Night Terrace

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Night Terrace
Genre Science fiction comedy
Running time28 minutes
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Home station BBC Radio 4 Extra
Starring Jackie Woodburne, Ben McKenzie and Petra Elliott
Created by Ben McKenzie, David Ashton, Petra Elliott, John Richards and Lee Zachariah
Written byJohn Richards, David Ashton, Ben McKenzie and Lee Zachariah
Produced by Ben McKenzie and John Richards
Recording studio Melbourne, Australia
Original release21 April 2019 
present
No. of series2
No. of episodes17
Website Official Website

Night Terrace is a scripted science fiction audio comedy produced by Splendid Chaps Productions. Originally released as a paid digital download in 2014, [1] the first two seasons have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra since 2019. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Contents

The show stars Jackie Woodburne as Dr Anastasia Black, [3] a "science hero" whose retirement from the mysterious "D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T." is cut short when her Melbourne terrace house unexpectedly starts to travel through space and time. [1] [6] She is joined by student and door-to-door electricity plan salesman Eddie Jones (Ben McKenzie) and, later, fellow ex-D.E.P.A.R.T.M.E.N.T. agent Susan Denholm (Petra Elliott). [7] The first season won the Convenor's Award for Excellence at the 2014 Aurealis Awards. [8] [9]

Crowdfunding

Each season so far has been primarily funded through Kickstarter campaigns. [10] [11] [12] Season 1 met its base funding target plus two stretch goals which allowed The Making of Night Terrace documentary and The Adventures of Eddie mini-series to be created. Season 2 met its base funding target plus one stretch goal, which allowed a Live episode to be created where backers and friends of the production became part of the episode as the live audience. Season 3 met its base funding target plus two stretch goals which allow The Night Terrace Summer Special (a digital book collection of stories, trivia and puzzles in the style of TV annuals and comic books) and a mini-series revealing the untold adventures of Sue to be made.

Companion podcast

To accompany the broadcast of Night Terrace on BBC Radio 4 Extra Vaya Pashos, of the Neighbours recap podcast Neighbuzz, hosted a companion podcast (alongside Woodburne the show has had past and present Neighbours stars in guest roles). Each episode featured members of the cast and crew discussing the episode just broadcast, the show in general, and answering fan questions. [13]

Cast

Regular cast

Guest cast

Additional voices

Hello My Name is Eddie

Episodes

Season 1

TitleOriginal RuntimeWritten By
Moving House25:50John Richards
Starship Australis27:59Lee Zachariah
Time of Death28:50Ben McKenzie
The Outsourcing27:59David Ashton
Sound & Fuehrer27:13John Richards
The Last Hunt29:16Ben McKenzie
Discoworld28:29Lee Zachariah
Home30:19John Richards

Season 2

TitleOriginal RuntimeWritten By
Sense & Susceptibility25:25John Richards
Full Steam29:18Ben McKenzie
A Verb of Nouns33:27John Richards
Things that Go Bump in the Night Terrace26:46David Ashton
Ancient History28:24Ben McKenzie
The Edification of Anastasia Black30:47Lee Zachariah
The Retirement of Horatio Gray32:44Lee Zachariah
Home Again26:26John Richards
Situational Awareness (Live Episode)40:41John Richards, David Ashton, Lee Zachariah and Ben McKenzie

Season 3

TBA in May 2020 (estimated release date)

Bonus episodes

The Making of Night Terrace

Narrated and produced by Josh Kinal, this episode is 27:27 long. It features interviews with all the main cast and creators of Night Terrace.

Hello My Name is Eddie

TitleLengthWritten By
The Academic Transcript of Death03:32Lee Zachariah, Ben McKenzie
The Awkward Small Talk of Death05:57Ben McKenzie, David Ashton
A Trip to the Milk Bar of Death02:37David Ashton
The Psychological Experiment of Death04:36Ben McKenzie
The Job of a Lifetime of Death04:05Ben McKenzie
Did You Know that You Can Save 4% of Death04:42Ben McKenzie, Lee Zachariah

Horatio's Travels

TitleLengthWritten By
The Painting03:00
Relativity02:59
History01:55
The Houseguests04:19
Settling Down04:05
Messages03:38

Night Your Own Terrace

The Night Your Own Terrace mini-episodes were written for backers at the Night Producer or Choose-Your-Own-Night Terrace level of their Kickstarter campaign for Season 2. The backers provided the writers with personal writing prompts & all of Jackie Woodburne's lines were recorded months in advance, providing a feeling of deja vu across the episodes (both overt and covert).

TitleLengthWriters
An Echo of Socks07:54Tony Flynn, Ben McKenzie
Dinosaurs of Antarctica07:36Robin Bland, David Ashton
Habitat of Mushrooms09:44David Chilcott, John Richards
The Conditions of Entry07:11Daniel Sullivan, Ben McKenzie
The Sandwiches of Pluto07:51Craig Irvine, David Ashton
The Smell of Books09:32Samantha Streeter, John Richards

The Adventures of Sue

TBA in May 2020 (estimated release date)

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