The Lost Saucer

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The Lost Saucer

Genre	Children's television series
Running time	0:30 (per episode)
Producer(s)	Sid and Marty Krofft
Starring	Jim Nabors Ruth Buzzi Jarrod Johnson Alice Playten
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 11, 1975–September 2, 1976
No. of episodes	16
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The Lost Saucer was an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft that was part of the first season of the Krofft Supershow

The Lost Saucer was about two time-travelling futuristic androids named Fi (Ruth Buzzi) and Fum (Jim Nabors) who land their flying saucer on present day Earth. They inexplicably invite a young boy named Jerry (Jarrod Johnson) and his babysitter Alice (Alice Playten) to check out the interior of their craft.

As onlookers begin to gather, the two androids become nervous about attracting attention, and abruptly take off with Jerry and Alice. The flying saucer has the ability to travel through time, and the controls which allow the androids to specify an exact date becomes damaged, thus preventing the androids from returning Jerry and Alice to their rightful time and place. The series follows the foursome as the two androids (who bicker and argue incessantly with each other, neither seeming competent with the ship's controls) encounter various adventures while trying to return Jerry and Alice back home. The adventures are always set on Earth, either in the distant past and the era of the dinosaurs, or in the distant future hundreds (or even thousands) of years hence.

Accompanying them on their adventures was a creature known as a dorse. A dorse was a half dog-half horse hybrid. It had the body of a large, shaggy dog, and the head of a small horse.