The information about _Quark_ is a bit off: The captain's name is Adam Quark. The ship is unnamed, but is a type known as a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol cruiser. Actor Richard Kelton played Ficus Pandorata (member of a humanoid species evolved from plants). And both Barnstable twins (Cyb and Patricia) played Bettys (one the original, the other a clone, but no one knows which is which, not even the Bettys). (I watched the show back when it aired here in '78, and have a copy of it on DVD.) These are a fun series of videos for me, since I get to learn about shows produced in the UK which didn't make the crossing to TV here in the US, thank you.
@@reverance_pavane "Bee bee bee bee bee bee bee!" hehehe And it wasn't too far removed from _Star Trek_ (which was still in syndication at the time) for those of us who saw both to realize what some episodes of _Quark_ were parodying.
it was actually cancelled after like two episodes, but then star wars came out and the network wanted anything space-based they could take advantage of so they put it back on.
A bit of a bizarre coincidence - I actually watched the first episode of "Quark" a couple of hours before this video was uploaded. There were a couple more errors about the cast too. Conrad Janis (best known as Mindy's dad in "Mork and Mindy") actually played Quark's boss, Otto Pallindrome. Tim Thomerson played engineer Gene/Jean (not Andy the robot) - Gene/Jean was a "transmute" who swapped frequently and without warning between male and female personalities. Andy was played by Bobby Porter.
@@scottmclauchlan1933 I had intended to return to the _Quark_ segment before posting, but didn't. Thanks for covering what I'd left out. [Edit] I'm slightly disappointed that the show didn't use Palindrome's first name anywhere after the pilot episode because dropping it spoiled the joke.
12:25 I just checked my "files" (cough) and Man From Atlantis actually had his own Marvel comic for awhile in 1978 - mind you, like the series itself, it only ran for one year (7 monthly issues) before it was cancelled due to lack of sales.
Though all the swimming he had had to do for the role caused him physical problems, Patrick Duffy still believed strongly enough in Mayo Simon's concept to write his own follow-up novel, also titled "Man From Atlantis."
Thanks as always. I saw 3 minutes of Mork & Mindy, and I heard of Man from Atlantis, but otherwise these are all blanks for me. The clips you showed make me glad about that. Timeslip seemed to feature the Milky Bar Kid.
Just a thought if you haven’t covered it, I loved Play for Todays The Flipside of Dominik Hide (1980) and Another Flip for Dominik (1982j both starring Colin Firth, as a time-travelling researcher.
@@andy0liver d’oh! You are absolutely correct! My brain thought Peter, my fingers typed Colin. I even saw his pictures on IMDb when I looked up the years. Been one of those weeks! 🙄🤣🤣
I'm really enjoying this series, well done sir. You have a loyal fan in central Massachusetts. Before the internet, in the dark times, I could only see what was on our cable network. I grew up with star trek, Dr Who and space 1999. Later I was fortunate enough to find Blake 7, Red Dwarf and the Young Ones. It's great to learn about older stuff I haven't seen.
You sound like my brother from another mother. I grew up exactly the same on the West coast, except add The Avengers, My Partner the Ghost and UFO to the list..
There was a series, Counterstrike (1969), which ran for just 9 aired episodes. I was especially fond of it at the time. Starred John Finch as an alien.
Land of the Lost was very intense for a children's Saturday morning show. Not only were there carnivorous dinosaurs that chased the family, there were also lizard men called sleestaks that chased the family. Will Ferrell made a movie based on the show.
I enjoyed 'The Champions' (1968): three government agents' plane crashes in the Himalayas. They are rescued by a hidden, advanced civilization there, healed, and given enhanced and extrasensory powers.
A forgotten gem, Crime Traveller, a 1997 science fiction detective television series produced by Carnival Films for the BBC based on the premise of using time travel for the purpose of solving crimes, created and written by Anthony Horowitz, it only ran for one series of 8 episodes
I had forgotten "Quark". I loved that one. I also love how you turn me on to BBC shows we never got to see over here across the pond..Thanks I also haven't run across "The Fantastic Journey" from you yet (Jared Martin, Roddy McDowell, Ike Eisenmann) .Don't know if you've covered that one or not.. It only ran 1 season in '77 In the Mork and Mindy final season, they pretty much threw out scripts and just let Williams and Winters ad-lib for the most part..
@@alannevin2490 They did do a story about a man who had stuck french fries up his bottom and had seagulls peck at them ... the Sunday Sprt journalists really are a bunch of bottom feeders
Chocky, the Tripods, Triffids com to mind. There was one that I can't remember much other than there was a boy and/or man from space or the future and I think he was all silver, even his skin, and really creeped me out.
