Out of This World (TV series)

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This article is about the U.S. television series Out of this World. For the British television series of the same name, see Out of This World (UK TV series).

Out of This World
Title screen
Genre	Sci-Fi Teen comedy
Creator(s)	Steven Kunes
Starring	Maureen Flannigan Donna Pescow Doug McClure Joe Alaskey Steve Burton Christina Nigra Burt Reynolds (voice of Troy)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	96
Production
Running time	25 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	Syndication
Original run	September 17, 1987 – May 25, 1991
Links
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Out Of This World is a children's television comedy series about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers. It first aired in U.S. syndication on September 17, 1987 and ended on May 25, 1991. It was first broadcast in the UK on March 25, 1991, usually on mornings during school holidays.

[edit] Summary

The series revolves around Evie Garland, a young girl living in Marlowe, California, who discovers on her thirteenth birthday that her father isn't a secret agent, as her mother had always told her. In fact, her father is an alien named Troy, from the planet Antarias, who married her mother and "merged lifeforms" to create Evie. Evie's half-alien heritage allows her to use supernatural abilities, which her father can give and take away at will. Most of the episodes revolve around Evie misusing her powers and causing some trouble, which she spends the rest of the show trying to fix.

Evie's mother, Donna Garland, runs a school for gifted children, which Evie also goes to. Later on, Donna becomes the mayor of Marlowe.

The cast includes Evie's human Uncle Beano, her surfer boyfriend Chris Fuller, and ex-actor turned mayor Kyle Applegate.

The show's theme song is an adapted version of Bing Crosby's "Swinging on a Star", a number one hit on the Billboard magazine music charts in the summer of 1944.

[edit] Evie's powers

• Evie's main power is the ability to freeze time for other earthlings (whilst time continues for her and her dad) by joining two fingers, whilst she maneuveres herself or objects to alter the course of events on Earth. When she claps her hands together, time resumes as normal. She can also "unfreeze" individuals by touching them while time is frozen. In the opening sequence, she opens a door and knocks an open can of paint off a ladder, and then joins her fingers to stop it mid-fall.
• Evie can also gleep, which allows her to manifest objects by using the power of her mind. There are certain restrictions on this power, such as the inability to create complicated machinery, and overuse of this power will cause her other abilities to stop functioning.
• Evie has the ability to instantly teleport herself from one place to another, by snapping her fingers.
• In an episode that centres around Evie's 16th birthday, her father gives her the choice between several new powers as a gift. Each one proves to be too much of a burden (such as "looking into someone's eyes and telling them to do something while thinking the word 'obey', and they would obey"); she ultimately chooses the power to "tie your shoelaces perfectly on the first try every time."

[edit] Main cast

The cast (clockwise from left), Kyle, Donna, Beano and Evie.

• Evie Ethel Garland - Maureen Flannigan
• Donna Garland - Donna Pescow
• Kyle Applegate - Doug McClure
• Beano Froelich - Joe Alaskey
• Buzz - Buzz Belmondo
• Chris Fuller - Steve Burton
• Lindsay Selkirk - Christina Nigra
• Troy Garland of Anterias - Burt Reynolds (voice)

[edit] Trivia

• The English band Fine Young Cannibals were featured in an episode of this show.
• Director Scott Baio appeared in an episode called "Princess Evie".
• Pop singer Tiffany made a guest appearance as herself in 1991 during the episode "I Want My Evie TV".
• The character Chris Fuller is played by Steve Burton. Burton had a role in the Sci-Fi miniseries Taken, which revolved around a young girl who's great-grandfather was an alien. The girl has some powers similar to Evie's, such as the ability to stop time.
• Troy never physically appears on the show except in the final episode as a shimmering outline of light. Only his voice is heard for most of the series.
• Buzz Belmondo and Joe Alaskey feuded famously on the set to the point where the two would not film scenes together. Any scene in which both of them appear in the same frame from the second season on was filmed using trick photography.^{[citation needed]}
• During the second season of the program, actress Donna Pescow became pregnant. Since it couldn't be explained how her character became pregnant while her husband was away fighting a war, Pescow was only filmed using only close-up shots or staged so something was hiding her pregnancy.

[edit] External links

• BBC Comedy Guide