Intergalactic Kitchen

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This article is about the television series. For the book, see The Intergalactic Kitchen.
Intergalactic Kitchen
Format Children's Comedy, Space Opera series.
Starring Llyod Balie, Linzi Campbell, Luke Mackle, Tamara Kennedy
Country of origin UK
Production
Running time 20 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel BBC One (UK)

Intergalactic Kitchen was a CBBC television series, based on the novel Intergalactic Kitchen by Frank Rogers. It ran from January to April 2004.

The show had a distinct reality to it, with the normal themes (romance, adventures).

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[edit] The plot

The show is about the Bird children (Robin, Snoo and Jay), their mother and Fleur, a rival from Snoo and Jay's school. They are about to go camping, when Mrs. Bird accidentally activates a force field, and are shot off into outer space. They attempt to try to get back to earth, when a family of four aliens arrive in the Kitchen. Then everything goes wrong, when Mrs. Bird accidentally climbs into the alien's spaceship, and Mr. and Mrs. Krryptyx accidentally activate the engines, thus separating Mrs. Bird's children and Mr. and Mrs. Krryptyx's children. This has, both the kids and the adults, on a series of mad adventures.

[edit] Cast

Role Actor
Robin Bird Lloyd Balie
Snoo Bird Linzi Campbell
Jay Bird Luke Mackle
Fleur Mason Emma Ballantine
Krrk Krryptyx Joshua Manning
Kirstie Krryptyx Helen Mcalpine
Mrs. Emily Bird Tamara Kennedy
Mr. Krryptyx Mark McDonnel
Mrs. Krryptyx Julie Coombe

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Series One

Episode Title Summary
1 Blast Off A family of aliens arriving on Earth for a holiday inadvertently cause the Bird family and their kitchen to blast away from their house and speed off away from our solar system. Intent on returning the kitchen and its occupants to Earth, the aliens give chase. Something goes wrong, and human and alien children are stranded together in the kitchen as it hurtles away from the spaceship and into a black hole....
2 Brain Drain The human and alien children's attempts to survive alone in space are not helped by discovering that they're allergic to each other, and by the Earth kids suspecting that the aliens want to remove the brain of Robin, the youngest and brightest kitchenaut.
3 It's a Mall World The kitchenauts drift past a Shopping Planet and Fleur sneakily indulges in some retail therapy. Everything goes pear-shaped when her credit card is refused and the shopping planet announces that it will repossess the kitchen to cover her debt.
4 Rebel Appliance The kitchen is invaded by a race of hyper-intelligent household appliances intent on making the kitchenauts into their servants.
5 Useless The kitchen passes by a Rubbish Planet which assesses many of the kitchenauts favourite objects as useless and plans to remove them for recycling - including Jay!
6 The Other Mother Mrs. Bird unexpectedly arrives in the kitchen, having miraculously crossed four hundred million light years of interstellar space. Or has she? The kitchenauts begin to suspect that their mother just might not be what she appears to be.
7 Turning Point, Part One: The Diceman Cometh Pintoid, a game playing alien, tricks the kitchenauts into playing a bizarre game of snakes, ladders and forfeits. The winner will be able to return to Earth - but the losers face an eternity of playing games on Pintoid's home planet, as well as being transformed into dice.
8 Turning Point, Part Two: The Umpire Strikes Back Pintoid returns to the kitchen to claim his forfeit, encountering unexpected resistance as the kitchenauts fight back.
  • The title is a reference to the second Star Wars films, The Empire Strikes Back. This is the second episode which title parodies Star Wars, the first one being "Repel Appliance".
9 Virtual Mum Realising that the Robin is missing his mother, Krrk creates a computer simulation based on everything he's overheard the human kitchenauts say about mothers.
10 Emotion Sickness Snoo and Fleur go all out to win the affections of an unemotional Krrk, with Jay attempting to stop them!
11 Take me to your Larder An alien gourmet invades the kitchen, intent on savouring the rare delicacy of human brains. And when Snoo tries to fix everyone's brains, everyone winds up swapping bodies!
  • The title parodies the phrase "Take me to your Leader", which is commonly accosiated with alien films.
  • At one point, Snoo and Kirstie share Kirk's body, like what happened in the 1989 film Identity Crisis and the 1984 film All of Me.
12 Baby on Board Fleur becomes surrogate parent to an alien slime baby.
13 Space Cowboy The kitchenauts engage the services of Dave, a decidedly dodgy double glazer.