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Quark

197730m / epComedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

First aired

May 7, 1977

6.8

TMDB Score

68% match · 23 votes

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S01 · E04

The Good, the Bad and the Ficus

Season 1 · Mar 10, 1978 · 26m

While on a routine mission, the ship is accidentally pulled into a black hole, which splits the crew into ""good"" and ""evil"" counterparts, with the exception of Ficus, who remains the same because ""there are no good or evil plants, there are just plants"". After Quark confronts his evil self on a nearby asteroid, he defeats him and sends the evil crew back through the black hole. As the evil crew is being sent back we hear evil Adam Quark say ""Keep your deflectors up do-gooder! You haven't seen the last of this face!""

About the Series

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ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Synopsis

Quark is an American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin broadcast on NBC. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The series was cancelled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the spy spoof Get Smart. The show was set on a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow operating out of United Galaxies Space Station Perma One in the year 2226. Adam Quark, the main character, works to clean up trash in space by collecting "space baggies" with his trusted and highly unusual crew. In its short run, Quark satirized such science fiction as Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Flash Gordon. Three of the episodes were direct satires of Star Trek episodes. The series won one Emmy Award nomination, for costume designer Grady Hunt's work in the episode "All the Emperor's Quasi-Norms, Part 2". The complete series was released on DVD on October 14, 2008.

CreatorBuck Henry

First aired
May 7, 1977
Last aired
April 7, 1978
Seasons
1 season · 8 episodes
Status
Ended
Original language
English
Network
NBC

Top Billed Cast

Richard Benjamin

Richard Benjamin

Adam Quark

Tim Thomerson

Tim Thomerson

Gene

Conrad Janis

Conrad Janis

Palindrome

Richard Kelton

Richard Kelton

Ficus Pandorata

PB

Patricia Barnstable

Betty

CB

Cyb Barnstable

Betty

Alan Caillou

Alan Caillou

The Head

BP

Bobby Porter

Andy

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