Strange New Worlds And Spaced Out Tales

The Fall and Partial Re-Emergence of The Dysfunctional 5 Chapter 1 - Dave With the world facing renewed threats, Control is tasked by the President to reunite the last surviving Superhero Collective, The Dysfunctional 5. The trouble is, since disbanding, our crime-frighting heroes have gone their separate ways, and are rumoured to have fallen from grace somewhat... --------------------------------...

A quick trailer for the brand new Dysfunctional 5 show, which begins on the 16th June 2024.

On the 16th June, 2024, Strange New Worlds and Spaced Out Tales will proudly be airing the first episode of our 7-episode mini-series, The Fall and Partial Re-emergence of The Dysfunctional 5. The series will pick up where we left the hapless quintet after their season 1 finale episode, and you have a full 7 episodes to look forward to. But fear not, we haven't ditched the regular anthology fo...

This is our second episode swap our friends from Giant Monster Productions. It's another episode of the Tales from the Author anthology podcast Glitch A small group of astronauts have been chosen to crew the first manned space voyage to Mars. Or have they? The crew knows there is a 50% chance they could merely be participating in a realistic computer simulation of the mission, an analog for th...

This is our second episode swap, and we're very happy to have an episode of the Tales from the Author anthology podcast, courtesy of our friend Antonio from Giant Monster Productions. Hubris A large group of humans are being transported in cryosleep by a seemingly benevolant alien race to their home planet, following an invitation by the aliens to share their planetary paradise with humanity....

This is our first episode swap and we are proud to share with you the debut episode of the No Return audio drama podcast. Massive thanks to Kier from No Return for letting us broadcast their debut episode, and they've returned the favour by releasing one of our episodes on their feed. About No Return; In Erset La Tari, life ranges from the absurdly unexpected to the darkly intense, taking audi...

A update from me about what's coming on the Strange New Worlds and Spaced Out Tales podcast feed as we go into the between-season gap.

Episode 16 - Single Point of Failure A farcical Sci-Fi comedy crime caper. It was supposed to be a simple kidnapping. But when a hapless criminal gang ends up abducting the wrong man by mistake, everything begins to fall apart. Written by Jim Cogan And starred John Kennard as Chief Stephen Newhand as Bungle Jim Cogan as Tech Wojciech Matras as Wheels Joe Kilcar as Dobbs Lauren Deakin as Charity Pa...

Episode 15 - A Long Way From Home A family road trip to Florida for Timothy, his pregnant wife, Margo, and their young son, Tommy, turns into a nightmare as Timothy begins to suffer increasingly vivid visions. Perhaps these are not simple hallucinations after all... Written by Stephen Newhand And starred Stephen Newhand as Timothy Ronni Ng as Margo Tallie Tenna as Rian Marie Grace as the Nurse CD...

Episode 14 - The Beast From Uranus An authentically produced comedy parody of a 1950s Sci-Fi Radio Play, complete with crackly audio, outdated sexist attitudes, gratuitous mansplaining, and loaded to the gunwales with as many innuendos as we could manage. The crew of the USS Penetrator, the most advanced spaceship ever built, undertake their maiden voyage - to probe Uranus for signs of an incredib...

Episode 13 - Outpost Alpha A leading astral surveying team lands what they think will be a high value/easy money gig at a research facility on a remote asteroid. But things are about to take a sinister twist... Written by Stephen Newhand And starred Antonio Fererra as Finn Cisco de Guzman as James Stephen Newhand as Kirk Kat McQueen as Naomi Casey Cole as Delphine John Kennard as Melvin Paul Langl...

Episode 12 - Game Night A group of friends meet in a VR gaming space to try out a legendary unfinished game - reputed to be cursed. But once inside, it's clear that the three sinister NPC hosts and the virtual remnant of the game's creator have no intention of letting them leave... Written by Noelle R. Mackenzie G. and Alyx And starred Nathanael Lipidarov as Charlie Stephen Newhand as Mike...

Episode 11 – Just Another Day in the Big Apple An extraordinary day in the life of a diverse range of individuals, on the day the aliens finally came to visit Earth... Written by Jim Cogan And starred Tallie Tenna as Steve Joe Kilcar as Rod Teller Stephen Newhand as The President, Pastor Jordan and Jazz Alexis Parker as Presidential Aid 1 Kat McQueen as Presidential Aid 2 Archer Young-Stone as Gle...

