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Quark is an NBC science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin. The pilot aired on May 7, 1977, and the series premiered in February 1978 as a midseason replacement. In April 1978, the show was canceled. Buck Henry, co-creator of the spy parody Get Smart, invented Quark. The episode was set in the year 2226 on a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an intergalactic garbage scow based at United Galaxies Space Station Perma One. The main character, Adam Quark, tries to clean up rubbish in space by collecting "space baggies" with his dependable and odd team. Quark satirized science fiction films including Star Wars,2001: A Space Odyssey, and Flash Gordon throughout its brief tenure. Three of the episodes were direct parodies of Star Trek episodes. The episode "All the Emperor's Quasi-Norms, Part 2" received one Emmy nomination for costume designer Grady Hunt's work. On October14,2008, the full series was released on DVD.