The Lost Saucer

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The Lost Saucer
Format Children's television series
Starring Jim Nabors
Ruth Buzzi
Jarrod Johnson
Alice Playten
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
No. of episodes 16
Production
Producer(s) Sid and Marty Krofft
Running time 0:30 (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run September 11, 1975 – September 2, 1976
External links
IMDb profile

The Lost Saucer was an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It first aired September 6, 1975.

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[edit] Premise

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 the Dorse. A dorse (played by Larry Larsen) was a half-dog, half-horse hybrid. It had the body of a large, shaggy dog, and the head of a small horse.

There were 16 original episodes produced for the 1975-76 season. The first six episodes were later rerun in the first half of The Krofft Supershow 's first season.

[edit] Themes

Each episode had a specific theme, usually a social or environmental one. "Fat is Beautiful," for example, depicted a future in which people were grotesquely obese due to over-dependence on push-button conveniences, and leanness was in fact outlawed. In "Get a Dorse," two scientists kidnap the Dorse to use as a power source because the world's fuel supplies were finally used up.

[edit] Episodes

  1. 894X2RY713, I Love You
  2. The Tiny Years
  3. My Fair Robot
  4. Transylvania 2300
  5. Beautiful Downtown Atlantis
  6. Where Did Everybody Go?
  7. Get a Dorse
  8. Androids Come Home
  9. Valley of the Chickaphants
  10. Return to the Valley of the Chickaphants
  11. The Laughing Years
  12. Fat Is Beautiful
  13. Planet of Lookalikes
  14. Fi Am Woman
  15. Polka Dot Years
  16. Land of the Talking Plants

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