Series synopsis
Out of This World is an American sci-fi & fantasy comedy kids television series that premiered on NBC on September 17, 1987. It ended on May 25, 1991. It was created by John Boni, Bob Booker. It stars Maureen Flannigan, Donna Pescow, Doug McClure and Joe Alaskey.
Out Of This World is an American fantasy sitcom about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers. It first aired in syndication from September 17, 1987 and ended on May 25, 1991.
During its first season, the series was originally part of NBC's Prime Time Begins at 7:30 campaign, in which the network's owned-and-operated stations would run first-run sitcoms in the 7:30-8 pm time slot to counterprogram competing stations' game shows, sitcom reruns and other offer ...
Premise
Out Of This World is an American fantasy sitcom about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers. It first aired in syndication from September 17, 1987 and ended on May 25, 1991.
During its first season, the series was originally part of NBC's Prime Time Begins at 7:30 campaign, in which the network's owned-and-operated stations would run first-run sitcoms in the 7:30-8 pm time slot to counterprogram competing stations' game shows, sitcom reruns and other offerings. Out of This World was rotated with the original series Marblehead Manor and She's the Sheriff, a syndicated revival of the 1983 sitcom We Got It Made, and a television adaptation of the play You Can't Take It With You. NBC ended the experiment after the 1987-88 season due to the low ratings put up by three of the series, with Out of This World being one of the two that was renewed. After its first season the series was largely moved to weekend time slots, where it remained until its cancellation following the fourth season.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Maureen Flannigan as Evie Ethel Garland
- Donna Pescow as Donna Garland
- Doug McClure as Kyle X. Applegate
- Joe Alaskey as Beano Froelich
- Steve Burton as Chris Fuller
- Buzz Belmondo as Buzz
- Christina Nigra as Lindsay Selkirk
- Burt Reynolds as Troy Garland
Guest cast
- Larry Storch
- Marilyn Borden as Buffalo Breath Twin
- Rosalyn Borden as Buffalo Breath Twin
- Charles Nelson Reilly
- Scott Carpenter as Special Guest Star
- Scott Nemes as Alex
- Lucy Lee Flippin as Shirley Wilkins
- David Doyle as Star Dog (voice)
- Nicholas Worth as Burglar
- Daniel Riordan as Burglar
- Corky as Star Dog
- Marius Mazmanian as François the Maitre D'
Episodes
This series spans 4 seasons with 96 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 24 | September 17, 1987 | May 26, 1988 |
| Season 2 | 24 | October 8, 1988 | June 3, 1989 |
| Season 3 | 24 | October 7, 1989 | June 9, 1990 |
| Season 4 | 24 | October 6, 1990 | May 25, 1991 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Evie's Thirteenth Birthday After thirteen years of keeping Evie's identity from her, Donna is forced to reveal the truth at her thirteenth birthday party when Evie exhibits a special, alien power that enables her to freeze time. Evie learns she's half alien and that her father is from the planet Antareus--not a CIA agent as her mother has been telling her all along. She is given her father's gift of the cube, a genetic device which allows her to speak to her father on Antareus. Although anyone can hear her father over the cube, her father can only hear Evie. |
September 17, 1987 |
| 2 |
Playing With the Power Evie misuses her new power to win a gift certificate and a basketball game. Her father grounds her by taking away her power for a week as punishment. |
September 24, 1987 |
| 3 |
The Nightmare Evie is plagued by a bad dream about becoming a monster when she grows up. |
October 1, 1987 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Evie's Birthday Wish Evie is turning 14 and her birthday gift from her father is four wishes. |
October 8, 1988 |
| 2 |
Blast From the Past After hearing about how her parents met, Evie decides to gleep herself back in time. But when she ruins their meeting, Evie has to arrange their meeting. |
October 15, 1988 |
| 3 |
Career Crunch The time has finally come for Donna when she opens up her new catering business called "Donna's Delights", but when Evie accidentally gleaps the cookies for one of Donna's parties into space cookies, that put people to sleep, it is up to Beano to try and get the cookies before anyone eats them. |
October 22, 1988 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Evie's Sweet Sixteen Evie is turning 16 and Troy, once again, has another spectacular gift for her. Troy gives Evie a list of ten powers to try out throughout the day and she has until midnight to decide which one of the ten powers that she would like to keep. |
October 7, 1989 |
| 2 |
Cinderella Evie When Donna refuses to buy Evie a new dress for a senior party at the Ritz Marlowe, Evie gleaps up the dress so that she can look stunning, but doesn't realize that there is going to be a major gleap out at midnight which will reverse the gleap that she made. |
October 14, 1989 |
| 3 |
Bring Me the Head of Donna Garland Beano decides to act as a magician for an amateur's night, but when he uses Evie as an assistant to try out a ""Disappearing Act"" on Donna, Donna disappear's into another dimension because of Evie's powers, and when Donna starts to reappear, the only thing that comes back is her head. |
October 21, 1989 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
New Kid on the Block There's a new guy in town and Evie makes a date with him so she can show him around Marlowe to make him feel welcome, but when Chris comes back to Marlowe, after transfering to ""Marlowe Community College"", Evie tries to hide from Chris so that he won't know that she is seeing someone else. |
October 6, 1990 |
| 2 |
My Little Evie It's Donna and Troy's anniversary, once again, and this time, Troy decides to do something really special for her, so asks Evie to buy a music box, so that he can put a special song in it for Donna, but while attempting to put the song in the music box, he accidentaly shrinks Evie. |
October 13, 1990 |
| 3 |
Forget Your Troubles When Donna is bribed by a man who wants the land in Marlowe that she is giving away, she decides to take him to court to punish him, but when she gets overwhelmed with stress, she wishes that she could just forget about everything for a while, and when Evie tries to help her, she accidentaly gives Donna amnesia. |
October 20, 1990 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | NBC |
|---|---|
| First aired | September 17, 1987 |
| Last aired | May 25, 1991 |
| Runtime | 21 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Saturday |