Hindsight being 20-20, we know that the sitcom Quark was an obscure failure in the late seventies, a show that attempted to capitalize on the Star Wars fever that gripped America by doing a sci-fi sitcom. It had a good pedigree (Buck Henry created it, for goodness sake!) but it only lasted eight episodes.
But before Quark failed, there was hope. Starlog, which basically covered EVERYTHING that had anything to do with sci-fi and fantasy, featured a writeup on the show before it even aired. Here is that write-up, a preview of the first episode.
