Star Maidens
Star Maidens
TV ShowEnded

Star Maidens

3.3 / 10
1976
1 season
13 episodes
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.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Escape to Paradise

    08-09-197625m

    Medusa, torn from orbit around Proxima Centauri by a comet, was sent careering through space. Ages later, with Medusa now in orbit between Uranus and Neptune, Adam and Shem escape...

  • Nemesis

    2.Nemesis

    15-09-197625m

    Surviving the crash, Adam and Shem steal a police car and go on the run. Supreme Councillors Octavia — head of security — and Fulvia — Adam's mistress — follow them to Earth to ret...

  • The Nightmare Cannon

    3.The Nightmare Cannon

    22-09-197625m

    Adam and Shem shut themselves inside an ancient defensive manor and take the curator hostage. Octavia activates the nightmare cannon, bringing their fears to life to drive them int...

  • The Proton Storm

    4.The Proton Storm

    29-09-197625m

    The proton storm forces the Nemesis to return to Medusa, with Liz and Rudi held hostage aboard. Fulvia tries to return to earth to find Adam, but the storm throws the ship off cour...

  • Kidnap

    5.Kidnap

    06-10-197625m

    While Shem repairs her ship, Fulvia allows herself to be used as a test subject for a human thought-transference machine similar to the ones on Medusa — but not similar enough, as...

  • The Trial

    6.The Trial

    13-10-197625m

    Earth hostage Dr Rudi Schmidt is forced to perform menial work, on the surface and in the city, but rebels—and other Medusan men join him. He's caught and handed over to Liz to sup...

  • Test for Love

    7.Test for Love

    20-10-197625m

    Although Liz is ideally suited to captain a Medusan spacecraft, her attitude to men isn't appreciated. Octavia has her tested to find out why she doesn't find Medusan men attractiv...

  • The Perfect Couple

    8.The Perfect Couple

    27-10-197625m

    Adam and Shem hatch a plot to convince Fulvia to release the human hostages while still allowing the refugee Medusans to remain on earth. It involves Fulvia and Adam setting up hom...

  • What Have They Done to the Rain?

    9.What Have They Done to the Rain?

    03-11-197625m

    Rudi labours on the surface when rain starts reacting catastrophically with toxic waste in the soil, threatening the whole civilisation. Rudi knows why, but will the Council listen...

  • The End of Time

    10.The End of Time

    10-11-197625m

    Prof Evans visits Medusa to discuss the return of the hostages with the President — who they find apparently dead. Liz is accused of causing her death and sentenced to die on the s...

  • Hideout

    11.Hideout

    16-11-197625m

    On the run, Adam and Shem find shelter in an apartment, but are seen and reported. Adam is arrested, but Shem is rescued by Rose, whose fiancé has left. The two start to grow close...

  • The Creatures of the Mind

    12.The Creatures of the Mind

    24-11-197625m

    At Octavia's request, Liz — with Rudi — investigates the abandoned records section. Rudi's searching for a way off Medusa: what Liz finds is far more sinister and distressing, an a...

  • The Enemy

    13.The Enemy

    01-12-197625m

    Agreement now reached on the exchange of hostages, the two ships head off from Earth and Medusa. But a deadly ancient enemy of the Medusans has found them. The ships have no weapon...

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