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Out Of This World is a children's television comedy series about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers. It first aired in U.S. syndication on September 17, 1987 and ended on May 25, 1991. It was first broadcast in the UK on April 9th, 1990, usually on mornings during school holidays.

Plot summary

The series revolves around Evie Ethel Garland, a young girl living in Marlowe, California, who discovers on her thirteenth birthday that her father isn't a secret agent, as her mother had always told her. In fact, her father is an alien named Troy, from the planet Antareus, who married her mother and "merged lifeforms" to create Evie. Evie's half-alien heritage allows her to use supernatural abilities, which her father can give and take away at will. Most of the episodes revolve around Evie misusing her powers and causing some trouble, which she spends the rest of the show trying to fix.

Evie's mother, Donna Garland, runs a school for gifted children, which Evie also goes to. Later on, Donna becomes the mayor of Marlowe.

The cast includes Evie's human uncle Beano Froelich, her surfer boyfriend Chris Fuller, and ex-actor turned mayor Kyle Applegate.

The show's theme song is an adapted version of Bing Crosby's "Swinging on a Star", a number one hit on the Billboard magazine music charts in the summer of 1944

Evie's powers

• Evie's main power is the ability to freeze time for other earthlings (while time continues for her and her dad) by joining two fingers, during which she maneuvers herself or objects to alter the course of events on Earth. When she claps her hands together, time resumes as normal. She can also "unfreeze" individuals by touching them while time is frozen. In the opening sequence, she opens a door and knocks an open can of paint off a ladder, and then joins her fingers to stop it mid-fall.
• Evie can also gleep, which allows her to manifest objects by using the power of her mind. There are certain restrictions on this power, such as the inability to create complicated machinery, and overuse of this power will cause her other abilities to stop functioning.
• Evie has the ability to instantly teleport herself from one place to another, by snapping her fingers.
• In an episode that centres around Evie's 16th birthday, her father gives her the choice between several new powers as a gift. Each one proves to be too much of a burden (such as "looking into someone's eyes and telling them to do something while thinking the word obey, and they would obey"); she ultimately chooses the power to "change shoes quickly".