Interster (1982)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Dawie Ackermann
Captain Buks de la Rey
Lindsay du Plessis
Creator / Original Story
Dirk de Villiers
Creator / Producer
Gavin Keyser
Creator / Special Effects / Camera Operator / Director / Editor
Michael Drin
Story / Screenplay / Screenplay / Story
Lyn Slingsby
Sound Director
Suzanne Price
Makeup Artist
Tully McCullagh
Music
Jakes De Villiers
Camera Intern / Lighting Camera
Jan Corewijn
Sculptor
Phillip Nangle
Mixing Engineer
Eric Smith
Music
Bernard Myburgh
Sculptor / Costume Design
Lawrence Huckstep
Wigmaker
Maureen Ketteringham
Production Manager
Anton Van Rooyen
Still Photographer
Johan Beukes
Script / Story
Chris Rice
Art Direction
Des Liebenberg
Editor
Lynn Slingsby
Editorial Production Assistant
Details.
This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
Interster (Afrikaans, Inter-star) (author Dr Johann Beukes 1949β2007) was a two-season science-fiction puppet television series made for children and shown in South Africa from the early 1980s. At the time of its production the show was variously compared to the series Thunderbirds, which was previously broadcast in South Africa in Afrikaans under the title Redding Internasionaal (International Rescue).The main plot involved an undercover planetary defense agency operating from Cape Town under the guise of an interstellar shipping company. The show mirrored the real world political issues of international isolation facing Apartheid South Africa with the Earth being depicted as a galactic pariah of the "Interplanetary League" due to its cold war with the planet "Krokon". The villain in the series was depicted by Prince Karnati or his evil henchmen.
The spaceships used in the show were called Impalas after the South African Air Force aircraft, the locally assembled Italian Aermacchi MB-326. There was a pragmatic reason for calling the aircraft Impalas - the basis of the models were 1/48 scale plastic model kits of the AM326, so that they would be recognizable to South African youth.