Planet Earth (TV pilot)
Planet Earth is a science fiction television movie that was created by Gene Roddenberry, written by Roddenberry and Juanita Bartlett from a story by Roddenberry. It first aired on April 23, 1974 on the ABC network, and stars John Saxon as Dylan Hunt. It was presented as a pilot for what was hoped to be a new weekly television series. The pilot focused on gender relations from an early 1970s perspective. Dylan Hunt, confronted with a postapocalyptic matriarchal society, muses, Womens lib? Or womens lib gone mad...
It is the year 2133, and Earth was devastated by a nuclear war decades earlier. A team from PAX, the one city that escaped the destruction, is conducting a survey of central California. PAX is a sciencebased society dedicated to restoring civilization and peace to the world. Returning to PAX headquarters, the team is attacked by a group of militaristic, mutant humans known as the Kreeg, whose commandant is played by heavy character actor John Quade. After a struggle, the PAX team manages to escape in a subshuttle, a vehicle that can travel between settlements via tubes, built during the early 1990s, before the final conflict of the 20th century. One of the team, Pater Kimbridge Rai Tasco, is severely wounded and, to save his life, requires a bioplastic prosthesis to repair the damaged pulmonary artery sheared away by the Kreegs rifle shot.PAX Team 21, led by Dylan Hunt John Saxon, with members Baylok Christopher Cary, Isiah Ted Cassidy, and HarperSmythe Janet Margolin heads out to locate a missing doctor, Jonathan Connor Jim Antonio, who is the only surgeon who can perform the delicate heart surgery in the time Kimbridge has left to live. Their search leads the team to the Confederacy of Ruth, a society of latterday Amazons, where women are dominant and men are enslaved. As a ruse, a woman in the PAX group, HarperSmythe, binds Hunt and enters the city with him. Once there, she meets Marg Diana Muldaur, the leader of the women, who claims Dylan as her own property. HarperSmythe makes her way to a nearby farm and meets a woman who explains how the society operates and how there are fewer and fewer children. ........
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