The Lost Saucer

infobox television
show_name = The Lost Saucer


format = Children's television series
runtime = 0:30 (per episode)
producer = Sid and Marty Krofft
starring = Jim Nabors
Ruth Buzzi
Jarrod Johnson
Alice Playten
country = USA
network = ABC
first_aired = September 11, 1975
last_aired = September 2, 1976
num_episodes = 16
imdb_id = 0074014

"The Lost Saucer" was an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It first aired September 6, 1975.

Premise

"The Lost Saucer" was about two time-travelling futuristic androids named Fi (Ruth Buzzi) and Fum (Jim Nabors) who land their flying saucer on present day Earth. They inexplicably invite a young boy named Jerry (Jarrod Johnson) and his babysitter Alice (Alice Playten) to check out the interior of their craft.

As onlookers begin to gather, the two androids become nervous about attracting attention, and abruptly take off with Jerry and Alice. The flying saucer has the ability to travel through time, and the controls which allow the androids to specify an exact date becomes damaged, thus preventing the androids from returning Jerry and Alice to their rightful time and place. The series follows the foursome as the two androids (who bicker and argue incessantly with each other, neither seeming competent with the ship's controls) encounter various adventures while trying to return Jerry and Alice back home. The adventures are always set on Earth, either in the distant past and the era of the dinosaurs, or in the distant future hundreds (or even thousands) of years hence.

Accompanying them on their adventures was a creature known as the Dorse. A dorse (played by Larry Larsen) was a half-dog, half-horse hybrid. It had the body of a large, shaggy dog, and the head of a small horse.

There were 16 original episodes produced for the 1975-76 season. The first six episodes were later rerun in the first half of "The Krofft Supershow" 's first season.

Themes

Each episode had a specific theme, usually a social or environmental one. "Fat is Beautiful," for example, depicted a future in which people were grotesquely obese due to over-dependence on push-button conveniences, and leanness was in fact outlawed. In "Get a Dorse," two scientists kidnap the Dorse to use as a power source because the world's fuel supplies were finally used up.

Episodes

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# The Tiny Years
# My Fair Robot
# Transylvania 2300
# Beautiful Downtown Atlantis
# Where Did Everybody Go?
# Get a Dorse
# Androids Come Home
# Valley of the Chickaphants
# Return to the Valley of the Chickaphants
# The Laughing Years
# Fat Is Beautiful
# Planet of Lookalikes
# Fi Am Woman
# Polka Dot Years
# Land of the Talking Plants

External links

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* [http://video.aol.com/video/tv-saturday-morning-with-sid-and-marty-krofft-the-lost-saucer/1368176 Clip from the first episode] via AOL Video