Production: Australia, 1999-2004.
Cast: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Virginia Hey, Anthony Simcoe, Gigi Edgley, Paul Goddard, Wayne Pygram, Lani Tupu, Jonathan Hardy.

 A very unusual TV show, if we consider the script and how it was made.
During an experiment astronaut John Chrichton (Ben Bowder) is thrown on the opposite side of the universe through a wormhole. His ship comes in the middle of a battle between the “peacekeepers”, a humanoid race which has put the galaxy under military power, and a group of prisoners escaping on a ship.
Coming suddenly out from the wormhole, Chrichton accidentally crashes with another ship, killing its pilot. 
Chricton is taken as prisoner and abducted aboard Moya, a... living ship.
The ship’s crew is made of people of various races: Ka D’Argo (Anthony Simcoe), a Luxan warrior, Zotoh Zaan (Virginia Hey), a Delvian priestess, and Rygel XVI (voice of Jonathan Hardy), a former king of planet Hyneria.
Prisoner as Chrichton is Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black), a peacekeeper soldier, and the two succeed in escaping.
They join the peacekeepers, but their captain Bialar Crais (Lani Tupu) is brother of the pilot accidentally killed by Chrichton; convinced that he did it intentionally, makes him being arrested.

But Aeryn is arrested too, becase is considered “contaminated” by Chrichton and so she doesn’t deserve any more to be a peacekeeper soldier.
They have to escape again and go back aboard Moya. The ship will have to escape through the entire galaxy with its mixed crew, pursued by Crais who wants revenge for his brother and, of course, has to capture all the others.
Series producers are writer Rockne S. O’Bannon and producer Brian Henson.
O’Bannon had worked in series like “Alien nation” and “SeaQuest DSV”, while Brian Henson is heir of Jim Henson, the man who created the Muppets: Henson Tv has created an animatronic technique to build realistic puppets for cinema, and two of the serie’s characters are puppets.
One of them is Rygel XVI, while the other is the “pilot”, a creature living in symbiosis
with the ship Moya, from which he almost never separates.
Maybe Moya is one of the most original ideas of the serie: its feelings and emotions are known by the pilot, and he expresses them to the rest of the crew.
The serie was a good success and has become a cult with its fan clubs: but not enough, anyway, to avoid cancellation after four seasons (instead of the five initially scheduled), considering its huge costs.
In year 2004 (after the serie’s final episode, in which Chrichton and Aeryn were supposed dead) there has been a little extra: a TV movie in two parts of 90’ each.

90 episodes, color, 60’ (except for TV movie, 2 x 90’ episodes).
 

First season

1) Premiere
2) I, E.T.
3) Exodus from Genesis
4) Throne for a Loss
5) Back and Back and Back to the Future
6) Thank God it's Friday. Again.
7) PK Tech Girl
8) That Old Black Magic
9) DNA Mad Scientist

10) They've Got a Secret
11) Till the Blood Runs Clear
12) The Flax
13) Rhapsody in Blue
14) Jeremiah Crichton
15) A Human Reaction
16) Durka Returns
17) Through the Looking Glass
18) A Bug's Life
19) Nerve
20) The Hidden Memory

21) Bone to be Wild
22) Family Ties

Second season

23) Mind the Baby
24) Vitas Mortis
25) Taking the Stone
26) Crackers Don't Matter
27) The Way We Weren't
28) Picture if You Will

29) Home on the Remains
30) Dream a Little Dream
31) Out of Their Minds
32) Look at the Princess (1): A Kiss Is But a Kiss
33) Look at the Princess (2): I Do, I Think
34) Look at the Princess (3): The Maltese Crichton
35) My Three Crichtons
36) Beware of Dog
37) Won't Get Fooled Again
38) The Locket
39) The Ugly Truth

40) A Clockwork Nebari
41) Liars, Guns and Money (1): A Not So Simple Plan
42) Liars, Guns and Money (2): With Friends Like These...
43) Liars, Guns and Money (3): Plan B
44) Die Me, Dichotomy

Third season

45) Season of Death
46) Suns and Lovers
47) Self Inflicted Wounds (1): Could'a, Would'a, Should'a

48) Self Inflicted Wounds(2): Wait for the Wheel
49) ...Different Destinations
50) Eat Me
51) Thanks for Sharing
52) Green Eyed Monster
53) Losing Time
54) Relativity
55) Incubator
56) Meltdown
57) Scratch 'n Sniff
58) Infinite Possibilities (1): Daedalus Demands

59) Infinite Possibilities (2): Icarus Abides
60) Revenging Angel
61) The Choice
62) Fractures
63) I-Yensch, You-Yensch
64) Into the Lion's Den (1): Lambs to the Slaughter
65) Into the Lion's Den (2): Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
66) Dog with Two Bones

Fourth season
 

67) Crichton Kicks
68) What Was Lost (1): Sacrifice
69) What Was Lost (2): Resurrection
70) Lava's a Many Splendored Thing
71) Promises (Promesse)
72) Natural Election
73) John Quixote
74) I Shrink Therefore I Am
75) A Prefect Murder
76) Coup by Clam
77) Unrealized Reality

78) Kansas
79) Terra Firma
80) Twice Shy
81) Mental as Anything
82) Bringing Home the Beacon
83) A Constellation of Doubt
84) Prayer
85) We're So Screwed (1): Fetal Attraction
86) We're So Screwed (2): Hot to Katratzi
87) We're So Screwed (3): La Bomba
88) Bad Timing


TV Movie

89) The Peacekeeper Wars (1)
90) The Peacekeeper Wars (2)





 



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