Far Out Space Nuts

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Far Out Space Nuts

Genre	Children's television series
Running time	0:25 (per episode)
Producer(s)	Sid and Marty Krofft
Starring	Bob Denver Chuck McCann Patty Maloney
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 6, 1975–September 2, 1976
No. of episodes	16
IMDb profile

Far Out Space Nuts was a Sid and Marty Krofft children's television series starring Bob Denver as Junior, a seemingly dim-witted but uniquely clever maintenance worker employed by NASA, and Chuck McCann as Barney, his grumpy, short-tempered co-worker. It aired in 1975 on CBS for one season, and produced 16 episodes. Patty Maloney played Honk, their furry friend who made horn sounds instead of speaking.

Like most of the Kroffts' productions, the show's opening sequence provides the setup of its illogical premise: While loading food into various compartments to prepare a rocket for an upcoming mission, Barney instructs Junior to hit the "lunch" button, but Junior mistakenly hits the "launch" button. The rocket blasts off and takes them on various misadventures on alien planets.

Typically, in each episode, their spaceship would be captured by aliens and taken to some strange planet, or the spaceship just lands somewhere. Then, either Barney and Junior or the ship would be taken away by the strange creatures on the planet. After some weird mission is carried out, the two astronauts are reunited with the spaceship and are off on their next mission.