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Starman

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In this series, the alien returns to find and assist the child he fathered fourteen years before on his visit to Earth. When he arrives, he takes on the identity of Paul Forrester, a prize-winning free-lance photographer with a rather wild reputation killed in a helicopter accident. He finds the child (Scott Hayden) and his mother (Jenny) have been separated. Paul convinces Scott to help him to locate Jenny, his friend from his first visit to Earth. Unfortunately, their search is plagued by George Fox, a paranoid government agent who feels Paul and Scott are dangerous and wants to capture, examine, and probably kill them.

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Robert Hays
Paul Forrester
Christopher Daniel Barnes
Scott Hayden
Michael Cavanaugh
George Fox

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Episode 1

The Return

Fri, Sep 19, 198660 mins

Photographer Paul Forrester decides to photograph an erupting volcano when he is caught in the eruption and killed. At the same time, the Starman has returned to seek Jenny Hayden and their child. He clones the dead photographer's body and finds his son, whose name is Scott and is living in an orphanage. George Fox has decided that the Starman's initial visit was a reconnaissance mission for a potential invasion, and believes that he will return. He sets up a department and begins the hunt.

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Awards

  • 1988 - Young Artist Award - Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Drama Series - nominated
  • 1988 - Young Artist Award - Best Family Television Drama Series - nominated

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Question: I have a feeling this question may well bring your ridicule raining down on me. Any Kyle XY scoop? Answer: Ridicule? Pshaw. No need to be ashamed. Kyle XY is a fun show. (Or so I hear.) To answer your question, yes, I have some scoop for you. The Aug. 28 season finale will answer a "number of questions," series creator David Himelfarb tells my colleague Ileane Rudolph. Among them: How did Kyle come to be in the woods in the show’s opening scene? Who killed Professor Kern? Are there others like Kyle? And what is Amanda's boyfriend, Charlie, hiding? "As the show goes on,” Himelfarb says, “the mythology aspect will grow. We started out more like Starman; we end up more like Lost.  It was a softer, sweeter show, and now we're much more about the mystery and the jeopardy."

Wed, Aug 16, 2006

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