@RUTGERS.ARPA:maxson%vaxwrk.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (02/02/85)
From: maxson%vaxwrk.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (VAXworks 223-9408) I believe that QUARK was conceived by Richard Benjamin and Avery Schreiber. Each weekly episode was written by a different writer, a la Star Trek. One such was a high school classmate of mine, William A. MacCarty III. It was a funny series.
@RUTGERS.ARPA:robert@sri-spam (02/06/85)
From: robert@sri-spam (Robert Allen) Yes, the first episode WAS the best. Gene/Jean was really the best character, particularly when he was playing the ultra-macho male character. Remember what happened when he was in the elevator on the Gorgon ship, and about 7 Gorgon guards got into the elevator as well? Even funnier was his hand to hand attack on the Gorgon barracks, complete with < 30 Gorgon guards. Guess he/she just couldn't resist a scrap. Remember, "UNITED GALAXYS FOREVER!!", R.J.A.
suem@ihopb.UUCP (Sue McKinnell) (02/07/85)
The current discussion on the TV show Quark has triggered my memory. I believe Buck Henry was one of those who thought up the show with Richard Benjamin. I have a vague memory of one or both of them talking about it as an upcoming show on another show, maybe SNL or Johnny Carson. BTW, Conrad Janis did NOT play the mass-murderer in the Star Trek show "Wolf in the Fold." Sue McKinnell ihnp4!ihopb!suem -- Sue McKinnell ...!ihnp4!ihu1h!suem IH 4B166 x2361
ayers@convexs.UUCP (02/07/85)
Why does everyone always forget the one-eyed, gruff but likable scientist? [Some things were not meant for MAN to know...] Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not an obstetrician! blues, II
dwhitney@uok.UUCP (02/08/85)
Quark was one of my favorites, and the unforgettable character in my mind was played by Conrad Janis (who later went on to dubious notariety as Mindy's father in Mork and Mindy..) He played a bureaucrat, if I remember correctly, but I cannot remember his exact title. This program premiered only a year or two after I had become a big-time Trek fan, and I couldn't help but notice the devices borrowed from Trek in the series. The most obvious was, of course, Captain Quark, but there were dozens of subtle little lines and props which were simply stolen right out of the Trek set when no one was watching. I always thought NBC treated the show unfairly, it was entertaining, funny, and totally harmlesss. I secretly hoped it was all part of a cloak-and dagger plan by the big-wigs at NBC to segue into a new Star Trek series, the similarites in shows, etc.... Oh, well, so much for nostalgia. Now all we have to enjoy any more is that awful (in my opinion) "V" -- a giant step backward in Science Fiction, I mean LIZARD CREATURES??? Give us all a break... David Whitney ctvax!uokvax!uok!dwhitney
jay@smu.UUCP (02/08/85)
No. The actor for Mr. Hengist (I can't remember the name) is a smaller man. Both are bald and there is a resemblance. The actor (for Hengist) played the part of Fergus Finglehoff in an episode of Bewitched. He was a frog turned into a human. <;-)
acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) (02/09/85)
> I believe Buck Henry was one of those who thought up the show with > Richard Benjamin. I have a vague memory of one or both of them > talking about it as an upcoming show on another show, maybe SNL or > Johnny Carson. I believe Sue's right. Last month, I was at a friend's house watching some videotapes that someone else had brought, and on one of them was "Quark". (I remember the show because I have the theme on audio tape. By the way, someone else said that the Quark theme was the Star Trek theme backwards. Can anyone with a reel-to-reel confirm this?) I was surprised when I saw "Created by Buck Henry" in the episode's opening titles. Also, I remember Buck Henry making many guest appearances on SNL (remember Uncle Roy?). Also, I believe Richard Benjamin (and his wife, Paula Prentice) were the guests at one time or another. Did she (Paula) ever appear on "Quark"? And whatever happened to the Bettys? "The Galaxy, ad infinitum!" -- "Is there liver in reality?" Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters) uucp: [decvax,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!acsgjjp ARPAnet, CSnet: acsgjjp%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY BITNET: ACSGJJP@SUNYABVA
thoth@tellab2.UUCP (Marcus Hall) (02/11/85)
> there were dozens of subtle little lines and props which were >simply stolen right out of the Trek set when no one was watching. Yes, in one episode, Quark had to destroy the Lymbacon which was a Gorgon device that turned the planet Polumbus into a paradise (this wasn't known to the outside world, however) and all the great scientists that went to investigate it never returned (they were having too much fun). On the planet, Quark was asking one scientist directions to the Lymbacon, to which the scientist replied something like just down there and to the left, just past the Rodenberry bush. Quark met his childhood sweetheart, Dianne, but eventually overcomes the temptation and destroys the Lymbacon, and thus paradise. The last line of the episode is Quark saying "Goodbye Dianne, Goodbye Polumbus." This is a slightly modified version of the last line of Goodbye Columbus, one of Banjamin's first films, I believe. Oh Well, I guess I'll have to dig out my tapes and re-play the episodes, I haven't seen them in quite some time. marcus hall ..!ihnp4!tellab1!tellab2!thoth Quark: "Ficus, thanks a million" Ficus: "A million *what* commander?"
@RUTGERS.ARPA:BUCHHOLZ@RU-GREEN.ARPA (02/17/85)
From: Elliott C. Buchholz <BUCHHOLZ@RU-GREEN.ARPA>
Okay. A lot of stuff has been floating around about Quark
(Which I happen to feel was an excellent spoof), so I might as well
throw in my 2 cubits worth. I don't know how much of this has already
been revealed, but here goes:
QUARK
set in 2226
The voyages of an interplanetary garbage scow, sent out by the U.G.S.P.
(United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol), commissioned to clean up the Milky Way.
Cast
Captain Adam Quark.........................Richard Benjamin
Betty I, co-pilot.........................Tricia Barnstable
Betty II, clone, co-pilot....................Cyb Barnstable
Ficus, the Vegaton, science officer..........Richard Kelton
Gene/Jean, the transmute, chief engineer......Tim Thomerson
Andy, the cowardly robot.......................Bobby Porter
The Head, head of U.G.S.P.....................Allan Caillou
Otto Palindrome, chief architect of
Space Station Perma One,
base for U.G.S.P..............Conrad Janis
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Music: Perry Botkin, Jr.
Executive Producer: David Gerber
Producer: Bruce Johnson
Director: Hy Averback, Bruce Bilson, Peter H. Hunt
Creator: Buck Henry
NBC--February 24, 1978 - April 14, 1978 8 Episodes
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Now all I need is an episode guide.
Maybe for Star Trek IV, Kirk can take control of Quark's ship, and have
Ficus pollinate on/with Spock. Hmmm, subplots, subplots. Scotty
and Gene/Jean in a lover's triangle...Nah!
Oh, well.
Elliott BUCHHOLZ@RU-GREEN
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