Cleopatra 2525
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Cleopatra 2525 was a sci-fi television program that aired for 2 seasons, starting January 2000 and ending March 2001. It appeared as the first part of the 'Back2Back Action Hour', followed by Jack of All Trades. Both series were notable as the first half-hour, live-action adventure series to be produced for American television since the 1970s.
Its theme song is based on the Zager and Evans song In the Year 2525, though with different lyrics from the original.
The setting is five centuries into the future. Cleo is a topless dancer who goes into suspended animation after having breast augmentation surgery. She awakes 500 years in the future and teams with two other women, joining their fight against the 'Baileys' who control the surface of the earth. Humanity has moved underground and built a complex of elaborate shafts and tunnels created by the "shaft builders" to survive the Bailey menace. Cleo (pictured above on the right) wows the 26th century denizens with her philosophical sayings (all of which come from Star Wars and Star Trek TV and movies she's seen and from lyrics to pop songs of the late 20th century).
The series was released to DVD in July 2005.
[edit] Starring
- Jennifer Sky - Cleo (Cleopatra)
- Gina Torres - Hel (Helen)
- Victoria Pratt - Sarge (Rose)
- Patrick Kake - Mauser
- Elizabeth Hawthorne - The Voice
- Joel Tobeck - Creegan
- Stacey Edgar - Lara
- Stephen Lovatt - Schrager
- Mark Ferguson - Confessor
- Colin Moy - Quint
- Paolo Rotondo - Porter
