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Quark is coming to DVD. No, really.

by Brad Trechak, posted Aug 7th 2008 4:22PM

QuarkHell has officially frozen over. A DVD I expected never to exist finally has. The complete series of the television show Quark is being released on DVD this coming October. This lost icon from the 1977-78 season was created by Get Smart co-creator Buck Henry and lasted a grand total of eight episodes.

The show stars Richard Benjamin as the captain of a garbage-hauling spaceship who yearns to be given more important duties. The show is pretty much a satire of Star Trek and parodies the standard plot devices of sci-fi television and movies up to that time (such as the concept of "evil" parallel universes). Conrad Janis (of Mork and Mindy fame) is particularly funny as Otto Palindrome.

The show didn't last that long, but thanks to the Internet fan sites of the show have sprung up enough to likely garner the attention of some executive looking to make some easy money (note I didn't say a quick Buck. That would have been too easy). Had it been made today...well, it probably still would have been canceled (particularly if it was on Fox), but the DVD release would have happened much sooner.

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Rebel Ed

     Remember: "There are no good plants, there are no bad plants, there are just...plants."  If only there were some way to remove the lauugh track Quark would be perfect (after all, Space:1999 proved you can do an outer space comedy without a laugh track.)       "THE GALAXY...AD INFINITUM!"  (Siempre e Quark!)

September 26 2008 at 1:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Megan Skylar

LOVED QUARK, Buck Henry, Richard Benjamin, and of course OTTO PALINDROME, a.k.a Conrad Janis, who was also great on MORK & MINDY. What luck to be in two such great shows. He is a natural farceur, and I look forward to owning a DVD. I will never be disappointed, how could I with all that talent? Thanks for putting it on DVD.

August 30 2008 at 10:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Megan Skylar

I LOVE that show, Buck Henry, Richard Benjamin and of course, the one and only Conrad Janis---he was hysterical in this show, venal yet vulnerable, Pompous yet Perfect, a hoot---Otto Won my heart. He then was awesome in Mork and Mindy where you didn't know whether to love him for his foibles or critique his discomfort with Mork. He kept the show rooted in semi normalcy, while delivering thankless straight lines to Robin Williams who never said the lines twice the same way. (Saw a filming in the audience) Janis should have been given an award for Best Farceur in both Quark and M&M. His takes are priceless. With lines like Buck Henry wrote, and Richard Benjamin delivered this show should have had a ten year run, but the same can be said for Mork and Mindy---So who's running the show anyway. WILL BUY QUARD VIDEOS FOR SURE.

August 30 2008 at 10:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thor

If Buck Henry wrote this, I'm there. The girls in the gold are babes!

August 09 2008 at 6:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gary

Quark was ahead of it's time and it's time has come! The Barnstable twins were intergalactic beauties. They got my attention!

August 09 2008 at 4:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Thor

right on

August 09 2008 at 6:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
King Zilch

MAX HEADROOM!

Max Headroom. Max Headroom. Seriously, Max Headroom already.

Oh, and, Max Headroom.

August 08 2008 at 1:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SadOldMan

Quark was awesome. Now how about the original "E/R", the sitcom version?

August 08 2008 at 9:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
RobynM

Woot! One more I can cross off the list of SF & Fantasy shows I'd like to see domestically released.

August 08 2008 at 5:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Karen

Seriously? An 8-episode show from the '70s? But we can't get more than one season of "Everwood"?

August 07 2008 at 8:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eric J.

Quark is at the top of my list for shows I'm reluctant to watch because I'll find out it sucked and ruin my memories.

August 07 2008 at 7:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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nickmagoo

same thing happened when i re-watched square pegs...

August 07 2008 at 8:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
edgore

I have to agree with you here. My memories of the show are so vague and so good that I assume I will be terribly disappointed when I see it again. I will see it again though.

August 08 2008 at 9:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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