Out of This World

September 17, 1987

After thirteen years of keeping Evie's identity from her, Donna is forced to reveal the truth at her thirteenth birthday party when Evie exhibits a special, alien power that enables her to freeze time. Evie learns she's half alien and that her father is from the planet Antareus--not a CIA agent as her mother has been telling her all along. She is given her father's gift of the cube, a genetic device which allows her to speak to her father on Antareus. Although anyone can hear her father over the cube, her father can only hear Evie.

September 24, 1987

Evie misuses her new power to win a gift certificate and a basketball game. Her father grounds her by taking away her power for a week as punishment.

October 1, 1987

Evie is plagued by a bad dream about becoming a monster when she grows up.

October 8, 1987

Evie's mother feels a bit neglected because Evie is spending so much time talking with her father.

October 15, 1987

Evie has a free throw contest with the new boy in school. She falls in love with him instead and ends up losing the contest.

October 22, 1987

Beano has been given a day of honor by the mayor. After gleaping him into a tuxedo, she mistakenly thinks she turned him into the mayor's dog. Attempting to reverse the change, she gleaps the dog to look like Beano.

October 29, 1987

Evie is accepted into the young astronauts program after winning an essay contest and Donna is shocked to find that Evie knows so much about science and outer space. After accidentally playing one of Evie's tapes while cleaning her room, she discovers that all the information in the essay actually came from Troy.

November 5, 1987

Evie wishes for a fifties mom while watching a 50's show, "My Favorite Mom", on TV. When the show is not on the next day, she has to live another 24 hours with a 50's mom.

November 12, 1987

It's reelection time for the mayor of Marlowe and his competition is other than Charles Nelson Reilly.

November 19, 1987

Evie wishes that she could understand a baby she's babysitting. When lightning strikes, the little boy starts talking to her.

November 26, 1987

Beano and Donna try to help an overweight child at Evie's school by trying to get Jackie Gleason to come to the opening of Beano's diet clinic.

December 3, 1987

Donna and Beano's mother comes for a visit and she falls in love with Kyle.

January 21, 1988

Donna is happy and has put a heart around the date on the calendar. Evie is suspicious.

January 28, 1988

A crystal egg left by Troy causes people to tell the truth. It causes havoc when it accidentally goes off.

February 4, 1988

Evie and Donna try to find a woman for Beano in the personals section of the newspaper. After Evie replaces Beano's photo with Kyle's, Beano's date shows up.

February 11, 1988

Evie dislikes the new boy in school. Donna encourages her to be nice to him until she meets his dad who is just as bad.

February 18, 1988

When it's time to make a movie out of Kyle's old TV show character, he learns the new writers only want him in the movie so they can write him out and replace him with a young woman.

February 25, 1988

Russia thinks there is a nuclear research lab in the Garland house. They send Donna and Beano on a fake trip to Hawaii while one of their spies disguises herself as Donna to try and take her place and try to find the secret weapon which is causing power surges.

April 21, 1988

Donna and Beano's mother visits again. When she sees Buzz dancing with Donna, she mistakes Buzz for Troy.

April 28, 1988

Evie gets the measles...Antaerian style. Evie, Donna, and Beano have to prevent the doctor from learning the truth.

May 5, 1988

After returning from San Francisco, Evie discovers the cube is missing!

May 12, 1988

Donna thought she invited the new minister's daughter, Leslie, to meet Evie. It turns out Leslie is a boy who dresses like a punk and plays music she does not like.

May 19, 1988

When Chris becomes infatuated by an older woman, Evie wishes she was older.

May 26, 1988

Evie's secret is revealed when Lindsey sleeps over and accidentally hears Evie's father trough the cube.