OFF: Amber Revisited

[M Holmes]

Chris Warburton writes:

> Andy Gilham wrote:
> >P.S. To the yanks: Over xmas here there was a film that looked like a
> >pilot for a series. It had this woman trip through from an alternate
> >world escaping some bad guys who were working for "Dark Lords". She >was
> helped by a hospital Doctor and they both escaped her pursuers to
> >another alternate America where all the oil had been destroyed in the
> >Gulf War. her pursuers tacked 'em down again and after a battle they
> >escaped to yet another...
> >
> >Not a great film but I'm curious as to whether a series ever appeared?
> >

> I missed this, what was it - as well as sounding Amberish, also sounds a bit
> like Silverbergs "World of Tiers"

Wasn't that Phillip Jose Farmer? Not that I read it y'unerstan'

The other details that I can remember were that the woman had some sort
of ray gun and also a tracker device which told her where a gate to
another parallel universe would open and when. It also told her when her
ex "master" who was referred to as a "manhound" was tracking her on the
same parallel. The manhounds boss was a Dark Lord who was in a bubble
chamber on some kinda high tech hovercraft. The implication being
presumably that they were aliens who'd taken over Earth in some parallel.

Not great TV. The pilot set it up that she had the doc's sympathies and
he was now trapped into her flight from the Bad Guys since he couldn't
get back to his own plane without figuring the technology of her pursuers.