Quark (TV series)
Quark was an unusual NBC television sitcom, based on a science fiction theme, starring Richard Benjamin. The pilot first aired in May 1977. The series first aired on NBC in February, 1978, and was last aired in April the same year.
The show was set on an interstellar garbage scow named the United Galaxies Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, operating out of United Galaxies Space Station Perma 1 commanded by Otto Palindrome, played by Conrad Janis, in the year 2222. The main character, Adam Quark, works to clean up trash in space. The crew included a hermaphrodite (Gene/Jean) played by Tim Thomerson, an unemotional plant-based alien (Ficus) played by Richard Kelton, an android (Andy the Robot), a woman and her clone -- it was unclear to them which was which (Betty and Betty, played by the Barnstable twins), and a talking head (The Head) played by Alan Caillou who ruled the United Galaxies and assigned Captain Quark, a human, his missions.
In its short run, Quark satirized such science fiction classics as Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Flash Gordon.
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Episodes
| Episode | First airdate | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Pilot | 7 May, 1977 | |
| "May the Source Be with You" | 2 February, 1978 | |
| "The Old and the Beautiful" | 3 March, 1978 | |
| "The Good, the Bad and the Ficus" | 10 March, 1978 | |
| "Goodbye Polumbus" | 17 March, 1978 | |
| "All the Emporor's Quasi-Norms (1)" | 24 March, 1978 | |
| "All the Emporor's Quasi-Norms (2)" | 31 March, 1978 | |
| "Vanessa 38-24-36" | 7 April, 1978 |