They Came from Outer Space is an American science fiction teen sitcom that aired in syndication from October 1990 to March 1991.
The series stars Dean Cameron as Bo, and Stuart Fratkin as Abe, two teenage fraternal twin aliens from the planet Crouton.
They thwart their parents' plans to send them to Cambridge University, in Great Britain, and instead they decide to travel throughout California in their 1959 classic red Chevrolet Corvette, in an effort to pick up women and to learn more about life on Earth.
They are pursued by a pair of bumbling U.S. Air Force officers, Lt Col. Tom Barker, and Lt. Pat "Monkey" Wilson, who would like to capture the two for scientific study.
Abe and Bo were constantly taking odd jobs to support themselves on their American road trip.
He would wrestle control of the space ship from Abe and crash inside a California junk yard.
Lt Col. Tom Barker (Alan Royal) was an Air Force officer charged with tracking down any extraterrestrial on Earth and turning them over to be dissected.
He was resentful of the fact that he was working in the UFO hunter unit, because he believed that it was beneath someone of his rank to be doing the job.
Lt. Pat "Monkey" Wilson (Christopher Carroll) was the other Air Force officer hunting aliens on the team.
Mom and Dad (Rosalee Mayeux and Victor Brandt) were Bo and Abe's parents back on the planet Crouton.
To complete the illusion, they would often place a poster in back of them showing familiar British landmarks, such as Big Ben, Oxford University, or Tower Bridge, while playing "Rule Britannia" in the background.
Considering the Air Force's knowledge about some of the Croutonian abilities, we can also assume that they learned some of this from the captured sisters that they had experimented on.
A running gag in the series was how the two of them would eat an extremely large quantity of food often surprising or disgusting the humans around them.
Their bodies would make a sound like boiling water while giving off a thick white steam-like substance.
This would often lead people to falsely assume that the Croutonians were in fact on fire, and splash cold water on the "smoking" brother.
This ability enables a Croutonian to temporarily place their consciousness into an inanimate object for a short period of time.
Bo once got stuck inside a massage table, an experience he quite enjoyed, but it left Abe feeling stiff.
Some of the animals they communicated with include: dogs, a horse, birds, fish, and on one occasion a gorilla who could do John Wayne impersonations.
On February 14, 2012, Timeless Media Group (under license from Universal Studios Home Entertainment) released They Came from Outer Space- The Complete Television Series on DVD in Region 1.