Ok, this has been bugging me for a long time, and Google Answers has
worked for me before, so here goes.

I want to know everything possible about an 80's sci-fi television
show.  Unfortunately, I don't remember its title, and I was too young
at the time, so the memories that I do have are quite vague.  Here are
the things that I remember:

 - It's set in the future on a possibly non-earth or altered-earth
world.  Helpful, right?
 - The story is about a family.  Probably including a father, mother,
daughter, and I think the youngest was the son.
 - The family is running, or they are in trouble, or they are in the
wrong time period (or all of the above).
 - I distinctly remember the laser guns used by the people that were
chasing the family.  They looked like pistols, except they were held
upside down.  There was a plunger/button on the top of the handle, and
the weapon was fired by pushing the plunger with the opposite hand.
 - The image of a dollar bill was somehow significant, particularly
the pyramid with an eye.
 - Sewers.  I remember city streets at night, manholes, and a sewer
system were the scene for one chase.

I don’t know if this was a miniseries, TV movie, or just one episode
in a TV series.  It could've even been a movie that just happened to
be on TV, but I remember it being pretty bad, so I doubt that is the
case.  I would place this show sometime in the early to mid-80s, and
it was definitely before the 90s.  Good luck, and I look forward to
finding out more.

Hello.

Your show was probably "Otherworld" which aired on CBS in the
mid-1980s.

See this newsgroup message archived by  Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22tv+series%22+pyramid+%22dollar+bill%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=39hjnd%2418a%40umd5.umd.edu&rnum=2&filter=0

More information about Otherworld:
Innermind.com Otherworld guide:
http://www.innermind.com/myguides/guides/otherw.htm

An AOL fan page about Otherworld:
http://members.aol.com/VTWriter/Otherworld.html

search strategy: "tv series", pyramid, "dollar bill"

I hope this helps.

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Request for Answer Clarification by skirch-ga on 01 Nov 2002 08:18 PST

Thanks for the answer juggler, unfortunately, alan_dershowitz beat you
to it by about 20 minutes.  Since yours isn't really any more
thorough, I don't feel like I should have to pay for it.  I don't know
what the rules are, but it seems like common sense to me.  I would
think that this is a fairly common problem with Google Answers, and
I'm sure there's a precedent for it.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 01 Nov 2002 08:58 PST

Skirch,
Well, the funny thing is that at the time I locked the question
yesterday, alan_dershowitz's comments did not appear on my screen.
Through some quirk in the system, alan_dershowitz was able to post a
comment in the split-second or so after I locked the question. Thus,
at the time I locked the question, I had no idea that alan_dershowitz
had provided you with an answer. I located the information about
"Otherworld" through my own search, not through alan_dershowitz's
information. I suggest that if you email the editors at
answers-editors@google.com  , perhaps they will be able to verify to
you the time that I locked the question (at or before 13:36 when
alan_dershowitz posted his comments) and explain to you how this
happened.
Regards,
juggler

I remember this show...somehow the family was able to transport
through time(?) dimensions(?) through pyramids.  That relates to the
pyramid eye on the currency...I remember liking this show(?) a lot
myself...will be interested to see your answer... :)

Lisa

It was called "otherworld".

http://epguides.com/Otherworld/

The only thing I remember was the pyramid with the eye being a
reference to the government on that other world, and an old guy in the
parallel dimension I believe had a dollar bill, of course with the
illuminati symbol on the back.