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Star Maidens

1976 1 Seasons 13 Episodes ⭐ 4.3 Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series created and written by Eric Paice. Utilising a 'battle of the sexes' and role reversal scenario, the planet Medusa, home to a highly evolved and technologically advanced humanoid race, was already ruled by its women when a rogue comet (as seen in the opening credits) knocked it out of its orbit around Proxima Centauri. Drifting through space, the orphan planet's surface became uninhabitable, with the inhabitants surviving in huge underground cities. Jointly produced by Portman Productions, Scottish Television, and Werbung im Rundfunk for ITV, filming took place at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. The series ran for 13 episodes from 1 September to 1 December 1976.

Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series created and written by Eric Paice. Utilising a 'battle of the sexes' and role reversal scenario, the planet Medusa, home to a highly evolved and technologically advanced humanoid race, was already ruled by its women when a rogue comet (as seen in the opening credits) knocked it out of its orbit around Proxima Centauri. Drifting through space, the orphan planet's surface became uninhabitable, with the inhabitants surviving in huge underground cities. Jointly produced by Portman Productions, Scottish Television, and Werbung im Rundfunk for ITV, filming took place at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. The series ran for 13 episodes from 1 September to 1 December 1976.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Escape to Paradise

Medusa, torn from orbit around Proxima Centauri by a comet, was sent careering through space. Ages later, with Medusa no

EP 2

Nemesis

Surviving the crash, Adam and Shem steal a police car and go on the run. Supreme Councillors Octavia — head of securit

EP 3

The Nightmare Cannon

Adam and Shem shut themselves inside an ancient defensive manor and take the curator hostage. Octavia activates the nigh

EP 4

The Proton Storm

The proton storm forces the Nemesis to return to Medusa, with Liz and Rudi held hostage aboard. Fulvia tries to return t

EP 5

Kidnap

While Shem repairs her ship, Fulvia allows herself to be used as a test subject for a human thought-transference machine

EP 6

The Trial

Earth hostage Dr Rudi Schmidt is forced to perform menial work, on the surface and in the city, but rebels—and other M

EP 7

Test for Love

Although Liz is ideally suited to captain a Medusan spacecraft, her attitude to men isn't appreciated. Octavia has her t

EP 8

The Perfect Couple

Adam and Shem hatch a plot to convince Fulvia to release the human hostages while still allowing the refugee Medusans to

EP 9

What Have They Done to the Rain?

Rudi labours on the surface when rain starts reacting catastrophically with toxic waste in the soil, threatening the who

EP 10

The End of Time

Prof Evans visits Medusa to discuss the return of the hostages with the President — who they find apparently dead. Liz

EP 11

Hideout

On the run, Adam and Shem find shelter in an apartment, but are seen and reported. Adam is arrested, but Shem is rescued

EP 12

The Creatures of the Mind

At Octavia's request, Liz — with Rudi — investigates the abandoned records section. Rudi's searching for a way off M

EP 13

The Enemy

Agreement now reached on the exchange of hostages, the two ships head off from Earth and Medusa. But a deadly ancient en

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