The Broadcast FossilBoomer
A normal suburban family visits the Great Pyramid of Giza and accidentally slips through a dimensional portal into an authoritarian world divided into strange provinces. Roderick Taylor built a remarkably ambitious sci-fi concept on standard CBS backlots and soundstages. The plastic armor and studio smoke looked wonderfully theatrical, anchored by solid character acting. The network buried it on Saturday nights and canceled it after eight weeks. It remains a fascinating relic of mid-eighties high-concept television that deserved room to breathe.
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