I remember a series called Doomwatch. Scientists investigated threats to society. I remember one about intelligent rats taking over and another on the perils of jet lag.
It was a spin-off from Happy Days, I believe he met the Cunningham's and Fonzie at the end of the run before he met MIndy so she was not the first 'contact'
Greetings, I am from South Texas and I stumbled across your videos. As a lad, back in the 1980s, I saw a program which had to have been of British origin about two children who end up finding a time machine. They end up going back to the time of the English Civil War ( which I, as an American child found quite confusing as "The Civil War" is something entirely "else" in South Texas 😂) I believe they encounter a cavalier who was played by the same actor as their teacher. I wondered if this was "Timeslip." Any ideas of what it was? I also remember them seeing a newspaper which had a date on it which had proved the initial time travel. Thank you. Have a great week!
They came from somewhere else, I remember watching it , I remember enjoying it. I can't remember a thing about it if I saw it now I'd probably hate it. Timeslip I watched as a kid and enjoyed. However for some reason now lost in time I missed half of the overall series. So I bought the DVD several years ago. One of those rare occasions where something I used to like didn't turn out to be completely naff (the Rat patrol being a prime example, never realised that got pulled after 6 episodes) I really must watch Timeslip again.
In regards to Gemini Man, he isn't GIVEN invisibility, he's involved in accident that renders him invisible. His condition is stabilized by a special device in a watch that subdues his invisibility. He can turn invisible for small periods of time by turning off the device, but it must stay on him at all times. If I recall, if he removes the device or goes beyond the time limit of staying invisible, it becomes permanent.
Quark, starring Richard Benjamin was one of my favorites. Sadly, it only had eight episodes, including the pilot. Veteran Actors Henry Silva and Ross Martin seemed to enjoy guest starring on the show, as over-the-top parodies of Darth Vader and Ming The Merciless. There's even an episode with bonafide bombshell Joan Van Ark, doing a super silly 'pollinating' scene. I could have lived with a few more seasons of Quark.
How about the TV series "Lucan" about a lad that was brought up by wolves? As i kid I loved when his eyes turned red when he got angry. Is that sci-fi? I reckon so! It was a US TV show, airing in 1977-1978.
You've got to go for The Fantastic Journey (USA 1977) we definitely had it over here. Then, the Planet of the Apes TV series and Galloping Galaxies which was a pretty lame 80s kids show but I seem to remember it had Carry On legend Kenneth Williams as the voice of a computer or robot or something ir other.
There were definitely TV shows I had not heard of in this video. From my very early years in the 70s I remember Children of the Stones (a kids' TV show that was very creepy), King of the Castle, and a Quatermass mini~TV series
I was going to say Children of The Stones, but you beat me to it. The fact that the whole series was conceived as a one off and had a satisfying but eerie ending. It was actually quite mature considering it was a children's TV show. It's one I would love to watch today as I was probably a little to young to follow the story.
@@MsOpportunity68 I was just a little too young to understand this show too. I remember my mum enjoying it though. But I do remember Children of the Stones being a bit creepy
Im surprised you forgot the restaurant at the end of the universe ( Which is not hitchhiker guide to the galaxy) . More please Loved Robert Donner portrayal as Exidor in mork and Mindy Absolutely hilarious. Bring golf to the masses 🤸🤗
Man from Atlantis was definitely one I remember watching. It was one of a number of similar shows that would get shown on Friday nights, on ITV. From what I can remember, it was in the same strand as shows such as, 'The Invisible Man', starring David McCallum and The Incredible Hulk with Bill Bixby. I've been racking my brain to think of some of the other shows that were on, but none spring to mind. Mork and Mindy is, of course, one we all remember well. It ran for quite a few years, as I remember, into the 80's. Some of the others I recognise by their titles, but don't remember watching them. Which is a bit of a shame, really.
OMG I have been searching for ages to find out about They Came from Somewhere Else!!! No-one I have ever met remembered it, I was beginning to think it was the mandala effect!
