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Otherworld 1

1985-01-26 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 8 episodes
Overview
During a business trip in Egypt, Hal Sterling takes a break to go with his family to visit the pyramids. Unexpectedly, the family is drawn into a space-time vortex and transported to a new, completely different world. Each episode of Otherworld is about the Sterling family's journey to a new, completely different seeming province of this new world, in their continuing quest to find a place called Emar, and there to find a way back to Earth.

1 Season

Episode

Rules of Attraction (1985)

other characters: Nova, Fred Roach, Mrs. Roach Now fugitives in another dimension, the Sterlings try to settle into their new home; but they soon find out all of the townspeople are androids. Trace, not knowing everyone is an android, falls in love with a young girl android named Nova. Nova must help the Sterlings escape into the Forbidden Zone before the Zone Troopers capture them. She also must decide whether to escape with the Sterlings, leaving her family behind, or let the one she loves go on without her.

Rules of Attraction poster

Directed By

William A. Graham

Writer

Roderick Taylor

The Zone Troopers Build Men (1985)

The Sterlings settle into a new agricultural town called Tarka. For their safety they use the crystal they stole from Commander Kroll to change their names to the Hardins. Trace Hardin (Sterling) has a lackadaisical attitude towards school, his grades suffer, and he gets a yellow slip - meaning he is drafted into the Zone Troopers. Trace learns that being a Zone Trooper is for life, unless he can figure out some way of escape.

The Zone Troopers Build Men poster

Directed By

Richard Compton

Paradise Lost (1985)

After the Sterlings are shipwrecked on an island, they find a paradise resort. What nobody knows is that the resort is a cover for using its guests to make a youth sustaining liquid called Koloma. But, June and the kids must save Hal, when Scarla, the director of the resort, tries to seduce him and use him in the liquid making process.

Paradise Lost poster

Directed By

Thomas J. Wright

Writer

Josef Anderson

Rock and Roll Suicide (1985)

Now living in Centrex City, Trace and Gina participate in a talent contest at school where they play a ""new"" form of music called Rock and Roll. They are seen by an agent scouting new talent who then makes them famous. The religious organization called the C.A.I. (Church of Artificial Intelligence) sees them as rebelious icons and fights to quiet them by contacting Praetor for help. Praetor, not wanting to be bothered by something so insignificant, sends Kroll.

Rock and Roll Suicide poster

Directed By

Roderick Taylor

Writer

Roderick Taylor

Village of the Motorpigs (1985)

While wandering in the Seplicer Mountains deep in the Forbidden Zone, the Sterlings are captured by a wild group called the Motorpigs. Hal must challenge the leader to a motor duel in order to escape.

Village of the Motorpigs poster

Directed By

Paul Michael Glaser

Writer

Roderick Taylor

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