Donna Pescow is the mother of Maureen Flanigan who married Burt Reynolds about 16 years earlier and he promptly departed for his home. Which is the planet Anterias in a galaxy far far away. Not that he doesn't keep in touch with his earth family, they've got some kind alien communication machine that can make sound travel light years in seconds. With that he dispenses fatherly advice. Reynolds is never seen in all the episodes in the four years this series ran.Out Of This World was a nice show with a mighty thin premise that was good while it lasted, but probably was canceled in time as Flanigan moved out of her teen years. As an alien she had some powers and abilities far beyond mortal man though she was no superhero. Rather she got herself in normal teen situations as television describes them and used her powers to get in or out of them. Pescow presided over it all with aplomb.Flanigan had a really hunky California surfer type boyfriend in Steve Burton who almost immediately got himself another gig in General Hospital where he is a resident to this day. Pescow had a brother who was named Beano and played by Joe Alaskey. Anyone named Beano you know is a comic character and Alaskey always seemed perpetually flustered.Last, but not least was Doug McClure who played a former actor and now mayor of their small California town. McClure was very funny doing a spoof on himself as a retired action adventure hero now gone into politics. Seems that I remember another star becoming mayor of a small California town, who could that be?Out Of This World was a pleasant if not truly memorable situation comedy.

Out Of This World Revolves around the lives of the Garlands, Troy lives in outer space on Antarius married to Donna who lives on Earth with their Daughter Evie, and Donna's Uncle Beano. On her 13th Birthday, Donna tells Evie that her father does not work for the Government but is actually an alien from another planet. She learns after that that she has the ability to Freeze Time and later develops other powers and just like other teens dealing with their crazy mixed up teenage years, so does Evie. The big difference is that when Evie gets mad at her mom she can freeze her and walk away (most teens would want that power, I'm Sure). Add in a few thought challenged friends, a lot of power-mis-hap's, and u have 96 funny episodes of a 1/2 hour comedy show that started the new "Sabrina" craze! Before Out Of This World, any television characters that had powers were usually adults with the exception of Tabitha from "Bewitched", who only used her powers once in a great while. Evie is and will always be the #1 Alien-human mix in my book of television history!

Out Of This World (1987-1991): Starring Maureen O'Flannigan, Voice of Burt Reynolds, Donna Pescow, Doug McClure, Christina Nigra, Buzz Belmondo, Steve Burton. Director Scott Baio, Bob Claver, Michael Dimitch and others"Would you like to swing on a star ? Carrying Moonbeams all in a jar ? And be better off than you are, or would you rather go to earth ? An earthling's a creature with big floppy ears, he's not at all like you or me. His body comes in many different shapes, they say they came from chips and apes..." Such are the lyrics to the opening song to this long-forgotten late 80's sitcom, the theme song itself re-made from the original 30's tune. I was approximately 7-10 when this show was on and don't remember it too well, though many aspects stand out in my memory. Evie Garland (Maureen O'Flannigan) was born of an alien father and human mother. She would communicate with her alien father (voiced by Burt Reynolds) via a crystal cube (or was it a triangle ?). Each episode revolved around Evie and the rest of the characters were flat and undeveloped, including the mother. The rest were co-workers at the burger restaurant she worked in and high school students. Because production values were cheap and this was a studio-staged sitcom, we never saw anything beyond the kitchen where she and her mother would converse, Evie's bedroom where she would converse with her father at the end of the day, or the burger joint where she worked. This being the 80's, there was always a moral to every episode, and Evie learned how to be human and how to use her newfound powers wisely. In the show, she aged rapidly going from 13-18 rather quickly. She had a broad range of superhuman powers- the most notorious and memorable being the ability to freeze time and people around her by touching her fingers together. She had the power of clairvoyance, telechenisis (moving objects)She was able to change her shape, levitate, teleport herself and others to different locales. It was, of course, a sci-fi comedy series and I really wish that it would at least air on Sci-Fi channel or TV Land. This is a classic show that time forgot. I wonder whatever became of the actors ?

You've got a very pretty blonde, blue-eyed girl with special powers but she can't use them to wreak venegance on her cruel classmates. No, I'm not talking about that Wiccan air-head, I'm talking about Evie Garland. Cuter, prettier and funnier, she paved the way for everyone else and was all but forgotten for the effort. Maureen Flannigan had a certain amount of charm and irresistable, dare I say it, magic; she was the Maureen McCormick of the Eighties. Donna Pescow was her cute mom and Joe Alaskey was her enjoyable uncle. His absence from the show was one of the signs of the end. The late Doug McClure played the whimsical town mayor in the series, but as the series went on, he just seemed to get more stupid and annoying. The show suffered a lot as the scripts became more contrived, and the series ended with an unsatisfactory plotline dangling - a poor end to a once great show. I wish Flannigan much better.