In 1981, on the Los Angeles-Sydney leg of the sea voyage, he was commissioned to write a piece for the 50th anniversary of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation which became the musical fantasy production, "Zero Zero". Batt designed, co-directed (with John Eastway) and starred in the studio-based production of "Zero Zero" shot at Gore Hill studios in Sydney and aired by Channel 4 TV in the UK in the week of the Channel's broadcast launch in 1982. The album, featuring Batt with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was released on Epic as a Mike Batt solo album. The show was a combination of music, mime, dance, acting and animation, telling the story of a young man in the far distant future where love has been genetically eradicated. Batt's character "Number 17" falls in love and is sent to an emotional decontamination centre called "Zero Zero". A single, "Love Makes You Crazy" was released by Sony on Epic Records.