In the early 70,s, Gene Roddenbery came out with a TV series that did not do very well. I believe the title of the series was The Ark. In the series the Earth was distroyed in a war and a bunch of people that survived the war gatherd has many different animals as they can and put them in a big spaceship that was named The Ark. The crew of the Ark went out to search for a new planet to live on. Does anyone remember the series? Gene did make a couple of TV movies in the early 70,s that I thought were pretty good. One was The Quester Tapes, and the other was Genisis 2.

I think your mixing memories of Starlost with one of Gene's TV movie pilots.

You might want to check out cylon.org, that site has background info on a number of old shows and movies.

You may be confusing Roddenbery's Saturday-morning kiddie show Ark II with the disappointing, cheaply produced series The Starlost, created by Harlan Ellison (under the pen name "Cordwainer Bird").

From http://www.tvparty.com/sat76.html :

Ark II / CBS
Live action futuristic drama about a roving scientific team in the 25th century looking for lost civilizations in a souped-up mini-van after a great disaster has ravaged the Earth.

Terry Lester as Noah, Jose Flores as Samuel, Jean Marie Hon as Ruth, along with Adam, the talking chimp. Very similar in concept to Gene Roddenberry's 'Earth II' TV-movie/pilot.

IIRC, Earth II was a pilot/MOW starring Anthony Franciosa, about a community living on an orbiting space station. The station becomes its own separate country, with membership in the U.N. Interesting concept, but Gene Roddenberry had nothing to do with it. The people at tvparty.com are probably thinking of Genesis II, which starred Alex Cord and was notable mainly for Mariette Hartley playing a character with two navels. The same concept was slightly reworked as Planet Earth, starring John Saxon.

CORRECTION: Apparently Gene Roddenberry had nothing to do with Ark II either!

Don't forget Gene Roddenberry's SPECTER, a pilot movie about witchcraft.

Don't forget Gene Roddenberry's SPECTER, a pilot movie about witchcraft.

I was babysitting for my sister's three little terrors, aged 5 down to less than one, when I was trying to watch that. So it's a little fuzzy in my mind ;).

The last time I watched it on the Action Channel, I saw the uncut version. Their were witches, dancing, and flopping their breast around. I guess the European cut.

EARTH 2 had some awesome fx in it, but no, it wasn't GR. GR had GENESIS II and a second try of GII on another network called PLANET EARTH (Saxon instead of comatose Cord in the lead), but neither pilot worked.

EARTH 2 had some awesome fx in it, but no, it wasn't GR. GR had GENESIS II and a second try of GII on another network called PLANET EARTH (Saxon instead of comatose Cord in the lead), but neither pilot worked.

What I liked about the Saxon show was the cool all terrain vehicle used to around after landing from the space station. I think this show probably failed because it copied the Logan's Run tv series too much. No originality of getting around a post holocaust world.

What I liked about the Saxon show was the cool all terrain vehicle used to around after landing from the space station. I think this show probably failed because it copied the Logan's Run tv series too much. No originality of getting around a post holocaust world.

I think maybe that was the other Saxon thing, STRANGE NEW WORLD. He and Cassidy were retained from PLANET EARTH, but that show was a slightly altered concept.

I think maybe that was the other Saxon thing, STRANGE NEW WORLD. He and Cassidy were retained from PLANET EARTH, but that show was a slightly altered concept.

I think you're right. There were so many post-appocolyptic movies that it's hard to keep them apart.

I think you're right. There were so many post-appocolyptic movies that it's hard to keep them apart.


PLANET EARTH was the one where earth mutants looked exactly like what TMP klingons wound up sporting in terms of head bumpspines. Had Diana Muldaur too.