Does anyone remember this TV program?

Have just been watchin Ally McBeal (the thanks giving one) on Channel 4 (UK) and they had a song in it called "Swing On A Star" by Bing Crosby.

http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvall...ngOnAStar.html (Lyrics)
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/midi/swingonstar.mid (MIDI Version)
http://members.xoom.com/JohnMclane/swing.zip (WAV Version)


Anyways...I recognised the tune instantly from a TV program when I was a kid... (it was the theme tune but I think someone else sang it)

The program was about a 16ish girl who loved with her mother but her father was an alien. You never say him but she used to talk to him with some kinda glowing crystal thingy in her bedroom. This girl could pause time by touching her index fingers together, but unfreeze individual people by touching them.

She used to do things like trowing a bin up in the air and then pausing time while it was in mid air...she'd rush to show people then remember that they too were frozen. She'd then unfreeze time and down would come the bin with an almighty thud. I can remember her spraining her fingers while playing bowling and not being able to freeze time properly. I also remember her freezing time then unfreezing just a few people and having to explain to them that everyone was doing a new kind of dance where you had to stand still. When she later unfroze time again this poor idiot would make a fool of himself by just standing still in the middle of a disco.

I also remember an episode where she turned 16 and could choose to have one of several special alien "gifts". They included abilities like being able to float, become invisible, read people's minds and tie shoe laces extreamly quickly! Her alien father had chosen the mind reading one but after evaluating them all she decided that she "wasn't ready" and that she would for-go them all for now. Silly!

This program now makes me think of "Sabrina The Teenage Witch"...also I think the girl in it was quite similar.

Anyway, my point...does anybody remember this program? What was it called, who starred in it? Where are the websites for me to look at?

[Edited by matthewralston on 08-02-2000 at 07:32 PM]

[Sam Finch]

I think Swing on a Star was Bing Crosby, something stirred deep down in me brain, I can't remember anything about it though.

Whoops! That's what I meant to type (not Frank Senatra). I've updated the post.

[SteveCRM]

Oh I remember that show...but Im only 14 now, so that was when I was young...can't remember the name...arg!!!!

Yay! I'm not going crazy!!

I remember it from when I was at primary school, about 6th year I think... so that would put it about 1989/90ish I think...

[Sophtware]

Are you sure the name of that show wasnt "Out of this world?"
I remember the show but i aint sure about the name.

Yeah!!!! That's it!! Cool! That's been driving me nuts for weeks but the name rang a bell as soon as I read it!!

Ta, Sophtware. BTW is that Sopht to go with L0pht?

Am off to look for websites

Out of this World
1987-1991
Staring Maureen Flannigan (playing "Evie").

[Sophtware]

I remember i thought that was one of the coolest shows out there.

matthewralston: Yeah thats where i got the idea for it...
I was at the lopht web site and thought about a nic for vb-world.net.

Heer's another question.....who remembers that tv show that Jerry o'donnel or o'connel (one of em) was a teenager with super human powers and it was like a high school program.

[parksie]

Must have been Jerry O'Connell (of Sliders 'fame')

Was it "My Secret Identity"?

[Sophtware]

That was it!..hehehe

Don't think I know that one ...

[Sophtware]

Remember those old 80's show?
hehe

[parksie]

I remember some of the later episodes of Airwolf, when I was about 6 or 7.

Everyone loved Airwolf!! Can still remember the theme tune now. Dooo.... do do do doooo, do do do doooo....

[Sophtware]

I just found the video game cartidge of airwolf in my old nintendo video game system!! haha