Name this scifi with male sex slaves

January 8, 2007 7:51 AM

Looking for a (maybe) 1970s Science Fiction movie or television series episode that has male infertility as a theme.

Was out with some friends the other night after seeing "Children of Men." Someone remembered watching some sort of scifi in which only a handful of men were still fertile. Women had all the power on this planet (can't remember if it was a distant planet or a futuristic Earth). And they kept the fertile men as sex slaves.

Everyone else thought my friend was making this movie/tv show up, but I had his back, having remembered seeing something similar. My recollection added really crazy hairdos and bad eyeliner to the women. Also very low production values.

We both think it was made/produced/shown sometime in the 1970s or early 1980s.

posted by 100watts to media & arts (18 comments total)

Hell Comes to Frogtown, maybe?
posted by cog_nate at 7:55 AM on January 8, 2007

There was an episode of Buck Rogers starring Gil Gerard that featured this plot.
posted by justkevin at 8:15 AM on January 8, 2007

It's SLIDERSssss! Episode 107, "The Weaker Sex".
posted by nervestaple at 9:05 AM on January 8, 2007

Or, wait, crap. Maybe it's Episode 204, "Love Gods". That sounds more like it.
posted by nervestaple at 9:07 AM on January 8, 2007

in Planet Earth, the women ruleres use men as breeders known as "dinks". That always made me laugh when I was a kid and it seemed like it was on all the time.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 9:10 AM on January 8, 2007

Here's a bad wikipedia article about it.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 9:14 AM on January 8, 2007

"Sliders" was mentioned Friday night, but I'm almost positive that what Jeff and I were thinking of was older than that. Ditto for "Hell Comes to Frogtown."

Buck Rogers or Planet Earth might be right - but I can't say for sure, and am leaning against, based on screencaps from each found via Google.

The whole thing had kind of the Barbarella aesthetic, if that helps.
posted by 100watts at 9:17 AM on January 8, 2007

Could be this Star Trek: The Next Generation episode: Angel One
posted by loosemouth at 9:59 AM on January 8, 2007

Could it be the underrated "A Boy and His Dog"?

It was a 70's post-apocalyptic sci-fi starring Don Johnson that had an underground civilization with a habit of kidnapping fertile, surface-dwelling, males.

It was also the direct inspiration for "Mad Max".
posted by MonkNoiz at 10:43 AM on January 8, 2007

There was also a Star Trek Voyager episode just like this as well. Harry Kim was drawn across galaxies to a planet of all women who needed his seed.
posted by RoseovSharon at 12:38 PM on January 8, 2007

Actually, regarding my note above... the planet Harry went to was not all women. The women where in charge. There were men there too, they were sex slaves and used to do the hard physical labor. This episode had the usual low-budget look of Voyager, complete with the silly hair-do's.
posted by RoseovSharon at 1:02 PM on January 8, 2007

Vaguely reminds me of the infamous Gayniggers from Outer Space.
posted by themel at 1:43 PM on January 8, 2007

Can't believe I'm cribbing from my own previous comment (and on this subject), but:

... my hunch is that you're remembering the classic Queen of Outer Space (Hungarian title: Kvin uf Auterr Speis) starring the incomparable miniskirted, stiletto'd warrior princess Zsa Zsa Gabor.

posted by rob511 at 3:19 PM on January 8, 2007

The Perils of Gwendoline (1984)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087903/

I remember catching it on cable when I was too young to have been watching it.
posted by dirtylittlemonkey at 4:17 PM on January 8, 2007

"crazy hairdos and bad eyeliner "
posted by dirtylittlemonkey at 4:21 PM on January 8, 2007

You might be thinking of the underground society in A Boy and His Dog.
posted by Zed_Lopez at 4:59 PM on January 8, 2007

so, which is it?
posted by MonkNoiz at 11:06 AM on January 9, 2007

Sorry, none of those seem exactly right. If I ever catch it again, I'll find out the title. Gwendoline is a little too old.

Barbarella may have been the wrong aesthetic... think more Flash Gordon.

The hair I remember was really tall.
posted by 100watts at 1:25 PM on June 27, 2007