Prisoners of Gravity: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

As established through a comic-strip montage opening sequence drawn by Ty Templeton, the premise held that a fan of speculative fiction becomes disturbed by news broadcasts describing the alarming state of the world and decides he must escape. He broadcasts his show each week from an orbiting space station. The show's presentation was fully wrapped in its quirky premise, featuring on-screen graphics and background sounds to simulate a space station atmosphere, "using active, innovative cinematography to ease the visual boredom that often accompanies interviews with talking head(s)."[1] The week's topic was introduced with a few opening thoughts before launching into various interview clips. In each episode, Rick would interview a number of authors and artists, along with filmmakers, animators, and the occasional futurist.

Series details

• Title: Prisoners of Gravity
• Format: Talk Show
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1989-08-21
• Final broadcast date listed: 1989-09-11
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CBC
• Network country: Canada
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 18928
• IMDb ID: tt0204775
• TVDB ID: 291624

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1989-08-21; final listed air date 1989-09-11.

Source and licence

Adapted from Prisoners of Gravity on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.