The Adventures Of Nickels And Spud

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 happened to him and are desperately trying to find him despite his current c...

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 of the mission. Meanwhile, Em finds herself smack dab in the heart of the cu...

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 quite apprehensive, while Nickels is deliberately kept in the dark by the lot o...

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 others that they must go back to the planet on which the Hodges and Sporalian Ci...

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 worried about Em's response? All that can really be said about it is that everyone...

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 have currently taken forces them to navigate through an asteroid field,...

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. Moreover, they are difficult to identify with. Therefore, between Nickels' bad ...

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. Currently, they are about to sink, as Em sets her sights on the ho...

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 explore, they are assigned the task of scavenging several items that Spu...

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 blizzards are to the Congo, do the others have a legitimate reason to be fearful...