Earth Star Voyager Full SCI-FI movie from 1988
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- čas přidán 13. 12. 2014
- This is my VHS-Rip of Earth Star Voyager a science fiction television movie from 1988.
The movieplot : a space mission to find another planet suitable for colonization. Duncan Regehr and Brian McNamara star. Directed by James Goldstone, who steered the pilot episode for the Star Trek TV series.
In the year 2082, the Earth deep-space exploration vessel, Vanguard Explorer, has suffered heavy damage, due to the efforts of Captain Jacob 'Jake' Brown trying to keep his ship out of the hands of mutineers led by his second-in-command, Vance Arthur. Feigning compliance, Jake attacks Vance and knocks him senseless long enough for him to get to an escape pod and launch into space. However, the cause of the damage on board the Vanguard Explorer is unknown. - Zábava
I was 37 when this came out, recorded it to watch later. Worked the night shift at our local VA hospital. Rather enjoyed it, watched the tape until my VCR died. Now I would like to find this on DVD for my library. I am now 70 and still enjoy watching it.
This came out when I was young dont know what age I was when i first saw it on Disney Sunday Movies. I'm now 40 and I still get chills when I watch it. Great Movie
I'm 57 and get you bro :)
Hopefully you can enjoy it at 90.
Did you manage to download this and get it on dvd?
You can find it in DVD format on Ebay. That's where I got my DVD copy - and I still have my VHS copy from the original 1988 showing.
I was a little kid watching this with my father. I’m so glad this was on CZcams. I am having such a memory lane moment. Wish my dad was still here. Thanks for having it here.
This has lived rent free in my head for nearly 35 years. Shocked that it's been on here for so long without me finding it
Its August, 2023. It was 35 years ago when I watched this on the Sunday night Disney movie as a 12 year old. I'm 47 now and I wonder where those years went.
I never thought I would live to be 70 here's to another ten years.🍺🍺🍺
Someone decided that earth wasn't quite ready. As a primary delegate from earth to both the galactic federation and galactic alliance, mankind is unsuitable for further exploration without maturing some. Someone like me is the first major step and there will be others to come, provided you survive the tests that come to every barbaric civilization.
Fun fact. This was filmed on the old Expo 86 grounds. That is why you see a Monorail in the background.
I finally found this movie after lots of searching... Googling "Space movie 1980's" is pretty generic..... as soon as I saw it again I Instantly said "Heyyyyy I've seen that place before, It was in Stargate SG-1, and the 4400, and Battlestar Galactica".... The super cheap production values meant that almost EVERY set you see in the entire movie is constructed in the same building, the Trussed roof structure gave it away, The Ship.. Triangular trussed roof, the combat pit space station thing... triangular trussed roof.. the shuttle they boarded,,, very same roof.... The set is Plaza of Nations
750 Pacific Boulevard, Vancouver
Voyager 7
Our family was also one that recorded this off tv on vhs back in the 80s. My sister and I watched this together over and over. It's an exclusive club that enjoyed this special that way, anytime any of us had a rainy day, bored, or sick with the flu, we all put this on and I'm proud that everyone here was part of it. Most people in the world have never seen this back then but I find there is one commonality among the families that have, they are all good wholesome people, let's all go to Demeter! ♡
"Jonathan, what have you done?!" He cut you off, that's what he did.
I remember seeing this movie. I must have been about 25 years old. That's been almost 40 years ago.
I too had a VHS rip of this as a kid. So awesome to watch again, over three decades later. Amazing to realign all these scattered memories of this movie. It's really something special to relive a piece of your childhood, especially when it's so well preserved. Thanks for this!
your welcome :)
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@@runejens "yer welcome" 🤪 😜 🤪 😁 🤣 😂 (grammar police confirmed)🤡🎪
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I am placing you under arrest in the name of the GRAMMAR POLICE.
I loved this as a kid. My favorite part is the ending. The thought of being young and heading to a new world, its beautiful. I don't know where 30 years went, but its a time I wish I could go back to.
Right toward the end is when the whole puzzle comes together. Admiral Beasley's sinister plan.
You are on a starship outbound in suspended amination sleep. You are dreaming this. The real Earth was destroyed by a nuclear war in 1989.
@@charlesphillips1468 Good, I'm glad because people back on earth suck. Admiral Beasley had a point.
I love this, even here, on a 5 year old edited comment, YT says 3 comment and shows 2. Well, anyways, I would like to go back to 1991. That was the beginning of the best technology in snowboards and mtn bikes. I just want a one way ticket please. I remember this film well and it comes to mind often as I watch the current present unfold.