Quark, intergalactic garbage man. I did like UFO which was a paranoid, low budget , british science fiction show The Invaders was very good. A us alien invasion paranoid show. The star lost was a Canadian science fiction adventure show. People on a generational star ship where the ships crew had devolved and no longer realized they were on a Star ship. Very much Like Robert Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky" . They used footage from the Bruce Dern film Silent Running and used the outside shots of the ship from that movie as their generational star ship. It was a lot of moving from Styrofoam set to styrofoam set to try to depict rooms on this massive space ship. Had a doctor whoish (at the time) look and special effects budget. lot of green screen too. ITV did what is still my favourite version of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Ooo the Sleestak. Great kids show. Poor old chukka. Lost in Space was another one. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Mork and Mindy. Never saw Time Slip or the Gemini Man . Man from atlantis was very Namor. The first wave was another later 1998-2001 Canadian science fiction show on an alien invasion of the earth that was predicted by the prophecies of Nostradamus who was probably going through a resurgence in popularity at the time. Roddenberry's earth Final conflict from 1998-2002 was a canadian-US production that drew on arthur c. clarkes Childhoods End as technologically superior aliens come to earth to help humanity or is it to enslave humanity?
SImilarly with the theme to Stingray. The end credits theme was "Aqua Marina", love song to the underwater breathing Marina character. I had both of these themes (Fireball XL5 and Stingray) on records when I was a kid. The ending themes were on their B-sides.
great compilation as always,and just when i think i ve seen everything yesteryear had to offer i get a bundle of new titles i ve never heard of before,god bless ya F.O.U.S,you rule
Star Cops was arguably the prize of the litter here. Rather dry but a decent scifi police procedural that did a reasonable job of seriously portraying plausible near-future space technology, and all without massively overreaching its budget the way so many of these did. All of the episodes are available here on UA-cam for anyone curious about it. Mork & Mindy is barely scifi at all, but it's worth looking at an episode or three just to see Robin Williams' early comedy work (often improvised and wildly off-script). Land of the Lost had some well-written scripts (some by quite important scifi novelists from the era) and was a surprisingly high concept show, but suffers badly from a pathetic budget, cheap and dated SFX and lackluster acting even for a Saturday morning kid's show. Man From Atlantis was a bit formulaic but solid enough, and is pretty funny in retrospect when looked at as an ancestor of Shape of Water. Gemini Man was rather notoriously riffed by the MST3K lads using a patch-up "film" called Riding With Death that assembled footage from two of thw show's unconnected episodes. Not their best episode but far from the worst either.
Small correction: "Mork and Mindy" was broadcast in the U.S.A. from 1978-1982 on the American Broadcasting Network (AKA ABC.) Thank you for the vids showcasing these wonderful nostalgic shows. I hope those not around in the eras (or countries to see the broadcasts) cold enjoy the new-to-them clips!
I watch these just to hear this guy talk.... You roll me buddy! Quack OMG!! (BTW the twins are HOT). What the heck man, you said WORLD totally normal. Shouldn't it be Waaald? Seriously, the premise of Star Lost was way ahead of it's time. Loved The man from Atlantis. Great videos!
There's a book called the Starcrossed, by science fiction writer Ben Bova. Which is a fictionalised version of the story of the production of the Starlost. It's a very interesting read. Well worth a look.
Interesting yes (if you've seen the show and are a wonk about this sort of thing) but unfortunately nowhere as funny as Bova was going for. He's not a natural comic author.
Hi thanks for sharing these videos when I was a teenager in 80s there was a scifi tv series about a group of people that were on another planet and I think they were farmers or miners and the water on the planet was invisible I don't remember much more than that but if you can find it please let me know the name of the show
Some others I remember, not sure of years. Otherworld Space Precinct The Boy From Space The Greatest American Hero Automan Battlestar Galactica Galactica 80 The Planet Of The Apes The Incredible Hulk The Invisible Man Red Dwarf Metal Mickey Aquilla Hard time on planet earth K9 and Co Galloping Galaxies
Regarding The Gemini Man... A couple of years before this aired, there was a different Invisible Man show starring David McCallum. He was portrayed as a scientist who experimented on himself and got stuck in an invisible state. Later acting as a government agent, he was given a lifelike rubber mask so he could pretend to be normal. When this show was not a big hit, the network cancelled and retooled it. They cast Ben Murphy in the lead and gave him the watch that regulated his ability - as I recall, if he remained invisible for longer than 20 minutes he risked death. Of course I may be completely wrong; I'm going from my memories, rather than fact checking online...
I quite enjoyed Star Cops, but it would have been nice to actually have seen the show that the writer (Chris Boucher) wrote rather than the one the producer (Evgeny Gridneff) shot. Chris was very upset at the whole thing, which resulted in a very stressed production. His commentary on the DVD release is heartbreaking.
