Let me start by saying, “Oh, my.”
The show is Quark, and the link is at the bottom of this page. It’s a science fiction comedy, set on a garbage scow in space, commanded by Captain Quark. It ran on TV for, apparently, half a season in the late 1970s. My brother liked it then, loves it now, and he wanted me to watch the first episode, which has been a digitally-remastered, with “new special effects.”
Oh, my.
The show was written and created by Buck Henry, and I love Buck Henry — he wrote What’s Up Doc … The Day of the Dolphin … Get Smart … The Graduate … and he wrote Quark … but it’s not his best work.
There are no laughs, at least none from me, though the laugh track thinks it’s hilarious all the way through. It’s tremendously sexist, with a hermaphrodite character played for nonsensical laughs, and the only women are a four-handed switchboard operator and a set of cloned Barbie dolls.
I grimaced and barely made it through. Quark‘s worst sin is that it’s the opposite of funny, but since I wasted half an hour watching it I don’t know why you should be spared.
Behold: Quark awaits you.
Oh, my.
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