@@thetruthisoutthereyt Yeah I'd love to go back to 1991 I was 18... ohh how I wish I could..getting older is not my favorite things to do, don't know if it's depressing or wishing to go back and relive it all over again, I'd not want to change one thing well one thing, stop my husband from doing things that gave him CKD stage 3, only thing I would want to change to have a fuller life with him and not have to always watch what he is allowed to eat vs me I have 90% kidney function, so I have to hold back on what I can eat so he can enjoy food also. Ohh well, to everyone let's all use our psychic energy to time warp back!! :)
Every Sunday night, my family would pop popcorn, cut up some apples, and had Hershey’s chocolate and Diet Coke for the _Disney Sunday Movie._
Along with BRAT Patrol and Double Switch, this was a part of the ones we recorded in VHS and I watched over and over again.
I have waited over 30 years to watch the ending of this film. I grew up over seas and my late grandfather sent vhs copies of recorded shows. The last 1/2 hour of this show didn’t fit on the vhs. I can finally rest
I was 32 years old when this miniseries premiered on ABC. It’s now 2019 and it’s still not available on home video. EARTHSTAR VOYAGER was living proof that a great sci-fi miniseries could be made on a low budget. And Academy Award-winner Richard Edmund handled the visual effects. Worth watching.
2023 and still no mention of it on IMDB. Truly a shame
25 and i remember my friends younger brother going on about this film , so we watched it with him and me and his big brother were impressed. Wish those times were here again, we lost my friend in 94 , now I'm his big brother.
What a blast from the past! Was disappointed the two-part pilot was never picked up for a regular series. Thanks for sharing it.
To be fair. I don't know if it would have survived. Star Trek was still a pretty big science fiction fixture for younger audiences at that point in time and Star Trek: The Next Generation's recent premier less than a year earlier meant that Earth Star Voyager would have to compete with it and that wasn't going to be a winning battle no matter how good Earth Star Voyager's pilot was.
There is another thing to consider. Since Earth Star Voyager was always envisioned as a sort of "Kid's Star Trek", it was probably better that it only got a pilot and that pilot happened to end on a strong note. Had the show gone on for a season or so, it likely would have ended up taking a bad turn and that would have left a sour taste in our mouths. It is better to wonder what could have been rather than lament a show that started strong and ended weak.
Finally! I have searched over 20 years for this movie. I watched part of it in my early teens, way past my bedtime. I was fascinated.Thank you for sharing.
I wish this had become a series
Me too, a Disney Sunday special, this deserves a series ❤
My son’s and I watched and recorded this off of the Disney Channel. It was one of our favorite movies. Several times we would all end up with the flu at the same time. We would hunker down in the living room on the sleeper sofa. We each took turns picking movies to watch and this movie was always picked by one of us. Thanks for uploading it.
This was made back when they actually put a little thought and imagination into the movies. No trash or smut.....just wholesome and interesting.
considering this is a made for tv movie starter series .... yes earth star voyager was one of the many space camp style movies ... it was nice back then but then buck rogers came along and erin grey and these kids were left behind the bus for sex appeal
Thanks!
I am downloading it ....
;)
Buck Rogers ran from around ‘78 to ‘81 I believe.
only that it does not reflect true image of Earth human composite...its racist as f&*&&*k
@@resistor27It did, I watched it when I was 7 and 8 yrs old then Earth Star Voyager came out ten yrs later, watched that too.
I missed this in 1988. Thank you for providing it here!
Been reminded of this film multiple times over the last few years, glad I finally looked it up, something. There's something about classic sci-fi that the modern stuff always ignores due to the magic shields that prevent 99% of harm. .
Thanks for uploading this classic film. So far never released on DVD and the VHS version is rare to find and only 120 minutes long. I hope others can enjoy this movie forever.
I thank you for this! One of my favs from my youth! Wish they had done more with this movie as far as publishing... :)
You know you’re old when Watching this as a kid and now all these years later coming to the disturbing realization that I am now older than the “old” 36 year old Character.
Big difference in how I saw it in 88 and now 🤦. Feeling old and tired. A bit depressing 😞 well...poop..😭🤣
LoL...
Clearly you aren't old enuf IF you even remember watching this! :P
lol i am 48 going on 49 and can still hit 50 push ups getting old its because you did not take care of your body age is but a number
I saw that movie a long time ago, I could almost be the grand father (70) of that "old" 36 years old Character. Yes, I am getting old, I still feel good and am very active, going fishing in the nearby river every day without rain from early spring to late fall. You got to love getting old and enjoy life to its fullest. Take care old man... LOL
I’ve been trying to find this for over 10 years! I only got to see part of it when I was 6 in 1988! Thank you so much. I finally got to see the whole thing and understand what was going on. It truly is a shame it was only a pilot. It had a lot of potential.
