7.5/1057 votes#1 - Rules of Attraction
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/26/1985
other characters: Nova, Fred Roach, Mrs. Roach Now fugitives in another dimension, the Sterlings try to settle into their new home; but they soon find out all of the townspeople are androids. Trace, not knowing everyone is an android, falls in love with a young girl android named Nova. Nova must help the Sterlings escape into the Forbidden Zone before the Zone Troopers capture them. She also must decide whether to escape with the Sterlings, leaving her family behind, or let the one she loves go on without her.
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: Roderick Taylor
- 6.8/1039 votes
#2 - The Zone Troopers Build Men
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/1985
The Sterlings settle into a new agricultural town called Tarka. For their safety they use the crystal they stole from Commander Kroll to change their names to the Hardins. Trace Hardin (Sterling) has a lackadaisical attitude towards school, his grades suffer, and he gets a yellow slip - meaning he is drafted into the Zone Troopers. Trace learns that being a Zone Trooper is for life, unless he can figure out some way of escape.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1036 votes
#3 - Paradise Lost
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/9/1985
After the Sterlings are shipwrecked on an island, they find a paradise resort. What nobody knows is that the resort is a cover for using its guests to make a youth sustaining liquid called Koloma. But, June and the kids must save Hal, when Scarla, the director of the resort, tries to seduce him and use him in the liquid making process.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Josef Anderson, Roderick Taylor
- 6.9/1038 votes
#4 - Rock and Roll Suicide
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/16/1985
Now living in Centrex City, Trace and Gina participate in a talent contest at school where they play a ""new"" form of music called Rock and Roll. They are seen by an agent scouting new talent who then makes them famous. The religious organization called the C.A.I. (Church of Artificial Intelligence) sees them as rebelious icons and fights to quiet them by contacting Praetor for help. Praetor, not wanting to be bothered by something so insignificant, sends Kroll.
Director: Roderick Taylor
Writer: Roderick Taylor
- 6.7/1031 votes
#5 - Village of the Motorpigs
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/1985
While wandering in the Seplicer Mountains deep in the Forbidden Zone, the Sterlings are captured by a wild group called the Motorpigs. Hal must challenge the leader to a motor duel in order to escape.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writer: Roderick Taylor
- 7.0/1034 votes
#6 - I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/1985
other characters: Randy When the Sterlings arrive in the matriarchal town Ador, the women of the family are at first pleasantly surprised. Gradually the Sterlings learn men in the this section of Ador are slaves! Complications arise, from which the Sterlings must extricate themselves from.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Roderick Taylor
- 6.8/1025 votes
#7 - Mansion of the Beast
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/1985
While traveling through the dead forest of Animula, the Sterlings encounter a half man-half beast, named Virago, with incredible powers. Virago takes June to be his companion. Assisted by another forest resident named Akin, Hal and the kids try to rescue her.
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: Roderick Taylor
- 8.1/1033 votes
#8 - Princess Metra
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/16/1985
other characters: Thell After arriving at a province called Metraplex, Gina is mistaken for a returning historical figure called Princess Metra. Seeing that groups of people called Microworkers are used as slave labor by the Macrolites, Gina takes advantage of her status by changing the laws to bing about change; and ultimately gets help from a group of rebelling Microworkers. However, the current leader, called the Prime Manager, does not give up her power willingly.
Director: Peter Medak
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Otherworld Season 1
Every episode of Otherworld Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Otherworld Season 1!
Otherworld is an American science fiction series that aired for only eight episodes from January 26 to March 16, 1985 on CBS. It was created...
Genre:Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:CBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Rules of Attraction" is the best rated episode of "Otherworld" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by William A. Graham and written by Roderick Taylor, it aired on 1/26/1985. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Zone Troopers Build Men".