Agreed - he wrote three Doctor Who stories including The Robots of Death (also crime investigation) plus episodes of Juliet Bravo, Bergerac, and The Bill. This could have been so much better. Fairly recently it was revived by Big Finish audio, with three of the original cast.
I remember Star Cops, pretty decent show I recall, but it had the worst theme music I'd ever heard. I think it was one of the guys from Bucks Fizz who sang it.
Ficus with a woman: How do you make love? Lie on your; back like this with your legs in the air (ficus does the same) Ficus:repeat after me: Beebeebeebeebee Woman: then what? Ficus: you wait for the bee
I don't think it was either, ......and yet Irwin Allen's Lost in space, Voyage to the bottom of the sea and Land of the giants were shown on Channel Four.
Wow! quark! Did you even bother watching the show? Trisha and her twin sister Cyb were betty 1 and betty 2. One was the clone but neither one would ever admit it. Andy was the robot but conrad janis was not gene/jean was tim tomerson, otto bob palindrome was conrad janis character and Ficus was played by Richard Kelton!
The Starlost actually had the same three characters every episode: Devon, Garth and Rachel. They were trying to prevent the Ark from colliding with a star, not trying to return it to Earth.
The information about _Quark_ is a bit off:
The captain's name is Adam Quark.
The ship is unnamed, but is a type known as a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol cruiser.
Actor Richard Kelton played Ficus Pandorata (member of a humanoid species evolved from plants).
And both Barnstable twins (Cyb and Patricia) played Bettys (one the original, the other a clone, but no one knows which is which, not even the Bettys).
(I watched the show back when it aired here in '78, and have a copy of it on DVD.)
These are a fun series of videos for me, since I get to learn about shows produced in the UK which didn't make the crossing to TV here in the US, thank you.
My favourite part was the trope inversions, particularly the Vegeton mating ritual.
@@reverance_pavane "Bee bee bee bee bee bee bee!" hehehe
And it wasn't too far removed from _Star Trek_ (which was still in syndication at the time) for those of us who saw both to realize what some episodes of _Quark_ were parodying.
it was actually cancelled after like two episodes, but then star wars came out and the network wanted anything space-based they could take advantage of so they put it back on.
A bit of a bizarre coincidence - I actually watched the first episode of "Quark" a couple of hours before this video was uploaded. There were a couple more errors about the cast too. Conrad Janis (best known as Mindy's dad in "Mork and Mindy") actually played Quark's boss, Otto Pallindrome. Tim Thomerson played engineer Gene/Jean (not Andy the robot) - Gene/Jean was a "transmute" who swapped frequently and without warning between male and female personalities. Andy was played by Bobby Porter.
@@scottmclauchlan1933 I had intended to return to the _Quark_ segment before posting, but didn't. Thanks for covering what I'd left out.
[Edit] I'm slightly disappointed that the show didn't use Palindrome's first name anywhere after the pilot episode because dropping it spoiled the joke.
I loved your 80s sitcoms series, and I'm loving this. And I could listen to you say the word "Quark" all day 😊
LOL QUAHHHHRK!🤣
Loved. Loved. LOVED. Starlost! I'd love to see a remake of it
12:25 I just checked my "files" (cough) and Man From Atlantis actually had his own Marvel comic for awhile in 1978 - mind you, like the series itself, it only ran for one year (7 monthly issues) before it was cancelled due to lack of sales.
Though all the swimming he had had to do for the role caused him physical problems, Patrick Duffy still believed strongly enough in Mayo Simon's concept to write his own follow-up novel, also titled "Man From Atlantis."
Thanks as always. I saw 3 minutes of Mork & Mindy, and I heard of Man from Atlantis, but otherwise these are all blanks for me. The clips you showed make me glad about that. Timeslip seemed to feature the Milky Bar Kid.
Mork and Mindy loved it Robin Williams was brilliant in this.
Just a thought if you haven’t covered it, I loved Play for Todays The Flipside of Dominik Hide (1980) and Another Flip for Dominik (1982j both starring Colin Firth, as a time-travelling researcher.
Wasn't it Peter Firth?
@@andy0liver d’oh! You are absolutely correct!
My brain thought Peter, my fingers typed Colin.
I even saw his pictures on IMDb when I looked up the years.
Been one of those weeks! 🙄🤣🤣
@@jamesmurray2690 Easy mistake to make. I sat all the way through Love Actually wondering where Peter was😅
@@andy0liver 🤣🤣🤣
Those were brilliant!
