Background

General Information

The mini-series was such a success that Columbia Pictures decided to make a one-hour (approx 48 minutes edited) weekly TV series based upon the characters of Jack, Tara and Vic. The series performed very poorly in the ratings and was cancelled after only six episodes had been shown. A total of eight episodes were completed with the remaining two having been aired in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Even during the short time it aired fairly sweeping changes were made. The initial title sequence consisted of a collage of publicity style still shots taken against a black background with a voice over by Joe Cortese. Later a far more "flashy" title sequence was put together from some of the special effects shots from the mini-series, with a different voice-over.

Series Senario

With Tara left stranded on Earth by the destruction of the prison ship and her shuttle, she moves in with Jack posing as his cousin. He returns to work and is repeatedly assigned to mysterious cases, which with Tara's help, he usually manages to solve. Throughout the series, there are repeated comic scenes built on cultural misunderstandings between Tara, Jack and others.

The combination of the strong scientific female character of Tara (pronounced T'ra) and the slighty off-beat male cop, is very remaniscent of the X Files.

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Bevis King <B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
12th April 1995