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| Quark - The Complete Series | 
 enlarge | Director: Hy Averback
Actors: Richard Benjamin, Tim Thomerson, Richard Kelton
Studio: SONY PICTURES
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.94
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1373
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 222
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 25743
UPC: 043396257436
EAN: 0043396257436
ASIN: B001DHE9GA
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New, Ship from Florida, ORIGINAL BOX
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Product Description
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/14/2008 Run time: 222 minutes
Amazon.com
The cancellation of Quark after a mere eight episodes makes us ponder yet again the existence of intelligent life in the television universe. Created by Buck Henry, who with Mel Brooks, sent up the spy genre with Get Smart, this quite funny 1978 series spoofs space operas like Star Trek and Star Wars. Richard Benjamin stars as Adam Quark, an "ordinary human," who commands a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol ship. His mission: "To boldly seek out grime and grit, to collect the uncollectible space baggie, and to always leave the area cleaner than when I found it." His eccentric crew includes Ficus (Richard Kelton), a Spock-like Vegeton; Gene/Jean ("Timothy" Thomerson), a male/female "transmute"; the gorgeous, hot pantsed navigators Betty I and Betty II (Cyb and Patricia Barnstable, who gained commercial fame as the Doublemint Twins), one of which is a clone; and Andy; the cowardly robot. The hapless Quark yearns for greater adventures, but gets no votes of confidence from bureaucrat Otto Palindrome (a pre-Mork & Mindy Conrad Janis), who administers Space Station Perma One as the behest of the behemoth The Head (Alan Caillou). Proceed with warp speed past the pilot episode. The series really takes off with the second episode, "May the Source Be With You," featuring the voice of Hans Conreid as the galaxy's supposed greatest weapon, but, that, after 200 years of inaction, is a little rusty. The Force may not be entirely with the cheesy-looking Quark, but, like Mel Brooks' When Things Were Rotten, this dimly remembered curiosity rates rediscovery. May it live long and prosper on DVD. --Donald Liebenson Stills from Quark – The Complete Series (click for larger image)
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 The Anti-Star Trek December 18, 2008
I loved this show when it first come on television. Sadly it vanished after I saw only three episodes. But all good things come to those who wait and now I own the series. It came out in a time several years after Star Trek went off the air and just as the scifi genre was returning with the first Star Wars movie and all that would come after.
Don't expect comedy genius, its silly, but fun silly. If you were a Star Trek fan you'll love a ships captain who isn't brave or perfect, the clones who love him, the engineer with both male and female chromosones and the cowardly robot.
The Galaxy ad Infinitum! December 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought I was only one of two people in the world who remembered this show (I saw it during it's first run when I was in fifth grade). When I heard it was released to DVD I was thrilled. If you like Spaceballs and corny humor ala Get Smart, you'll love Quark! I watched all eight episodes over two nights.
I expected to be disappointed. Things are NEVER as good as you remembered them as a kid. Not so this time!
My kids love it and are currently wearing it out.
-The Galaxy ad Infinitum!
Quark series on DVD November 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I never thought this would get to DVD, but I'm glad it did. Not as funny now as it was then, but still entertaining, at least from a nostalgic view. Decent acting and hilarious plots taken from classic movies and stories, with a Buck Henry bent. Ah, the Bettys... Andy is a great sidekick who was underutilized, but anything could have happened if they HADN'T CANCELLED THE SHOW.
This *is* a parody after all November 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You have to know the shows and characters (OMG, the character names!!! ;-) being satirized, parodied, lampooned and otherwise skewered. There are many hysterical moments:
* The Betty's blowing up an evil ship, then making hash-marks with a lipstick on their battle station.
* Quark apologizing to Princess Libido in her guard disguise just before she decks him.
* The enraged Betty's screaming "Plant!" at Ficus after he criticizes their dancing on Polumbus.
* Ficus and Joan Van Ark pollinating together: "Was it good for you?" "I think so?!????!?"
* An antique Quark falling face down onto Princess Carna's sleeping dais and having to be rolled over like a log by Carna's serving wenches.
Yes, the EFX are hokey. Yes, the plots are questionable. Yes, the acting is a bit rough in spots. Yes, the female flesh is all too apparent. Get over it; so was the original Star Trek for the first 8 episodes (and if you doubt that, go back and compare the first 8 episodes when the writers and actors were also still struggling with the characters to the second season shows when everything had gelled).
Alas, we got no more than the first draft of Quark. But it was hysterical while it lasted, if you know your pre-quark SF and enjoy a good harpooning.
Four stars only because of a complete lack of any Quark-related content except the shows. We could easily have had a section of publicity stills or other material, but we got nothing.
 Not quite as funny as I remembered... November 18, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
... time being the great equalizer. However, at the time this came out it was a slapstick poke at all things science fiction and star trek/star wars directed.
It's dated, it's corny, but some ideas were actually rather advanced. The idea of a vegetable as a crew member (think Farscape's Zan) was weird at the time, but with time, became an interesting concept to explore.
I loved the clone connundrum for Quark. I think that is the most memorable part I retained over the years. Still funny.
If you like Mel Brooks' kind of humour, this just may appeal to you.
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