I'm really enjoying this series, well done sir. You have a loyal fan in central Massachusetts. Before the internet, in the dark times, I could only see what was on our cable network. I grew up with star trek, Dr Who and space 1999. Later I was fortunate enough to find Blake 7, Red Dwarf and the Young Ones. It's great to learn about older stuff I haven't seen.
You sound like my brother from another mother. I grew up exactly the same on the West coast, except add The Avengers, My Partner the Ghost and UFO to the list..
"Would anyone like some toast?" ☺
@@TheUluxian Yes Avengers, the Prisoner and Voyagers as well. I didn't see UFO until I was an adult but that's great too .
Loved Star Cops... Still watch it regularly nowadays.
3:46 *Nice nick of the transporter sound effect from Star Trek!*
There was a series, Counterstrike (1969), which ran for just 9 aired episodes. I was especially fond of it at the time. Starred John Finch as an alien.
Bit of a typecast
I used to watch Land of the Lost every Saturday when I was 10 years old. Love dinosaurs.
Look out!! Sleestak!
Land of the Lost was very intense for a children's Saturday morning show. Not only were there carnivorous dinosaurs that chased the family, there were also lizard men called sleestaks that chased the family. Will Ferrell made a movie based on the show.
I enjoyed 'The Champions' (1968): three government agents' plane crashes in the Himalayas. They are rescued by a hidden, advanced civilization there, healed, and given enhanced and extrasensory powers.
I loved Star Cops I think it was a great show. It was a shame it didn't last long. I will have to say that I also liked Quark.
A forgotten gem, Crime Traveller, a 1997 science fiction detective television series produced by Carnival Films for the BBC based on the premise of using time travel for the purpose of solving crimes, created and written by Anthony Horowitz, it only ran for one series of 8 episodes
Sound like a forerunner of Quantum leap.
I had forgotten "Quark". I loved that one.
I also love how you turn me on to BBC shows we never got to see over here across the pond..Thanks
I also haven't run across "The Fantastic Journey" from you yet (Jared Martin, Roddy McDowell, Ike Eisenmann) .Don't know if you've covered that one or not.. It only ran 1 season in '77
In the Mork and Mindy final season, they pretty much threw out scripts and just let Williams and Winters ad-lib for the most part..
I just remember the Sunday Sport had the Headline 'Man from Atlantis seen in pub'
They also had the headline " double decker bus found on the moon! "
@@alannevin2490 They did do a story about a man who had stuck french fries up his bottom and had seagulls peck at them ... the Sunday Sprt journalists really are a bunch of bottom feeders
Used to love Eerie Indiana back in the day. ❤
Chocky, the Tripods, Triffids com to mind.
There was one that I can't remember much other than there was a boy and/or man from space or the future and I think he was all silver, even his skin, and really creeped me out.
"What's a quark?"
"The sound a posh duck makes.."
B'dum.. TSH!
I remember a series called Doomwatch. Scientists investigated threats to society. I remember one about intelligent rats taking over and another on the perils of jet lag.
Mork and Mindy started in 1978 I think not 1972. Just discovered this channel a week or so back and love it.
It was a spin-off from Happy Days, I believe he met the Cunningham's and Fonzie at the end of the run before he met MIndy so she was not the first 'contact'
M&M deffo '78.
(M&M): I picked up on that hiccup.
@@andyaccount ... and Happy Days was a spinoff off LOVE AMERICAN STYLE.
Correct about Mork meeting Fonzie.
Mork And Mindy is a great show
Greetings, I am from South Texas and I stumbled across your videos. As a lad, back in the 1980s, I saw a program which had to have been of British origin about two children who end up finding a time machine. They end up going back to the time of the English Civil War ( which I, as an American child found quite confusing as "The Civil War" is something entirely "else" in South Texas 😂) I believe they encounter a cavalier who was played by the same actor as their teacher. I wondered if this was "Timeslip."
Any ideas of what it was? I also remember them seeing a newspaper which had a date on it which had proved the initial time travel.
Thank you. Have a great week!
They came from somewhere else, I remember watching it , I remember enjoying it. I can't remember a thing about it if I saw it now I'd probably hate it. Timeslip I watched as a kid and enjoyed. However for some reason now lost in time I missed half of the overall series. So I bought the DVD several years ago. One of those rare occasions where something I used to like didn't turn out to be completely naff (the Rat patrol being a prime example, never realised that got pulled after 6 episodes) I really must watch Timeslip again.
In regards to Gemini Man, he isn't GIVEN invisibility, he's involved in accident that renders him invisible. His condition is stabilized by a special device in a watch that subdues his invisibility. He can turn invisible for small periods of time by turning off the device, but it must stay on him at all times. If I recall, if he removes the device or goes beyond the time limit of staying invisible, it becomes permanent.
