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(1985)

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9/10
More than what the Sterling family bargained for.
Little-Mikey24 October 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This episode begins with the Sterling family on vacation in Egypt. At the Great Pyramid, the Sterlings meet a young man who offers the family a special tour inside the pyramid for special low price.

The tour is very interesting and the Sterlings are quite pleased until that guide informs them that the price was only for entering the pyramid. Now they must pay another fee to exit out. A confrontation takes place, and the Sterlings find themselves alone in a maze of tunnels and no flash light. So they try to feel their way out, only to fall into what appears to be a well into a torrential river that sweeps the family out into what appears to be some kind of lake or sea.

When they manage to swim to the surface, they find that they are far from the shore. But they see what appears to be a light house and they swim towards the light.

Once on dry land, they meet the Kommander Kroll, a zone trooper who informs the family that they are in a forbidden zone and are promptly arrested for a number of violations. The only way out is to overtake the zone trooper and take off in his vehicle, using the zone trooper's special key. It is at this point that the Sterlings realize that they are now on another world. The big question is how to get back, if it is even possible. As if that wasn't enough, the Sterlings now have the wrath of Kommander Kroll, who is now out for vengeance (not to mention his special key and his vehicle).
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7/10
We're not in Egypt any more
bkoganbing2 November 2017
This was the introductory episode to the short lived series Otherworld where we find the Sterling family on vacation in Egypt where some local tries to hold them up as they tour a pyramid. The family makes a misstep and they feel like Dorothy felt when her house landed in Oz.

They've even inherited their own wicked witch so to speak in Jonathan Banks when they are notified they are in the 'forbidden zone' and have to defend themselves. They steal his futuristic vehicle and Banks's access crystal which allows the Sterlings access to all kinds of places. Like stealing Margaret Hamilton's broom.

When they reach a city they slowly realize that these nice friendly folks around are most sophisticated androids. Young Tony O'Dell falls for one of them Amanda Wyss.

Watching this also put me in mind of Brent Spiner as Data who on Star Trek TNG kept trying to become more human. These androids have truly succeeded. In fact Wyss feels the same about O'Dell and helps the Sterlings.

The plot elements for the series are set, the fugitive Sterlings looking for a way to get back to our world and Jonathan Banks hunting them like Lieutenant Gerard went after Richard Kimble.
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10/10
Promising start with a town full of Datas and Jonathan Banks!
bgaiv19 February 2022
I was one of the few who saw Otherworld first run and liked it. It was over 30 years before I saw this episode again yet I remembered so many details like the grocery store with only ultra generic foods and the girl showing the boy her "soul". She could prove she had a soul but he couldn't!

As another reviewer noted, the town here is essentially a town of TNG's Data androids which retroactively gives it a haunting weight.

It's funny revisiting old shows and how many Jonathan Banks was in, almost always a heavy.
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