Out of This World

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 1987-09-17

Last Air Date: 1991-05-25

Number of Seasons: 4

Number of Episodes: 96

Created By: Bob Booker, John Boni

Networks: NBC, Syndication

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Top 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
Larry Storch as N/A
Marilyn Borden as Buffalo Breath Twin

Seasons

Season 1 (1987) - (24 Episodes)

Season 2 (1988) - (24 Episodes)

Season 3 (1989) - (24 Episodes)

Season 4 (1990) - (24 Episodes)

Season 1 (1987)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Evie's Thirteenth Birthday (1987-09-17)

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.
Ep. 2: Playing With the Power (1987-09-24)

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.
Ep. 3: The Nightmare (1987-10-01)

Evie is plagued by a bad dream about becoming a monster when she grows up.
Ep. 4: Till Then (1987-10-08)

Evie's mother feels a bit neglected because Evie is spending so much time talking with her father.
Ep. 5: Evie, Get Your Basketball (1987-10-15)

Evie has a free throw contest with the new boy in school. She falls in love with him instead and ends up losing the contest.
Ep. 6: Every Beano Has His Day (1987-10-22)

Beano has been given a day of honor by the mayor. After gleaping him into a tuxedo, she mistakenly thinks she turned him into the mayor's dog. Attempting to reverse the change, she gleaps the dog to look like Beano.
Ep. 7: Evie and the Young Astronauts (1987-10-29)

Evie is accepted into the young astronauts program after winning an essay contest and Donna is shocked to find that Evie knows so much about science and outer space. After accidentally playing one of Evie's tapes while cleaning her room, she discovers that all the information in the essay actually came from Troy.
Ep. 8: Fifties Mom (1987-11-05)

Evie wishes for a fifties mom while watching a 50's show, "My Favorite Mom", on TV. When the show is not on the next day, she has to live another 24 hours with a 50's mom.
Ep. 9: Dueling Mayors (1987-11-12)

It's reelection time for the mayor of Marlowe and his competition is other than Charles Nelson Reilly.
Ep. 10: Baby Talk (1987-11-19)

Evie wishes that she could understand a baby she's babysitting. When lightning strikes, the little boy starts talking to her.
Ep. 11: Beano's New Diet Clinic (1987-11-26)

Beano and Donna try to help an overweight child at Evie's school by trying to get Jackie Gleason to come to the opening of Beano's diet clinic.
Ep. 12: Uh, Oh... Here Comes Mother (1987-12-03)

Donna and Beano's mother comes for a visit and she falls in love with Kyle.
Ep. 13: The Anniversary (1988-01-21)

Donna is happy and has put a heart around the date on the calendar. Evie is suspicious.
Ep. 14: To Tell the Truth (1988-01-28)

A crystal egg left by Troy causes people to tell the truth. It causes havoc when it accidentally goes off.
Ep. 15: Pen Pals (1988-02-04)

Evie and Donna try to find a woman for Beano in the personals section of the newspaper. After Evie replaces Beano's photo with Kyle's, Beano's date shows up.
Ep. 16: Broadway Danny Derek (1988-02-11)

Evie dislikes the new boy in school. Donna encourages her to be nice to him until she meets his dad who is just as bad.
Ep. 17: Mosquito Man: The Motion Picture (1988-02-18)

When it's time to make a movie out of Kyle's old TV show character, he learns the new writers only want him in the movie so they can write him out and replace him with a young woman.
Ep. 18: The Russians Are Coming (1988-02-25)

Russia thinks there is a nuclear research lab in the Garland house. They send Donna and Beano on a fake trip to Hawaii while one of their spies disguises herself as Donna to try and take her place and try to find the secret weapon which is causing power surges.
Ep. 19: AKA: Dad (1988-04-21)

Donna and Beano's mother visits again. When she sees Buzz dancing with Donna, she mistakes Buzz for Troy.
Ep. 20: The Illness (1988-04-28)

Evie gets the measles...Antaerian style. Evie, Donna, and Beano have to prevent the doctor from learning the truth.
Ep. 21: The Box Is Missing (1988-05-05)

After returning from San Francisco, Evie discovers the cube is missing!
Ep. 22: Boy Crazy (1988-05-12)

Donna thought she invited the new minister's daughter, Leslie, to meet Evie. It turns out Leslie is a boy who dresses like a punk and plays music she does not like.
Ep. 23: The Three Faces of Evie (1988-05-19)

When Chris becomes infatuated by an older woman, Evie wishes she was older.
Ep. 24: I've Got a Secret (1988-05-26)

Evie's secret is revealed when Lindsey sleeps over and accidentally hears Evie's father trough the cube.