In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting halves of eternal day vs. eternal night. One is a Victorian-styled colony, the other a medieval kingdom. Both leave Rampart in a state of constant wonder, as he finds his way among humans and aliens, strange dreams and even stranger reality, a dark keep and a red sea, and more universal matters of war and peace, good and bad, love and hate and sickness and health.
Production
Two-tone planet design on a budget that dared to dream.
Acting
Paul Winfield elevating every scene he enters.
Costume
Victorian collars meet alien prosthetics, no notes.
Director
Peter Markle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a failed TV pilot for Fox, which explains why it crams 22 episodes of worldbuilding into 90 minutes.
The day/night divide directly mirrors 1990s anxieties about urban decay vs. suburban utopia — Rusta is basically Bronx vs. Connecticut in space.
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