Out of This World (TV series)Out of This World is an American fantasysitcom about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique superhuman powers. It first aired in syndication from September 1. May 2. 5, 1. 99. 1. During its first season, the series was originally part of NBC's Prime Time Begins at 7: 3. Out of This World was rotated with the original series Marblehead Manor and She's the Sheriff, a syndicated revival of the 1. We Got It Made, and a television adaptation of the play You Can't Take It with You. NBC ended the experiment after the 1. The Three Faces of Evie. Out of This World Season 1 Episode 23 The Three Faces of Evie. The Boy from Out of This World Explore Kim Hazelwood's board 'Blast off.out of this world!' on Pinterest, the world's catalog of ideas. Out of This World being one of the two that were renewed (the other being She's the Sheriff). After its first season the series was largely moved to weekend time slots, where it remained until its cancellation following the fourth season. Show summary. Evie's half- alien heritage gives her superhuman abilities. Most of the episodes revolve around Evie misusing her powers and causing some trouble, which she spends the rest of the episode trying to fix. Only Evie and her family know about her alien father and her powers, and many episodes depict Evie trying to hide her secret from other characters. The series ended on a cliffhanger in the Season 4 finale, where Troy came to visit and Donna took his place by accident and ended up in Antareus, leaving Troy stranded on Earth. Characters. Evie attends a school for gifted children (run by her mother) and achieves good grades there. Her mother had always told Evie that her father was a secret agent, but on her thirteenth birthday Evie began to develop superhuman abilities and it was revealed that her father is an extraterrestrial from the planet Antareus. Evie's main power is the ability to freeze time on Earth by joining two fingers, allowing her to maneuver herself or objects to alter the course of events on Earth. When she claps her hands together, time resumes as normal. She later gains the power to gleep, which allows her to manifest objects by using the power of her mind. Her father describes her as . The series follows Evie through her teenage years, from her thirteenth birthday in the first episode to her eighteenth birthday in the final episode. Although she was the leading character, Flannigan was billed last in the credits. In the first season, she received the billing . In the last 3 seasons, she was billed as . Out of This World Birthday! The rocket and flame from the Boy Basics: Out of This World were stamped on Papertrey Ink's Stamper's Select White. The Boy from Out of This World Quotes Found 1 quotes. Described by her husband as . She later founds her own catering company, . Toward the end of season 3, Donna becomes the mayor of Marlowe. Donna is very protective of her daughter, often to the dismay of Evie, who would like to be more independent. Donna and Evie's Uncle Beano (then later Uncle Mick) are the only regular characters on the show who know Evie's secret. Troy Garland (Burt Reynolds, voice only) . Troy is a human- looking extraterrestrial, with many special powers, from the planet Antareus. Troy met Donna when his spacecraft crashed on Earth at some point in the late 1. The two fell in love, were married in 1. Donna gave birth to Evie. The Boy From Out of This World is a documentary project about film director Tom Graeff. Explore April Poirier's board 'Out of this world' on Pinterest. Interactive Rocket Birthday Card You're Out of This by alcove927, $3.50 More 1. Shortly after, in 1. Troy was called back to Antareus to fight in a war. Since then, Troy occasionally visits Earth, and stays in touch with his daughter via a special communication device known as the . Troy's powers seem to be almost limitless: though he lives on Antareus, he can control many things on Earth (from computers to the weather); he can give and take away Evie's powers at will; and also seems to be aware of certain events on Earth. While Troy appears in the show's opening credits, he rarely makes a physical appearance in the series . In the series finale, when Troy arrives on Earth, he is seen in a silhouette with stars from the galaxy. Troy was credited as . Beano has a large appetite and runs the diet clinic known originally as . Beano is one of the two regular characters who know Evie's secret, along with Donna. He last appears in season 4, episode 1. Kyle Applegate (Doug Mc. Clure) . Kyle is a good friend of the family, but . As well as being egocentric and