Well, we'd hoped to get this all ready for Halloween and the 2024 11th Hour Audio Challenge, but time was against us. But lucky you, you get to hear it here exclusively! There Goes The Neighborhood Written by Stephen Newhand Starring Talie Tenna as Gertrude Cisco De Guzman as Carl Kat Mcqueen as Roxanne Joe Kilcar as Norm John Kennard as Oscar Anna Gaseka as Fanny Stephen Newhand as the TV announcer and Ralph Duke an Urger Production and Sound Design were by Jim...

The Fall and Partial Re-Emergence of The Dysfunctional 5 Chapter 7 - The Finale The team attempts to liberate HQ from the evil Leviathan. But unbeknown to them, he possesses the most dangerous weapon of mass destruction ever created...This could go really badly!

The Fall and Partial Re-Emergence of The Dysfunctional 5 - Chapter 6 - The Mission With the team fully reunited, it's time to fight some international mega-evil! The only problem is, despite being sent to numerous locations - each new lead is turning into a dead end. Has the agency been compromised? Are our heroes being misdirected? However, on this latest mission, mechanized evil finally shows up... Written and produced by Jim Cogan starring Ralph Duke as the show announcer John...

The Fall and Partial Re-Emergence of The Dysfunctional 5 - Chapter 5 - The Man Who Cannot Be Seen After an absurd attempt to recruit a new team member goes astray, our heroes descend into the depths of the labs in HQ to investigate an 'unknown paranormal entity...' ----------------------------------------------------- Written and produced by Jim Cogan starring Ralph Duke as the show announcer John Kennard as Control Lauren Deakin as Agent Smedley Kat McQueen as Captain Koala Cisco...

The Fall and Partial Re-Emergence of The Dysfunctional 5 Chapter 4 - Granite Granite, The Man of Stone, remains missing. But the team's search for him brings them back to a familiar old haunt. Granite might possibly never have left the luxury accommodation that was gifted to the Dysfunctional 5 after they saved the world previously - before they trashed it and their personal and public lives imploded. Is Granite still looking for love - and has he been looking for it in all the wrong...

The Fall and Partial Re-Emergence of The Dysfunctional 5 Chapter 3 - Rick Dastard Dave and Kittie are on the trail of laser-eye-shooting superhero and renowned cocaine fiend, Rick Dastard, as they try to further reunite the team. Their search brings them to seedy hotel/brothel in South America. But is Rick still the man he used to be? ----------------------------------------------------- Written and produced by Jim Cogan starring Ralph Duke as the show announcer John Kennard as...

The Fall and Partial Re-Emergence of The Dysfunctional 5 Chapter 2 - KittiePArlour International assassin - Dave - returns to the ranks of the Dysfunctional 5, having failed to execute a mafia crime boss (while disguised as a priest) - and so the task begins - to locate the other 4 members of the team. Dave and Control travel to an obscure part of Eastern Europe to attempt a daring rescue of Kittie Parlour, who has been imprisoned and sentenced to death by ritual burning for witchcraft in...

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... ----------------------------------------------------- Written and produced by Jim Cogan starring Ralph Duke as the show...

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 format of the show, this is purely a bit of bonus content for you all to tide you over until season 3...

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 the real crew. But before they discover the truth, contact with Earth is lost part way through...

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. But when one of the humans prematurely awakens from cryosleep en-route, he discovers that...

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 audio drama listeners on a roller coaster across its diverse landscapes. Chuckle along to...

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 Paul Lawley-Jones as Elon Carver Kaleb Deatherage as the Journalist Cisco de...

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 as Tommy Production and Sound Design were by Jim Cogan Opening Theme Music by...

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 incredible energy source that could revolutionise human technology. But they find something far...

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 Langley-Jones as Clive Joe Kilcar as Johan Garlock Jim Cogan as Sebastion...

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 Marie Grace as Diana Casey Cole as Eddie Alex Huynh as Casper Cisco de Guzman as Terry...

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 Glenn Kaleb Deatherage as Klein Marie Grace as Maria Jim Cogan as The Bishop Cisco...

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 Sage Crossley as the Maid Quick Lee as the Captain Tallie Tenna as the man and the...

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 Incidental music and sound effects licensed from Envato Elements If you’ve enjoyed this...

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 Control Stephen Newhand as Betty and The Entity Production and Sound Design were by...

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 Season 2 in the New Year. Enjoy :)