Late last year we gave you
the heads-up that VCI Entertainment was planning a DVD release of
The Starlost - The Complete Series in North America. This classic '70s sci-fi series starred Keir Dullea (
2001: A Space Odyssey), Gay Rowan (
Revenge of the Stepford Wives) and Robin Ward, with major guest star Walter Koenig (
Star Trek, Babylon 5) as the villainous alien "Oro" , plus other guests such as John Colicos (
Battlestar Galactica) and Barry Morse (
Space: 1999).
VCI has now formally announced this release as a 4-disc set, containing all 16 episodes produced (included installments not seen since their original airings on NBC and Canada's CTV). In addition, you will get the following extra:
The Starlost Sales Pitch: This is a long-lost piece that was sent to the networks to sell Starlost for syndication. It stars Keir Dullea and (Executive Producer) Douglas Trumball. It's only been seen by a few, this is a rare gem.
Running time is approx. 800 minutes, and the cost is $49.95 SRP. Although Amazon's pre-order listing (see button link below) currently shows a different release date, VCI tells us that the correct info is that this will arrive on
October 21st. Here's the package art, followed by VCI's description of the show:
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.
