| Runtime: | 25 minutes (per episode) |
| Genre: | Children's television series Adventure Comedy Comic science fiction |
| Creator: | Sid and Marty Krofft Joe Ruby Ken Spears[1] Chuck McCann Earle Doud[2] |
| Executive Producer: | Sid and Marty Krofft |
| Producer: | Al Schwartz |
| Location: | Samuel Goldwyn Studios Compact Video Systems, Inc. |
| Company: | Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions |
| Starring: | Bob Denver Chuck McCann Patty Maloney |
| Country: | United States |
| Network: | CBS |
| Num Episodes: | 15 |
Far Out Space Nuts is a Sid and Marty Krofft children's television series that aired in 1975 for one season, and produced 15 episodes.[3] It was one of only two Krofft series produced exclusively for CBS (the second being 1984's Pryor's Place). Reruns of the show aired in daily syndication from 1978 to 1985 as part of the "Krofft Superstars" package with six other Krofft series.
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 NASA lunar module) would be captured by aliens (one being played by John Carradine, 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.
The show starred Bob Denver as Junior, a grey-haired (Denver was 40 years old at the time) and seemingly dim-witted but uniquely clever NASA maintenance worker, and Chuck McCann as Barney, his plump and grumpy co-worker. Patty Maloney played Honk, their furry little alien friend who made honking sounds out of the horn on the top of his head instead of speaking.