Planet Earth (film)

Or women's lib gone mad..."[2][3] The film also stars Diana Muldaur, Ted Cassidy, Janet Margolin, Christopher Cary, Corrine Camacho, and Majel Barrett.

PAX, a science-based society dedicated to restoring civilization and peace to the world, sends a team to conduct a survey of central California.

After a struggle, the PAX team manages to escape in a hyperloop-like subshuttle, a vehicle that can travel between settlements via tubes underground, built during the early 1990s before the final conflict of the 20th century.

To save his life he requires a bioplastic prosthesis to repair the damaged pulmonary artery sheared away by a Kreeg rifle shot.

[3] PAX Team 21, led by Dylan Hunt (John Saxon), with members Baylok (Christopher Cary), Isiah (Ted Cassidy reprising his role from Genesis II), and Harper-Smythe (Janet Margolin) tries to locate a missing doctor, Jonathan Connor (Jim Antonio), the only surgeon who can perform the delicate surgery in time.

Their search leads the team to the Confederacy of Ruth, a society of latter-day Amazons, where women are dominant and men are enslaved.

Marg agrees to the exchange and Connor and Harper-Smythe leave for PAX after first distributing the antidote in the Dink food supply.

[11] Along with Muldaur, Margolin's fighting skills were also noted by critics as the sight of two barefoot women, one a fair, blue-eyed blonde and the other an olive skinned, dark-eyed brunette, fighting each other while wearing halter tops and slit skirts barely covering their bikini briefs, was difficult to ignore.

[11] Marc Daniels brings professional polish and brisk pacing to the telefilm and the action sequences are very nicely-staged.

The fight ends with the dark haired Harper-Smythe bringing her blonde opponent to her knees, unaware that the children are watching until they step forward, crying.

[11] This mirrors a scene in Genesis II in which the shock wave from a nuclear explosion Hunt has triggered strikes a Pax lookout just as a mother has brought her young children out to see the stars.

An example of what Time Magazine's movie critic Richard Corliss refers to as Hollywood's use of a blonde vs brunette polarity, dark haired Harper-Smythe fights her blonde nemesis, Marg, the Amazon leader. [ 10 ]