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To: NRx

Don’t forget the ill-fated Canadian series The Starlost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlost

Created by science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, it had great potential, but utterly fouled it up. It used some of the same models as the Bruce Dern movie Silent Running. Realizing it was going to crash and burn, Ellison got out before the first episode aired. It starred Keir Dullea of 2001...

It had some great guest sci-fi stars: Sterling Hayden, Walter Koenig, Barry Morse, John Colicos, etc.

It used miniature sets, with the actors blue screened over them.

Even as a kid I could tell both that it had great potential and worthless execution. It needed better writers.


28 posted on 03/08/2019 6:21:43 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Old people ought to be bumped off when their usefulness is done." -- Eleanor Roosevelt)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Cool concept. Somebody should reboot it.


31 posted on 03/08/2019 6:55:20 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Wow, now there was some pure cheese!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Kv0VlJvNQ


32 posted on 03/08/2019 8:53:22 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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