{"id":9364,"date":"2009-12-20T00:27:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T08:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2010-10-18T17:27:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T00:27:20","slug":"quark-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9364","title":{"rendered":"Quark, 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Quark01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>More Star Wars stuff. <\/p>\n<p><em>No one <\/em>saw Star Wars coming. And the networks had to get something &#8211; a knock off, <em>anything<\/em> &#8211; on the air as fast as they could. A small pilot at NBC &#8211; from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Get_Smart\" target=\"_blank\">Get Smart<\/a> co-creator Buck Henry &#8211; became a series, February 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Heavily promoted as a Star Wars spoof, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quark_%28TV_series%29\">Quark<\/a> starred Richard Benjamin, blonde <del datetime=\"2009-12-19T12:08:07+00:00\">twins<\/del> clones from the <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/3312\">Doublemint<\/a> commercials and it had a character named <em>Ficus,<\/em> who was not human, but a plant. Made me wonder if there were actually people in life who were plants. <\/p>\n<p>I always thought this guy was a plant:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nndb.com\/people\/706\/000025631\/drdeanedell02.jpg\" width=\"150\"><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nndb.com\/people\/706\/000025631\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Dean Edell<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was a silly show. Series pilot is posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=syllN9GJcjQ&#038;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Regular episode <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_pqLjOg0hwo\"target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Was canceled by April.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Quark, 1978\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9364\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Star Wars stuff. No one saw Star Wars coming. And the networks had to get something &#8211; a knock off, anything &#8211; on the air as fast as they could. A small pilot at NBC &#8211; from Get Smart co-creator Buck Henry &#8211; became a series, February 1978. Heavily promoted as a Star Wars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21849,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions\/21849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}