Otherworld
1 9 8 5 (USA)
Hal and June Sterling were on a sight-seeing trip with their
three children - Trace (18), Gina (17) and Smith (11) - when their
lives took a very bizarre twist. While touring the Great
Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt the family became lost inside the
labyrinths and inadvertently passed through a portal to a strange
parallel universe (don't you hate it when that happens?).
The world in which they found themselves was called Thel - a
planet ruled by the Church of Artificial Intelligence and kept in
line by ruthless Zone Troopers.
Thel was full of radically different societies, each inhabiting
its own province. The Sterlings set about making their way through
the various provinces to Imar, capital of Thel and home to
Signpost Astrologers who had the power to return them to their own
universe.
Along the way the family came across a mining town run by
human-like androids, a society in which families were against the
law, and a pleasure resort that killed its guests to obtain from
their bodies a substance that could give eternal youth to
others.
Each week the Sterlings found themselves in a new environment
where they had to try and fit in while keeping their identities
secret. Hot on their trail was the malevolent Kommander Nuveen
Kroll, whose mysterious 'access crystal' they had stolen when they
first stumbled into Otherworld.
Otherworld was first telecast on January 26, 1985, and
originally screened on Saturdays on CBS from 8.00-9.00PM
EPISODES
Rules of Attraction | The Zone Troopers Build Men | Paradise Lost
| Rock and Roll Suicide | Village of the Motorpigs | I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
| Mansion of the Beast | Princess Metra
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