The Adventures Of Nickels And Spud
The Adventures of Nickels and Spud is a futuristic sci-fi, techno fantasy, which follows the exploits of Nickels (an outgoing dinosaur, human hybrid who is the owner and founder of his own salvation/bounty hunter company, his friend and associate, Spud (a friendly and quite intelligible vegetable based alien from a distant galaxy), their sarcastic and often insecure Ship simply named Ship and their new associate, Em—a petite—but more often than not—bigger than life princess from Earth. Together, they travel the cosmos, scouring the planets and moons for hidden treasures and what Nickels calls “Scum”, an umbrella term which means rubbish that can be sold for re-purposing and bad guys that have escaped the long arm of intergalactic law. And though they all have their unique skills, without each of them pitching in, they’re just loud, brash and a little above average; but together, they are explosive! Indeed, the universe is big, but these four combined may just dwarf it!
Episodes
In the Season 3 of the Adventures of Nickels and Spud, Episode 1: Christmas Log, Nickels has gone missing with a shuttle craft cabbie on a strange world where he had intended to visit as Santa and bring presents to the orphans. He has kept a detailed account of his experience on a recording device, hoping it would explain everything. He feels abandoned by the others and has grown embittered. But no one knows what has ...
In the Season 2 carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 15: Finding Nicky Part Two, Tessa and Celo work together to triangulate on the tracking signal that Tessa put on Em so that they might find her and Nicky. The problem is that the moon on which the cult that took her has quite that hostile environment, and it seems to defy logic. Therefore, Tessa is having a terrible time completing her side ...
In the Season 2 carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 14: Finding Nicky Part One, Tessa reaches out to Em for a personal favor--one that she does not want the rest of the crew of Recovery Services knowing about. Nicky is missing! Excited about the prospect of having an actual mission that she can be part of and not being the center of it as usual, Em jumps at the chance. Spud, of course, is qui...
In the Season 2 carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 13: Em's Circus Part Two, Spud realizes that Em has vanished from the confines of Ship and that she is likely in peril--once again. After a long discussion and much negotiating (especially with Nickels who proposes that Em, being so clown-like, may have run away to the circus and fit in where she most likely belongs), Spud convinces the...
In the Season 2 carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 12: Em's Circus Part One, Nickels and Ship take a transport job without telling the other members of the crew. And though it seems harmless on the surface, something Russet is certainly excited about, everyone is terrified to spring the news to Em. But why? What terrible news accompanies this particular job that would have them all so w...
In the Season 2 carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 11: Em and Ship, Nickels and Spud contract an incredibly vile illness--one that is more grotesque than bubbling garbage marinating in freshly spilled sewage, leaving Em in charge--so to speak. And Ship makes it known, loud and clear, that he has no intentions of respecting her as the acting captain. To make matters worse, the job that they ...
In the Season 2 carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 10: Customs, the crew of Recovery Services find themselves on a strange outpost world, where they must fill out the proper paperwork in order to pass through that particular sector of space and deliver the goods that they had most recently acquired. Unfortunately, the people of Solaris are absolutely by the book and highly argumentative. Mor...
In the Season 2 carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 9: Yesterday Land pt 3, Nickels, Em and Russet continue to search through the strange world in which they landed--a family friendly theme park which closely resembles those synonymous with southern California amid the 20th Century. They have already acquired wiring from the twister ties that they took while Nickels raided the food pantry. ...
In the Season 2 carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 8: Yesterday Land pt 2, the crew of Recovery Services continues to explore the strange world in which they landed--a family friendly theme park which closely resembles those synonymous with southern California amid the 20th Century. And while the away team, consisting of Nickels, Em and Russet--posing as park costumed talent, continues to e...
In the Season 2 carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 7: Happy Hatch Day, the crew of Recovery Services, along with Nicky and Celo, plan a surprise Hatch Day party for Tessa. But they have one problem--Nickels picked out the gift. Horrified by what he selected for his fairer half, the others tread lightly as the big reveal approaches. A woman whose feminine side is about as alien to her as...
In the Season 2 carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 6: Yesterday Land pt 1, the crew of Recovery Services had ventured back to earth in the errand of making a delivery to Kingdom of Westgate--without Gillastone, specifically Em's parents knowing of their visit. Just following, their departure, Em experienced a dizzy spell, and then all went weird for Ship and everyone on board. Once they...
In the Season 2 Carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 5: Germs, Spud is trying to wrap up the negotiations with the Jozalite representatives the crew had done a job for so that they might receive a well needed and earned pay day. While on the planet's surface, Nickels, Em and the others encounter a device that Spud has most recently engineered, enabling its user to see germs. It's som...
In the Season 2 Carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 4: Big Trouble with Little Nickels pt 2, Nickels continues to tell his daughter, Nicky about the time he got into some pretty big trouble as a kid; Tessa in forced to confront the beast that tried to swallow her up; and everything comes to a head. But how did it all play out--ultimately. Tune in to the exciting conclusion of this installment...
In the Season 2 Carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 3: Big Trouble with Little Nickels pt 1, Nicky speaks with her dad over the Vid-Com (long range communicator) and tells about how and why she got in trouble with her mom. Sympathetic to her situation, Nickels recalls a time when he too got in a heap of trouble with his parents and shares the story with his daughter. It's about a time wh...
In the Season 2 Carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 2: Real Fusion, Ship informs the crew that he took a job for them as a transport for Real Fusion--an intergalactic musical sensation, which just happens to be Nickels' favorite band of all time. This is an unexpected surprise for Nickels, Spud, the princess and even Russet. But often, rubbing elbows with celebrities isn't all that ...
In the Season 2 Carryover Series, Nickels and Spud: Shorts from Space Episode 1: Girls Night Out, it's Em's birthday, and she wants to go out and have a good time--without the guys. So, she contacts Tessa, who happens to be in the area, and talks her into joining her for a girls night out at an intergalactic rave known as the Hive. There, the girls get a little more acquainted, find some trouble (or does it ...
In Season 2 Episode 10: It's a Wonderful Nickels, Nickels devastates Em by selfishly flushing her Christmas festivities and all the trimmings out into space. Outraged, Em and all the invited guests tell Nickels how rotten he was for doing it, leaving him by himself to contemplate. He ends up falling asleep, wishing he had never hatched and is then visited by three specters that show him how things would have turn...
In Season 2 Episode 9: Down on the Farm pt 2, Nickels and Spud descend into the deep and seemingly unending crevice, in hopes to find Em, who hastily jumped in, to go after Ship so that she could.... well--go! While down there, they encounter some strange things and detect signs of life--other life. They had found no trace of the Carpians, and the robots left behind weren't exactly helpful. And Ship had been driv...
In Season 2 Episode 8: Down on the Farm, the crew of Recovery Services had broken free of the clutches of the energy beast that had destroyed Spud’s home world and had managed to calm Em down from her little tirade over a very big misunderstanding. Now, as Ship nears the atmosphere of the Carpian outpost, the crew find themselves in trouble once again and thus are forced to set down quickly. Once there, the immediate ...
In Season 2 Episode 7: 2's Company, 3's a Bit Crowded, but 24?!, the crew of Recovery Services desperately attempt to escape the clutches of the energy beast that had previously destroyed Spud's homeworld and countless others beforehand before it makes a morgue out of Ship. Of course, Spud is still processing the fact that he was responsible for having brought the inferno monster their in the first plac...
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