The Story Starwatchers opens with an earnest young man telling a TV news reporter how a television show changed his life. The film then cuts to deep space, drifting stars, and a cheesy cardboard spaceship flying across.
Cheap seventies adventure music plays as a montage of sci-fi scenes begins.
These sequences, from the TV show eventually give way to a narrator talking about the show, describing its history and cancellation ten years before. From what we can see, its clear that Spacerunners was a cheap and obscure space adventure series. The images become those of ordinary people, showing a science fiction convention. The narrator informs us that this is Keycon, a convention inspired by and devoted to the show. The news reporter is interviewing three young men who are at the convention as fans of the show.