Hitchhiker’s legend joins Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel 

The next box set in Big Finish Productions’ audio drama revival of Irwin Allen’s cult classic TV series The Time Tunnel will see Lewis Haworth (Seán Carlsen), MB (Safiyya Ingar), Cole Smith (Jay Reum), and Clare MacGregor (Rachel Handshaw) continue their quest throughout history. And this time, they’ll be joined by a sci-fi legend, as exclusively revealed by the Radio Times. 

Sandra Dickinson is best known for playing Trillian in the 1981 TV series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. She’s also appeared on TV in The Tomorrow People and Thunderbirds Are Go, and in films including Superman III, Space Truckers, and The Batman, plus Edgar Wright's forthcoming update of The Running Man.  

Dickinson guest stars in The Dimensions of Time’s first episode, Families and Lies – June 28, 1969 as Hazel Hawkins, a widower who is landlady to a young trans woman, Lily Dovecote (Kim Tatum) in Greenwich Village, New York. When the time travellers arrive in Manhattan on the day before the Stonewall uprising, their lives become intertwined with Hazel and Lily’s. 

On making her Big Finish debut with this episode, Dickinson said: “It’s a part to die for! The woman I’m playing has a rich history of being a very good human being, a loving, caring person, and is a tough cookie, so it was really fun to play, and to use the New York accent, which has been in my mind for a long time. 

“The 1960s was an amazing time. It’s so apt at the moment to be talking about the LGBTQ rights movement. It’s really nice to hear how it all started off in New York. And my dear son-in-law, David Tennant, has been standing up for them, bless him! So it’s a great one to have done.” 

Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel: The Dimensions of Time is available to pre-order now for just £19.99 (download to own) or £24.99 (download to own + collector’s edition 3-disc CD) exclusively here. Please note: the collector’s edition CD box set is strictly limited to 1,000 copies and will not be repressed.   

The three trips in time in this box set are: 

Families and Lies – June 28, 1969 by Mark B Oliver 

Cole arrives, alone, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on Saturday, 28th June 1969, the day before the Stonewall uprising. With Lewis and MB nowhere to be found, he forges new friendships, but they have their own troubles. Inside the Project Tic-Toc Control Room, Clare must persuade Elenya that reuniting her friends is in all their interests. 

Divine Intervention – April, 1429 by Lisa McMullin 

MB and Cole find themselves in 15th Century France, towards the end of the Hundred Years War. It’s France versus England but MB and Cole will be lining up on the side of France – alongside the Maid of Orleans herself – Joan of Arc. Is she a witch, a heretic or a feminist revolutionary? 

Rendezvous with Tomorrow – April 15th, 1912 by Gary Hopkins 

MB and Cole follow in the footsteps of Doctors Newman and Phillips aboard the doomed passenger ship Titanic in the year 1912. It seems that, after all, history can be re-written. Clara MacGregor, meanwhile, discovers that the past can be read in different ways. Is it possible that the journey’s end is in sight? 

The box set’s guest cast also includes JJohn Schwab, Edwin Flay, Flavie Ravenhill, Nicholas McArdle, Rachel Lincoln, Andrew Wincott, Richard Unwin, Anthony Draper, Mark Elstob, Sanjay Lago, Conrad Westmaas, Todd Kramer, and Mark Arnold. 

This is the second volume of Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel, following February 2025’s release The Nightmare Begins. Big Finish listeners can save money by pre-ordering Volumes 1 and 2 together in a multi-buy bundle for just £47 (collector’s edition CD and download) or £38 (download only). 

All the above prices (including pre-order and multibuy bundle discounts) are fixed for a limited time only and guaranteed no later than 31 March 2025. 

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Please note that Big Finish is currently operating a digital-first release schedule. The mail-out of collector’s edition CDs may be delayed due to factors beyond our control, but all purchases of this release unlock a digital copy that can be immediately downloaded or played on the Big Finish app from the release date.