This is all I have to go on:
The series took place in outerspace.
A group of people were commissioned to collect space debry/refuse using a large spaceship/spacegarbage truck.
They were SPACE GARBAGEMEN.
The show was a comedy, but did not last long.
HELP?

It was called Far Out Space Nuts, and starred Bob Denver, with gray hair!

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Andrew Carden

no, no.. he's talking about Quark. It ran on NBC from February 24, 1978 to April 14, 1978... Far Out Space Nuts did not deal with SPACE GARBAGEMEN - it was Gilligan's Island in space!

It definitely sounds like "Quark". "Far Out Space Nuts" was a Sid and Marty Krofft ("Land of the Lost") show that ran on Saturday mornings, and was allegedly a comedy.

It was definitely Quark, but I can't remember any of the starts of it.

I vaguely remember Dick Gautier?

Does anyone remember?

Quark starred Richard Benjamin, Tim Thomerson, Conrad Janis among others

I fell in love with Ficus on this (Richard Kelton). He was the plant character. Sadly, Kelton died from CO poisoning, while filming "How the West Was Won" many years ago. Heater in his trailer was faulty.

I learned what a palindrome was from this show. When they introduced Otto Palindrome (Conrad Bains), mom laughed, and I aske her, What?

A palindrome, for those not in the know, is the same forward and back, like "Otto."

Nice to know this show is gone but not forgotten.

How can anyone bring up Quark and not mention the Barnstable twins as Betty 1 and Betty 2?

:confused: Will Quark ever be aired or can it be purchase?

:confused: Will Quark ever be aired or can it be purchase?


I doubt it if can be purchased anywhere. I'm confident the show may not even exist anymore. Only about 9 eps were made and that was 27 years ago. And the show also has never been in syndication.

I doubt it if can be purchased anywhere. I'm confident the show may not even exist anymore. Only about 9 eps were made and that was 27 years ago. And the show also has never been in syndication.

No, they all exist. They have just never been released commercially.

I doubt it if can be purchased anywhere. I'm confident the show may not even exist anymore. Only about 9 eps were made and that was 27 years ago. And the show also has never been in syndication.

You can get episodes of Quark on http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=Quark+%281978%29/v=2/SID=e/TID=PREV_77/l=WS1/R=4/IPC=us/SHE=0/H=3/;_ylt=Ao1k85vrmM50Vp8fsMk2eEdXNyoA/SIG=11auk7ke5/EXP=1123238626/*-http%3A//www.quark.name/

So, could anyone please tell me more about this Bob Denver sitcom "Far Out Space Nuts"?

Was it really like Gilligan's Island in space???

So, it was similar to the situation on Gilligan's Island except it took place in outer space?

Was there a Professor, a rich couple, and a farm girl from Kansas?? LOL!!

I have the run transferred to DVD directly from the NBC airings. But the also did run on HA and Comedy Channel in the early 90s.

So, could anyone please tell me more about this Bob Denver sitcom "Far Out Space Nuts"?

Was it really like Gilligan's Island in space???

So, it was similar to the situation on Gilligan's Island except it took place in outer space?

Was there a Professor, a rich couple, and a farm girl from Kansas?? LOL!!
QUARK (which ran on NBC from Feb. 1978 to Apr. 1978) was a parody on space adventure epics. Set in the year 2222 on the giant space station Perma One, Adam Quark (Richard Benjamin) had been given command of a vital mission: to clean up the garbage in outer space. His assignments came from The Head, a disembodied head who governed the universe, and was seen only on a TV screen; and from Otto Palindrome (Conrad Janis), the fussy chief architect of Perma One. Quark's crew included first officer Gene/Jean (Tim Thomerson), a transmute with both male and female characteristics; science officer Ficus (Richard Kelton), a kind of humanoid vegetable; copilots Betty I and Betty II (Tricia Barnstable and Cyb Barnstable), two sexy and identical girls, one of whom was a clone; and Andy the Robot (Bobby Porter), a walking junkpile.

A strange mixture of sex, intellectual jokes, and basic slapstick comedy,
QUARK failed to attract a substantial audience and was soon cancelled.

So, could anyone please tell me more about this Bob Denver sitcom "Far Out Space Nuts"?

Was it really like Gilligan's Island in space???

So, it was similar to the situation on Gilligan's Island except it took place in outer space?

Was there a Professor, a rich couple, and a farm girl from Kansas?? LOL!!
FAR-OUT SPACE NUTS (which was telecast on CBS Saturday mornings, beginning Sept. 6, 1975) starred Bob Denver and Chuck McCann as two NASA
food loaders who inadvertently launched themselves into space aboard a rocket
ship that they were servicing. Along their intergalactic travels they adopted a
space creature named Honk (Patty Maloney) and met Lantana (Eve Bruce) and
Crakor the Robot (Stan Jenson). (By the way, the dimwitted pair were
catapulted into space when they pushed a button marked "launch," thinking
it said "lunch." Sid and Marty Krofft (of H.R. PUFNSTUF fame) produced the
show, in response to pressure to drop violent cartoons from network schedules.)

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How can anyone bring up Quark and not mention the Barnstable twins as Betty 1 and Betty 2?

Yes, Trish and Cyb Barnstable. They were Geminis! I remember when one of them made 5th runner-up the 1971 Miss USA contest. It was Patricia, Trish, Miss Kentucky. They later became Doublemint Twins.


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When Howard Stern publicized a site called "Name the Dictator or Sitcom Character" I went immediately to it, and used one that I knew would stump the site --Ficus! Because one of the questions was Are you male? Female? Answered yes to each! I can't recall if the site guessed it, and I was second to try that one, or if I was the very FIRST, and entered the info into the site. Quite a few times I stumped the site, and was the first to add sitcom names from obscure shows. I added Phyllis Pruitt from the Pruitts of Southampton.

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