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    Space Precinct

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    1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 5 (UK/USA)
    24 x 60 minute episodes

    In the 21st Century, Lieutenant Patrick Brogan (Ted Shackleford from Knots Landing) of the NYPD is transferred to Space Police Precinct 88, located in geostationary orbit above Demeter City on the planet Altor in the Epsilon Erandi System.

    Among the grotesque – at least to human eyes – beings living and working on Altor are Tarns (from the planet Simter), who have a third eye in their foreheads, Creons (from the planet Danae), and Zyronites.

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    Apart from Officer Jack Haldane (Rob Youngblood) and Officer Jane Castle (Danish actress Simone Bendix) – most of the other police officers in the 88th are nonhumans. Castle’s partner, Took (Mary Woodvine) is a Tarn female with telekinetic abilities

    Slomo is a knee-high police robot that wanders around the precinct assisting officers and staff.

    Brogan is accompanied to Altor by his wife Sally (Nancy Paul), their 10-year-old daughter Liz (Megan Olive) and 14-year-old son Matt (Nic Klein), who all live with him in an apartment in a huge orbiting space suburb.

    Liz has an alien pet named Zil and has learned to understand its strange language.

    This risible live-action drama from Gerry Anderson (creator of classic puppet shows such as Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet) looked like the aliens – all purple heads and saucer eyes – were refugees from The Muppet Show. With jokes like, “Raise your hands! All of them!”, this was clearly targetted at kids.

    Plots and characterisation were slight, and the special effects – which were occasionally stupendous – must have swallowed a huge chunk of the $36 million budget.

    In America, station programmers weren’t certain if Space Precinct was an adult drama, a kid’s series, or something else entirely, airing it sporadically in syndication, often at 3:00 in the morning.

    The original pilot, Space Police, was shot in 1986.

    Lt Patrick Brogan
    Ted Shackleford
    Officer Jack Haldane
    Rob Youngblood
    Officer Jane Castle
    Simone Bendix
    Sally Brogan
    Nancy Paul
    Captain Rexton Podly
    Jerome Willis
    Matthew Brogan
    Nic Klein
    Elizabeth Brogan
    Megan Olive
    Officer Hubble Orrin
    Richard James
    Officer Aurelia Took
    Mary Woodvine
    Sgt Thorald Fredo
    David Quilter
    Slomo (voice)
    Gary Martin

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