# Help Me Identify an Old Sci-Fi Show

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 1, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-sci-fi-show/90930 "2001-11-01T16:14:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-sci-fi-show/90930/1 "2001-11-01T16:14:55Z")

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Ok Dopers, help me identify this old, obscure Sci-Fi show that I remember from my youth.

It is about a family that is visiting Egypt. While there, they go on a tour of one of the pyramids. The guide then robs them and leaves them locked in a room for dead. As the Mom, dad, brother and sister wander through the maze of tunnels the fall through some type of dimensional gate and end up in a parallel Earth.

I am not sure what happens next but I do know that they get into some scuffle with a militaristic police type who then pursues them for the rest of the series. During the families adventures they encounter a society of motorcycle driving road warriors, a society where women rule and men are subservient, a 50’s type society where they introduce Rock n’ Roll and tolerance, etc.

The show didn’t have a long run but I do remember seeing it on the Sci-Fi channel awhile back, but for the life of me I can’t remember the name. A search through [Yesterdayland](http://www.yesterdayland.com) came up empty. Any clues?

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**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-sci-fi-show/90930/2 "2001-11-01T16:34:06Z")

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I think the show you’re talking about was called “Otherworld”.

Here’s the IMDB link:

[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088587](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088587)

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**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-sci-fi-show/90930/3 "2001-11-01T16:42:31Z")

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Yep, that’s it. Thanks **Trion**

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**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-an-old-sci-fi-show/90930/4 "2001-11-01T17:46:22Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Trion \*  
> \*\*I think the show you’re talking about was called “Otherworld”.
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> Here’s the IMDB link:
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> [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088587](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088587) \*\*

It was sooo futuristic and alien the way everyone drove streamlined mini-vans in that show.