Ex game-show host Mydas Mydason wins a trip to the newly discovered planet of
Voltarabia. So does brothel guard Cindy Rellar. Little do they realise that
their "holiday" is part of a diabolical scheme by the villain known as the Editor...
Soldiers of Love is a sci-fi comedy on a 14 CD collection starring many well
known British TV stars from Doctor Who and Blake's Seven. These include:
Colin Baker, Nicholas Courtney, Sarah Sutton, Michael Keating, Gareth Thomas,
Jacqueline Pearce, Jan Chappell
Comparisons to The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy spring to mind, but then
they often do when the genres of sci-fi and comedy are combined. On this
occasion, however, the comparison is justified due to the presence of a sentient
and rather depressed drinks machine (Yztabub, played by Mark Preston) and the
penchant of Voltarabian Customs for excising tourists' body parts.
The level of innuendo is more reminiscent of a Carry On film, although the double
entendres here are far filthier. For example, the delightfully seedy Mydas, played
by Michael Keating (better known as Blake's 7's Vila) at one point angrily rants,
"Have you ever had a fist in your mouth?" "Not in my mouth, no," replies the deadpan
Norman Lovett (alias Red Dwarf's Holly) who plays Cilla, the unwilling transsexual
henchman/woman of the Editor.
Bound by a contract that is a perverse variation of the one between Prospero and
Ariel in The Tempest, Cilla cannot have his/her female sexual organs back until he/
she has fulfilled his/her service to the evil Editor (a wonderfully over-the-top
Colin Baker).
Other celebrity voices include a jovial Nicholas Courtney (Doctor Who's Brigadier)
as the Voltarabian King Turnidus. Courtney is no stranger to the kind of bawdy
humour - and musical numbers - that are featured here, being a veteran of The Rocky
Horror Show. Meanwhile, former tomorrow person Sammie Winmill spoofs both Nicola
Bryant's Peri and Sandra Dickinson's Trillian by means of Cindy's deliberately
irritating phoney US accent.
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