Toy radio console, with two handheld communicators and its original box.

The console is made primarily from grey plastic, with a white embossed card back. It is shaped to resembled a futuristic radio console, with a large central 'Space Signal Detector' dial flanked by two smaller dials with red plastic knobs: a movement control for the 'Searchlight Detector' on the left, and a one for the 'Automatic Decoder' on the right (essentially a rotating Morse Code manual). The large dial has black lettering on gold, the smaller ones gold lettering on black. Below these dials are three labelled black sockets: (from left to right) 'Searchlight Beam', 'Interplanetary Transmitter' and 'Space Tele-Buzzer'. A jack on the end of a short length of wire, projecting from a port beneath these sockets, can be plugged into one of these at any time. Below the ports, on the left, is a small, square pad of paper with a printed cover bearing an image of Dan Dare, and the words 'Colonel Dare Log Book'. On the right is a plastic Morse Code lever (the 'Space Tele-Buzzer'). On top of the unit, above the dials for the searchlight and decoder, are two blue plastic radio aerials, each topped with a black ball. Between these is a red plastic lamp, which can be rotated using its control dial. On the proper left of the unit are four sockets, into which the communicators can be plugged. Next to these is a metal hook for hanging them. On the reverse, at the bottom, is a compartment for two batteries.

With the console are two handheld communicators, made from red plastic. In the centre of each, behind a circular, black plastic facing, is a loudspeaker. Beneath this is a row of three coloured plastic buttons ('Planetary Selector'): blue is for Saturn, yellow for Venus, red for Mars. On the back is a blue PVC handle, which passes into the body of the communicator. At the top is a small retractable aerial, which is metal with a yellow plastic ball on the end. On the bottom of each are two sockets for plugging the communicators into the console. One set of the required wires is missing.

The box consists of a corrugated cardboard lid, printed with an image of the playset being used by Dan Dare and Digby, his sidekick. On one side of the lid are illustrations of the toy's main features. The base and internal packaging are also of corrugated card.