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The series is a Canadian / German co-production, with some additional funding from Britain 's Channel 5 . Because it was not made for a US network it includes a lot more sexual Innuendo (and, at least in the early episodes, Nudity ) than US audiences are generally accustomed to. As Of 2002 , the show was intermittently shown on the SciFi Channel ; currently, it is regularly shown on Showcase . ''LEXX'' was co-produced by Salter Street Films , later absorbed by Alliance Atlantis . The series was filmed in Berlin, Germany , Halifax, Nova Scotia , Canada , Bangkok, Thailand , and Namibia . THE CREW The crew of the ''Lexx'' includes:
The crew of the ''Lexx'' is motivated largely by fear, lust, and hunger — factors which gradually came to dominate the storylines more and more, eventually making ''LEXX'' famous for its Sexual Themes and often bizarre storylines. Each episode in the later series takes the crew through another stage of their journey through chaotic, hostile universes without any legitimate authority while exploring the relationships between the Protagonists and their individual histories. THE ''LEXX'' The ''Lexx'' is a Bioengineered , Manhattan -sized, planet-destroying, Living Starship in the shape of a giant Wing less Dragonfly . It was grown from organ collections used on the Cluster, the seat of the Divine Order. Its original intent was for use by His Divine Shadow as a terror weapon to force the surrender of a group of "Heretic" worlds that had rebelled. This plan was foiled when the crew commandeered it to escape from the Cluster. The mechanics of the ''Lexx'' are quite simple. The Key is an intangible living thing that allows whomever is hosting it to captain the ''Lexx''. Commands are carried out by voice of the captain, however on the Bridge there is a hand beacon that appears to confirm important orders, like destroying a planet. The ''Lexx'' acknowledges commands and often comments with a Droning , simple male voice; for example, "As you command, Stan." The ''Lexx'' needs to eat constantly to stay alive and useful, and can land on a planet's surface to scoop up suitable organic foodstuffs. The moral dilemma of destroying inhabited worlds for ''Lexx''’s functioning and survival is a recurring plot theme. The ''Lexx'' also uses this matter and reprocesses it into usable items for the crew, like edible food. The ''Lexx'' also hosts a contingent of smaller bioengineered Ornithopter -like craft called "moths", which the crew periodically use – in air or space – for short-range travel or to go where the ''Lexx'' may prove unwieldy. EPISODES There are four seasons of ''LEXX'' totalling 61 episodes. The first season, debuting in Canada on 18 April 1997 , consisted of four two-hour TV movies (sometimes screened as eight one-hour episodes), alternatively titled ''Tales from a Parallel Universe''. However, some episode guides do not list the two-hour movies as a series but confusingly list the subsequent seasons as the first through third. The second season consisted of twenty 48 minute episodes, with an overall story arc concerning an evil scientist called Mantrid, who wants to kill everyone by converting the entire universe to one-armed Mantrid drones. The third season comprises 13 episodes in which the ''Lexx'' is trapped in orbit around the warring planets Fire and Water , and the crew encounters an enigmatic and cheerful Evil being known as Prince , who may be the Devil . In the fourth and final season of 24 episodes, the ''Lexx'' arrives at Earth in the year 2000 , only to find that Prince (now named Isambard Prince, and somehow head of the ATF ) and several other old adversaries have arrived there too. Between them, Prince and the ''Lexx'' manage to demolish large chunks of the Earth – including the city of Ottawa (a Canadian Metonymical in-joke) – before the climactic final episode, televised on 26 April 2002 . Seasons one to three of ''LEXX'' were released on VHS and Region 2 DVD in the UK by Contender Limited , although the Season 3 DVDs were initially exclusive to the MVC Entertainment chain of stores and all volumes have since been deleted. Contender failed to obtain the rights to Season 4, which instead went to Momentum Pictures (a subsidiary of Alliance Atlantis ), however they have not released any DVDs. All four seasons were released in the US (DVD Region 1) by Acorn Media . SEE ALSO
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