Total Control (audio drama)

Total Control is an American-Britain radio drama series produced by Radiofoundry Productions, Total Control Audio, and BBC Radio. The series started on September 6, 1996 and lasted until April 7, 2000 with 7 seasons and 82 episodes produced. The series was heard by about 50 million listeners around the world. This prompted newcomer Vision Entertainment to form and buy the rights to make a television series based off the audio drama.

Production
Production of the drama started in the summer of 1995, where Caleb Gordon and Leon Roberts met, and they talked about a world that they want to expand and then seen destroy in various ways. They wanted to try out doing a radio drama and try to revive the genre. They both founded Total Control Audio that fall, and then wrote a script for the first season. Caleb Gordon also called talent companies and agencies to find out about voice talent. The first recording session took place on February 10, 1996. The last recording session took place on December 15, 1999.

When the revival was announced in late 2010, a few cast members of the original were cast (Diesel, Hamil, Summer, West, and Paulson returned). The first recording session of the revival took place on February 12, 2011.

Cast

 * Mike Judge as Chief John Allen
 * Mark Hamil as Leagos, the main antagonist of the HAT team.
 * Mary Kay Bergman as Detective Samantha Smith
 * Vin Diesel as Lagoon
 * Cree Summer as Black Hell
 * Billy West as John, Quip, and Shockmaster
 * Ron Paulson as Whip, and Blastmaster.

Staff

 * Caleb Gordon - Director, writer, recording director
 * Leon Roberts - Head writer, composer, sound mixer
 * Ben Burtt - Sound design, sound effects editor
 * Stephen Hunter Flick - Sound mixer, sound design, sound effects editor