Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by dmm:
BTW, does anyone know the name of the TV series that involved a gihugic space ship that was sort of an ark, but most of the people on board no longer knew they were on a space ship, and it was on a collision course with something, and the heros were trying to make their way to the secondary bridge, each week encountering a different culture that had developed in a different section of the space ark?
(How's that for a run-on?)

"Starlost" The Starlost website

Or the name of the series that had aliens attacking Earth, and the humans had a moonbase and undersea bases and ships that flew in space, in air, and under water?

Both of these were on US TV in the 1960's.

That sounds like "UFO". I coundn't find a website for it, but there is a webpage dedicated to 60's sc-fi that talks about it. HERE

EDIT: Found a UFO Website HERE.

Geoschmo

[ May 31, 2002, 18:33: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Baron Munchausen]

Geo:

Boy, add Space: 1999 and the Buck Rogers revival and you've got all the 'bad 70s hair' SciFi shows...

Even if UFO was made in the late 60s they've got those 70s hairstyles...

I had almost completely forgotten Starlost. I only had a vague memory of some strange series on PBS that I thought was called "Ark II" but maybe that was what they named it when it was broadcast in the US?

[geoschmo]

Possibly. Both of them are really before my time. I did have a vague recolection of the interceptor ship on the UFO series. I think I may have had one as a kid. But I don't remember the show at all.

Funny you mention Space 1999, cause according to the UFO website they were cancelled because te production company wanted to move on to doing that one instead. Apparently they are by the same people.

Geoschmo

[tesco samoa]

http://www.wizlow.co.uk/names.htm

off topic but has a huge list of names

http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/timeline.html

[Gryphin]

Deathstalker
Thanks for the include in the list.
Not to be picky but it is: "Gryphin"

I started a thread:
"Forum Posters Ship Names List idea"

[capnq]

"Paul Bunyan" is correct; the other spelling is a mistake. Other figures from American folklore would be:

Pecos Bill
John Henry
Joe Magarac
Casey Jones
Johnny Appleseed

but some of those don't fit the hero characteristics you wanted very well.

"The Starlost" premiered in 1975, had Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova among the writers, and starred Keir Dullea (Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey).

"Ark II" premiered in 1976, and had little else to recommend it that I recall.

[Alpha Kodiak]

Thanks for reminding me of Starlost (or, I do remember it being called "Ark II"). I have been trying to remember that show for years, but couldn't remember what it was called. Everyone I described it to had never heard of anything like it. You just never know what you are going to find on this forum!