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treky
05-13-2006, 03:04 AM
how many people here remember the short-lived sci-fi comedy on NBC called "QUARK"? It only aired for one season in, I beleive, 1978 on Friday nights as a replacment for the [U]DREADFUL SANFORD ARMS" (a spin-off of "SANFORD & SON" which lasted a total of 3 episodes-which tells you how bad it was). It stared Richard Benjamin as a guy named Adam Quark, who was the leader of an intergalatic garbage scow. I remember 3 of his crew members were Gene/Jean someone who had complete sets of both male and female chromosones. When he was a man, he was really "macho" and willing to "take on" anyone (sort of a futureistic outer space "Dirty Harry"), and when he was a woman, he/she was, how can I describe it? Let's see...sort of "femine, unwilling to fight or anything (you know, saying things like "OOO I broke a fingernail"!), two pretty, identical woman named Betty 1 and Betty 2, and one was a clone of the other one, but noone knew which was which, and they would sometimes argue with each other "I'm the clone"! "No, I'm the clone"!
And their leader was called "The Head" and he was just this big head!:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
It was written by, or created by, Buck Henry, who was a writer for "GET SMART" so the series had some of the kind of humor that that show had.
For instance, I remember 1 show where they were celebrating a Christmas-like holiday called "11":lol:

Shine
05-13-2006, 02:38 PM
I thought you were talking about Quark from DS9.:lol:

gilligan fanatic
05-13-2006, 06:58 PM
I have seen a few. To me it's preety boring. You can watch the entire series here http://www.quark.name/

Tuesday Weld
05-13-2006, 07:15 PM
I thought you were talking about Quark from DS9.:lol:

That's exactly what I thought! :lol:

80sTrivia
05-13-2006, 09:15 PM
I thought you were talking about Quark from DS9.:lol:

That's what I thought as well, DAX!!! :lol: I can't say that I remember this show at all...

Shine
05-13-2006, 10:39 PM
:D

Stuck In The '70's
05-13-2006, 11:04 PM
I think I saw one episode but I can't remember much about it.

Tuesday Weld
05-14-2006, 10:55 AM
:D

:lol:

Lamont
05-14-2006, 08:47 PM
i loved the show
it was sort of a "mel brooks-ish" type of humor, mixed in with a bit of the Airplane oddness

i have the complete series on dvd in good quality! :wave:

Troi Tribble
01-07-2007, 08:39 PM
I have seen a few. To me it's preety boring. You can watch the entire series here http://www.quark.name/
Those link files on that page do not work. :(

bencasey
01-07-2007, 10:00 PM
i loved the show
it was sort of a "mel brooks-ish" type of humor, mixed in with a bit of the Airplane oddness

i have the complete series on dvd in good quality! :wave:


So do I, from the original NBC airings. LP unfortunately but masters.

gilligan fanatic
01-07-2007, 10:02 PM
Those link files on that page do not work. :(

Strange, they work for me

scaryistheword
01-08-2007, 04:09 PM
I just got the entire series on dvd if anyone is interested. 2 disk. Personally I thought it was great.

EmpressDR
01-08-2007, 05:13 PM
When Howard Stern mentioned the site "Guess the Dictator or Sitcom character" I went immediately to it, to stump the game, and used Ficus and Gene/Jean --and I was the first on one, the second on the other!

TJL
01-08-2007, 05:17 PM
I barely remember this show. I wish Sci Fi would show an episode as a goof.