'Silversun' is a science fiction children's television series made in Australia by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The show features the adventures of the adolescent members of the crew of the Star Runner, an interstellar spaceship carrying a cargo of 550 cryonically suspended colonists to their new home, Silversun.In the year 2052, the Star Runner and its crew are two years into their 90-year journey to a livable planet 45 light years from Earth. The crew's goal is to get the "New Settlers" safely to the Silver Sun and begin a colony there. Because of the 90 year length of the journey, the crew are mostly teenagers who will take over command of the Star Runner as the adults get older.The ABC began showing Silversun on October 11, 2004 at 5:00pm daily as part of its "ABC Kids" lineup. The final episode of the first season was broadcast on December 3. So far there has been one season of forty episodes, each at twenty-two minutes. The program was originally aired on the... more