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The Lost Saucer was about two time-travelling futuristic androids named Fi (Ruth Buzzi) and Fum (Jim Nabors) who land their flying saucer on present day Earth. They inexplicably invite a young boy named Jerry (Jarrod Johnson) and his babysitter Alice (Alice Playten) to check out the interior of their craft.
The Lost Saucer was the last Sid and Marty Krofft live action puppet show of the 1970s to be marked by any degree of originality or quality. Debuting on ABC in September 1975 and running until September 1976, the show ran for seventeen episodes. Ironically, this show was on Saturday mornings at 9:30 AM, the same time as another outer space themed Sid and Marty Krofft live action puppet show was airing on another channel, CBS's grossly inferior Far Out Space Nuts. After its cancellation in 1976, the show lived on as a recurring segment on The Krofft Supershow.
The Lost Saucer had a notable cast, featuring Jim Nabors (yes, Gomer Pyle himself) as Fum, Ruth Buzzi as Fi, Alice Playten as Alice, Jarrod Johnson as Jerry, and Larry Larson in heavy costume as Dorse, the pet of Fi and Fum who was a mix of a dog and a horse. Jim Nabors was just a few years removed from widespread fame as one of the stars of The Andy Griffith Show and the main star of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., so it was somewhat surprising to see him on a Saturday morning children's puppet show.
The Lost Saucer is probably most notable for the fact that each of the episodes did a very good job of presenting a morality play, something which television programming for children at the time didn't really bother with. It dealt well with concepts like racism in a format designed for children and in that may have had the best writing of any of the Krofft shows.
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