Thank YOU! Thank you VERY MUCH! I hadn't seen this in years, I had lost my VHS copy just after the turn of the century (boy does that make me sound old). I use to watch it off and on often over the years and didn't realize how much I missed it. Thank you again for the trip to the past with this very special viewing treat.
You mean the turn of the millennium?
Same. I taped it for my kids, but the VHS tape finally went the way of all magnetic media... My kids loved it so much, and they're all in their 30s and 40s now, but I'm loving watching it and remembering all the times we watched it together.
Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this! I missed it when it originally aired. It's taken nearly 30 years to get a chance to watch this again! :)
Me 2!
Omg, this was a real treat. I was 16 years old when this came out. I THOGHT we were going to be young forever. Ha ha.
I learned a good lesson.
Reality bites! Lol
Thanks for this! I LOVED this movie when I was a kid. My Dad taped it off the tv and I used to drive my parents nuts watching it over and over lol.
thank u for posting this I use to watch this as a kid and glad I found it again.
AFTER 30 YEARS, I'VE FINALLY FOUND IT!!!!!
Damn, an actual happy childhood memory.
I actually, remember watching this on TV when it came out.
The Nostalgia!!
Oh my god I LOVE you!! I used to love this movie when I was a kid. I've been searching for it for years. THANK YOU for this!
Thanks for sharing with us, I was station overseas in Germany when this aired in 1988.
That was really good. Having no corny over the top American exceptionalism made it even better.
I was thinking about this today, I still can't believe how this extended pilot from Disney stuck in my brain for... well, my entire life! I could still remember certain lines and moments, and this was just really cool to see again for nostalgia's sake.
My tv recepton was horrible plus vhs tape hard to watch
But i repeatedly watched it anyway. I still have.
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You can take this, download it, and write it to a DVD as a backup. I downloaded this to an external hard drive. I need to buy a blu ray drive that can also read/write DVDs.
Haven't seen this in 27 years. Nice to see it again.
✌😐 live long
I was 10 when I saw it for the first time. Those times this movie was really great and still is. What a pity they didn't make more series it would have been a great TV-shows. Thanks for uploading it. Thanks for getting back those feelings I had many years ago watching this movie.
Most excellent. Ty for sharing. Can't believe this hasn't made it to at least a DVD. Ah well, will be showing my family this.. this weekend. LOL.
Thank you! Wanted to watch this back when it first aired but my family was invited out for dinner so I was not happy. Thank god for CZcams. Getting to see all the Disney shows I never saw the end of as a kid. This and The Kids Who Knew Too Much.
I loved this movie as a kid. My Dad actually worked on many of the set pieces. It was filmed in Vancouver a lot of which was done at the Expo grounds.
im looking into making a 3d printable model of this ship. if anyone knows of an existing stl or a collection of photos suitable for photogrammetry, please let me know
This was filmed on the 1986 Expo world's fair grounds in Vancouver BC? Cool I was there. It was fun.
thanks for the upload, haven't seen this in like 20 years
I remember watching this as my family recorded this movie off TV back in 1988. It is still funny and exciting as it was back then as it is now.
Captain Brown is really hot🤩😍
I love this movie and it has held up very well over the year.
One thing that is interesting to me is that it was shot mostly around the Vancouver area immediately after Expo 86. This made for some amazing location shots as everything looked pretty “futuristic” at the time and meant that set design could be minimized.
Most of the scenes were done on the recently closed Expo grounds. The opening scene for Earth with the monorail was done at the Plaza of Nations. The large glazed corridor behind bridge that was also incorporated in the model was the upper level of the BC Pavilion.. which is now the Edgewater Casino. Expo Tomorrow shows the Science World Omnimax geodesic dome. And the bridge of the Earth Star Voyager itself was made out of the USSR Pavilion.
This is part of why the sets seem to have such an immense amount of space.. even making the positively cavernous Enterprise D seem cosy.
Blue Star Gamma was a repurposed power plant. You can see the boilers. Possibly one of the district heating plants in downtown Vancouver.
thnx for sharing. 👌
😮that is so cool!
Awesome information and thank you for sharing this
wow i cant believe this made it on youtube! I watched this when it came out in the 80's and it was awesome! the opening sequence at the beginning takes place at disney world epcot center when they first built it.. so funny. the way they portray the future. Love the green burgers too!! thanks a bunch for uploading this video.
