About this season
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. It was one of only two Krofft series produced exclusively for CBS. Like most children's television shows of the era, Far Out Space Nuts contained a laugh track. Like most of the Kroffts' 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. The show starred Bob Denver as Junior, a seemingly dim-witted but uniquely clever maintenance worker employed by NASA, and Chuck McCann as Barney, his grumpy, short-tempered co-worker. Patty Maloney played Honk, their furry friend who made horn sounds instead of speaking.
Episodes (15)
1. It's All in Your Mind
Aired 6 September 1975 • 30 min
Junior and Barney are taken to a planet ruled by a brain-controlling computer named G.A.L. 36-24-36.
2. The Crystallites
Aired 13 September 1975 • 30 min
The boys land on Crystallitis, a planet populated by glass people. Junior is appointed the new king, but learns he'll have to be turned into glass to qualify.
3. Robots of Pod
Aired 20 September 1975 • 30 min
To rescue Princess Lantana of the underground city of Pod, the boys must retrieve a magic belt from the planet's evil ruler, the robot Mercurial.
4. Fantastic Journey
Aired 27 September 1975 • 30 min
A mad scientist makes the mistake of his life by appointing Junior and Barney as his assistants.
5. Tower of Tagot
Aired 4 October 1975 • 30 min
Barney and Junior are branded bad guys by a power-hungry tyrant, who has seen their arrival in his future machine and made them pawns in his bid to become ruler. While Junior and Barney are on another planet, he imprisons the beautiful Queen of the Serrians high in the Tower of Tagot. Naturally, the Space Nuts must come to her rescue.
6. The Three Spaceketeers
Aired 11 October 1975 • 30 min
Mistaken for underground hero Junio, Junior is compelled to rescue Queen Helona of the planet Sporia from Troyak's crystal ball prison.
7. Flight of the Pippets
Aired 18 October 1975 • 30 min
Junior and Barney become museum displays when they are shrunken by the Pippets.
8. Birds of a Feather
Aired 25 October 1975 • 30 min
Junior and Barney arrive on the planet Vultron, inhabited by a race of bird people. The bird people capture the Space Nuts and force them to sit on an enormous egg until it hatches.
9. Dangerous Game
Aired 1 November 1975 • 30 min
The Space Nuts are hunted for sport by Salana and her henchmen.
10. Secrets of the Hexagon
Aired 8 November 1975 • 30 min
Junior and Barney get tricked into trading their ship for a mysterious hexagon key that supposedly operates a duplicating machine, which can make the Space Nuts a new spaceship to get home.
11. Captain Torque, Space Pirate
Aired 15 November 1975 • 30 min
Junior and Barney are enlisted by the infamous space pirate to acquire a treasure map.
12. Vanishing Aliens Mystery
Aired 22 November 1975 • 30 min
The Space Nuts are embroiled in a missing persons mystery surrounding an alien fortune.
13. Barney Begonia
Aired 29 November 1975 • 30 min
An alien botanist tests his latest experiment on Barney, which turns him into a man-plant hybrid. Will he find the cure?
14. Destination: Earth
Aired 6 December 1975 • 30 min
Junior and Barney return to Earth, but perhaps they've become more accustomed to their time in space.
15. Galaxy's Greatest Athlete
Aired 13 December 1975 • 30 min
Barney and Junior are tricked into joining the Intergalactic Games by a couple of aliens in disguise.