Loved The Gemini Man as a kid
Love these retrospectives
Quark, starring Richard Benjamin was one of my favorites.
Sadly, it only had eight episodes, including the pilot.
Veteran Actors Henry Silva and Ross Martin seemed to enjoy guest starring on the show, as over-the-top parodies of Darth Vader and Ming The Merciless.
There's even an episode with bonafide bombshell Joan Van Ark, doing a super silly 'pollinating' scene.
I could have lived with a few more seasons of Quark.
How about the TV series "Lucan" about a lad that was brought up by wolves? As i kid I loved when his eyes turned red when he got angry. Is that sci-fi? I reckon so! It was a US TV show, airing in 1977-1978.
Gemini Man's watch didn't allow him to turn invisible it prevented him from becoming invisible forever after his accident.
Yeah, if he stayed invisible for too long he'd simply fade away into nothing from what I remember.
You've got to go for The Fantastic Journey (USA 1977) we definitely had it over here.
Then, the Planet of the Apes TV series and Galloping Galaxies which was a pretty lame 80s kids show but I seem to remember it had Carry On legend Kenneth Williams as the voice of a computer or robot or something ir other.
There were definitely TV shows I had not heard of in this video. From my very early years in the 70s I remember Children of the Stones (a kids' TV show that was very creepy), King of the Castle, and a Quatermass mini~TV series
I'd add Sky (ITV 1975) to the list.
I was going to say Children of The Stones, but you beat me to it. The fact that the whole series was conceived as a one off and had a satisfying but eerie ending. It was actually quite mature considering it was a children's TV show. It's one I would love to watch today as I was probably a little to young to follow the story.
@@MsOpportunity68
I was just a little too young to understand this show too. I remember my mum enjoying it though. But I do remember Children of the Stones being a bit creepy
Im surprised you forgot the restaurant at the end of the universe
( Which is not hitchhiker guide to the galaxy) .
More please
Loved Robert Donner portrayal as
Exidor in mork and Mindy
Absolutely hilarious.
Bring golf to the masses 🤸🤗
I don't know if it has been mentioned: The Invisible Man - David McCallum (Sapphire and Steel), it was definitely shown in the UK.
Voyage to the bottom of the sea, lost in space, the return of captain Nemo, etc. keep it up!😊
Man from Atlantis was definitely one I remember watching. It was one of a number of similar shows that would get shown on Friday nights, on ITV. From what I can remember, it was in the same strand as shows such as, 'The Invisible Man', starring David McCallum and The Incredible Hulk with Bill Bixby. I've been racking my brain to think of some of the other shows that were on, but none spring to mind. Mork and Mindy is, of course, one we all remember well. It ran for quite a few years, as I remember, into the 80's. Some of the others I recognise by their titles, but don't remember watching them. Which is a bit of a shame, really.
"The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Six Million Dollar Woman" come to mind. Staring Lee Majors and Lindsey Wagner respectively.
Man from Atlantis later swam to Dallas....🤣🤣🤣
OMG I have been searching for ages to find out about They Came from Somewhere Else!!! No-one I have ever met remembered it, I was beginning to think it was the mandala effect!
I tried to swim like the man from Atlantis.I hit the bottom of the pool😂.
RIP Robin, that still hurts
There was a comedy cop show in the '70's called Holmes and Yoyo with one of the partners being a lifelike android.
Quark, intergalactic garbage man. I did like UFO which was a paranoid, low budget , british science fiction show The Invaders was very good. A us alien invasion paranoid show.
The star lost was a Canadian science fiction adventure show. People on a generational star ship where the ships crew had devolved and no longer realized they were on a Star ship. Very much Like Robert Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky" . They used footage from the Bruce Dern film Silent Running and used the outside shots of the ship from that movie as their generational star ship. It was a lot of moving from Styrofoam set to styrofoam set to try to depict rooms on this massive space ship. Had a doctor whoish (at the time) look and special effects budget. lot of green screen too.
ITV did what is still my favourite version of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Ooo the Sleestak. Great kids show. Poor old chukka.
Lost in Space was another one. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Mork and Mindy.
Never saw Time Slip or the Gemini Man
. Man from atlantis was very Namor.
The first wave was another later 1998-2001 Canadian science fiction show on an alien invasion of the earth that was predicted by the prophecies of Nostradamus who was probably going through a resurgence in popularity at the time.
