This low budget Canadian sci-fi series from 1973 ran for sixteen episodes before it

was cancelled due to low ratings.

It was created in Canada by Glen Warren Productions and partially funded by Twentieth

Century Fox, who now own the broadcast and syndication rights to the series.

It was also compiled down into five movies, each composed of two episodes each, with

new credit sequences.

The series was written by renowned science fiction author Harlan Ellison under a

pseudonym of Cordwainer Bird, with additional episodes being written by other sci-fi

authors.

The plot concerned a giant Noah's Ark-like spaceship, composed of hundreds of huge

"domes", each containing a sample culture from the planet Earth, which has long since

died out due to an unknown disaster.

The Ark, damaged from an asteroid collision, goes off course and heads into the path

of a distant sun, its crew dead.

Three simple farmers accidentally find their way out of their dome and must find out

how to get the Ark back on course, and avoid the sun.









Original filenames unknown









No subtitles included









Screenshots five episodes only



Episode 01 , Episode 02 , Episode 03 ,

Episode 04 , Episode 05 .









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