Out of This World (TV series)

My father is an alien (Original Title: Out of This World ) is an American sitcom with science fiction elements that was filmed from 1987 to 1991.

Action

The focus of the series is Evie Garland ( Maureen Flannigan ) who discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she has the incredible ability to stop time and let all people freeze in their environment. In addition, Evie can do things that she thinks concentrated, can appear out of nowhere. The solution: Evie's father Troy is an alien and has his daughter inherited these skills. Since Troy is no longer allowed to leave his home planet Antareus, he can only hold a special cube contact with Evie. From Evie's extraterrestrial origin and their staff know on earth only Evie's mother Donna ( Donna Pescow ) and her uncle Beano (Joe Alaskey ). For Evie, it is not so easy to bring the teenage existence with all its pitfalls and their amazing abilities, none of which is allowed to check under one umbrella.

Voice Actors

Background

• The original voice of the alien father Troy was spoken by Burt Reynolds; in the German version took over the role Norbert Gescher.
• Steve Burton, who played Chris Fuller, later had a role in the science fiction series Taken, in which it is about a girl whose great-grandfather was an alien. The skills of this girl remembered in many ways to Evie (eg, time to stop )
• During the second season Donna Pescow was pregnant. Since you could not tell from the plot, only close-ups of her were at this time made ​​or has been obscured by objects.

Broadcast

My father is an alien launched in the U.S. on 17 September 1987 and ended on 25 May 1991. In Germany, RTL broadcast all the episodes from December 1989 to May 1993 from. The series was later repeated on Super RTL and ran most recently in early 2000.

On 8 November 2011, a German -language DVD box set of the series has been released. It contains 35 episodes of seasons one and two.

Awards

• The series received a 1989 Young Artist Award in the category " Best Family series outside of prime time ." In addition, Christina Nigra was that Lindsay Selkirk plays a 1990 Young Artist Award in the category " Best Young Actress in a series outside of prime time ."