6.6

0 hr 30 min

1977-05-07

20

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.

Comedy

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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Characters

Richard Benjamin

Richard Benjamin

Adam Quark

Tim Thomerson

Tim Thomerson

Gene

Conrad Janis

Conrad Janis

Palindrome

Richard Kelton

Richard Kelton

Ficus Pandorata

Patricia Barnstable

Patricia Barnstable

Betty

Cyb Barnstable

Cyb Barnstable

Betty

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