Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left

- Season 1

(1993)

On the frozen planet of Zyrgon, twelve-year-old X is awarded the scholarship for Excellence in Family Organisation but her excitement is short-lived after her father manipulates the government lottery and wins for the 27th time in a row.

The family arrive on Earth, but not in eighteenth century France as planned.

The Chief questions Hecla believing she is hiding the family on the farm but she misdirects him. Frustrated in his search, The Chief sends Officer Jady to scour the galaxy for the family.

Hecla reaches the halfway point and learns from Yorp about The Chief's all-moon bulletin for the family.

The Chief appears before the Authoritarians to report on his progress, or lack thereof, in his search for the family.

X brings home her school friends to prove she has a perfectly ordinary family but it is not easy task given the new clock and the arrival of Aunt Hecla.

The Chief departs Zyrgon with a new scanner designed to pick up X's molecular structure. Contrary to X's hopes, Hecla is not eager to leave.

At school, Dovis simulates herself into a rabbit to help the rabbit's in her science class escape.

The Chief returns triumphantly to Zyrgon with Hecla-X and presents her before Authoritax and Principa before she is imprisoned to await interrogation by The Chief.

Lox is caught accessing X's scholarship records and is put in detention with Hecla-X.

Explaining that she sympathises with X as a fellow organiser, Jady releases Hecla and Lox from custody and tells them the family have arrived home.

The family is on high alert for the Chief's next move but X refuses to run away - they won't let the Chief dictate how they live their lives.

Returning in the boat, Jenny tempers excitement about X's powers - they've probably been spotted in the flying boat and questions will be asked.

As a violin-playing alien from out space, Qwrk feels isolated and decides it is time he made some friends.

Lox's thought-beams are interfering with the Froggatts electricity. Lox contacts X needing a place to hide.

Qwrk receives a piece of intergalactic junk mail from the Almost Dead Letter Office with an enclosed free sample - an ever-green money tree.

X is concerned the family is becoming careless and are keeping secrets from one another.

Lox's continued fascination with cowboys concerns X, and she tasks Dovis with keeping an eye on him.

Father doesn't want to ask Mother not to go to Paris so the task falls to X. Mother explains it will make her a better mother and after X sees Jenny with her mum, it's not an unwelcome prospect.

X confides in Colin that on Earth she feels free to be herself and is not bound by what the government tells her to be like on Zyrgon, where people don't even have feelings.

X's concern that Lox's spacecraft may have been spotted taking off proves well-founded as the next day it is the talk of the school.

Desperate to earn money for a new dress, Jenny talks X into using her powers to age-simulate her to look 17 years old so she can get a job at the amusement arcade, Pinball Paradise.

Michelle sprays graffiti on the school and hides the spray can in Charlotte's locker for Miss Bloom, the principal, to find.

The Chief crash lands on Yorp's refuelling depot and contacts Jady requesting a new raft - X's influence is spreading and she must be stopped.

As the Chief and Jady take X back to Zyrgon, the family try to decide what to do to save her.

The Chief's latest plan is to mutilate X's mind so she gives up all hope. On Earth, Miss Bloom stops by the house to inquire about the kids absence from school.

The family's attempts to communicate with Zyrgon interfere with the Froggatts' TV reception again.

X and the Chief are alive, spared from the lava having landed on a narrow ledge.