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Hey there i just joined  finally i found some where that the show exists. Have been looking for the show for over 10 years now . Thought it must of been a figment of my Imagination  been watching the shows on the main site for Otherworld. Seem to be having Problems of lag or something on episode 6. Is that my end or is any one else having the same prob with that episode ??

I just realized Marjoe Gortner played Chalktrauma!

For those of you who don't know, Marjoe was Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, generally known as Marjoe Gortner, a former revivalist  who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s when he became the youngest ordained  preacher  at the age of four, and then outright notoriety in the 1970s when he starred in an Oscar-winning, behind-the-scenes documentary about the lucrative business of Pentecostal preaching. The name "Marjoe" is a portmanteau  of the names "Mary" and "Joseph".

Marjoe was a precocious child preacher with extraordinary talents, who was immensely popular in the American South. His parents earned large sums of money off him up until the point he outgrew his novelty. Marjoe rejoined the ministry as a young adult solely as a means of earning a living, and not as a believer; he spent the next several years using his fame and status as an evangelist to defraud a small fortune out of individuals both through tent revivals and televangelism.

Eventually, Gortner suffered a crisis of conscience and decided to renounce his ways, offering the documentary film crew unrestricted access to him during his final revival tour, repeatedly admitting on camera that he was a con-artist and revealing the tactics used by himself and other evangelists to swindle money from people

During the episode, you can hear at one point Chalktrauma speaking a strange language as he "prays for guidance". This is exactly the kind of babble Marjoe would make up when pretending to speak in tongues.

He made a good number of TV and movie appearances in an attempt to make it big in Hollywood, though he never really struck gold. Otherwise finds might also recall him from the disastrously camp movie "Star Crash".

So what's the name of the font used in the Otherworld credits, and I see here on this web site?

What people call "Planetary Alignments" happen more often than you might think.

In astronomy, a syzygy is the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line. The word is usually used in context with the Sun, Earth, and the Moon  or a planet, where the latter is in conjunction or opposition. Solar  and lunar eclipses occur at times of syzygy, as do transits and occultations. The term is also applied to each instance of new moon  or full moon when Sun and Moon are in conjunction or opposition, even though they are not precisely on one line with the Earth.

The word 'syzygy' is often loosely used to describe interesting configurations of planets in general. For example, one such case occurred on March 21, 1894 at around 23:00 GMT, when Mercury transited the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both simultaneously transited the Sun as seen from Saturn. It is also used to describe situations when all the planets are on the same side of the Sun although they are not necessarily found along a straight line, such as on March 10, 1982.

The more common, mystically associated alignments are usually when all nine planets align "perfectly". Perfectly being relative. Remember, this is space, and space is pretty vast. So when someone tells you about, say, all nine planets aligning, they could mean when all the planets are within a the same couple of degrees of arc relative to the sun. This still has them millions of miles off an imaginary straight line.

While it is of course possible that you could have a moment where you could draw a line through the center of MOST of the planets of the solar system, you'll never get all nine easily, because we have some planets that have eccentricities in their orbital planes.

I'd have to check, but I think the odds are in favor of the universe coming to an end before all nine planets in our solar system are in perfect, truly straight-line alignment.

Also worth noting that the distance between the planets is so far apart, that even when they are aligned, even relatively close to that imaginary straight line, there's no special gravitational forces of at work. Just a blip on the radar some people find important, but not cosmologically significant.

I found some pictures of Nova (Amanda Wyss from Rules of Attraction), then and now.

Wow, an Otherworld music video! That's something else. I never knew this existed.

Found this pic , it looks a lot like the three wheeled police cars from Princess Metra

http://www.flickr.com/groups/transport-images-group/discuss/72157621951803113/

Found this site on a Google search http://forgottentelevision.com/science%20fiction/otherworld.htm

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You're right. I really thought I was going crazy!
Not a single person I mentioned this show to had any idea what I was talking about. It's like the Big Trak (which they are bringing back BTW) or the Star Trek walkie Talkies (the originals that were big, blue, had an chrome extension antenna, and of course a flip cover). Anyone I talk to and I bring up any of these items doesn't have a clue what I'm talking about and looks at me as if I have a third eye growing out of my forehead. It's as if I lived in a parrallel 80's. Some remember Automan but none remember Otherworld. If it wasn't for the fact that I vividly recall most of the episodes I quite frankly would think I had a few sandwhiches shy of a picknick.

But here it is, proof! A whole site dedicated to it and a forum full of people who when on that marvellous journey with me.

(Please don't hate me because I can't spell. I have a good reason. I was always at home watching shows like these instead of going to school or doing homework. And hey, now I'm a highly experienced and extremely qulified I.T. guru who still can't spell! Go figure.)

Chip,

They are also available on www.stagevu.com .  They are in AVI / DIVX format, you can even download the AVI's to your PC.

I downloaded them last week, then used a copy of Movie Edit Pro to convert them to VOB files and DVD shrink to create a 4 DVD set of the series with 2 episodes on each DVD.  I've only previewed a few scenes so far, but they look pretty good; especially when you consider these are probably VHS recordings conversted to AVI, then converted to VOB and DVD.

All you have to do is download the DIVX Codec to your PC to watch them.  no need to download the entire DIVX viewer.  In fact, I found that just loading the CODEC was better because it doesn't try to take over all of your other viewers.

Best of luck

The big geek