Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

elcutach This series combines elements of Lost in Space, assorted time traveler shows and The Fugitive. The cast is competent but none of them ever became stars. The two whom I remember are Gretchen Corbett, who was a regular for awhile on The Rockford Files, and Johnathan Banks, who is still active and makes his living with guest spots as various menacing types-gangsters and other unpleasant persons. Herein he appears as a Zone Trooper in pursuit of the hapless family.In each episode they change provinces. The gimmick is that each province is of an entirely different socio-economic system in which the family of fugitives must attempt to conceal themselves. The major premise being that the fugitives are on an alternate earth: all the provinces vary in time periods based on earth history, which means there are no elaborate special effects, space ship sets, etc. Chep enough to make, this series still did not get high enough ratings to warrant renewal; this was a hole filler until something better came along. Still worth watching for the clever bits, but it will never even rival the erstwhile Buck Rogers seres which hung on for two seasons..

LepricahnsGold When this show was on the air, I was in high school. I thought the show had lots of imagination. Some episodes worked, others didn't. But when they worked, they were great! I just wish there had been more episodes produced. I think there were only like 8 episodes made.

zardoz12 I think "Otherworld" was a mid-season replacement for something else that was quickly replaced in it's turn...Thanks to "tvtome.com" in the last five minutes I found out that the show only ran for 8 episodes, making it the shortest lived SciFi program I know of. Like another IMdB reviewer, I have vague memories of the show; I remember the android town, the episode where the son gets drafted, the woman's town where the son is auctioned off (!) I also have really vague memories of the primitive "Mad Max/The Hills Have Eyes" people they run across, the rock and roll episode, and their retelling of "Beauty and the Beast." The one episode I have the most memories of is the one where their hot air balloon (!) is shot down by some townies and the daughter is mistaken as the town's queen. That episode sticks in my mind due to the long computer effects scene where the girl is brainwashed into thinking she is this ruler, who I think also came from earth. The composer really got to show off his synthesizer work there, as did the Amiga "Video Toaster" guy who did the visual effects. But I'm rambling...What burns me about the show is that the family never leaves the "Otherworld", which is a problem for "quest" shows that are cancelled. Also, every episode was the same thing over and over just in a different setting, as another reviewer pointed out; heck, I misremembered the "primitive people" show and the "Beauty and the Beast" show as parts of one episode! I remember "TV Guide" running a joke article in 1986 featuring memos from the characters of certain shows to their networks; the father of the "Otherworld" clan begged for CBS to continue the show because his family was still stuck in that other dimension! "From nothing to nothing" should be the motto of the producers of this show.

drbanks As a television show, Otherworld was a train wreck. And like a train wreck, it's hard to keep one's eyes off it. In trying to portray the typical American family, fallen into a different dimension, they take the viewer to a hideously different dimension of bad taste and poor acting.Because of this short glimpse into how people in another universe fail to entertain or be entertained, I myself became an addict. It actually had some interesting stylistic touches in those few moments when it wasn't being completely predictable and offensive.Highly recommended for someone searching for a diversion from British Science Fiction programming.