# Anyone remember this TV show? - Please Help **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402 "2007-03-10T18:45:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Andrew\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/1 "2007-03-10T18:45:27Z")
A family goes on vacation in possibly Central America, South America, or maybe Egypt. They go on a tour of a cave (???) they get deep in the cave and the guide demands they pay him more money to be led out and they refuse they guide sends them through a portal and they end up in an alternative world. They have to follow some statue type times to get back to Earth. The episode I remember best was one where the oldest son (I think there was a younger son, a sister, a mother, and father, too) gets bad grades and is put in the military/police and he has to then get the highest ratings to get back out (or something, that does not seem to make sense letting the best out). I think the alternative world was either a police state or it changed from week to week. I am almost certain it was on CBS, NBC, or ABC. I think it was on 18-23 years ago. What was this show? ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Andrew\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/2 "2007-03-10T18:55:36Z")
Further detail, when the son gets the bad grades in school his test is graded by putting it in a machine that spits it right back out graded. I think a girl sees his grade and he says something like “Oh well.” in a flirty way. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Andrew\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/3 "2007-03-10T18:59:47Z")
I found it: > **[Otherworld (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld_%28TV_series%29)** > > Otherworld is an American science fiction television series that aired for eight episodes from January 26 to March 16, 1985 on CBS and was created by Roderick Taylor. Taylor gave himself a cameo role in each episode. The series was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel. > In the first episode, the Sterling family (Hal, June, Trace, Gina, Smith) take a tour of the interior of the Great Pyramid of Giza at the same time as a once-in-ten-thousand-years conjunction of the planets. Inside, they ar... ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/4 "2007-03-10T19:45:18Z")
You had me curious. I’m sorry I couldn’t help you but I’m glad you found it. Is this the real Andrew Bird or a fan? If real, I love your music. If a fan, you’ve got good taste. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/5 "2007-03-10T21:19:17Z")
I remember that show. In fact, the one episode I could concretely recall was the one you described about the son getting drafted. I also think I saw at least part of the one described by wiki about the daughter being mistaken for a revered princess or something. Lord, what my brain has retained after 25 years! ---
**Author:** ![Petey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@Petey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petey)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/6 "2007-03-10T21:48:00Z")
I remember the one episode I saw. The kids form a rock and roll band and play Beatles songs. Since no one on the planet has heard of the Beatles, the songs are all original. They become popular until the secret police comes after them. I’m guessing every episode had them on the run like _The Fugitive_ or _The Incredible Hulk_. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/7 "2007-03-10T21:52:49Z")
This one keeps getting asked about. I asked about it years ago, it was asked again just a few weeks ago. Frustrating that if you don’t know the name of the show, you can’t search for threads on it! ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/8 "2007-03-10T21:58:03Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] Is this the real Andrew Bird or a fan? If real, I love your music. If a fan, you’ve got good taste. [/QUOTE] Thank you for echoing my thoughts exactly! ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Andrew\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/9 "2007-03-11T01:32:11Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] You had me curious. I’m sorry I couldn’t help you but I’m glad you found it. Is this the real Andrew Bird or a fan? If real, I love your music. If a fan, you’ve got good taste. [/QUOTE] Just a fan. I could not think of name when I signed and I had Fingerlings 2 playing and just went with Andrew Bird. Are you going to the show in Chicago on 4/20? I don’t know if you have ever seen him live but he is even better live. I used to see him play at the Hideout (a great place for those in Chicago) and he used to play most Mondays in the front room for like 20-40 people (often fewer). This was around five years ago. I kind of knew who he was, but wasn’t really into the whole neo-swing thing. I am not sure if the Swimming Hour was out yet. I think it was. Anyways, one night he played (might have been the first night I saw him play live) MX Missles and he was just learning the guitar. He basically played chords with with a lot hammer-ons, but the song was just awesome. It only had the part of the first verse (which not on MPOE) and the chorus. He told this funny story about how when he was in junior high he saw this video about calcium which got him aroused sexually hence the line “are you made of calcium.” It funny that some of the songs I heard five years are just finally getting an official release on the new album coming out this month. I highly recommend the Fingerling albums for any Bird fans. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Andrew\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/10 "2007-03-11T01:34:55Z")
Maybe we should do an Andrew Bird thread. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/11 "2007-03-11T09:03:23Z")
Well, seeing as you’ve already had your question answered, why not just ask a mod to change the thread title, and use this one? It’s already in the right forum… Why yes, this is a joke; why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-tv-show-please-help/395402/12 "2007-03-11T09:27:06Z")
I remember a scene set in a grocery store where the products all had these weirdly vague labels on them, like “Good Food” or “Meat.”