According to the writers, this show picked up a 40% adult audience for Saturday mornings and rivaled prime time in its view numbers. If the show hadn't been so expensive, they would have done more episodes.
George Takei, of Star Trek, wrote and commented on his episode. He is a boring commentator. The actors who played Will and Holly mostly joked the whole time and laughed at their own bad acting.
I'd forgotten about the really weird and sometimes freaky banjo playing for the soundtrack. Too cool.
The original series was meant to be a loop from the beginning, so that when you hit the end in the endless reruns, you flip around naturally. Coolness.
David Gerrald, the story writer, actually wanted this to work as an SF series. And it does. The scripts and acting are usually better than Enterprise. And Voyager. And Andromeda. That ain't too shabby for twenty minutes of story (or a sad, sad commentary on the state of SF today).