Episode 10 – Heaven's Revolvers In an alternate reality, the Old West frontier meets space-age alien tech. An aging gunslinger rolls into the town of Haven, but trouble is never far away... Written by Taimoor Azam With editing and proofing by Paul Lawley-Jones Starred Stephen Newhand as Sandman Jack Marie Grace as Felicity Fellowfelt Joe Kilcar as Levi Sundland Cisco De Guzman as Joshua Stella...

Episode 9 – Dept of Motor Vehicles A seemingly endless queue brings three unwitting individuals together. But now they can't remember why they're even there.... Written by Stephen Newhand Cast   Anna Gasecka as Stephanie Joe Kilcar as Samual Paul Lawley-Jones as Richard Kat McQueen as Fran John Kennard as Eli Production and Sound Design were by Jim Cogan Opening Theme Music by Jim Cogan In...

Episode 8 – Nano Contagion When contact with the Lunar Orbiting Station is suddenly lost, three astronauts stationed on the Lunar surface are called upon to investigate. But it soon becomes clear that something dark and terrible has occurred - and it hasn't finished... written by Jim Cogan Cast   Ronni Ng as Murphy Anna Gasecka as Hussain Kat McQueen as Dellaware Joe Kilcar as Terra Mission Co...

A bit of a bonus episode for you. The cast and production crew of Strange New Worls and Spaced Out Tales submitted an entry into the 11th Hour Audio Challenge this year. And we've decided to make that one-off episode available here on the feed. It's something of a departure from our usual Sci-Fi fare, but we hope you'll enjoy it, and that it will tide you over until the release of Seas...

Yes! Season 2 of Strange New Worlds and Spaced Out Tales will be landing in January 2024! And a quick announcement of some bonus content that will be available on the feed very soon.

Ep7 - The Dysfunctional 5 A truly ridiculous parody of the superhero mythos. In a time when superheroes, once the last bastion of heroism and justice, are on a steep decline, humanity faces an unprecedented threat from the world's most evil Super villain, Dr Vengeance! Only a team of five not-so-superheroes, a hastily assembled group of miscreants and deviants, stand in his way. Behold! Now is...

Ep6 - In The Garden A time-bending, bitter-sweet Sci-Fi drama Jo, an explosive defusal expert, finds herself catapulted some 40 years into the future. She is confronted by a cruel world where things have gone horribly wrong for humanity, is accepted with warmth and trust by an ailing robot, and is reunited with her former (now aged) partner, Rally. For the briefest of moments, all seems peaceful I...

Ep5 - The Arenberg Principle A Sprawling, Epic Sci-Fi Space Opera After his glittering career is spectacularly derailed by a stupid graduation party stunt gone wrong, Danny 'Ace' Oswald finds himself reaching rock bottom, having to take the lowly position of Sanitation Engineer on the state-of-the-art starship he was originally supposed to be flying. From glorious, interstellar highs, to d...

Ep4 - The Malfunctioning Icon A comedic mystery parody. A chance encounter leads the Demon Decoders to a small town haunted by a spooky, nightmarish creature. All is very much, not quite as it seems. I think we've got ourselves a mystery to solve... Strange New Worlds and Spaced Out Tales is a Sci-Fi themed anthology audio drama podcast series featuring a full voice cast and atmospheric sound...

Episode 3 - Three In An Airlock A farcical Sci-Fi comedy. A spaceship-wide power outage leaves three unfortunate members of the crew locked in an airlock - and to make matters worse - within minutes, said airlock is due to automatically flush its contents (including the three crew) out into the vastness of space. Can Michelle, the systems tech, Tom the cynical electrical tech and Bob, the cleaner,...

Luna, a traveler aboard a budget space-liner on a once-in-a-lifetime trip, is awakened from cryo-sleep mid-journey due to a technical malfunction. Although given the freedom of the entire ship - with nothing but a customer service obsessed AI for company, Luna finds out that budget space tourism perhaps isn't all it's cracked up to be... Strange New Worlds and Spaced Out Tales is a Sci-Fi...

A lone crew member is awaken from cryo-sleep by the ship's AI to carry out emergency repairs on the ship's reactor. But from the outset, it's clear that the course of action proposed by the AI is a certain suicide mission... Strange New Worlds and Spaced out Tales is a Sci-Fi themed anthology audio drama podcast series featuring a full voice cast and atmospheric sound design. Each episode is a com...