Thanks for posting this. It actually holds up fairly well, better than some shows from the 80's. Brings back memories.
Never heard of this; never saw it before. Thank you.
How I loved (and still love) this micro-series!
one of the better early sci fi movies, worth a watch,
Wow. Thank you for this! What a nostalgic reminder of the late 80's and my first year in college. This would have made a great TV series at the time but I think it got overshadowed by STAR TREK: TNG which premiered the year before. This is a great example of the high concept space adventures I loved as kid and wish there was more of today. It's infused with such youthful vigor, enthusiasm, optimism and even a touch of the omnipresent teen sexual angst that defined so much of late 80's popular entertainment.
TNG needs no apologizes.
@@keithbrenny2889 Yeah, no. TNG is vomit.
Your opinion is worse than vomit
@@mattrasmussen3232 Look in the mirror and see the ugly monster you are T R O L L .... TROLL TROLL TROLL... this is what your life has become... how fucking SAD you are....
I loved this movie when it aired (in two parts) in 1988. I was turning 8 that year, and loved space and sci-fi. My parents recorded it on vhs, and I watched it over and over. So good to see it again. I still love it, even with the holes and cheesy technology (hey, they were working with what they had!). Thanks for uploading!
I was in Okinawa Japan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines and Camp Pendelton in 1988. So I kind of missed it.
Misawa in 1988 at 13 years old
@@mattrasmussen3232 FEN didn't exactly carry this kind of stuff.
I was in 14 in Germany in 88, AFN did not air this that I remember either. Cool throwback that I get to see at 50.
How nice for you. A memory coming home to meet you again.
Priceless, thank you for preserving such a treasure.
Unbelievably good for the era. Thanks for the upload!
Alien (1979) will blow your mind...
Thanks for upload that movie . Was nice to see !
It a good mover
This takes me back, never thought I'd see it again. I remember watching it back in 1992 or '91 in Poland. It aired in 4 parts about 45 minutes each.
Dokładnie, a tytuł brzmiał "Z Ziemii do gwiazd" i pod tym tytułem usiłowałem go znaleźć, bez powodzenia. Pozdrawiam
Loved this when I was a kid. Thanks for the upload!
I was a teen in the 80s and would have LOVED this but never heard of it! Thanks for posting this! Going to buy a copy if its available.
I've wanted to see this way back when never thought is get to see it thank you so much
Thank you! I've been looking for this for years! I couldn't even remember the title, but I was researching "Earthships" and found this! Sweet Serendipity!
Great addition to CZcams. Thank you for posting it.
Thanks for uploading this! I remember this from when I was a kid and always had it in the back of my mind. I thought maybe it would be on Disney Plus, but no. Only here, it seems.
It's very 80's, but for a pilot it wasn't bad. If it had gone to production it definitely would have needed a funding boost to compete with the coming Star Trek TNG. But still, quite good. I kind of expected it not to live up to my memory of it, but it hit the spot!
Saw this twice, decades ago. Never completely. Always on TV. Should have been made into a series. Thank you.
Just had to watch it again. And again, thank you for posting it.
I forgot all bout this movie , thanks for up load I so enjoyed seeing it full film
Wow, just WOW!!!
First I have to say, I never knew this film existed. I'm 53 and this is the first time I've seen it.
I really wish I had seen it back then but at least I've seen it.
What a treat. Lately I have seen a few private made videos and they all suck, but not this one. This is by far the best thing I've seen outside of Star Wars and Star Trek. A lot of people did a great job 👏👍👌🙌😀❤
By the way I was in the Army and overseas when this came out.
I was just thinking how much I wanted to see this movie again, and then there it shows up in my recommends.
Your phone is spying on you....
Michael Rodda sse
I remember this movie!! How did I not find it sooner!!
The OTZ was a concept that has stayed with me for decades.
Remember watching this when it first aired I was 7 or 8 I watched the first part but never got to see the second part. For years and years never saw it. Thank God for CZcams can finally see it lol.
This was actually quite good! Thanks for the upload -- brought back memories of Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica :-)
Thanks for the upload, excellent movie and good actors.
Awesome! I loved this when it first aired and have been looking for it for years!
loved this movie as a kid!!!!!!!!!!!!! ship design is so epic
Epic indeed, it reminded me of the opening scene of 'Star Wars' & the view of the underside of the ship passing us over head. 3D like style!
im looking into making a 3d printable model of this ship. if anyone knows of an existing stl or a collection of photos suitable for photogrammetry, please let me know
@@ondinamedina2974 im looking into making a 3d printable model of this ship. if anyone knows of an existing stl or a collection of photos suitable for photogrammetry, please let me know
I remember seeing this movie a long time ago (probably when it first came out) I was disappointed that I never saw it again. I can't tell you how happy I was to see it again here on youtube. Thank you very much for posting it again! I've started looking for it on DVD. No luck yet.
