''Far Out Space Nuts'' is a

Sid and Marty Krofft Sid Krofft (born July 30, 1929) and Marty Krofft (born April 9, 1937) are a Canadian sibling team of television creators and puppeteers. Through their production company, Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures, they have made numerous children's television a ...

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that aired in 1975 for one season, and produced 15 episodes. It was one of only two Krofft series produced exclusively for

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(the second being 1984's ''

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''). Reruns of the show aired in daily syndication from 1978 to 1985 as part of the "Krofft Superstars" package with six other Krofft series.

Plot

Like most of the Kroffts's 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

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lunar module) would be captured by aliens (one being played by

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, who so impressed Denver with his acting skills during a scene that he was left speechless and missed his cue, requiring another take) and taken to some strange planet, or the spaceship would merely 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.

Cast

The show starred

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as Junior, a grey-haired (Denver was 40 years old at the time) and seemingly dim-witted but uniquely clever

maintenance worker, and Chuck McCann as Barney, his plump and grumpy co-worker.

Patty Maloney Patricia Anne Maloney (born March 17, 1936) is an American actress. Early life She was born in Perkinsville, New York. She stands and weighs . Career Maloney is best known as Honk from '' Far Out Space Nuts'', as Lumpy from the ''Star War ...

played Honk, their furry little alien friend who made honking sounds out of the

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on the top of her head instead of speaking.

Episodes

References

External links

*
Episode list
at ShareTV.org

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