History Series / Starstuff

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: The ship plummets into a black hole. Giz bravely (and we presume, accurately) predicts that [[AndTheAdventureContinues they will emerge into a whole new universe to explore,]] and sounds almost optimistic, but Krikles and Zornad both still look horrified, and who can blame them?]]

* CardCarryingVillain: Shambor
* DeadpanSnarker: Giz

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The TimeTravel episode, near the end. (With the toy plastic dinosaur as a prop! Hah! ''So'' awesome!)
* LovableCoward: Zornad
* RobotBuddy: Giz

* NiceHat: Both the guys with their little silver beanies.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: Thirty years, in this case.
* TheFuture: The distant future year of 2010!

Chris is a normal albeit very intelligent 10-year old living with his mother in Philadelphia. His pride and joy is the home-made computer he has assembled in his room out of an old TV set and countless electronic odds and ends. When he tries it out, however, he discovers that by some fluke of physics (owing mostly to ''where'' he happened to build it), his computer is able to communicate with another computer which ''will'' exist on an orbiting [[SpaceStation space colony]] in [[TheFuture the year 2010.]] This future computer is owned by a 10-year old girl named Ingrid, and the two kids are able to communicate by audio/video transmission. The children decide to keep their amazing discovery secret, and they quickly become best friends. The show consists mainly of their conversations, comparing their very different lives on Earth and in orbit, as well as dealing with Chris's relatively mundane everyday troubles and Ingrid's more exotic but still basically everyday travails. It was [[BetterThanItSounds/LiveActionTV surprisingly awesome.]]

* [[BetterThanItSounds/LiveActionTV Better Than It Sounds]]

Roughly midway through the one-hour program, the show would switch to a fifteen-minute serialized puppet segment, "The Edge Of Space," about two aliens, Commanders Krikles and Zornad, and their "faithful robot companion" Giz, as they tried with varying degrees of success to study life on the mysterious planet Earth. This segment was the creation of puppeteer Mark Ritts, known to kids a generation later as Lester the Rat on Series/BeakmansWorld.

Roughly midway through the one-hour program, the show would switch to a fifteen-minute serialized puppet segment, "The Edge Of Space," about two aliens, Commanders Krikles and Zornad, and their "faithful robot companion" Giz, as they tried with varying degrees of success to study life on the mysterious planet Earth. This segment was the creation of puppeteer Mark Ritts, known to kids a generation later as Lester the Rat on Series/BeekmansWorld.

Roughly midway through the one-hour program, the show would switch to a fifteen-minute serialized puppet segment, "The Edge Of Space," about two aliens, Commanders Krikles and Zornad, and their "faithful robot companion" Giz, as they tried with varying degrees of success to study life on the mysterious planet Earth.

* TheFinalFrontier: Ingrid's orbiting space colony.

Starstuff was a locally produced children's science fiction TV series made by WCAU channel 10 in Philadelphia in 1980, and periodically rerun on that station for years afterward. The theme song and much of the incidental music was taken from Music/GustavHolst's ''The Planets.'' 18 episodes were produced.

* TheFinalFrontier
* TheFuture

* OurTimeMachineIsDifferent

* PortalToThePast

* TheSlowPath

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: WCAU no longer has a complete collection of this series. If you have any episodes on tape, count yourself lucky and share it with your friends.

* NoBudget

* LovableCoward: Zornad