Just saw this on Amazon. Has anybody got it? Is it as good as I remember?
Off to Amazon!!
I’m waiting for reviews out of curiosity. I remember this show fondly, but I was just a kid. (I didn’t know it was Buck Henry’s show. What an interesting dude.)
I think it happened just recently, since it got a column in the Times a few weeks back - who loved it as much as I did.
Loved the show or the DVD, Voyager? I remember really loving the show, but I really loved Mork & Mindy, too, and I don’t want that in my house. 
Netflix has it and I just added it and moved it to the top of my Queue.
I’m watching the DVD now. I am less than impressed so far. The humor is a bit off, the music is cheesy rip-offs and the acting is weak. Tim Thomerson stands out as extra terrible. It is amazing how well he has stayed employed. The Barnstable Twins are about as bad actresses as you would expect. It was fun watching Conrad Janis and Richard Kelton actually appears to be fairly good.
I’m with you. It was a quirky and fun show, but nowhere near as good as what I remember.
I stumbled across a bootleg DVD a couple of years ago. (Honest! It was just there. How was I not supposed to watch it?) I was surprised at how unfunny it was. Then I remembered that not only was I much younger the first time I saw it, but I hadn’t then seen Red Dwarf or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Quark was pretty much it for TV geek comedy, and it hit the airwaves right after Star Wars had revived space opera as a hot genre.
(Checking Wikipedia, I see that the pilot aired two days after Star Wars opened. Coincidence, or did the producers know something the rest of us didn’t?)
Sounds like another childhood memory I should leave in childhood, then.
I don’t know why, but I watched all 8 episodes yesterday. I would recommend you pass on watching it again. Rent Get Smart instead. That has held up very well and the acting and writing and humor was far better. If you want Sci-Fi humor rent Red Dwarf.
I, and probably others, appreciate your taking the bullet for us on this one, What Exit?
No problem. Watching Quark did inspire me to see if the Wild Wild West is available yet. It is and I added it to my Q.
Ross Martin of Wild Wild West played a Ming the Merciless like villain in Episodes 5 & 6. (7 was the final but the first was 0).
::comes in to thread to find out how it is that KneadToKnow recalls QuarkXPress with such fondness as to ask “Is it as good as I remember”… and to learn about why QuarkXPress would now be distributed on DVD instead of CD, wow bloatware huh::
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I loves me some Wild Wild West. My ex kept the first two seasons when we divided up the DVD collection, but I’m planning on scoring that complete series box set when I have the spare change.
Well played, AHunter3.
I have them taped, not “bootleg”. The show was cutting edge for it’s time, but fairly dated now. It still should be watched and it still can be enjoyed, just not like when we first did.
I was going to let this thread sit, but then the final post just begs for a rebuttal.
I did not see the show when it came out. I would have been a little young for some of the themes. Because of seeing it here and because someone else was discussing it, when it became available in a book group I’m a part of, I borrowed it.
Oh… MY… GOD!
Okay, for those of you who haven’t seen it, I’ll try to characterize it for you. It’s like someone said, “How can we make Star Trek better? I know, let’s add a laugh track.” Yes, it is cheesy as cheddar. It’s got Star Trek level special effects with Buck Rogers costumes and original Battlestar/Buck Rogers level writing - at best. It is a parody of every sci fi show or movie ever imagined all at once, and does it half as good as Spaceballs. No really, Spaceballs is hilarious compared to this dreck.
There’s the Spock rip off character (I mean homage), the mangled use of the word “clone” (one girl is a clone of the other but not vice versa), a Robby the Robot knock off, and there’s an episode that uses “The Source”. There’s only about 8 hours of show in total, and they rip off at least 5 Star Trek plots. Remember the character Hawk from Buck Rogers? That’s a great alien and costume compared to what is on Quark.
Okay, it does have Joan Van Ark playing the daughter of a space pirate and trying to mate with a sentient plant by trying to entice bees to come pollinate her. Um, wait, that’s a good point.
What Exit? and I have suffered, so you don’t have to. Don’t let our sacrifice be in vain - save yourself!
OK, now I’m starting to remember this, I think. Is this the one with the ‘consuming tubes’ for eating? That’s almost all that I remember about it.
Oddly, when I try to remember more, I start remembering bits of When Things Were Rotten.
I tried to warn you. Now you know, don’t trust DrDeth.
I have fond memories of Quark - but I suspect that they are better left as memories. I don’t doubt that it has not aged well at all.