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Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

A lot of sitcoms from back then are not funny at all any more and were very boring. This one actually had some pretty decent acting and surprisingly good stories with jokes that are still at least a little funny today. Given how many years ago this is from it's a very good sitcom, underrated in its day, and it is definitely worth watching with the family. Great stuff!

Out Of This World (1987-1991): Starring Maureen O'Flannigan, Voice of Burt Reynolds, Donna Pescow, Doug McClure, Christina Nigra, Buzz Belmondo, Steve Burton. Director Scott Baio, Bob Claver, Michael Dimitch and others"Would you like to swing on a star ? Carrying Moonbeams all in a jar ? And be better off than you are, or would you rather go to earth ? An earthling's a creature with big floppy ears, he's not at all like you or me. His body comes in many different shapes, they say they came from chips and apes..." Such are the lyrics to the opening song to this long-forgotten late 80's sitcom, the theme song itself re-made from the original 30's tune. I was approximately 7-10 when this show was on and don't remember it too well, though many aspects stand out in my memory. Evie Garland (Maureen O'Flannigan) was born of an alien father and human mother. She would communicate with her alien father (voiced by Burt Reynolds) via a crystal cube (or was it a triangle ?). Each episode revolved around Evie and the rest of the characters were flat and undeveloped, including the mother. The rest were co-workers at the burger restaurant she worked in and high school students. Because production values were cheap and this was a studio-staged sitcom, we never saw anything beyond the kitchen where she and her mother would converse, Evie's bedroom where she would converse with her father at the end of the day, or the burger joint where she worked. This being the 80's, there was always a moral to every episode, and Evie learned how to be human and how to use her newfound powers wisely. In the show, she aged rapidly going from 13-18 rather quickly. She had a broad range of superhuman powers- the most notorious and memorable being the ability to freeze time and people around her by touching her fingers together. She had the power of clairvoyance, telechenisis (moving objects)She was able to change her shape, levitate, teleport herself and others to different locales. It was, of course, a sci-fi comedy series and I really wish that it would at least air on Sci-Fi channel or TV Land. This is a classic show that time forgot. I wonder whatever became of the actors ?

I watched this show from the time it aired in syndication. Maureen Flannigan delivered a terrific performance as the popular Evie Garland. I was so hooked to this show that I began to act just like her, and I don't mean girlie like, I mean I began putting my two index fingers to- gether trying to stop time like her. I began to do it in school so much that I got in trouble by teacher and parents and I was forbidden from watching the show for a week. Eventually, I learned my lesson and I was allowed to watch it again and even though I had been punished once for doing it I would still do it in private when I was alone. I would even play the characters on the show with friends.

You've got a very pretty blonde, blue-eyed girl with special powers but she can't use them to wreak venegance on her cruel classmates. No, I'm not talking about that Wiccan air-head, I'm talking about Evie Garland. Cuter, prettier and funnier, she paved the way for everyone else and was all but forgotten for the effort. Maureen Flannigan had a certain amount of charm and irresistable, dare I say it, magic; she was the Maureen McCormick of the Eighties. Donna Pescow was her cute mom and Joe Alaskey was her enjoyable uncle. His absence from the show was one of the signs of the end. The late Doug McClure played the whimsical town mayor in the series, but as the series went on, he just seemed to get more stupid and annoying. The show suffered a lot as the scripts became more contrived, and the series ended with an unsatisfactory plotline dangling - a poor end to a once great show. I wish Flannigan much better.