It’s true, we’ll go to any length so that we don’t have to do “Orca” (1977).
To this end, we’re happy to announce our latest viewer’s choice: the short-lived television series “Quark” (1977-78).
This sporadically amusing science fiction spoof, created by Buck Henry (with Richard Benjamin as the commander of an interplanetary garbage scow), ran for exactly eight episodes before its untimely cancellation. And what do you know, they’re all posted on YouTube.
The principal targets are “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” (hardly surprising), but there’s also plenty of old-fashioned objectification and fill-in-the-blank “phobic” schtick of a kind they would never be able to get away with today.
Without Mel Brooks, Henry’s “Quark” is no “Get Smart,” but it’s at least as worthy as (the admittedly awful) “Spaceballs.”
Special thanks to Randy Lee, whose choice this was. He’ll be joining us as we open up this 1970s time capsule, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Leave your trash talk in the comments section, as we livestream on Facebook, this Friday evening at 7:00 EST!
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