Quark is a American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin. The pilot first aired May 7, 1977, and the show followed as being a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The show was cancelled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the spy spoof Get Smart. The series was set onto a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow running out of United Galaxies Space-station Perma One at the Season 2226. Adam Quark, the main character, works to clean up trash in space by collecting"space baggies" with his trusted and highly peculiar crew. In its short term, Quark satirized including science fiction like Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Flash Gordon. Three of those episodes were direct satires of Star Trek episodes. The show won one Emmy Award nomination, for costume designer Grady Hunt's job from the event"Each of the Emperor's Quasi-Norms, Part two". The whole show was released on DVD on October 14, 2008.