Doctor Who - Audio Details

Dark Space 8 - an advanced monitoring station floating serenely among the stars.  Its crew - a dedicated and highly-skilled group of professionals, calmly going about their vital work.  Its mission - to boldly host the Intergalactic Song Contest.

With representatives from myraid worlds competing, the eyes of the universe are on the station.  But dark deeds are afoot aboard Dark Space 8...  And people are starting to die.

The haughty Queen Angvia; the gaseous gestalt Gholos; disposable pop idol Nicky Newman; erratic Professor Fassbinder; and the icily-efficient Doctor Eleanor Harcourt - all are suspects.  Could old political rivalries be manifesting themselves among the contestants?  Is this the work of a breakaway terorist faction?  Or has someone just got it in for singer-songwriters?

With peace in the galaxy hanging by a thread, it's vital that the mystery is solved - and fast!  Can Dark Space 8's unconventional new commander, with the help of his personal pilot, Mel, find the murderer in time to prevent a major intergalactic war?

Or will it be nul points for the entire universe ...?

Top Five Eurovision Song COntest winners:

• L'Amour Est Bleu (France, 1968)


• Ding-A-Dong (Holland, 1975)


• A Ba Ni Bi (Isreal, 1978)


• Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son (France, 1965)


• Waterloo (Sweden, 1974)

Top Five redious things that happen in Star Trek/Space 1999/Deep Babylon Voyager Spacescape 9, etc:

• An alien force recreates all the standing sets on their own planet


• An alien claims to be God


• Aliens similar to Arabs/Israelis appear in a clumsily tasteless and specious political allegory


• Something funny happens (everyone starts evolving back into fish or mouldy sheese eats the ship) and everybody takes it incredibly seriously in an attempt to make the dilemma seem realistic, but it backfires by emphasising the ludicrousness


• Something that happened in the show four years ago is mentioned for no other reason than to make the day of a socially awkward viewer in New Jersey

We hope we've done justice to all of the above in Bang-Bang-a-Boom!

Gareth Roberts & Clayton Hickman, Christmas 2002