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I remember all of those with the exceptions of Quark, Room 222 and The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.

 

The link to Battle of the Planets goes to your Atari Hookup post.

Fixed, thanks!

 

I barely remember the three you mentioned. Room 222 was on when I was very young. I think it was a show about a high school with Karen Valentine in it. The Kids from C.A.P.E.R was a Saturday morning live action show that was notable only for the fact that the actors were using re-labeled Star Trek walkie-talkies, which I coveted as a kid. Quark was a sci-fi parody riding the wave of Star Wars' popularity. They were garbage collectors, if memory serves. (Not to be confused with Salvage 1 - which starred Andy Griffith as a junkman who builds a spaceship to salvage equipment left behind on the moon.) Seems to me Quark was pretty funny, but to a twelve-year-old, most things were. Star Wars spawned a lot of sci-fi shows at the time, from Saturday morning to prime-time.

 

Unlike Tron... which mercifully only spawned Automan.

I can remember watching Super Chicken and Batfink when I was very young. Nobody I know can remember either of these ... This site brings back some old memories ... good find! This site sparked an old memory of my little brother waking me up on Saturday mornings to watch The SHMOO. I was 21 and usually hungover watching the shmoo with my 10 year old brother

Quark was a sci-fi parody riding the wave of Star Wars' popularity. They were garbage collectors, if memory serves. (Not to be confused with Salvage 1 - which starred Andy Griffith as a junkman who builds a spaceship to salvage equipment left behind on the moon.) Seems to me Quark was pretty funny, but to a twelve-year-old, most things were.

And to further prove my theory that sooner or later, everything will come out on DVD: Quark - The Complete Series on DVD

 

Now then... where is Max Headroom?

I forgot to mention - not too long ago, I picked up the Quark series on DVD.

 

It was definitely funnier when I was 12, but it was still fun watching it again, in a purely nostalgic sort-of-way. I hardly remembered anything from the show though. Just a few snippets here and there. Definitely a relic of its time.

 

There is no real bonus material (other than the original pilot for the show), which is too bad. No commentary or anything. But that's to be expected for a bargain release.

 

The packaging is at least honest about the show though, calling it "As smart and funny today as when it first aired". (Although referring to it as a "hilarious comedy" is really pushing the truth.) Still, I've seen far worse.

Nice link, but why is the quality that low? There must be much better sources, no?

The admin who runs TV Tunes explains the quality here.

 

With all the DVDs of TV shows out there, there are better sources for many of these, but when you're relying on other people to send in the material, I guess you take what you can get.

Sadly... no "Uncle Croc's Block". Oh well, can't have everything.

Once again proving my theory that sooner or later, everything will show up on the internet:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsfQIst5S9s

Don't recognize Uncle Crock, though Fraidy Cat and Wacky & Packy look familiar. I suspect they appeared in prior and/or later kids shows.