I watched the original run and the occasional run that came around on
CBC. (One of the few advantages of being from Detroit.)
It's not as bad as all that, but it's not that good either.
The plots (even to a young teen) were predictable.
Break into new dome, deal with a very extreme society, learn new clue,
get the hell out.
Production values were very low (even for the 70s) as the CBC spent even
less $$ on SF then the BBC
I may just buy it for nostalgia.
JohnO
Elise Engelhardt wrote:
Saw this on another list. I'd never heard of Starlost - is it any good
(despite the fact that its credited to C. Byrd)? I checked and it's not
on Netflix (and they said that they don't have plans to offer it unless
the get enough "title requests" for it. So I put in a title request.
Anybody else?
~Elise
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Subject: [scifisantarosa] Starlost available 9-30-08
The tv series Starlost, most notable as being written by Harlen
Ellison will be available on dvd 9/30/08. Production was bad,
interferance from higher ups reduced the storyline to such drival
that Ellison had them use his non de plume.
Here is the blurb:
After an Earth-destroying threat endangers the planet, Mankind builds
a gigantic Earthship Ark spacecraft to save the last of humanity.
After an accident takes place and kills the crew, the airlocks
connecting the ship's domes are sealed. Cut off from the outside
world, many communities simply forgot that they were on a spacecraft.
As the centuries pass, each culture evolves in an enclosed society,
each a world unto itself that is fifty miles in diameter. Unbeknownst
to the ARK s inhabitants, they are drifting through deep space on a
collision course with a sun. In 2790 A.D., a young man named Devon
(Keir Dullea from 2001: A Space Odyssey ), a resident of a biosphere
called Cypress Corners, discovers that his world is much larger than
he was taught to believe and uncovers the Ark s fate. Devon and
friends Rachel (Gay Rowan) and Garth (Robin Ward) must learn all they
can about the Ark if they are to save it and the colonists aboard.
The Starlost was a Canadian-produced science fiction television
series that broadcasted in 1973 on CTV in Canada and on NBC in the
United States. Now for the first time all 16 episodes are available
in this collection. Some of these episodes have not been seen since
their original airdates.
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