StuOz The world as we know it has come to an end and two duds, a young woman and a talking chimp are in a fancy space age bus attempting to re- start the human race.I watched all 15 episodes as a child in the 1970s and I re-watched all 15 episodes in 2014 (on YouTube). Made by the makers of Shazam! (1974), I still like this show after all these years.I almost view Ark II as a sister show to Shazam! as both shows deal with a large vehicle, with two or three people inside, driving around helping people in need. However, Shazam! is set in the 1970s and Ark II is set in earth's distant future.If you are a fan of the Planet Of The Apes TV series (1974), Star Trek (1966) and Lost In Space (1965) you will get a blast out of Ark II as the series has cross overs to those shows.Both Shazam! and Ark II also have very good music scores playing over the shows that are so good you end up playing the scores in your head days after watching the episodes.It is too bad Ark II has only 15 short 23 minute episodes as after watching the whole series back to back...the whole thing sort of comes and goes too fast.Also, during the whole 15 episodes we never find out anything about the three leads as they never make much small talk, they never talk much about earth's past, they never fall in love, they just follow the storyline of the scripts and never make personal comments. This is not a bad thing as many shows these days have too much characterization but this does give Ark II an empty feeling after watching the whole series.Ark II might not be perfect and the opening episode with Jonathan Harris is rather poor and empty, but the series has some treasures. My favourite episode is called - The Tank - which involves a lad driving around the countryside in a not so deadly tank.

JoeB131 I remember this show from when I was a teenager. Of course as a teen, I remember how hot I thought the Asian babe was in my pre-pubescent way. Now I realize she couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag, and not surprisingly, this is one of her few IMDb credits.Okay, long and short of it, this was the bad old days of the 1970's, when animation was too expensive to do for kiddie shows, so they got no-name actors to drive around in a really cool RV visiting all these people dressed in rags and eating dirt, apparently. I think it was trying too hard to be cool, with a multi-racial cast and giving the characters biblical names.The show also featured appearances by washed up actors working for Booze money, including Lost in Space's Jonathan Harris, Gilligan's Island's Jim Baucus, and Robbie the Robot from Forbidden Planet.Today's kids are much luckier, the writers actually treat them like they have brains.

jdhoffman29 but I can't remember the name of it. Anybody remember a similar show like Ark II but with a space theme? Only thing I clearly remember is one of the kids on the show, who I *think* was an alien, was able to see anything colored red thru walls. If anybody knows what the hell i'm talking about, I'd sure like to know the name. I bought Ark II when i saw it in the store thinking this was it but it's not although I do remember this Ark show dimly ( I was 5 when this came out). I know there were tons of these mid warping shows back then but hopefully somebody can jog my memory on this one. Thanks in advance for your help!Jeff

cyclone259 I haven't seen ARK II in years and so my memory is cloudy as to the moralistic / preaching slant to the show, although I can believe it.As a child, I remembered loving the 'futuristic' R.V. they traveled in and some of the other gadgetry. I also recall 'Robbie The Robot' somewhere in the mix, although I'm not sure if he was part of the permanent cast.As I said before, I don't recall the overt dogma of the show, but after watching one re-run of 'Shazam!' recently on TV Land, with it's awful production values and tent-revival dialogue about moralism it makes me thankful that for the most part that era has passed for network t.v.