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Occasionally I stumble across an old film or television series that I really should know about, but that somehow slipped by me completely. Or perhaps these are micro-timeline slips.

In any case, today I slipped into the 1976 British sci-fi series "Star Maidens", that apparently never made it to the U.S. in any timeline I'm familiar with. Or if it did, I was in stasis during its entire run.

Sharing some production and other elements from "Space: 1999", it involves a planet that breaks loose from Alpha Centauri and ends up in our solar system. It's inhabited by a matriarchal society where men are something between second class citizens and slaves. Probably closer to the latter.

It only had 13 episodes, and it has a very mid-70s opening theme! Production budget looks low even for ITV, though it apparently had some funding from German broadcasting concerns and a German-dubbed version was aired on ZDF.

Is it worth watching? Probably not. But that never stops me.