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Synopsis

Space Knights pitches the myth of the knights of King Arthur into a universe of Darth Vader-like villains and malfunctioning robot assistants. The unusual look of this early South Pacific Pictures series - like a picture book come to life - was achieved by using actors in life-size puppet suits, and extensive blue screen effects. In this excerpt, the evil Mordread Darkvoid uses a golden android to try to infiltrate the space knights' mothership. Creation of the show's puppets was masterminded by cartoonist/graphic novelist Chris Slane.

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 Steve Mann
 Chris Bailey
 Ken Catran

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Comments (5)

 Duckman

Duckman

This show should be released on DVD.

Does anybody know where to find "Space Junk" by Dave Dobbyn? It's not on any of his albums (as far as I know), unfortunately.

 Kim Baker

Kim Baker | website

Hi Jay, the information we have is that this title is not available on DVD. Try contacting South Pacific Pictures drama@southpacificpictures.com directly.

 Jay

Jay

Where can I buy the series of this? I'd love to see if my young fulla would take to it like I did as a kid.



 Jason

Jason

Yes it is, the song is called Space Junk.

 Sam

Sam

is that Dave Dobbyn doing the opening theme song?

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