Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ed Stoppard, Geoff McGivern, Heide Reed, Raad Rawi, Michael Cochrane, Amy Humphreys, Dianne Weller, George Bryan.

Dan Dare, the name for adults of a certain age which evokes memories that have never been allowed to fade, to be allowed to slip into the murky waters of the unreliable adaptation without a fight and for whom, with sadness, means arguably nothing to a generation or two that has moved on, tired of the escapism provided by the weekly comic strip and the collections turned to clutter in their rooms.