The Starlost (1973)
- Directed by
- Leo Orenstein, Joseph L. Scanlan, Harvey Hart
- Genre
- science fiction television series
- Country
- Canada
- Length
- 1 season, 16 episodes
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.7 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The series is set on a huge generation starship that has gone off course after an accident. Centuries later most people aboard do not know they live on a spaceship.
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What happens
The Starlost is a Canadian-produced science fiction television series created by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and syndicated to local stations in the United States. The show's setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called Earthship Ark which, following an unspecified accident, has gone off course. Centuries after its original launch however, most of the descendants of the original crew and colonists are unaware that they are even aboard a spaceship. The series experienced a number of production difficulties, and Ellison broke with the project before the airing of its first episode. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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