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Quark, 1978

Posted on December 20th, 2009 by steve

More Star Wars stuff.

No one saw Star Wars coming. And the networks had to get something – a knock off, anything – on the air as fast as they could. A small pilot at NBC – from Get Smart co-creator Buck Henry – became a series, February 1978.

Heavily promoted as a Star Wars spoof, Quark starred Richard Benjamin, blonde twins clones from the Doublemint commercials and it had a character named Ficus, who was not human, but a plant. Made me wonder if there were actually people in life who were plants.

I always thought this guy was a plant:


Dr. Dean Edell

It was a silly show. Series pilot is posted here. Regular episode here.

Was canceled by April.

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