Shark Bytes

please put this show on dvd already!i loved it growing up not old enough 2 know back then what it meant

is it just me or does the girl who played evie look exactly like Kristen Bell?

I really liked this sitcom but it did
lose something towards the end when
Uncle Beano left and the Mother became mayor. Still, it was a unique idea for the 1980's and I was sorry that we didn't get to see a really good reunion between the mother and the alien father.
Another thing that might have perked up the action would have been to have some nasty person (maybe Kyle?) get a vendetta and find out the "secret" of
the Garland family. Nita

I'd certainly slam Evie, but back then-not now...she kindof resembles a sea-donkey now

I don't think this show ever really jumped the shark, but it did get sort of far fetched sometimes. I remember loving it when I was a kid, but I don't think that I'd like it as much as an adult.

This would make for a good movie, I think.

I was a kid when the show was on. While I don't remember any specific plots since I have not seen reruns since it went off the air, what I do remember most was that when Evie froze time, the people in the background had difficulty staying still!! Oh well, bad editing, but what do you expect from a show that was shown in limited markets with the prime time 30 minutes earlier format..

I've only seen a handful of episodes of Out of This World, so I can't truly say exactly when this show jumped the shark, but I did see a few things they did wrong. First, any show where the main character has awesome powers but spends a third of the time whining about wanting to be normal is automatically lame. Second, there were some episodes where Evie didn't use her powers at all, which is a cardinal sin on a sci-fi/fantasy show. Third, the writers gave Evie FAR too many powers. She was competing with Superman or Martian Manhunter (comics version) in the overabundance of powers. IMO, the 'gleeping' thing had to go; I can see how it opened the door for a wide variety of story ideas, but a power like that was just too easy to abuse, resulting in a character who was ridiculously powerful. OK, so Evie could create things out of thin air, change people's ages and genders, reverse people's ages and rearrange molecules? Jeez, why didn't they just make her God? If it were me, I would have just given her the time-freezing power and maybe 1 or 2 other powers, such as telepathy and telekinesis, and left it at that. Finally, the idea that the mom would stay alone and celibate while the dad was off in space for 16 plus years was also a bit of a stretch.

I have to say this show never jumped the shark. It was what it was. I had the worlds biggest crush on Evie she was so hot. I remember being pre teenager and having an awesome dream with her in it. I couldn't wait to watch the show again. Maybe if everyone had a naughty dream with her in it the show might still be on today

I voted for "Never Jumped," just because I didn't think it was ever great to start with. Even in elementary school I remember thinking what a cheesy show it was, but I usually watched it when it was on (we didn't have cable, and Network TV was slim pickins' pre- Fox, WB and UPN). I always thought it was kind of lame when Evie would freeze time and they'd do a close up of something that had been frozen mid-action, like an egg cracking into a bowl or a pancake flipping in mid-air. But I remember often wishing I had the power to freeze time so I could sleep in, get my homework done, goof off, or get out of a tricky situation.

I thought this show as a pre-teen was pretty good but one episode really made me think that the writers thought its viewers were stupid. If I remember right, Evie was trying out for gymnastics and as it turned out she wasn't really good. She was going to use her powers but we all know what happens. Now the big competition. It showed some girls who were definitely professionals, show off what they are good at on the uneven bars. Evie turn and for some reason why the director decided to leave it in the show, showed Evie climb the uneven bars like a jungle gym and spring off the top like a cat. It only showed her do one rotation and she landed perfectly. Of course, Evie wins! As a kid, I thought this move was really cheezy because she really didn't do anything remotely what you seen in the olympics and in real life, I think her competitors would have been really pissed at the judges. Maybe some would have quit. Anyhow, I still think to this day as to why the director choose to leave Evie in this shot and not use a double. I think I only watched this show because at 12, I thought Evie was hot.

The show's first three seasons revolved around Evie discovering she was half-alien and had special powers, and her getting used to those powers, making mistakes (as young people will do) along the way. The show had a discrete charm to it, and the recurring theme was that time, teleportation and transmutation powers will not solve everything. (I liked the episode where Evie, trying to make herself older to impress a boy, made herself eighty-something, and when she tried to correct it, she made herself a toddler!) By the final episode, the writers had given her too many powers. One episode had her turning the police chief into a statue and turning her mother into a man (no kidding!) Instead of making honest "test the waters" goofs, the only thing that slowed Evie down were incredible plot quirks (e.g., Evie's dad messes up a command to change the tune of a music box and shrinks Evie to three inches tall.) The show lost a lot for me when Evie got so powerful she could have given Superman a run for his money. PS: It galls me that it wasn't until 1997 that I learned Burt Reynolds was the voice of Troy!

As a kid, it always bothered me that Evie had all these awesome powers yet spent so much time whining about how she just wanted to be a normal teenager and all that crap. I mean, c'mon, you have the power to freeze time! That's a million times cooler than having the latest pair of GAP jeans or whatever.

In one surreal episode, Doug McClure and Charles Nelson Reilly try do out do each other by having an "act off." Possibly the worst two actors in television history showing off their chops. Great television!!!!! Maureen Flannigan did a topless scene in some grad Z thriller called "Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde." Yes, I probably am a pervert.

I don't remember this show too well but I do know that it must have been pretty good cause I used to rush home to watch it. And it's one of my first memories of tv. I do remember that it was on in syn right after charles in charge...

This was a pretty good show. Maureen Flanigan (the girl that played Evie) was a babe in her time. The cliffhanger last episode where the mother gets zapped to outer space was dumb though. You could tell that the producers had given up by this time.