Back in the 70's (you remember the seventies...tye dye, mood rings and no inkling that Galactica 1980 loomed on the horizon) Buck Henry, co-creator of Get Smart with Mel Brooks, wrote and produced a science fiction spoof television show called Quark. It's pretty bad - low budget, Star Trek sound rip-offs and a laugh track. You have to look pretty hard to find any funny, and even then you'd probably come up with bubkiss. Is it any wonder there were only 8 episodes? Of course, by today's hit-and-run standards of network programming, that's a certifiable hit. For those who like to watch train wrecks, you can view the episodes yourself.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday February 03, 2006 at 9:55 AM
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Oh my gosh! I do remember that series!
As much as I would give any SciFi a pass (because I wanted it so bad, I would watch anything), I didn't like this series much.
But maybe it's because it was so ground breaking and so futuristic. For example, it has clones (Betty I and Betty II). It has a trans-something or another, which is "normal" by today's standards (Gene/Jean is a transmute. He/she has an equal number of male and female chromosomes (i.e., he's half-man, half-woman).
Then there is Ficus, the vegitarian, er Vegeton. (Half-man, half-plant).
Don't judge Quark by the laughs (or lack of them), judge it by the groundbreaking sociological commentary it brought to 70's TV.
Right.........
Posted by Rightmom on Friday February 03, 2006 at 11:55 AM at 11:55 AM