Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future by Frank Hampson and Nick McCarty.
The popular British 'Eagle' comic book hero of the 1950's comes alive in Nick McCarty’s imaginative dramatisation based on the characters and an original story line created by Frank Hampson.
Spaceships have been vanishing in 'The Dead Zone' near Venus, but why? Colonel Dan Dare has a theory and persuades the authorities to build an old-fashioned rocket ship so he can fly out to investigate.
Starring Mick Ford as Dan Dare and also featuring Donald Gee, Richard Pearce and Terence Alexander, it was directed by Glyn Dearman. The music is by Wilfredo Acosta.
First broadcast in April 1990.
My recordings from BBC7. Four half-hour episodes. 160Kbps Joint Stereo MP3
1 - Disaster
Dan Dare embarks on a mission to Venus to save the world.
2 - Divided We Fall
The Venus expedition has started disastrously. Dan and Digby have been captured by the Treens.
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Thank you. I have some others that I will find and upload
Then right back at you. Thank You! -------------------- R
One of the big regrets of my life is that I was born at slightly the wrong time to read the original run of Dan Dare. By the time I came along, they were running repeats without the brilliant color printing that made The Eagle such a sensation in its day. I would love to have been one of the generation that each week could pick up a brand new episode of the adventures of The Pilot Of The Future.
I've sometimes though nothing could symbolize the difference in the decades better than the difference between Dan Dare and Judge Dredd.
BUMP