# Summer replacement show from the 1970's **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-replacement-show-from-the-1970s/494879 "2009-04-30T19:53:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunglasses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Sunglasses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunglasses)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-replacement-show-from-the-1970s/494879/1 "2009-04-30T19:53:04Z")
Does anyone remember a short-lived show from the (probably mid-late) seventies about a family of four who fell through a volcano into an alternate universe? I remember they tried very hard to fit in but would move from place to place when the natives started sensing that they were different. In one episode the teenaged boy and girl played in a sort of school talent show. They played and sang David Bowie’s _Modern Love_ and they got chased out of town because the lyrics in the song mentioned church. I can’t find anyone who remembers this show and apparently I’m not putting the right search words into Google. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-replacement-show-from-the-1970s/494879/2 "2009-04-30T19:55:25Z")
Don’t know the show, but if they sang “Modern Love” it had to be '83 or later. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Composer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Composer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Composer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-replacement-show-from-the-1970s/494879/3 "2009-04-30T20:00:10Z")
Did you ask this similar question at “Ask Metafilter?” This [link](http://ask.metafilter.com/35357/Searching-for-the-name-of-a-mid80s-scifi-TV-showminiseries)says it’s Otherworld. ETA: I see all the posts in that link are from 2006, so maybe you didn’t ask it. But it’s funny that the poster mentioned the same episode! ---
**Author:** ![Sunglasses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Sunglasses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunglasses)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-replacement-show-from-the-1970s/494879/4 "2009-04-30T20:06:55Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Don’t know the show, but if they sang “Modern Love” it had to be '83 or later. Well, that goes to show you how well I know my David Bowie songs! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sunglasses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Sunglasses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunglasses)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-replacement-show-from-the-1970s/494879/5 "2009-04-30T20:08:39Z")
> [@The\_Composer](#): > > Did you ask this similar question at “Ask Metafilter?” This [link](http://ask.metafilter.com/35357/Searching-for-the-name-of-a-mid80s-scifi-TV-showminiseries)says it’s Otherworld. > > ETA: I see all the posts in that link are from 2006, so maybe you didn’t ask it. But it’s funny that the poster mentioned the same episode! No, that wasn’t me but, YAY! That episode is the only one that really stood out in my mind. Thanks! I’m so happy to have this mystery solved. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-replacement-show-from-the-1970s/494879/6 "2009-04-30T20:14:48Z")
Egads, there’s more! Including full episodes. > **[otherworldonline.org](http://www.otherworldonline.org/)** > > This domain may be for sale! ---
**Author:** ![Sunglasses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Sunglasses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunglasses)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-replacement-show-from-the-1970s/494879/7 "2009-04-30T20:18:45Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Egads, there’s more! Including full episodes. > > [http://www.otherworldonline.org/](http://www.otherworldonline.org/) Wow! Thank you, thank you, thank you. My memory of the show clearly stinks. I don’t remember a third child and I remember it as a volcano (which is pretty stupid) and not a pyramid that got them lost. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-replacement-show-from-the-1970s/494879/8 "2009-04-30T20:46:16Z")
Well, if we’re actually talking about short-lived 70s series (though not a summer replacement), anyone remember [The Fantastic Journey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Journey), which was similar to _Otherworld_ in that a group of people on a small-craft cruise get lost in the Bermuda Triangle and go to weird new places? ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-replacement-show-from-the-1970s/494879/9 "2009-04-30T22:18:05Z")
You bet, I even remember when it was on the cover of Starlog. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEBhOm1yxag)