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   Robin Chapman to G Million   
   Re: TV series broadcast in the mid 1970s   
   02 Sep 04 18:44:01   
   
   From: rjc@ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk   
      
   G Million wrote:   
      
   > Does anyone recall a TV series broadcast in the mid 1970s, possibly by   
   > Gerry Anderson, which featured a planet or land with the classic   
   > concept of female supremacy – i.e. the planet or country was run by   
   > women and men were their slaves/servants whatever.   
   >   
   > This is of course a favourite theme of kinky novels but this was not   
   > pornographic  - it was on UK TV in the day time - (yep, I got about 10   
   > million hits in Google Web Search, all inviting me to enter the domain   
   > of mistress Natasha  etc or similar)   
   >   
   > I'm pretty sure it was a British production.   
   >   
   > I am researching dystopian visions of the future and this is certainly   
   > one (if you are a man and probably if you are a woman because I think   
   > they all got wiped out).  I am afraid I can't remember much more about   
   > it, except that it was on ITV on Sundays.   
   >   
   > Is there an authoritative and accurate database of programmes   
   > transmitted? I would be prepared to trawl through such to find this.   
   >   
   > It is not, BTW, "Genesis 2", which has a similar theme, and does fit   
   > my criteria for dystopian SF, so it's already in.  I am searching for   
   > this other series (may have been one episode) to compare the two.   
   >   
   > Neither is it the episode of "Blakes 7" in which a similar community   
   > feqatured in one episode.   
      
   Star Maidens.   
      
   Anglo-German co-production IIRC.   
      
   There is a link to Blake's Seven .... it starred Gareth Thomas   
      
   --   
   Robin Chapman, www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~rjc/rjc.html   
   "Lacan, Jacques, 79, 91-92; mistakes his penis for a square root, 88-9"   
   Francis Wheen, _How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World_   
      
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