Last Days of the Space Age is the retro Australian drama taking us on a trip down memory lane, to Perth in 1979.
Set in a small suburban cul-de-sac nestled amongst the chaos of a city in turmoil, Last Days of the Space Age is tied together by the most peculiar string of events: a strike at a local power company, the arrival of Miss Universe contestants from around the globe, and the crashing US Space Station Skylab that threatens to hit the city head-on.
At a time when Perth was at the 'centre' of the world's headlines, the series turns our attention to three families.
Jesse Spencer takes a break from Hollywood to return home, starring as Tony Bissett – a family man and foreman at a local power plant who is leading the workers in a strike against management.
His wife Judy, played by the talented Radha Mitchell, works on the other side of the picket-line as an administrative assistant to management.
"I'm a bit nostalgic myself so being able to come back here to jump back into that time and that pace was really special ," Mitchell tells Mamamia.
"I'd been looking for a project in Australia for forever and this one finally came, it was a nice 1970s vignette about different families, it was quirky and funny with deeper elements," adds Spencer.