STARLOST, THE: The Complete Series
Product Details
Format: DVD
Version: Full Screen
Rating: NR
Runtime: 800 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Year: 1976
Item #: 8540
Region: NTSC
Audio: Dolby Digital
Color: Color
Language: English
Country: Canada
UPC: 089859854026
ISBN: 1-55739-908-5
Summary
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.
Bonus
Scene Selection
Trailers
Booklet
Actors
Keir Dullea
Gay Rowan
Robin Ward
William Osler
Directors
Joseph L. Scanlan
Ed Richardson
Harvey Hart
George McCowan
Leo Orenstein
Creator
Harlan Ellison
Customer Reviews
IF YOU ARE A LOVER OF ALL THINGS SCI-FI..., 2/23/2009 2:38:03 PM
Reviewer: sdesjardins
" If you are a lover and collector of all things sci-fi as I am, regardless of age and/or degree of cheesiness, and you have been searching far and wide for many a year for a complete, beautifully clear, digitally remastered set of all 16 episodes of the Starlost as it was originally shown on early '70's television - look no further. Your search is over. No more do you have to find obscure collectors online who have acquired old, dusty, blurry VHS tapes of the so-called "lost" episodes.
THIS is the quintessential Starlost DVD set you are looking for right here!!
VCI has gone to great lengths and pains to locate the master tapes, digitally restore, clean and clear them up - yet even so, the visual quality appears to be MUCH BETTER than it was back then. Even the soundtrack is clearly improved.
You have to watch these DVDs to believe your eyes and ears, they are truely remarkable restorations. As an added bonus the pitch ad with Keir Dullea and Douglas Trumbull is also included on the last disk, though the colours have spoiled with age. Some brief commercial clips before a few of the episodes are included, plus a very nice, effective menu with catchy music are icing on the cake making this DVD set a pleasure to experience.
Many thanks to VCI for the dedication and effort of preserving this important piece of pop-sci-fi television history. So do yourself a favour - if you take a guilty* pleasure from watching and enjoying this show as I do, then don't hesitate to add this to your vintage sci-fi collection - you'll be glad you did.
(*Actually, there is no guilt, just pleasure. I can appreciate any creative work even if it has ...erm, "creative problems". That's what gives shows like these their charm imho. I love them because of their imperfections as well as being products of their times ;-)
Enjoy!
Stephen D - Toronto, Canada
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