[net.sf-lovers] SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #35

@RUTGERS.ARPA:Gubbins.5581i2807@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA (01/31/85)

From: Gubbins@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA

Quark was one of my favorite shows, although I knew that it would not
last even as long as it did.  Another of my favorites was "When things
Were Rotten" a Robin Hood spoof with Dick Gauteay (sp) (Himie from Get
Smart) as Robin and Dick Van Patten (dad in 8 Is Enough) as Friar John.

Anyway, Quark was the show about Adam Quark, commander, United Galaxy
Sanitation Patrol, mission:  To Clean up all the trash in the Milky Way
(trash as in garbage, but the end up disposing of some nasties along the
way).  The ship's mascot was Ergo, which was an alien pet that was very
hungary and always tried to eat Quark.  The robot was named Andy and was
put together by the pilot episodes scientist, the eminate scientist Dr.
O.  B.  Mudd, who lost an eye some years ago when he fell asleep while
looking into his microscope.  In the short lived series, Mudd was
replaced as stated previous msgs by a plant being.  The chief engineer,
Gene/Jean is both sexes.  And of course, my favorites, the second in
command are the Bettys, one of which is a clone, if only we knew which
one...

The first show was a special hour long double episode about when Quark
finds/gets/saves THE SOURCE.  But I had seen (and recorded Audio only)
and had all but forgotten the pilot that was shown about a year
previously.  This pilot was used to end the series.  In it, we see The
Head, Quark's boss, which is a huge head (I have a headache the size of
a supernova...)  and Palendrome was The Head's aide (played by Mindy's
dad in Mork).

It was a great SF TV show, a lot of gags, site jokes, and all around
fun.  The pilot opens with a big, intense scene where the ship gets
behind a massive other ship and grabs an ejected massive garbage baggy.

Cheers, Gern