White Dwarf

Futuristic fantasy about Earthlings who settle on a distant planet, where they must deal with two conflicting cultures and some very bizarre inhabitants. Young Dr Driscoll Rampart (Neal McDonough) has been sent to the planet of Rustia, the so-called ‘armpit of the Universe’, on an assignment which he hopes will be short. But the planet’s strange allure and the patient influence of his mentor, Dr Akada (Paul Winfield), persuade Dr Rampart to temper his hostilities and he even begins to feel compassion towards some of his patients. However, when Rampart’s duties take him to the Darkside, a much more violent area of the planet, he finds himself falling in love and trapped between two warring and quite strange cultures., In this made-for-TV sci-fi-drama, the world has entered into an age when travel between the planets has become an everyday event, and Driscoll Rampant (Neal McDonough), a medical student, finds himself taking an internship on the distant planet of Rusta. Unlike Earth, Rusta does not turn on its axis as it orbits through space, with one half of the planet in constant daylight and the other in permanent nighttime; as a result, Rusta has two very different civilizations, one a genteel land of ladies and gentlemen, the other a feudal kingdom. As Rampant travels between the two sides of Rusta, he struggles to build a bridge between both sides in a world where the essential duality of man is brought clearly to the forefront. White Dwarf also stars Paul Winfield, C.C.H. Pounder, and Ele Keats., The distant future – a New York medical student does his internship at Rusta, an odd planet one half a Victorian colony, the other a medieval kingdom., Futuristic fantasy drama about expatriate Earthlings on a far-flung planet with conflicting cultures and some very bizarre inhabitants. Futuristic fantasy drama about expatriate Earthlings on a far-flung planet with conflicting cultures and some very bizarre inhabitants. Earthling Dr Driscoll Rampart believes his assignment to Rustia, a planet cloaked half in perpetual daylight, half in night, is a mistake that his influential father will quickly put right. But Rampart becomes spellbound by the mysterious planet and the beautiful Princess Ariel., A futuristic tale revolving around the residency of a medical intern (Neal McDonough) on a planet that is divided into light and dark halves. Akada: Paul Winfield. Nurse Shabara: CCH Pounder. Princess Ariel: Ele Keats. Never: Joey Andrews. Co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola and Bruce Wagner (“Wild Palms”). Directed by Peter Markle.