In science fiction and fantasy, the realms of deep space have often been likened to the wild and woolly frontier of the old American West, its environs as equally rife and intriguing transferred to the future, featuring pioneers, lawmen, commercial exploiters, and, on the very bad side, the equivalent of hostile marauders in the space pirates!
The much-maligned Troughton adventure may have been overlong at six episodes (an act of behind the scenes necessity), but the story did find some acclaim from critics (both then and now) for its filmed model work. Examples of the spacecraft seen in those sequences are notably captured in this fine art (by Phil Bevan) for the An Adventure in Space and Time and Space magazine's dedicated coverage of The Space Pirates back in the mid-eighties.
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