# Please help me name this '80s TV show. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610 "2003-10-26T03:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/1 "2003-10-26T03:26:33Z")
**Gunslinger** and I caught the tail end of “I Love the '80s Strikes Back: 1987” just now. There was a bit on “Different Worlds,” which made me remember another tv show, whose title I _thought_ was “Another World” but he disagrees. It’s about a little girl from another planet who comes and lives with an Earth family. She has the ability to stop time or something. I used to watch it when I was a kid, but I only remember it very vaguely; I was born in '83, so it was probably on TV at some point between '86 and '90. When we couldn’t remember the title ourselves, it raised the cry “TO THE CAFE!” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cheapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8e7dd6/32.png) [@El\_Cheapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cheapo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/2 "2003-10-26T03:41:31Z")
Out of this World? The girl was half-human, half-alien… communicated with alien dad via this cube thing. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/3 "2003-10-26T03:42:35Z")
“Out of This World.” The girl’s name was Evie and she could stop time by pressing the tips of her index fingers together. MAN did I wish I had that power. I used to actually try it, too. I think Steve Burton (he’s on some soap opera) was on that show as her boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/4 "2003-10-26T03:47:03Z")
It also sounds like [Small Wonder](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088610/) , except the girl was a robot, not an alien. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/5 "2003-10-26T04:06:17Z")
Was the girl from “Out of This World” older? If so, I’m probably confusing that show and “Small Wonder” in my mind, but the one Gun was thinking of (and the one I thought I meant) was definitely “Out of This World.” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cheapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8e7dd6/32.png) [@El\_Cheapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cheapo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/6 "2003-10-26T04:09:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > \*\*Was the girl from “Out of This World” older? If so, I’m probably confusing that show and “Small Wonder” in my mind, but the one Gun was thinking of (and the one I thought I meant) was definitely “Out of This World.” \*\* IIRC, Evie fond out about her powers/Dad on her 13th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cheapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8e7dd6/32.png) [@El\_Cheapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cheapo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/7 "2003-10-26T04:10:30Z")
D’oh… She may have been **fond** of her powers, but she **found** out about them on her birthday. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/8 "2003-10-26T07:41:27Z")
It’s easy to confuse the two shows. They both involved young girls, and they were both mind-numbingly stupid, even by TV standards. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/9 "2003-10-26T12:35:06Z")
Wasn’t Doug McClure the bumbling mayor character in it? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/10 "2003-10-26T16:24:28Z")
JThunder: it’s easy to like mind-numbingly stupid shows when you’re, like, five. Heck, I watched the “My Little Pony” cartoon, and that was pretty damn stupid too. 🙂 Thanks for the ID, everybody. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-name-this-80s-tv-show/209610/11 "2003-10-26T18:22:01Z")
Alf? … or am I the only one guy who thought Alf was cute 😉