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The Original Starhunter TV series, the first season, started airing on November 1st, 2000. It aired for two seasons, altough for the 2nd season the show was renamed to Starhunter 2300! It was a Canadian TV show and was also mostly produced in Canada.

In season one, Starhunter starred Michael Paré, Tanya Allen, Claudette Roche and featured Murray Melvin and Stephen Marcus. In season two Clive Robertson, Dawn Stern and Paul Fox were added to the cast, while the original actors except Allen and Marcus were dropped. Contrary to the wishes of the series creators, the investors in the second season blocked the return of Paré and replaced Melvin.

The first season is set in the year 2275 and follows the exploits of a crew of 23rd-century bounty hunters aboard a refitted luxury-liner, led by Dante Montana (Paré). Season two ran from August 9th 2003, till April 3rd, 2004. As said, season two mostly has a different cast as the first season.

Redux (Wiki): On Tuesday 29 May 2018, Starhunter: ReduX, an updated and expanded version of seasons one and two featuring updated special effects, newly shot footage and a 4K transfer in a 16:9 aspect ratio (the original was filmed in 16x9 anamorphic, but only released as 4:3), premiered on El Rey Network across the USA.Among changes in Starhunter REDUX are some actor updates.

Except for a brief moment in Episode 201R, actor Graham Harley has been replaced by the original Caravaggio actor Murray Melvin. Michael Pare appears in parts of the second season (he didn't in the original Season 2) and the character Penny Montana is played by original actress from season one, Heidi von Paleske. An extended scene was added with an older Tanya Allen as Percy Montana. These changes, involving CGI, green-screen and other processes were made as a part of bringing Starhunter: ReduX closer to the creators' original vision for Season two.

My experience: I added this TV show on my favorites page, but I want you to know that some 20 years ago I purchased the first season on DVD, but I only watched about 7 episodes of the firt season, couldn't get through it. So why is it on my favorite page now you ask? Because I learned that Redux treatment was a very positive one, see the trailers on this page. And I never saw the second season, which I am curious for. So, fingers crossed! And because I purchased it on Blu-ray for a very decent price from Amazon, I decided to add it here too becasue there possibly will be some blogs in the near future. Nice to give these blogs a home!