Ark II
After Earth has been devastated by years of pollution and nuclear war, a group of scientists send out a team of young people as well as an intelligent chimpanzee to seek out the surviving pockets of human beings in order to help rebuild civilization. Also, as they meet these people they take time to teach them valuable life lessons along the way.
- 1976-1976
- 1 season
- CBS
- Action & Adventure, Family, Science Fiction
After Earth has been devastated by years of pollution and nuclear war, a group of scientists send out a team of young people as well as an intelligent chimpanzee to seek out the surviving pockets of human beings in order to help rebuild civilization. Also, as they meet these people they take time to teach them valuable life lessons along the way.
Season 1 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 1976
Episode 1
The Flies
Sat, Sep 11, 1976 23 mins
A band of orphans led by the thieving Fagon have found canisters of poison gas that they plan to use against the bullying War Lords. The Ark II crew must intervene to prevent mass murder.
Episode 2
The Slaves
Sat, Sep 18, 1976 23 mins
Jonah is captured by Baron Vargas, a tyrant who uses magic to enslave his superstitious subjects. Ruth, Samuel and Adam must conjure up some scientific magic of their own to free their friend and break the Baron's spell.
Episode 3
The Wild Boy
Sat, Sep 25, 1976 23 mins
The crew of the ARK steps in to protect a feral boy from angry villagers. Strange pulsating crystals unearthed by Jonah have a troubling side effect.
Episode 4
The Robot
Sat, Oct 2, 1976 23 mins
Samuel creates a robot that could prove useful when exploring a sector permeated by a strange gas, but Jonah is unwilling to allow Alpha-One to assist and orders him deactivated. Alphie has other ideas.
Episode 5
Omega
Sat, Oct 9, 1976 23 mins
The ARK encounters a community enslaved by a sentient super-computer housed in a black monolith. Samuel succumbs to the computer's control, jeopardizing Jonah's plan to deactivate it.
Episode 6
The Tank
Sat, Oct 16, 1976 23 mins
The Ark II comes upon a village that forbids machinery. Will they reconsider when a functional 20th-century battle tank could aid in the rescue of their leader's daughter, who was abducted by marauding scavengers?
Episode 7
The Cryogenic Man
Sat, Oct 23, 1976 23 mins
The ARK crew unwittingly opens a Pandora's Box of pollution when they revive a 20th Century business tycoon determined to kick-start production of his trademark toxic chemical fertilizer.
Episode 8
The Rule
Sat, Oct 30, 1976 23 mins
The Ark comes upon a community in bondage to The Rule, a merciless civil code that commands the elderly, disabled and sick be exiled from the village.
Episode 9
Robin Hood
Sat, Nov 6, 1976 23 mins
When a tyrant hoards grain to create fuel while his people starve, a post-apocalyptic Robin Hood arises to right the wrong. The ARK arrives hoping to mitigate the mayhem and mediate a peaceful solution.
Episode 10
The Drought
Sat, Nov 13, 1976 23 mins
During a devastating drought, Fagon and his Flies return and hijack the ARK in an attempt to secure a time capsule containing a cloud-seeding device. A primitive tribe that worships the time capsule has captured Ruth, Samuel and Adam.
Episode 11
The Lottery
Sat, Nov 20, 1976 23 mins
A tyrant employs a rigged lottery as a means of exiling those who threaten his power to an alternate dimension called the Forbidden Zone.
Episode 12
The Mind Group
Sat, Nov 27, 1976 23 mins
The Ark returns to War Lord Brack's territory in search of three abducted children. The youths possess paranormal powers of telepathy and telekinesis and distrust all "speakers" alike, including the crew of the Ark.
Episode 13
The Balloon
Sat, Dec 4, 1976 23 mins
Red balloons bring word of an epidemic sweeping an isolated community, but its xenophobic leader is resistant to allowing the Ark to enter with a vaccine.
Episode 14
Don Quixote
Sat, Dec 11, 1976 23 mins
The ARK crew's efforts to disarm ancient explosives are complicated by a latter-day Don Quixote who is convinced the ARK is a giant white dragon and Jonah his nemesis the Black Knight.
Episode 15
Orkus
Sat, Dec 18, 1976 23 mins
Ruth and Adam suffer rapid advanced aging after exposure to gas from a lake polluted by Orkus, despot of a domed community of immortal elites who is also scheming to steal the ARK to generate power for his dying city.
