In the mid 1970s, POWER Records an imprint of Peter Pan Industries, long-time maker of records for children since the late 1940's, produced Story Records based on the UK television series SPACE:1999 which ran from 1975-1977. The first record set was a 12-inch 33-1/3 RPM LP record which included three different stories and was released in 1975. In 1976, four additional stories were released on LP for a total of seven total stories. That same year, two of the stories "Breakaway" and “Return to the Beginning" were released as a Book & Record set which was a 7 inch 45 rpm record and a read along comic book.
"Mission of the Darians" is Space: 1999 Story Record #3 and features a retelling of the 9th episode of Season One in which on a frozen planet, the Alphans encounter shipwrecked humans from a lost expedition.