions of the pre-television-dominant era.
  • In Medium: Radio, Article lead sentence
    Journey Into Space is a BBC Radio science fiction programme written by BBC producer Charles Chilton.
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