Mars Needs Women (1968)

Plotzle Sci-Fi · Puzzle #5 · April 15, 2026 · Sci-Fi / TV Movie

Six plot descriptions for Mars Needs Women (1968). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A telecommunications operator receives distress signals from a remote Martian outpost where the all-male crew has developed paranoid delusions about feminine presences and she volunteers to investigate their claims.
2. An anthropologist studies a Mars colony where men outnumber women five to one and documents how this imbalance reshapes social hierarchies but her observations remain unpublished after her sudden reassignment.
3. Two sisters operate a matchmaking service for Earth colonists seeking Martian partners but their business collapses when genetic compatibility issues emerge and one sister blames the other for poor planning.
4. A group of male extraterrestrials travel from their home planet to Earth seeking female humans for reproductive purposes, and their leader pursues a female scientist during their mission.
5. A colonial administrator on Mars files reports about labor shortages while his wife begins an affair with a visiting engineer from the hydroponics division and considers staying permanently.
6. A teenage girl moves to a Mars settlement with her remarried father and observes how the isolated men there idealize memories of Earth relationships while avoiding actual human connection.