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From: johnt@utai.UUCP (John Turner)
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Subject: Re: 2 Old TV Shows...Who remembers...?
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 11:30:04 EST
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> I've got 2 relatively old TV shows for you old TV buffs (people who like old
> TVs?  :-) )...
> 
> 1 is a cartoon.  All I remember is the title:  Cool McCool.  I think he was
> a detective, and I think his theme song was Love is Blue.  Anyone know more?
> 
> The other was a sci-fi TV show that I only saw in syndication.  It starred 3
> young actors (one was Keir Dullea of 2001/2010 fame).  They were on a huge
> spaceship (ark I think they called it), and wandered from room to room and met
> up with races of people who didn't seem to know they were on a ship.  Kind of
> similar to Otherworld in a way.  That's about all I remember, but if you're
> in the NYC area, I think it was on late in the afternoon (5:30ish) on Saturday
> or Sunday, on Channel 4 (WNBC).
> 
> Can anyone help? 
> 
> Thanks...
> Evan Marcus
> ...{decvax|ucbvax}!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!pedsga!evan
> 
> There are two kinds of people in the world, those who divide people into two 
> groups, and those who don't.

	The second show referred to above was a canadian production 
from the early seventies called "Starlost". It was made up of one hour
weekly episodes in which the main characters (Devon, Garth and Rachel)
explored the spaceship "Ark".  
	The Ark is a deep space colonisation ship (or something) in
the form of a (connected) graph.  The nodes were called "pods" and
each held a self contained ecology with its own human society.
The societies were at different levels of technological advancemant.
We are not sure why it was launched in the first place, but seem to
remember hints to the effect of a catastrophy on earth.  There was an
accident at some point and all of the crew was killed and the ship thrown
off course, into a collision course with something.  The various societies
are then left on their own, many even forgetting that they are on a ship.
We are not quite sure why Devon (Kier Dullea)and Rachel left their pod in 
the first place (something about being in love), but then Garth followed.  
This was not unreasonable since he was supposed to marry her.
	They travel from pod to pod, eventually discovering the catastrophy
and the collision course.  The episodes then follow their explorations
looking for a backup bridge (the original was destroyed), or a society
advanced enough to do something about the problem.


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						John Turner

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