Far Out Space Nuts

Far Out Space Nuts was a Sid and Marty Krofft children's television series starring Bob Denver as "Junior", a dim-witted maintenance worker inexplicably employed by NASA, and Chuck McCann as "Barney", his grumpy, short-tempered co-worker. It aired in 1975 on CBS with only 16 episodes. Patty Maloney played Honk, their furry friend who made horn sounds instead of speaking.

Related Topics:
Sid and Marty Krofft - Children's television series - Bob Denver - NASA - Patty Maloney

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Like most of the Kroffts' productions, the show's opening sequence provides the setup of its illogical 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.

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Typically, in each episode, their spaceship would be captured by aliens and taken to some strange planet, or the spaceship just lands somewhere. Then, either Barney and Junior or the ship would be taken away by the strange creatures on the planet. After some weird mission is carried out, the two astronauts are reunited with the spaceship and are off on their next mission.

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