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From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Space Adventure Question
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Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 15:02:53 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  2 15:02:53 1985
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> Question!!!  Does anyone remember a short lived show on tv that
> featured a group of young people who were stranded on a HUGE, I
> mean HUGE!!! spaceship that was supposedly going someplace to
> colonize another galaxy?  The ships control section had been wiped
> out by a meteor or somesuch.  There were huge pods attached to the ship
> with each one containing a different ethnic or social group representing
> the different cultures of earth.  The adventures of the main characters
> revolved around coming in contact with the different groups while they
> were trying to find the backup control section for the ship.  Many
> of their stories were very well done.  I just can't recall the
> name of the show.
> T. C. Wheeler

**LAUGH**  This sounds very much like "The Starlost," *except* for
the part about the stories being very well done.  (Remember, they
were written by the inimitable Cordwainer Bird.)
Actuallly, the *script* for the first episode, "Phoenix Without
Ashes" was *quite* good, and won an award, in the *original*
form, which was *not* the form it was broadcast in.  Related to
this, try the novelization of this, done by Edward Bryant from
the original script by Harlan Ellison.  At last year's Worldcon,
someone asked Ed if the other two scripts were ever going to be
novelized, but he didn't know.  Another book on this subject
is "The Starcrossed" by Ben Bova, a fictionalized account
of what happened to this show.

						 Muffy
(Don't mind me, I'm just a voracious reader.)