Far Out Space Nuts

197530m1 seasons15 episodesComedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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. Like most children's television shows of the era, Far Out Space Nuts contained a laugh track. 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. The show starred Bob Denver as Junior, a seemingly dim-witted but uniquely clever maintenance worker employed by NASA, and Chuck McCann as Barney, his grumpy, short-tempered co-worker. Patty Maloney played Honk, their furry friend who made horn sounds instead of speaking.

Seasons

Episode 1

It's All in Your Mind

Sep 6, 197530m

Junior and Barney are taken to a planet ruled by a brain-controlling computer named G.A.L. 36-24-36.

Episode 2

The Crystallites

Sep 13, 197530m

The boys land on Crystallitis, a planet populated by glass people. Junior is appointed the new king, but learns he'll have to be turned into glass to qualify.

Episode 3

Robots of Pod

Sep 20, 197530m

To rescue Princess Lantana of the underground city of Pod, the boys must retrieve a magic belt from the planet's evil ruler, the robot Mercurial.

Episode 4

Fantastic Journey

Sep 27, 197530m

A mad scientist makes the mistake of his life by appointing Junior and Barney as his assistants.

Episode 5

Tower of Tagot

Oct 4, 197530m

Barney and Junior are branded bad guys by a power-hungry tyrant, who has seen their arrival in his future machine and made them pawns in his bid to become ruler. While Junior and Barney are on another planet, he imprisons the beautiful Queen of the Serrians high in the Tower of Tagot. Naturally, the Space Nuts must come to her rescue.

Episode 6

The Three Spaceketeers

Oct 11, 197530m

Mistaken for underground hero Junio, Junior is compelled to rescue Queen Helona of the planet Sporia from Troyak's crystal ball prison.

Episode 7

Flight of the Pippets

Oct 18, 197530m

Junior and Barney become museum displays when they are shrunken by the Pippets.

Episode 8

Birds of a Feather

Oct 25, 197530m

Junior and Barney arrive on the planet Vultron, inhabited by a race of bird people. The bird people capture the Space Nuts and force them to sit on an enormous egg until it hatches.

Episode 9

Dangerous Game

Nov 1, 197530m

The Space Nuts are hunted for sport by Salana and her henchmen.

Episode 10

Secrets of the Hexagon

Nov 8, 197530m

Junior and Barney get tricked into trading their ship for a mysterious hexagon key that supposedly operates a duplicating machine, which can make the Space Nuts a new spaceship to get home.