Quark - The Complete Series
by Hy Averback
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Actor: Richard Benjamin, Richard Kelton, Tim ThomersonDirector: Hy Averback
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 222 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: SONY PICTURES
Movie Reviews of Quark - The Complete Series
Movie Review: Memory is a tricky thing
Summary: 5 Stars
I originally watched Quark when it was aired back in the late `70s and fondly remembered it as a funny, hip sci-fi spoof. When I found it had been released on DVD I had to get it, eagerly sat down to watch it with my teenage daughter having told her several times how much I enjoyed it at her age.
YIKES! What was Buck Henry thinking? Was this thing a product of a lost weekend at studio 54? Exactly how much coke would one have to do to believe this was a good idea? I mean I was a stupid kid, they were entertainment professionals! Re-watching this drek has put in question all of my opinions and memories from back then. Do I need to rethink my old friends? Do I need to discard all my warmest high school memories as now suspect and unreliable?
Luckily there are only eight episodes to get though and as another TV show once observed: "Eight is Enough". Thank you Sony Pictures for driving yet another nail into the coffin of my youth. PS - I am still glad I bought it and will watch it again and am glad I have it.
Summary of Quark - The Complete Series
A spoof of science fiction films and TV series, these are the adventures of Adam Quark, captain of a United Galactic Sanitation Patrol ship. His cohorts include Gene/Jean, a "transmute" with male and female characteristics; a Vegeton (a highly-evolved plant-man) named Ficus; and Andy the Android and Betty and Betty (who always argue over who's the clone of the other). Based at Space Station Perma One are Otto Palindrome and The Head. Though Quark is supposed to stick to his sanitization patrols, he and his crew often meet adventure with such colorful space denizens as the evil High Gorgon (head of the villainous Gorgons), Zoltar the Magnificent, and Zargon the Malevolent.The cancellation of Quark after a mere eight episodes makes us ponder yet again the existence of intelligent life in the television universe. Created by Buck Henry, who with Mel Brooks, sent up the spy genre with Get Smart, this quite funny 1978 series spoofs space operas like Star Trek and Star Wars. Richard Benjamin stars as Adam Quark, an "ordinary human," who commands a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol ship. His mission: "To boldly seek out grime and grit, to collect the uncollectible space baggie, and to always leave the area cleaner than when I found it." His eccentric crew includes Ficus (Richard Kelton), a Spock-like Vegeton; Gene/Jean ("Timothy" Thomerson), a male/female "transmute"; the gorgeous, hot pantsed navigators Betty I and Betty II (Cyb and Patricia Barnstable, who gained commercial fame as the Doublemint Twins), one of which is a clone; and Andy; the cowardly robot. The hapless Quark yearns for greater adventures, but gets no votes of confidence from bureaucrat Otto Palindrome (a pre-Mork & Mindy Conrad Janis), who administers Space Station Perma One as the behest of the behemoth The Head (Alan Caillou). Proceed with warp speed past the pilot episode. The series really takes off with the second episode, "May the Source Be With You," featuring the voice of Hans Conreid as the galaxy's supposed greatest weapon, but, that, after 200 years of inaction, is a little rusty. The Force may not be entirely with the cheesy-looking Quark, but, like Mel Brooks' When Things Were Rotten, this dimly remembered curiosity rates rediscovery. May it live long and prosper on DVD. --Donald Liebenson
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