Otherworld
Otherworld was a short-lived science fiction TV series that aired in 1985 on CBS. It was created by Roderick Taylor as a sort of Lost in Space on Earth. Taylor gave himself a cameo role in each episode.In the first episode, 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 a parallel universe Earth.
On this Earth, there are no familiar countries or states. The area they are in is divided up into self-contained "Zones," each with a wildly different style of government and way of life.
Each episode had the family dealing with the bizarre ways of life in each "Zone," and at the end of the episode, fleeing one Zone for another, pursued by Zone Commander Nuveen Kroll (Jonathan Banks).
While most science fiction dealing with alternate universes has a recogizable point of departure (POD) from Earth history as we know it, Otherworld did not. Aside from everyone conveniently speaking English, there were no references to any known Earth history. However, it was implied that the ancient Egyptianss either had the ability to travel between universes, or had contact with a people that did.
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The series was also re-shown at least once on the Sci Fi channel.