1980s sci-fi show about a family transported through a pyramid?

vegan_vicky

I saw part of a show sometime in the 80s (early or late, I couldn't say) that I have been trying to remember for some time. Figured I never would, because no Google search I ever tried had ever turned up anything, but then the other day a friend mentioned the same show that he had been trying to remember, which rekindled my interest. Here's what I remember: A family is going somewhere with a pyramid (Egypt, museum, etc) and in the process they...

Originally asked by techturtle on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

This sounds like Otherworld (1985): [ Source ] ... the Sterling family take a tour of the interior of the Great Pyramid of Giza at the same time as a once-in-ten-thousand-years conjunction of the planets. Inside, they are abandoned by their guide, and as they try to get out, they are mysteriously transported to another planet which may or may not be in a parallel universe . [...] There is mention in the first episode of a race of humans that created primitive robots and then died out. Eventually the robots became bored and evolved themselves through continued upgrades and modifications until they created what is known as a plasmoid being: an android that was a biomechanical equivalent of a...

Full answer by Oliver_C: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/10859 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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