Lexx

Name: Lexx
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Michael McManus, Tom Gallant, Brian Downey, Xenia Seeberg, Eva Habermann

Lexx (1997-2002)

Seasons: 4, episodes: 61

Episode runtime: 48 min

Average rating: 7.6/10 24 464

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Video for the series Lexx — Lexx - Trailer (1997)

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Premiere

1997-04-18

Last episode

2002-04-26

Status

Ended

Country

Germany, Canada

Network

Syfy, Citytv, Space, Global TV

Production

Salter Street Films, TiMe Film- und TV-Produktions GmbH, Chum Television, VIP Babelsberger Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG

Genre

Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Creators

Paul Donovan, Jeffrey Hirschfield, Lex Gigeroff

Actors

Michael McManus, Tom Gallant, Brian Downey, Xenia Seeberg, Eva Habermann, Jeffrey Hirschfield, David McClelland, Andrulla Blanchette, Wayne Robson, Rutger Hauer
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Paul Donovan, Jeffrey Hirschfield

Producer

Camera operator

Les Krizsan

Composer

Marty Simon

Editing

Stewart Dowds, Kimberlee McTaggart, Paul Green
Whole Team (36)

Short description

A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1 Stan, Zev and Kai accidentally steal the Lexx, the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes. After successfully fleeing from the Cluster, the main planet of the League of the 20,000 Planets, they are looking for a new home. Kai needs protoblood to live outside of his cryochamber.…	4	1997-04-18	7
Season 2 The main conflict of the second season is the fight against Mantrid, the former Bio-Vizier of His Divine Shadow. The crew had inadvertently helped him transfer his mind into a machine in the first episode of the season while accidentally fusing it with a remnant of His Shadow. Mantrid's goal is t…	20	1998-12-11	6.2
Season 3 The Lexx is running out of food and must fly slowly to conserve energy. 790 computes that it might take thousands of years to reach an inhabited planet. The crew enters cryostasis to survive the voyage. After 4,000 years in cryostasis, they reach the twin planets Fire and Water. The entire third …	13	2000-02-06	7
Season 4 The Lexx travels to Earth looking for food. It is located in the very center of the Dark Universe and the crew assumes that it must be a very dangerous place. The crew again meet people they knew from the Light Universe, and from Fire and Water. Only Prince and Priest are able to remember their l…	24	2001-07-13	6.4

What's left behind the scenes

When Eva Habermann was cast as Zeve, she was told that she would have to dye her hair blue for filming because a wig would look unconvincing. During the filming of the first season, the actress's hair was dyed every day using a dye used in the production of marshmallows. Habermann absolutely hated this, as it was damaging to her hair. Two years later, at the start of the second season, the producers finally allowed her to use a wig because she had decided to leave the series due to other projects, and thus she appeared in only two episodes.
Initially, Eva Habermann felt embarrassed filming nude scenes, so it was decided to use a body double for the corresponding shots. At first, they tried to find a stripper in Halifax (where the filming took place), but everyone had either piercings or tattoos. Eventually, they found an extra who agreed to undress for close-up shots. Soon, Habermann gained enough courage and self-confidence to perform the topless scenes herself.
The chess match in the episode "The Game" is a step-by-step reproduction of a 1834 game between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795-1840) and Alexander McDonnell (1798-1845).