vain, Kyle is dimwitted and gullible, often completely failing to notice Evie's . He clings to his former TV glory as the star of . Towards the end of season three, Kyle is appointed police chief by Donna, who takes over from him as mayor. Buzz (Buzz Belmondo) . Buzz usually makes one brief appearance per episode, during which he performs a series of jokes which are typically puns or prop- based gags, sometimes relating to the elaborate costume that he is wearing. He speaks with an unknown accent, and is prone to bizarre behavior. Donna sometimes resorts to him for help, more often than not regretting it. Lindsay Selkirk (Christina Nigra) . Evie and Lindsay spend a lot of time together drinking milkshakes at their local diner, the . He is introduced as a new student and good basketball player in the season one episode . Chris becomes Evie's boyfriend, and although they sometimes date other people, they always end up together. In an episode of the final season, Chris says Evie was and always will be his girl. Quigley Handlesman (Carl Steven) (1. One of Evie's classmates at Donna's school for the gifted. Phil (John Roarke) (1. The jovial, funny handyman who works on the Garlands' house during the first season. He is always snooping around in the family's business, with Donna, Evie and Beano constantly making sure that Phil doesn't suspect the existence of Evie's powers. Jeffrey Cummings (Tony Crane) (1. A high school classmate of Evie and Lindsay's who transfers in during their senior year. Incredibly handsome and basically taking up the slack that Chris had left after going onto college, Jeffrey quickly begins to date Evie. The two began going out despite Evie's continued involvement with Chris, forcing her to cover up her activities with either of them, alternately. Peter (1. 99. 0- 1. Peter Pitofsky) . He is a clumsy, goofball Antarean who provides his own brand of comic relief whenever Evie and her friends stop by the restaurant. He was military intelligence for Antareus until he chose to stay on Earth, his memory erased of all Antarean things. Penchant for misinterpreting people's orders, and sometimes even forgetting his own name. Mick (1. 99. 0. He is a former rock musician. The cube. The cube effectively functions as a telephone line to Antareus . There are no controls on the cube; Evie simply calls for her father and the cube activates when he answers, deactivating when he . Sometimes when Troy uses his powers whilst talking through the cube, a beam of energy is emitted directly from the cube. Evie and Donna normally keep the cube around the house, out of sight (often in Evie's bedroom), sometimes telling people it is an ornament or a talking clock. When the cube is activated, the top half of it opens up on a hinge, a magenta light pulses inside, and a . The lights in the room usually dim, although not always. Troy's voice is heard clearly through the cube with reverberation. Originally, even though everyone was able to hear Troy through the cube, Evie was the only one Troy could hear as the cube was genetic. This rule changes in the first episode of season 2, . At the end of the episode, Evie wishes her mother could talk to Troy like she can. As a result, Troy can now hear Donna and they can now talk back and forth. It is unknown whether the rest of Evie's family could also talk to Troy, but there have been other aliens that Troy could hear through the cube, as seen in Season 4 Episode 5 . An Antaerian is sent to Earth to protect Evie and Donna, and he can speak to Troy. Guest stars. In chronological order of appearances: Norman Fell (as Evie's psychiatrist Dr. Here Comes Mother. The Anniversary. To Tell the Truth. Pen Pals. Broadway Danny Derek. Mosquito Man: The Motion Picture. The Russians Are Coming. Aka Dad. Illness. The Box Is Missing. Boy Crazy. The Three Faces of Evie. I've Got a Secret. Season 2. The theme song is Swinging on a Star. International airings. It also aired in Canada on Toronto station CFMT (now Omni Television). Critical reception. The review went on to criticise the show's scripts, acting and production, and unfavourably compared Out of This World to Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. In the parody, Evie is asked out by a boy who likes her, she uses her powers to stop time and takes a look down his pants, presumably in order to check out the size of his penis. After seeing the size of his penis, Evie says, . Archived from the original on 2. Encyclopedia of TV science fiction. Television Without Pity: 7. Things We Love to Hate (And Hate to Love) about TV. Retrieved October 2.
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