Roddenberry's earth Final conflict from 1998-2002 was a canadian-US production that drew on arthur c. clarkes Childhoods End as technologically superior aliens come to earth to help humanity or is it to enslave humanity?
Quark - You managed to get nearly every actor/ role wrong. :)
omg i loved man from atlantis
Since you're doing shows from the 80's AND before, you should include Fireball XL5, which, interestingly, has a love song for an end credits theme
Gerry Anderson's productions could be a whole video on their own.
SImilarly with the theme to Stingray. The end credits theme was "Aqua Marina", love song to the underwater breathing Marina character. I had both of these themes (Fireball XL5 and Stingray) on records when I was a kid. The ending themes were on their B-sides.
@@Sigma.Infinity Oh. I forgot about Aqua Marina. Terrahawks had some too, but not as the endings
I miss Quark. Actually, I miss being young and being that age when it was on! LOL
great compilation as always,and just when i think i ve seen everything yesteryear had to offer i get a bundle of new titles i ve never heard of before,god bless ya F.O.U.S,you rule
15:28 - Guy last seen getting Malcom McDowell to lick his boots in A Clockwork Orange!
Land of the lost I even had the viewmaster disks!
Mock and Mindy was a spin off of happy days which was a spin off of an episode of love American style called love and the tv.
7:21 *you must be related to the Clampetts, his distant relative Jed passed his hat down...*
Star Cops was arguably the prize of the litter here. Rather dry but a decent scifi police procedural that did a reasonable job of seriously portraying plausible near-future space technology, and all without massively overreaching its budget the way so many of these did. All of the episodes are available here on UA-cam for anyone curious about it.
Mork & Mindy is barely scifi at all, but it's worth looking at an episode or three just to see Robin Williams' early comedy work (often improvised and wildly off-script).
Land of the Lost had some well-written scripts (some by quite important scifi novelists from the era) and was a surprisingly high concept show, but suffers badly from a pathetic budget, cheap and dated SFX and lackluster acting even for a Saturday morning kid's show.
Man From Atlantis was a bit formulaic but solid enough, and is pretty funny in retrospect when looked at as an ancestor of Shape of Water.
Gemini Man was rather notoriously riffed by the MST3K lads using a patch-up "film" called Riding With Death that assembled footage from two of thw show's unconnected episodes. Not their best episode but far from the worst either.
I don't know if Quark was ever aired in the UK either, but I'm pretty sure Rob Grant and Doug Naylor saw it somehow!
Does anyone else remember Galloping Galaxies? Kids comedy sci-fi programme on the BBC in the mid 80s
You found quark. Mission accomplished
Ilove when these are published! Do you know where we can either stream them online or purchase?☺
Small correction:
"Mork and Mindy" was broadcast in the U.S.A. from 1978-1982 on the American Broadcasting Network (AKA ABC.)
Thank you for the vids showcasing these wonderful nostalgic shows. I hope those not around in the eras (or countries to see the broadcasts) cold enjoy the new-to-them clips!
Yeah, Mork and Mindy was much later in the 70's - 77 or 78 I think.
It was on from 1978-82.
I watch these just to hear this guy talk.... You roll me buddy! Quack OMG!! (BTW the twins are HOT). What the heck man, you said WORLD totally normal. Shouldn't it be Waaald?
Seriously, the premise of Star Lost was way ahead of it's time. Loved The man from Atlantis. Great videos!
When I went to the bottom of my stairs in the 1970s I saw a Dalek and quickly went upstairs in order to escape it
There's a book called the Starcrossed, by science fiction writer Ben Bova. Which is a fictionalised version of the story of the production of the Starlost. It's a very interesting read. Well worth a look.
Interesting yes (if you've seen the show and are a wonk about this sort of thing) but unfortunately nowhere as funny as Bova was going for. He's not a natural comic author.
Have you covered Captain Zep? A kids show on bbc1 in the 80’s I think?
Don't forget Button moon lol.
Hi thanks for sharing these videos when I was a teenager in 80s there was a scifi tv series about a group of people that were on another planet and I think they were farmers or miners and the water on the planet was invisible I don't remember much more than that but if you can find it please let me know the name of the show
Star Cops got some of the future tech right. Box is a good example.
I had a stuffed animal called Orson. It was my Mom’s so maybe she named it after the show?
A lot of stuff in this one with 'ark' at the end of a word which seemed to stand out for some reason :)
How about a couple of the Look Read dramas; Dark Towers and The Boy From Space
Some others I remember, not sure of years.
