List of Otherworld episodes
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This is a list of all Otherworld episodes.
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| # | Title | Airdate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Rules of Attraction" | 26 January 1985 | ||||
| The Sarlex province produces a radioactive material needed for industrial purposes. Since humans cannot tolerate the radiation for long, robots were built to do the mining. The robots improved themselves until they were virtually indistinguishable from humans, with human-like appearance, behaviour, sense of humour, and aspirations. However, they are still a subject people, and the Imar authority and the zone troopers can perform "memory audits" although the Sarlex android people protest it is a violation of their rights. | ||||||
| 2 | "The Zone Troopers Build Men" | 2 February 1985 | ||||
| Low marks in school can lead to being drafted... for life... into the Zone Troopers. Troopers (other than officers) cannot resign, do not get leave, not even for sickness in the family, and are the only ones who may operate between zones. Cmdr. Kroll is guest speaker at the graduation, and administers the oath to the top three cadets who become officers... including Trace. Guest stars Mark Lenard as the Zone Trooper commandant. | ||||||
| 3 | "Paradise Lost" | 9 February 1985 | ||||
| One region of the planet of Thel exhibits the odd phenomena of Laser Storms: laser bolts shooting from the clouds just like falling rain. These Laser Storms guard an island that appears to be a luxurious resort, but in fact, is a scientific research station where doctors are looking for immortality. This research, however, exacts an extreme price from the resort's guests. | ||||||
| 4 | "Rock and Roll Suicide" | 16 February 1985 | ||||
| In the Centrex province, Trace and Gina introduce rock 'n' roll music, and record songs written by the Beatles and other classic artists, taking credit themselves. The music has an emotional impact that takes the province by storm, and has the Church of Artificial Intelligence angrily protesting the idol worship of Trace and Gina, who the church views as subversives. Cmdr. Kroll is sent to deal with the problem, and he likes the music! - then he recognizes the two singers. | ||||||
| 5 | "Village of the Motorpigs" | 23 February 1985 | ||||
| A raid by a camp of Thel-style hippies rescues the Sterlings from the zone troopers, but puts them at the mercy of the camp's leader, who intends to break up the family. Cmdr. Kroll is investigating the assault on a group of zone troopers, and arrives just a bit too late. | ||||||
| 6 | "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" | 2 March 1985 | ||||
| This episode features a province where "Women's lib" is taken to extremes and men are second-class citizens. Angered by Hal's independent presumption at speaking within her abode and thus suspicious of the Sterling family, the neighbourhood "block warden" pokes around the Sterlings' residence and finds Kroll's access crystal. When word gets to Imar, Nuveen Kroll comes, but his male attitudes get him into trouble! Almost simultaneously, Trace gets into trouble by baring his naked upper torso on a hot day while preparing a barbecue grill out in public. (This is his second offense - first was getting onto an elevator reserved for females.) He is arrested and, like Kroll, is placed on the province's male slave public auction block. One hilarious point of interest is watching Nuveen Kroll puff up his chest while looking at the other, more well-built auction slaves. Thel's (or, at least, this province's) equivalent of Tupperware is "Vorpleware"; the expression, "As snug as a bug in a rug" is also known on Thel. | ||||||
| 7 | "Mansion of the Beast" | 9 March 1985 | ||||
| The Sterlings pass through lands claimed by a mutated human, a "beast", who lets them go only as long as June stays to be his companion. Hal and the children meet a man who tells them about the "beast"... his brother. The planet exhibits another odd phenomenon: a falling "star" is used as a mystically-powered substance capable of destroying the beast. | ||||||
| 8 | "Princess Metra" | 16 March 1985 | ||||
| In the final episode, Gina is believed to be the long-lost princess Metra in a province where one of the royal household's icons is a 200-year-old John F. Kennedy dollar. Gina accepts the post, and discovers a group of malcontents who don't want to give up their control, as well as rebels who are sick of being controlled. After stopping a potentially murderous coup, the Sterlings introduce democracy. The Kennedy dollar's age makes the Sterlings wonder what year it will be if they ever get home - time appears to pass at a different rate between the respective universes of Earth and Thel. | ||||||
