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Quark aired from February until April 1978 on NBC.

Quark was a parody on space adventure epics, which were highly popular at this time do to the success of the movie Star Wars. The setting was the year A.D. 2222 on the giant space station Perma One, where Adam Quark ( Richard Benjamin) had been given command of a vital, though not neccessarily romantic ,mission: to clean up the garbage in outer space. His assignments came from The Head ( Alan Caillou), a disembodied head who governed the universe , and who was seen only on a TV screen; and from Otto Palindrome ( Conrad Janis), the fussy chief architect of Perma One. Quark's crew included first officer Gene/Jean( Tim Thomerson ), a transmute with both male and female characteristics; science officer Ficus ( Richard Kelton), a kind of humanoid vegetable; copilots Betty I and Betty II ( Tricia and Cyb Barnstable), two sexy and identical girls, one of whom was a clone of the other ( nobody knew which was which); and Andy the robot ( Bobby Porter), a walking junkpile.

Though Quark was supposed to stick to his sanitation patrols, he often met adventure with such colorful space denizens as the evil High Gorgan, Zoltar the Magnificant, and Zorgan the Malevolent. A strange mixture of sex, intellectual jokes, and basic slapstick comedy, Quark failed to attract a substantial audience and was soon canceled.

For a Page dedicated to Quark go to http://quark.name/

For a Website dedicated to Tim Thomerson go to http://www.timthomerson.com/

For another Tim Thomerson Website go to http://www.stomptokyo.com/timthomerson/

For a Blog dedicated to the Barnstable Twins go to http://johncairns.blogspot.com/search/label/Tricia%20Barnstable

For the Official site of Star Wars which influenced Quark go to http://www.starwars.com/

For more on Quark go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(TV_series)

For a Review of Quark go to http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/space/quark.htm