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Interster
Interster (Afrikaans, "Inter-star") (author Dr Johann Beukes 1949–2007) was a two-season science-fiction puppet television show 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 defence agency operating from Cape Town under the guise of an interstellar
Karel Kraai, a crow which was fully functional to the point of being able to remove his hat, for the children's TV program "Wielie Walie", named for the first line of a traditional Afrikaans children's verse version of 'Ring a Ring a Rosie'.
"Interster" was the brain-child of filmmaker Lindsay du Plessis. Du Plessis also worked on the puppet series "Tales of Africa" before that. "Interster" was produced almost 10 years after the last Gerry Anderson television show to