Name this scifi with male sex slaves
January 8, 2007 7:51 AM Subscribe
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.
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.
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
posted by justkevin at 8:15 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
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
posted by kuujjuarapik at 9:10 AM on January 8, 2007
Response by poster: "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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
posted by Zed_Lopez at 4:59 PM on January 8, 2007
Response by poster: 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
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
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posted by cog_nate at 7:55 AM on January 8, 2007