The Starlost

The Starlost. TV series from Canada's CTV, 1973; shown in syndication in the USA, 1974. Original idea credited to "Cordwainer Bird," pseud. of Harlan Ellison when he wishes to dissociate himself from a project.

Features a generation starship with different Terran cultures in various "biospheres"; the crew of the starship are dead, and the passengers have forgotten the mission of the starship and mistake it for a world. See under Fiction, R. Heinlein, "Universe"; see also in that Category E. Bryant and H. Ellison, Phoenix Without Ashes, based on Ellison's original intention for The Starlost series.