I have been ripped off! When Starlost started, I was captured by the show, I could not and would not miss one show. It came on Channel 5 in Los Angeles, and one day when I went to watch the show to see what would happen? The station said that the show was canceled. CANCELED !!!! The three had just got to the dead crew and they were trying to change the course of the Ark. WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED? I WANT THE DVD!! SOMEONE TELL ME HOW IT ENDED? Jerry Ballard What a great movie the return of Starlost could be with todays movie technology. Spilberg, You made star Wars, why not make the series StarLost as well? I believe it would capture the hearts and lives of millions of people and keep them spellbound as did Star Wars. Anyone who has a DVD or VHS of these series, let me know or at least tell me what happened? [email protected]

Along with Space 1999, Buck Rogers and the original Battlestar Galactica, one of the worst TV SF series ever made.It seems that the age of the viewer when these things premiered is an important factor. They remember it as adults, through the unsophisticated and uneducated filters of the child they were when they saw it. The same is true over on the Battlestar Galactica boards.I was a young adult when it came out, not a kid, and that makes all the difference in how I remember it.Pee Yoo. Period.It tried to be more than it was, its attempts at depth and substance were dull and vague, its plots silly, its SFX while good efforts for the era, were as bad as rear-projection dinosaurs in 50s b-SF movies.

The Starlost had the potential to be a classic science fiction series as it was created by the superb writer Harlan Ellison. The premise was intriguing: earth is abandoned by the humans that have poisoned it in various ways. A great spaceship arc is constructed and a series of domes house various cultures. At some point in their journey an accident occurs killing the crew, the domes are sealed off, and in time the different societies within them come to believe only in their own world and are unaware they are part of a massive starship.3 individuals from a dome with an agrarian community discover the truth, along with the fact that the ark is on a collision course with a g-class star.The series revolved around their attempts to save the ark. unfortunately Ellison came into conflict with the producers & writes extensively about this in an intro into the book based on the series, Phoenix Without Ashes.The fact that the show had a shoestring budget did not help either.This would be a wonderful premise to revive with Ellison on board, and the state-of-the-art special effects now available.

I recently purchased a video cassette copy of "The Starlost, the beginning". While viewing the film, I could not help but notice the dismally poor quality of the sets and the weakness in the actor's portrayals of the characters.I enjoyed watching the film despite the obvious shortcomings, I mean after all, It was filmed way back in 1973. Again, I enjoyed the film and I intend to purchase other episodes of the short lived series as soon as I can. I remember when the show first aired in 1973. At the time, I was only 11 and was unaware of how poorly executed this fascinating story had been done.When the show was canceled, I had pretty much forgotten about the show. It has only been within the last two years that I rediscovered this rarely seen science fiction series.I can appreciate what the series producers tried to do with the show, but their ideas fell apart. Let's cut the producers and actors of the time a little slack.It was filmed in CANADA,on a extremely limited budget. The technically sophisticated filming innovations used to produce science fiction shows of today, was virtually non existent back in 1973.Although the television show that we first viewed back in 1973 was a complete disaster, the story is fresh and renewed for a new generation of science fiction fans yearning for something new to watch . I for one, hope to see this show revived just like they did with "Battlestar Galactica".A remake of "The Starlost" is a science fiction story that the television big-wigs, should really consider bringing back for a viewing audience of the 21st century.