Name this Science Fiction Film - Help please

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A long time ago (it was probably late 1970's or very early 1980's) I was watching part of a film or tv show. The film could have been made as early as the mid to late 1960s.

The film was in colour. It was in English (unless it was a foreign film and well dubbed).

The film took place on either a space ship or a space station.

The characaters were all young or youngish. They either did not age or were exterminated or put into stasis if they aged. I remember a scene where a teacher (I think she might have been Asian decent) was bringing a goup of young school children to a machine where human were either kept in stasis or they were dead and preserved. The children were allowed to take turns making the displays circulate. This was called either "flip flopping" or "plip plopping" or something like that. I remember them reciting a chant which was something like "death or good, death is fine...."

There was a male character who was going to the surface of a planet or moon. He choose a female companion to go with him. There was a mishap and he manged to get back to the ship/station, but she did not. She was retrieved later, but she had aged. The man had trouble even looking at his older past companion as aging was such a shock to him.

This is all I remember. I was pretty young at the time.

Does anyone on WP know what this film or show was?

I have tried googling key words that I remember, but I have come up with nothing.

If you recognize any of this - please let me know what the title was or any other info on it.

Thanks.

I don't recognise it. I've trawled through wiki's list of fifties through seventies skiffy films (at least, the US / British ones) and can't find anything close. Idaho Transfer seems to have some of those plot elements but isn't set in space. Logan's Run has the kill-everyone-over-a-certain-age thing but again it's earthbound. The Time Travellers has the time-distortion thing.

It sounds like the sort of thing that would be on a Twilight Zone episode, but I think the early series were all black and white. Perplexing. Early Who? The Tomorrow People?

I think it might have been the star lost or the ark it was made in Canada.

Was it this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlost

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069638/

http://www.amazon.com/Starlost-Complete ... B001DW2BG0

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/star2.html

Hope this is what you are looking for.

Thanks for the quick replies.

It wasn't any of these shows. I checked them out and saw clips or at least the opening credits and the look of the film/show I am thinking of is different.

I checked out a youtube.ca site based on the clips suggested.

I found one youtube site that had foreign sci-fi films. This film might well have been a foreign film (Eurpopean - Polish, or German or ??). I saw one other film that I always wondered about. I remember seeing it at three in the morning when I was a little kid (we were getting ready for a road trip and needed an early start). I thought that this film was in English too, but with German or Polish, the dubbing is usually pretty good and I could see why I would think that the dubbed version was in English to begin with.

Anyways, if someone can think of a possible foreign film based on what I described in my original post - it might be the right one.

There was an episode on Starlost where three travelers were caught in some kind time loop. A female member left the loop and becomes old. The other travellers feared that they too were going to grow old and were forced to re-enter the loop. The man had sandy blond hair and a moustache. Does that ring a bell. I am sure you described starlost.

Could it be space 1999?

The storyline you described sounded close to the book "Brave New World" so I looked on IMDB and saw that there were versions of it made in 1980 (starring Bud Cort ("Harold" from Harold and Maude) and Kier Dullea) and 1998 (starring Peter Gallagher and Leonard Nimoy.) Is either of these clips from your movie?

Brave New World 1980

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z776bAqWxyQ[/youtube]

Brave New World 1998

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuiaT0nX9ls[/youtube]

The clip I found for the 1980 version was some sort of re-mix. Here's an actual scene from the film:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQTWWXHwWk&feature=related[/youtube]

(And if that wasn't the film you were looking for, I have to thank you anyway. I apparently watched the 1980 version years ago. I've had "day plus one equals none" stuck in my head for years and couldn't place where it came from. I've just connected that it was from the 1980 version of "Brave New World" in a scene where one woman was reminding another woman how their birth control worked.)

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be available on VHS or DVD. :-(

Brave New World for sure. The mention of Soma identifies it.

ruveyn

Oh My God!! !! !! !

that's it'! !! !! !! !! !! !!

I hadn't heard from anyone for several weeks, got busy with life, etc.

I thought about that mystery film again and thought I'd check back.

yep, that is it.


Thank you