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Far Out Space Nuts

Far Out Space Nuts
Genre Children's television series
Adventure
Comedy
Comic science fiction
Created by Sid and Marty Krofft
Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
Chuck McCann
Earle Doud
Starring Bob Denver
Chuck McCann
Patty Maloney
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 15
Production
Executive producer(s) Sid and Marty Krofft
Producer(s) Al Schwartz
Running time 25 minutes (per episode)
Production company(s) Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions
Release
Original network CBS
Original release September 6, 1975 (1975-09-06) – September 2, 1976 (1976-09-02)

Far Out Space Nuts is a Sid and Marty Krofft children's television series that aired in 1975 for one season, and produced 15 episodes. It was one of only two Krofft series produced exclusively for CBS (the second being 1984's Pryor's Place).

Like most of the Kroffts' productions, the show's opening sequence provides the setup of its fanciful 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 (a NASA lunar module) would be captured by aliens (one being played by John Carradine, who so impressed Denver with his acting skills that the scene had to be reshot) and taken to some strange planet, or the spaceship would just land somewhere. Then, either Barney and Junior or the ship would be taken away by the strange creatures on the planet. After some weird mission was carried out, the two astronauts would be reunited with the spaceship and be off on their next mission.

The show starred Bob Denver as Junior, a grey-haired (Denver was 40 years old at the time) and seemingly dim-witted but uniquely clever NASA maintenance worker, and Chuck McCann as Barney, his plump and grumpy co-worker. Patty Maloney played Honk, their furry little alien friend who made honking sounds out of the horn on the top of her head instead of speaking.


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