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Created By
Rockne S. O'Bannon
Alien Nation
Overview
Detective Matthew Sikes, a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly works with "Newcomer" alien George Francisco. Sikes also has an 'on again off again' flirtation with a female Newcomer, Cathy Frankel.
Key Crew
Producer: Kenneth Johnson
Top Cast
Gary Graham
Detective Matthew Sikes
Eric Pierpoint
Detective George Francisco
Michele Scarabelli
Susan Francisco
Lauren Woodland
Emily Francisco
Sean Six
Buck Francisco
Terri Treas
Cathy Frankel
Jeffrey Marcus
Albert Einstein
Ron Fassler
Captain Bryon Grazer
Seasons
Season 0 (1988)
No overview available.
7 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Alien Nation
1988-10-07This made-for-TV sci-fi outing is a sequel to the television series version of a popular feature film about a futuristic Southern California in which aliens, called Newcomers, co-exist with humans. This episode of the saga focuses on 250,000 aliens who came to earth to escape slavery. Their peaceful existence is disrupted when their masters send Aponso earthward to recapture them.
Runtime: 90 minEpisode 2: Dark Horizon
1994-10-25Picking up where the "season finale" left off, Emily and Susan are on life support after being contaminated with a virus, which is found to be from a Purist group. The Purists have created a mass of it to spray over LA to kill all Newcomers. At the same time, an elite Overseer arrives to organize the return of the Tenctonese to slavery, and decides to take the human population as well.
Runtime: 94 minEpisode 3: Body and Soul
1995-10-10Sikes and Francisco are called in to a case when a mysterious young girl, who looks part Newcomer, part human, appears. Her huge, brutish counterpart tries to free her from the precinct, and their bizarre relationship turns out to be the result of a slave ship medical experiment. Meanwhile, Cathy and Matt are going to sex school, in preparation of becoming intimate, while Buck distresses his parents by his anti-human opinions.
Runtime: 91 minEpisode 4: Millennium
1996-01-02It's December 1999 and as the end of the millennium approaches, people are attempting to find spiritual enlightenment. However, a few people want to skip all the work that entails. A holy Tenctonese relic in the hands of a heretic is giving them a shortcut but it's not quite as easily controlled as she says.
Runtime: 91 minEpisode 5: The Enemy Within
1996-11-12When Detectives Sikes and Francisco are presented with the mysterious death of an Eeno, Matt is stupefied to discover that George had rudely snubbed the case. He, like most Newcomers, reviles the outcast Eenos. As the case unfolds, George has to reassess his prejudices, and George's family help save the city from an alien threat originating in an Eeno waste disposal facility.
Runtime: 91 minEpisode 6: The Udara Legacy
1997-07-29Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving Newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed dates back to the slave ship's resistance movement, the Udara, of which Susan was a part. Susan and George's lives are further disrupted when Buck enrolls in the police academy.
Runtime: 90 minEpisode 7: Alien Nation Behind the Scenes
2000-09-02Behind the Scenes look at the people behind the show.
Runtime: 4 min
Season 1 (1989)
No overview available.
22 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Alien Nation: The TV Movie
1989-09-18When the Francisco family move into a rich suburban part of L.A., they get to experice hate and racism spread by the radical Purists.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: Fountain of Youth
1989-09-25Sikes and Francisco (Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint) investigate a doctor who is killing Newcomers to benefit human patients.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 3: Little Lost Lamb
1989-10-02Sikes and George (Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint) uncover a prostitution ring after a Newcomer prostitute, on the run from her pimp, is murdered in Sikes' apartment.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 4: Fifteen with Wanda
1989-10-09Sikes' (Gary Graham) daughter (Cheryl Pollak) visits, accompanied by her radical boyfriend (Wayne Pere), and Buck Francisco (Sean Six) faces expulsion from school. With Eric Pierpoint.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 5: The Takeover
1989-10-16During heavy rioting, the precinct is near deserted & Sikes & Francisco must stop criminals who attempt to take the precinct over and raiding the evidence lockers for drugs, money and weaponry.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 6: The First Cigar
1989-10-23George (Eric Pierpoint) accepts a loan from a Newcomer loan officer before discovering she is a drug czar
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 7: Night of the Screams
1989-10-30The method of a serial killer stalking Newcomers re-creates one of their most grisly legends.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 8: Contact
1989-11-06While investigating a famous doctor's murder, Sikes and George (Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint) discover he was attempting to contact a probe seeking the Newcomer slave ship.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 9: Three to Tango
1989-11-13George and Sikes (Eric Pierpoint, Gary Graham) search for a Purist radical who has been murdering special Newcomers.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 10: The Game
1989-11-20George is confronted with his past as a slave on the spaceship, when it appears that an old Russian Roulette style game he was once forced to play has returned. Will George take revenge for his brother, who died being hit by a bolt of salt water while playing the game on the ship?
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 11: Chains of Love
1989-11-27George (Eric Pierpoint) goes under cover as a client at a computer-dating service for Newcomers to locate a female Newcomer killer.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 12: The Red Room
1989-12-18Sikes and George (Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint) become involved in a federal search for a Newcomer who was programmed to kill while in the quarantine camps.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 13: The Spirit of '95
1990-01-15George and Sikes (Eric Pierpoint, Gary Graham) discover a Purist plot to sabotage an election while investigating the bombing of a Newcomer voter campaign office.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 14: Generation to Generation
1990-01-29Sikes and George (Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint) follow the trail of a mysterious Tenctonese box which is deadly for those who fail to comprehend its powers.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 15: Eyewitness News
1990-02-05Sikes and George (Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint) trail a man (Hugh MacGuire) who is obsessed with a Tenctonese porn star (Deborah Goodrich).
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 16: Partners
1990-02-12Sikes (Gary Graham) attempts to prove George (Eric Pierpoint) innocent in a drug case as Susan (Michele Scarabelli) prepares to transfer the pod to her husband.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 17: Real Men
1990-02-19A violent confrontation with a drug suspect (A.D. Muylch) causes George (Eric Pierpoint) to give birth prematurely.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 18: Crossing the Line
1990-02-26Sikes (Gary Graham) vows to capture a serial murderer who once eluded him when it appears he has killed again.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 19: Rebirth
1990-03-12Sikes (Gary Graham) vows to capture the Newcomer convenience store robber (Brian Thompson) who attacked him and left him near death
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 20: Gimmee, Gimmee
1990-04-09George (Eric Pierpoint) searches for the killer of a Newcomer corporate executive (David Selburg) who invented a durable synthetic fabric.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 21: The Touch
1990-04-30Sikes and George (Gray Graham, Eric Pierpoint) uncover an overseer rejuvenation plot when they investigate the dramatic behavior change of a boy (Mitchell Allen, Jonathan Brandis) Cathy (Terri Treas) knew on the slaveship.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 22: Green Eyes
1990-05-07While investigating a series of mysterious Newcomer deaths, Sikes and George (Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint) discover a plan to eliminate the Newcomer population with a lethal bacteria.
Runtime: N/A min