Its not on dvd other than bootleg. Disney refuses to release it on DVD.
Stupid Disney!
GREAT SHOW!!!!!! Thank you.
runejens, thanks for uploading this. I was just ten years old when this originally aired and I only caught the last half of it. I've had only a vague idea as to the main plot of this movie for so many years. Now not only do I know that I have also learned that Jacob Brown's character was played by Duncan Regehr and not Jonathan Frakes like I always thought. You've really helped me sort out my memories. Many, many thanks.
I love this. I've been a fan since before I was a teenager . If you get to follow the generations it's an awesome chronical. Kudos to the team who originally came up with this idea and ran with it successfully over the years.👏👏👏👏👏I'm going to watch out for more, and newer generation to "boldly go where no man has gone before."😆😉😂😂😂
Great film thanks. I especially loved the two 44 gallon drums attached end on end used as escape pods at the beginning. Bless you.
GimmieTheGaff, Ha, ha! Me too.
Thank You for posting this I've been looking for it for decades.
Thank you runejens for the great upload of a fantastic movie. I am just mad that I stayed up half of the night to watch it. But it was worth it. Thanks again and please keep up the good work.
For the record: DUNCAN REGEHR ... was-IS a true gentleman, an ever so talented actor, gifted artist and a gift to any production. I know this because Duncan was the title character / bad guy in a film I wrote called 'THE BANKER' (1989) ...
I was truly fortunate to work with him and gleefully would again in a millisecond given the opportunity ...
D.A.
MeBeTheDB, And it doesn't hurt that u look a bit like him, beard & all. Ha, ha!
This was peak 80s. Wireframe CGI, violin theme music, glam rock gladiators, computers must beepadiboopity constantly, music louder than dialogue, proto-Borg...
This should have been a TV series . Thank you for posting
One of my favorites ever made! Thank you for recording this and uploading it to CZcams!
This was my favorite movie back in the day
if only I had seen this in 88 when I was 11, I would have LOVED it!
I was... and I did... well I was 7, but ya.
@@DustoMan Same here LOL!
Right!
Me too, was 13 in 88.
I saw it when I was 8, and I’ve always remembered the old lady who says “As right as rain...” and the short scene when they chase the rock & roll. Can’t wait to hear the song they chase in a few minutes...
OMG I loved this when I was a kid, now I will watch it again. Thanks so much for sharing :)
Thanks for this unpolished gem!
Seen it when it first aired, loved it then, love it now, nice to watch a movie without cursing.
Wow..this is a classic one if never seen..great si fi..
Wow this takes me back. I remember hounding my parents to let me stay up on sunday night four weeks in a row so I could catch the whole thing. My dad even got me a couple brand new vhs tapes so I could record it.
great rip and upload!! thanks!
i realy love the onld 80s era vocal promo spot in the end for Perfect Strangers...never was a fan of that series but just hearing it brings back good old memories ^_^!!
Loved this when I was a kid, thanks for upload.
Thank you for taking the time to convert this from VHS and uploading it ! It must have taken a LOT of time
I vaguely remembered this as Disney trying to do an original series.
The one line that I did remember was "do you want a laser that might work or a well-aimed rock!"
Wow. Remember parts of it, Now I was able to see the whole video. Thank you for the upload
Ive watched about one hour so far, and I must say that I would have loved this as a kid! I like it even as an adult :)
Michael Gravel / Micke Grus I remember seeing it air on tv as a kid.
Michael Gravel / Micke Grus, I never saw it before. But most movies won't capture my attention within the 1st 5 minutes. This 1 did & I saw the 3 whole hrs in 1 sitting. I'm not crazy about long Epic movies than don't get 2 the plot or action until 2hrs later. Plus, u get 2hrs worth of garbage 2 fill in. This movie got me "Hook, Line & Sinker"
Had my own VHS of this. I've seen this movie a 100 times and I love it. Thanks for preserving it. Disney will never sell this movie for some reason. I never understood it. They made it, they have it, why not put it on blue ray and let us give them money? /shrug
The ship is damaged.
"Will make it home, sir?"
"You bet we are."
That kind of grit lacks from sci fi heroes nowadays.
Very enjoyable!! Sat through all 3 hours of it too.