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Otherworld
Otherworld
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Otherworld

5.4 / 10
1985
1 season
8 episodes
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Otherworld is an American science fiction series that aired for only eight episodes from January 26 to March 16, 1985 on CBS. It was created by Roderick Taylor as a sort of Lost in Space on Earth. Taylor gave himself a cameo role in each episode.

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Otherworld Intro and Credits

Cast

Gretchen Corbett

Tony O'Dell

Jonathan Banks

Jonna Lee

Sam Groom

C

Chris Hebert

W

Wayne Alexander

Brandon Crane

Michael Ensign

John Astin

Amanda Wyss

Robert O'Reilly

Seasons

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.

  • Ep 1

    1.Rules of Attraction

    1.0
    26-01-1985

    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...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Zone Troopers Build Men

    1.0
    02-02-1985

    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...

  • Ep 3

    3.Paradise Lost

    09-02-1985

    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 liqu...

  • Ep 4

    4.Rock and Roll Suicide

    16-02-1985

    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 scouti...

  • Ep 5

    5.Village of the Motorpigs

    23-02-1985

    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 due...

  • Ep 6

    6.I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar

    02-03-1985

    other characters: Randy When the Sterlings arrive in the matriarchal town Ador, the women of the family are at first pleasantly surprised. Gradually the Sterlings learn men in t...

  • Ep 7

    7.Mansion of the Beast

    09-03-1985

    While traveling through the dead forest of Animula, the Sterlings encounter a half man-half beast, named Virago, with incredible powers. Virago takes June to be his companion. As...

  • Ep 8

    8.Princess Metra

    16-03-1985

    other characters: Thell After arriving at a province called Metraplex, Gina is mistaken for a returning historical figure called Princess Metra. Seeing that groups of people cal...

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