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In Reply to: Fantastic Television posted by AudioHead on June 30, 2000 at 08:00:43:
Can you come up with the name of a British 1970's Sci-Fi TV series about a group of people who find out that they are living in one of many hemispherical "biodomes" of a huge spaceship from Earth called an "Ark"? The ship is unfortunately on a crash course with a star and they have to break into other domes and find help from other cultures so they can prevent their destruction. I only watched a few episodes when I was a kid and now hope to catch these on home video.
Starlost (1973, syndicated) was a Canadian video-taped sci-fi series
featuring Keir Dullea. It was so bad that its creator, Harlan
Ellison, disowned it and signed the pilot with his pen name, Cordwainer Bird. The premise was that the survivors of the destroyed
planet Earth are traveling on an endless journey through space in a
huge spaceship. This endless voyage came to an abrupt end after one
season.
... it was called "The Starlost" and was about the voyage of a starship called the "Ark". It was set about 1000 years in the future when the ship is 500 years into its journey to carry survivors from the doomed earth to a new planet. By this time the original mission has been forgotten and the survivors have fragmented into many different cultures living in separate biospheres. Most don't even know they are on a space ship.I think it was actually Canadian, not British, and was made in the early 1970s. It started out quite well, but ran out of steam and was axed before the first series had been completed. Harlan Ellison was the main creative force in the beginning of the show, but bailed out.
I don't know if it is available on video - probably not. I only remember one run of it on TV.
Cheers
TG
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love their weird sci fi. Have you seen any of the Red Dwarf shows? The cat and the android are hilarious!Caught a bit of someting interesting on the sci fi channel the other night...a hot babe that's really a flesh-eating plant, and an android that's had some sort of accident and is now just a head...
I shouldn't stay up that late. It's this damm mono. wicked evil sore throat.
Watch that sore throat.If it is a deep one it could be EB Virus.Are you having problems sleeping,headaches,problems with cognitive function,off and on flu like symptoms?Dr.Bombay
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I suffered for 14 months with that shit in 92.It still flares up occasionaly.Hang in there and good luck my friend.
Dr.Bombay
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