Here is some news that has me personally dancing! One of my own personal favorite, most-wanted shows - marked on my wish list here at TVShowsOnDVD since the site went live back in 2001 - is coming to home video at last!!
Thanks to a heads-up sent to retailers, we've learned that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is preparing an announcement for
Quark - The Complete Series on DVD. The show ran on NBC in the late '70s, and was a hilarious comedy set in space which parodied the big sci-fi properties of the time (notably
Star Wars). Created by Buck Henry (
Get Smart), it starred Richard Benjamin (
Westworld, Love at First Bite) as Commander Quark, the captain of what basically amounts to a space-faring garbage truck.
Quark's crew includes Gene/Jean (the duo-gender transmute), The Bettys (one is a clone; they're played by "Doublemint" ad twins Cyb and Tricia Barnstable), Ficus Pandorata (a alien who amounts to being a sentient plant), and the robot Andy. Quark reports to Otto Palindrome, played by Conrad Janis of
Mork and Mindy. Palindrome, who runs station Perma 1, answers to "The Head", who will at times assign an actual non-garbage mission to Quark and his crew. Contact is kept between them all by "Interface", an alien with 4 arms who is played by Misty Rowe.
All 8 half-hour episodes of the short-lived gem will come to DVD on
October 14th. The disc will run 222 minutes long, and also include some of Sony's "mini-sodes" as extras. Video is full-screen, and audio is English stereo. Cost will be $19.94 SRP. Here's a small look at the early cover art, but keep in mind that this is not final and could be subject to change:
