What short-lived TV show was this?

It was in the 2000s. People from history are on a boat. They don’t know how they got there. Mark Twain is one of the people on the boat in a sparsely populated natural-setting type world. There is an evil bad guy chasing them. There are also the beings who created the world as some kind of test.

That’s all I got. I don’t remember what network, who was in it or whether it was a regular series or a mini -series.

It sounds like Riverworld to me.

Riverworld? Riverworld (2010 miniseries) - Wikipedia

(I’d never heard of this miniseries, I just looked up Mark Twain characters in IMDB)

Can’t believe nobody has suggested Riverworld yet.

Hey, have you thought that it might be Riverworld?

Perhaps the Spanish version, El Mondo del Rio.

If there’s a hot air balloon, it might be Riverworld .

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Hey, do you folks think it might be Riverworld?

You people are nuts. It was Riverworld.

I’m thinking it might be Riverworld, but after Gods of Riverworld, who the hell knows any more?

In an attempt to be more helpful, I’ll point out there was a made-for-cable movie version of Riverworld in 2003 (it was intended as the pilot for a series but the series wasn’t made) and then a four-hour reboot miniseries in 2010 (which again didn’t get picked up as a ongoing series). Both were aired by the Sci-Fi Channel.

Were either of those any good, Little Nemo?

I was a huge fan of those books up until Gods, when it all completely jumped the shark.

So you’re saying it might have been Rio? Like the Duran Duran song?

For 20 minutes, in the Marianas Trench.

Nah, it was the World of Tiers.


Neither effort was remotely equal to the books, for those wondering.

No, no, no! It has to be a World of Piers. You can’t have a river of tiers without using channels and locks and pumps and stuff. Maybe some sort of siphon.

No, no. It was Tiers for Piers.

Riverworld the TV cousin to Waterworld

Then there was Creekworld. Then Puddleworld.

That was the show that featured Elizabeth Taylor’s ex, Richard Burton, right?