The Lost Saucer
The Lost Saucer is an ABC television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft, starring Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nabors as hapless aliens who take a boy and his babysitter with them on their flying saucer. It aired new episodes from September to December 1975, with reruns continuing until December 1976, first under its own banner, then as part of The Krofft Supershow. It ran in daily syndication from 1978 to 1985 as part of the "Krofft Superstars" package with six other Krofft series.
Premise
The Lost Saucer was about two friendly time-travelling androids from the year 2369 named Fi and Fum who land their flying saucer on present-day Earth. They good-naturedly invite a young boy named Jerry and his babysitter Alice to check out the interior of their craft.As onlookers begin to gather though, the two androids become nervous about attracting attention and abruptly take off with Jerry and Alice. The flying saucer has the ability to travel through time, but the controls which allow the androids to specify an exact date were damaged, thus preventing the androids from returning Jerry and Alice to their rightful time and place.
The series follows the foursome as the two androids encounter various adventures while trying to get Jerry and Alice back home or return to their own home on planet ZR-3 where they hoped to make repairs with the help of their lookalike creators Doctor Locker and Professor Pringle.
The adventures are usually set on Earth either in the distant past or in the distant future hundreds of years hence. Typically, episodes were blatant social commentaries dealing with extremes such as a world where names were replaced with numbers, where machines were outlawed due to a global energy shortage, or a city where the population had grown lazy and obese because robots do all the physical work.
Accompanying them on their adventures was a creature known as the Dorse which was a half-dog, half-horse hybrid with the body of a large shaggy dog and the head of a small horse.
There were 16 original episodes produced for the 1975–76 season. The first six episodes were later rerun in the first half of The Krofft Supershow's first season.