Cleopatra 2525


Cleopatra 2525 is an American science fiction television series that aired in syndication for two seasons, from January 2000 to March 2001. Produced by Renaissance Pictures and distributed by Studios USA Television Distribution, many stations aired it as part of the Back2Back Action Hour, along with Jack of All Trades.

Plot

When complications arise during 20th-century exotic dancer, Cleo's breast augmentation surgery, she is put into suspended animation. Waking 525 years in the future, Cleo joins two women in their fight against the Baileys, armed flying machines that now control Earth's surface. Her team leader, Hel is commanded by a mysterious female entity called "Voice", who relays orders via a communications implant under Hel's right ear. Voice controls many other teams and gives them their orders in a similar fashion, in effect, forming a resistance to the Baileys, with their ultimate goal to retake the Earth's surface. Their final team member is Sarge, who's sister belongs to a cult that regards the Baileys with reverence and willingly sacrifices themselves to them.
Humanity has moved underground and built a complex of elaborate shafts, and tunnels, created by the "shaft builders" to survive the Bailey menace. Cleo wows the 26th-century denizens with her philosophical sayings, many of which come from 20th-century popular culture.

Cast

  • Jennifer Sky as Cleo, Cleopatra
  • Gina Torres as Helen "Hel"
  • Victoria Pratt as Rose "Sarge"
  • Patrick Kake as Mauser
  • Elizabeth Hawthorne as The Voice
  • Danielle Cormack as Raina
  • Joel Tobeck as Creegan
  • Stacey Edgar as Lara
  • Stephen Lovatt as Schrager
  • Mark Ferguson as Confessor
  • Colin Moy as Quint
  • Paolo Rotondo as Porter

    Production

The series' theme song is based on Zager and Evans' 1969 hit "In the Year 2525 ", albeit with altered lyrics.

Episodes

Season 1 (2000)

Season 2 (2000–01)

Reception

Don Houston of DVD Talk describes the show as fun, with interesting elements and themes, and a kind of sly sense of camp so often missing in syndicated television shows. He said the DVD release gave good value for money, and that the show was, despite its limitations, "a worthwhile bit of entertainment".

Home media

The series was released on Region 1 DVD by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in the United States on July 19, 2005.