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EPISODE 7
German Title: Die
Sympathiemaschine (The Sympathy Machine)
Script: Ian Stuart
Black
Director: Freddie
Francis
Plot: On Medusa, Liz
must keep up the pretence of treating Rudi as her
subservient domestic. As the two hatch plans to
escape, they are unaware that Octavia is monitoring
Liz's quarters. She plans to expose Liz and her
plans by appointing Ercule, a musclebound hulk,
as her new domestic. When Liz spurns the sexual
advances of Ercule she protests that it is because
she cannot find Medusan men attractive. Octavia
makes her undergo a computer test (also known as
the Sexometer) to ascertain if this is true. Bombarded
with images of Ercule posing about half naked, rippling
his muscles, she concentrates hard and is able to
force the machine's monitor to display all sorts
of animals and creatures in his place - an ape,
a crab and a snake - until the machine overheats
and explodes.
Where? Firmly Medusa
Who? Liz/Octavia
Kinky? Well what do
you think? The sight of Ercule rippling his biceps
is pure porn camp. The explosion of the sexometer
(oo-er missus) is no doubt euphemistic.
Notes: The centrepiece
of the episode has to be the sexometer scene. Its destruction provides Dawn Addams' best moment in the series, with the agog expression and the line "You've broken it!" a camp highlight. There’s
little more to the episode than that, a sign of
the weakness of the half hour episodic series format
for drama productions.
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