They Came from Outer Space
Two teenage aliens, Abe and Bo, travel the United States in a red sports car in an effort to pick up chicks and learn more about life on Earth. They are pursued by a pair of bumbling U.S. Government soldiers who would like to capture Abe and Bo for study.
- 1990-1991
- 1 season
- Timeless Media
- Comedy, Science Fiction
Two teenage aliens, Abe and Bo, travel the United States in a red sports car in an effort to pick up chicks and learn more about life on Earth. They are pursued by a pair of bumbling U.S. Government soldiers who would like to capture Abe and Bo for study.
Season 1 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 1990 - 1991
Episode 1
Malibu or Bust!
Tue, Oct 9, 1990 60 mins
Bo and Abe's parents are sending them to University in England, but they end up on the west coast of the United States. To complicate matters, Bo and Abe are from another planet and being hunted by the Air Force.
Episode 2
Undressed for Success
Tue, Oct 16, 1990
Bo and Abe, desperate for money and a place to hide, become room mates with a law student who gets them a job where he works - a male strip club.
Episode 3
The Beauty Contest
Tue, Oct 23, 1990
Bo and Abe are forced to judge a beauty contest in a town full of self-centered, corrupt, murderous people.
Episode 4
Something Personal
Tue, Oct 30, 1990
Bo and Abe try dating through personal ads in a paper.
Episode 5
School Fools
Tue, Nov 6, 1990
Bo and Abe enroll at Cambridge School for Girls.
Episode 6
Tennessee Lacey
Tue, Nov 13, 1990 47 mins
To celebrate his birthday, all Abe wants to do is find a cheap restaurant that serves large amounts of food. Brother Bo, on the other hand, wants beautiful babes thrown in. While the alien brothers search for a restaurant that meets both of their requirements, Lt. Col. Barker and Lt. Wilson hire a bounty hunter to locate the visitors from space. Lacey, the bounty hunter, is a beautiful babe who both brothers find extremely attractive. She lures them to home, handcuffs them and contacts the Air Force officers to pick them up. Unfortunately, Lacey plans for a big payoff are ruined when her equally lovely sister Tracey, also a bounty hunter, nabs the alien brothers for her own purposes.
Episode 7
Trading Faces
Tue, Nov 20, 1990 47 mins
Bo is hired to impersonate a corrupt millionaire who he does not know is about to be sent to prison for thirty years.
Episode 8
Rodeo Romeos
Tue, Nov 27, 1990 47 mins
Bo has a bad tooth so Abe is in pain. While in search of a dentist they become involved with Native American women, their crotchety grandfather and a rodeo offering ten-thousand dollars for a thirty second bull ride.
Episode 9
Mr. Geek
Tue, Dec 4, 1990 47 mins
Bo and Abe become enmeshed in the world of professional wrestling.
Episode 10
The Legend
Mon, Jan 7, 1991 47 mins
A psychiatrist tells Bo to take Abe to Las Vegas when he is accidentally transformed into a rock star.
Episode 11
Ads Are Us
Mon, Jan 14, 1991
Bo and Abe are hired for fifty thousand dollars a year as consultants for the Metallic Toy account by Grady, Lance and Boyle Advertising.
Episode 12
Animal Magnetism
Mon, Jan 21, 1991
Bo and Abe are fired from their new job and hauled to jail for ice cream embezzlement. Due to their odd behavior at the police station they are sent to a mental hospital.
Episode 13
High Five
Mon, Jan 28, 1991
Bo spends the brothers' last four dollars on lottery tickets where first prize is ownership of a decrepit local educational TV station. When they win, they learn that they've accidentally assumed the station's multi-million dollar debt to the bank. They set out to create new programs for the station on a low-budget, unintentionally incurring the wrath of a rival network's sitcom star.
Episode 14
Cozy Cove
Mon, Feb 4, 1991
Abe and Bo find a message in a bottle washed up on a beach. The message purports to be a 17th Century treasure map tossed overboard by a pirate whose ship was foundering and provides directions to buried treasure nearby. The boys investigate and discover that a yacht club has been built over the spot on the map. Undetered, the aliens scheme with the head waiter to search the basement for access to the hidden gold.
Episode 15
Look Who's Barking
Mon, Feb 11, 1991
Abe and Bo try to help a dog who has starred in a series of popular movies escape from a sleazy studio president. The movie mogul has taken out a multi-million dollar insurance policy on the pooch and plans to collect by poisoning the poor pooch. When the two teenage aliens are arrested for dog-napping, they have to escape jail and rescue their canine friend before he comes to grief.
Episode 16
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Tue, Feb 19, 1991
Desperate to earn money to replace the wheels stolen off their Corvette, the boys answer an ad to become apprentice hairdressers. The beauty salon that hires them is run by a husband and wife team of crooks who have issued millions of dollars of worthless stock and are looking for a way to run their business into the ground before the auditors discover their financial shenanigans. The incompetent young aliens seem to be perfect patsies for the larcenous pair to use to perpetrate their crime.
Episode 17
Play Doctor
Tue, Feb 26, 1991
At Abe's insistence, the Croutonians visit a famous hotel to view a gallery full of famous landscape photographs. While trying to find the photographs the aliens meet a number of beautiful women working at a weight-loss product convention and are mistaken for a pair of doctors who are scheduled to present their medical findings.
Episode 18
Double Jeopardy
Tue, Mar 5, 1991
Bo and Abe start a detective agency are hired to protect a wealthy couple's jewels during a lavish cocktail party. When a thief breaks into the mansion's wall safe and the butler is found murdered the two young aliens search for the guilty party, but whenever the youngsters appear ready to make an arrest their prime suspect winds up murdered as well.
Episode 19
Sex, Lies and UFOs: Part 1
Tue, Mar 12, 1991
Bo and Abe are abducted by homicidal alien amazons.
Episode 20
Sex, Lies & UFOs: Part 2
Tue, Mar 19, 1991 47 mins
Bo escapes from the invading alien women and goes to the Air Force to ask for help to save Abe and Earth.