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Before There Was Red Dwarf...There Was Quark...
Okay, if the release of this bit of awesome doesn't make you jump up and down with glee...
Then you're a hell of a lot younger than me.
Quark, which ran on NBC for a mere 8 episodes back in the 1978, was created by Buck Henry, the same crazy genius who gave us Get Smart.
Even though Quark ran exactly once on NBC, the impression it left was so indelible that for years sci-fi fans would quote lines at each other even though it was never seen on primetime network television again.
Sometime during 1990, Quark was re-run exactly once on the HA! comedy cable network (it, along with the Comedy Channel, merged to form what is known today as Comedy Central). Some lucky, lucky fans managed to videotape the singular run and for years poor quality, 10th generation videos were sold and traded on the fandom blackmarket.
And now it's coming on DVD!!!!!
I. Am. So. Excited.
Did I mention that I already put in my pre-order? I sure have.
Did I also mention that it's shipping in a little over a week?
IT IS!
OMIGAWD IM GONNA HAVE A CRYSTAL CLEAR COPY OF QUARK IN MY HOT LITTLE HANDS IN LESS THAN A WEEK AND I CAN FINALLY TOSS MY CRAPPY TENTH GENERATION VHS TAPE THAT I HAVE WATCHED WITHIN AN INCH OF ITS LIFE IN EXCHANGE FOR A CRISP, CLEAN DVD COPY OF QUARK!!!!!!!!
*gasp gasp gasp gasp*
okay maybe i'm a lot excited right now...shut up!
Then you're a hell of a lot younger than me.
Quark, which ran on NBC for a mere 8 episodes back in the 1978, was created by Buck Henry, the same crazy genius who gave us Get Smart.
Even though Quark ran exactly once on NBC, the impression it left was so indelible that for years sci-fi fans would quote lines at each other even though it was never seen on primetime network television again.
Sometime during 1990, Quark was re-run exactly once on the HA! comedy cable network (it, along with the Comedy Channel, merged to form what is known today as Comedy Central). Some lucky, lucky fans managed to videotape the singular run and for years poor quality, 10th generation videos were sold and traded on the fandom blackmarket.
And now it's coming on DVD!!!!!
I. Am. So. Excited.
Did I mention that I already put in my pre-order? I sure have.
Did I also mention that it's shipping in a little over a week?
IT IS!
OMIGAWD IM GONNA HAVE A CRYSTAL CLEAR COPY OF QUARK IN MY HOT LITTLE HANDS IN LESS THAN A WEEK AND I CAN FINALLY TOSS MY CRAPPY TENTH GENERATION VHS TAPE THAT I HAVE WATCHED WITHIN AN INCH OF ITS LIFE IN EXCHANGE FOR A CRISP, CLEAN DVD COPY OF QUARK!!!!!!!!
*gasp gasp gasp gasp*
okay maybe i'm a lot excited right now...shut up!
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Must. Have. Now.
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IT IS INDEED-Y!
The really funny thing is that in the pilot, they had him doing both the male and female voice (He actually did a good job with the female voice.)
I guess Standards and Practices at NBC was so allergic to the very idea of teh ghey (remember...this was 1978) that they they forced the series to dub in an actual female voice in the remaining 7 episodes whenever he'd switch over to Jean from Gene.
Now, here's the hilarious part...Tim Thomerson played Jean as completely swishy...as in drag queen swishy.
*falls over laughing*
So there's NBC doing everything it can to somehow put some distance between "science fiction split-personality hermaphrodite" and "bi-sexual man with drag queen tendencies" by dubbing in a female voice for Jean, but the actor manages to blow the scheme completely out of the water by actually acting.
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That's just... weird. Also, pre-ordered.
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And I was probably not yet seven when Quark aired....I don't think I remember it. I hope it's aged well over the decades?
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That so that means HA! existed for exactly 1 year.
Wow.
As for aging well, it's very much a 1970s show. It looks it. It feels it. On the upside, the jokes have aged pretty well, I think.
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I remember watching Quark, and loving it, but not enough to be able to quote anything from it1.
I guess I'm starting my Christmas list now!
1I counter the loss of nerd points by mentioning my age, but some people don't buy it.
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And to be fair, I did have that 10th generation VHS tape that I've watched into oblivion.
"Bee, bee, bee, bee, bee, bee, bee!!!!!!!"
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It's funny because though I was a mere baby-toddler when this came out, I do remember catching it once. I remember seeing The Head and being oddly confused, fairly amused, and slightly disturbed.
lmfao. As soon as I saw the pictures on the Amazon page tiny flecks of memories came back to me.
I think this would be worth watching again, most defs.
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::runs off to Amazon::
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thanks for the heads up - it's now in the Netflix queue!
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