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==Summary==
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"Beyond the beyond, at the edge of within:  the Otherworld."  "''Lost in Space'' - on Earth!"  A family searches for a way out of a bizarre parallel world.

==Details==
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* Release Date:  1985
* Country/Language:  US, English
* Genres/Technical:  Science Fiction, Fantasy
* Setting:  [[1980s]] [[Dreamlands]]
* Runtime:  (generally formatted for a one-hour commercial television slot)
* Starring:  Sam Groom, Gretchen Corbett, Tony O'Dell
* Creator:  Roderick Taylor, Bruce A. Taylor
* Producer/Production Co:  Universal Television, CBS
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8idvQeM0kA link])
* TV Show Website:  ([http://www.otherworldonline.org/ link])
* TVTropes: ([http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Otherworld link])
* IMDB Page:  ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088587/ link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===
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* Rated:  (not rated) (equivalent to a 1980s family TV-friendly PG for mild Violence, and very mild Violence Adult Content and Profanity)

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* John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV, ([http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2008/11/cult-tv-flashback-62-otherworld-1985.html link]) - "To be certain, the show wasn't always great (and some episodes were downright bizarre and surreal...) but -- also like ''Star Trek'' before it - ''Otherworld'' boasted a weird, attractive sort of charm; a quirky, individual sense of humor and ''joie de vivre'' that could, for the most part, gloss over the budgetary inadequacies and the occasionally trite writing."


==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==
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"Other worlds lie outside our seeing. Beyond the beyond. At the edge... of within. The Great Pyramid: erected by the ancient ones as a barricade. At the portal between two dimensions, two separate realities. This is the story of one family, drawn through a mysterious vortex into the other world -- and of their perilous trek homeward."  Thrown into another dimension, a family must keep ahead of a tyrannical state's hunters while following a series of strange, ancient "signposts" to a distant city in their search for a way home.


==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===
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===Associated Mythos Elements===
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* location:  Thel, a vaguely Egyptian-themed parallel world with a crystal-power-based technology, comprised of many different self-contained provinces, each with its own way of life and separated by an oppressively patrolled "Forbidden Zone", governed by a tyrannical dictatorship with an army of jack-booted Zone Troopers.
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** Sarlex, a city inhabited by "plasmoid replicants"
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** The Dead Forest of Animula
** Centrex City
* race:  "plasmoid replicants" - biomechanical androids that look indistinguishable from humans
* cult:  The Signpost Astrologers of Otherworld
* cult:  Church of Artificial Intelligence, the official state religion of Thel


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* A group of investigators exploring ancient pre-human ruins stumble through a mysterious portal into [[Dreamlands|a strange parallel world]], and must travel through a series of isolated lands similar to those of our world, but each with its own strange customs,  technologies, and buried secrets, to find their way home.  

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