  Studies of the relationship between planetary nebula morphology and the
evolution of the central stars has long suffered from uncertainties in distance
determinations, and from the bias of interstellar absorption, that are typical
for Galactic PNe. We will be able to eliminate the distance errors and be
assured of the sample homogeneity by studying Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) PNe
with images from the Hubble Space Telescope. In this talk we present the first
observations in our new sample. The data consist of broad-band images and
medium dispersion, slit-less spectra obtained with STIS, and are of excellent
quality. Indeed, these data show great promise for subsequent analysis, which
will centered on the relationship between nebular morphology and stellar and
nebular evolution. While the most intensive analysis of the sample must await
the completion of the survey, the data obtained so far show that we will learn
a lot along the way.
