Episode
Out of This World: Playing With the Power
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Out of This World
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1987-09-24
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Playing With the Power is Episode 2 in Season 1 of Out of This World. It aired on 1987-09-24. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 1: Evie's Thirteenth Birthday
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.
Episode 3: The Nightmare
Evie is plagued by a bad dream about becoming a monster when she grows up.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Till Then
Evie's mother feels a bit neglected because Evie is spending so much time talking with her father.
Episode 5: Evie, Get Your Basketball
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.
Episode 6: Every Beano Has His Day
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.
Episode 7: Evie and the Young Astronauts
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.
Episode 8: Fifties Mom
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.
Episode 9: Dueling Mayors
It's reelection time for the mayor of Marlowe and his competition is other than Charles Nelson Reilly.
Episode 10: Baby Talk
Evie wishes that she could understand a baby she's babysitting. When lightning strikes, the little boy starts talking to her.
Episode 11: Beano's New Diet Clinic
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.
Episode 12: Uh, Oh... Here Comes Mother
Donna and Beano's mother comes for a visit and she falls in love with Kyle.
Episode 13: The Anniversary
Donna is happy and has put a heart around the date on the calendar. Evie is suspicious.