Otherworld
Space Precinct
The Boy From Space
The Greatest American Hero
Automan
Battlestar Galactica
Galactica 80
The Planet Of The Apes
The Incredible Hulk
The Invisible Man
Red Dwarf
Metal Mickey
Aquilla
Hard time on planet earth
K9 and Co
Galloping Galaxies
You are the only person I have seen who has mentioned Metal Mickey. I loved this series.
@@susanscott8653 I used to love the atomic thunderbusters sweets as well.
I think the closest we got to land of the lost was a cartoon with the same premis.
Other ones I watched growing up únder the mountain' NZ TV, 'Land of the giants'
Star Cops is basically The Bill in space!
There was an 80's Australian children's series called Dogstar I think. Or the UK's Captain Zep Space Detective part quiz show.
Not to mention Chocky, Chocky's children and Chocky's challenge... And another American sitcom... Out of this world...
Children of the Dogstar.
See if you can find this one: Captain Zep - Space Detective!
Regarding The Gemini Man...
A couple of years before this aired, there was a different Invisible Man show starring David McCallum. He was portrayed as a scientist who experimented on himself and got stuck in an invisible state. Later acting as a government agent, he was given a lifelike rubber mask so he could pretend to be normal.
When this show was not a big hit, the network cancelled and retooled it. They cast Ben Murphy in the lead and gave him the watch that regulated his ability - as I recall, if he remained invisible for longer than 20 minutes he risked death. Of course I may be completely wrong; I'm going from my memories, rather than fact checking online...
1975 Star Maidens.
Wouldn't it be great if a TV channel bought back some or all of these programs. Instead of all the rubbish that's being put on TV these days
Was there a 'Sci-Fi' series where Mollie Sugden goes into outer space?
Land of The Lost was a brilliant show. The Starlost is...well, I would've loved it as a kid but it's an acquired taste.
Bad sets, ropey acting and awful writing. That was Starlost.
Also Mork & Mindy aired from 1978-1982 in the US, not 1972-1982.
What about a children show "Metal Micky"
Did you include V in any of these ?
I quite enjoyed Star Cops, but it would have been nice to actually have seen the show that the writer (Chris Boucher) wrote rather than the one the producer (Evgeny Gridneff) shot. Chris was very upset at the whole thing, which resulted in a very stressed production. His commentary on the DVD release is heartbreaking.
Agreed - he wrote three Doctor Who stories including The Robots of Death (also crime investigation) plus episodes of Juliet Bravo, Bergerac, and The Bill. This could have been so much better. Fairly recently it was revived by Big Finish audio, with three of the original cast.
I remember Star Cops, pretty decent show I recall, but it had the worst theme music I'd ever heard. I think it was one of the guys from Bucks Fizz who sang it.
Would Mr Benn and the The Clangers be on your list?
The return was two episodes put together to be a movie.
Ficus with a woman:
How do you make love?
Lie on your; back like this with your legs in the air (ficus does the same)
Ficus:repeat after me:
Beebeebeebeebee
Woman: then what?
Ficus: you wait for the bee
They were pollinating.
Eventually youll get to land of the giants and the time tunnel. good shows. korg. and have you somehow missed metal mickey. or did i?
Seemed SciFi Pushed The Envelope Of Sexuality.
QUARK! I thought Red Dwarf was original.
What about the Fantastic Journey?
One called Logan's Run 1977 one season
LOOK!!!!!! There is NO SOUND in your video from 8:12-8:57. You need to fix this.
Fixed now (if a bit quiet).
Mork And Mindy was from 1978 to 1981
Land of the lost was going to see it was shown on Ch4 but after seeing the clip I don't think it was.
I don't think it was either, ......and yet Irwin Allen's Lost in space, Voyage to the bottom of the sea and Land of the giants were shown on Channel Four.
Mate, Ficus was male and played by Richard Kelton. You gave one of the female twins' names.
Stair cops. Quuaark, Arrrrrk, Maurk Harris.
Holmes and Yoyo 1976-77
Wow! quark! Did you even bother watching the show? Trisha and her twin sister Cyb were betty 1 and betty 2. One was the clone but neither one would ever admit it. Andy was the robot but conrad janis was not gene/jean was tim tomerson, otto bob palindrome was conrad janis character and Ficus was played by Richard Kelton!
The Starlost actually had the same three characters every episode: Devon, Garth and Rachel. They were trying to prevent the Ark from colliding with a star, not trying to return it to Earth.
Quark is that what a posh duck says 😂😂😂, Sorry if this has been said before in another post.