Star Maidens (1975)

If you’re a fan of THUNDERBIRDS or SPACE:1999 then you might be curious about this obscure TV show made shortly after the Andersons’ divorced. Although she is uncredited, the hand of Sylvia Anderson is all over this ambitious but mostly haphazard production: Gogo- booted guards in day-glow crash helmets, delicious sets and props that have more in common with a Pucci gown than technology, romantic innuendos and social situations too advanced for a space-rocket adventure….

Star Maidens isn’t just a campy role-reversal. It explores what happens when worlds collide, and the ripple effect each has on the other’s culture, albeit played out in a silly melodrama with a handful of characters shot on as low-budget as possible….
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Although she voiced the world’s most F.A.B. spy, Sylvia Anderson claims modestly she had no idea the Lady Penelope puppet was meant to look like her too…. And you’d almost believe her if she hadn’t followed the Thunderbirds secret agent with a string of nearly identical characters, some puppets some actresses, but always the same cool-headed blondes.
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