Starman
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.
- Metascore34
- 1986-1987
- 1 season
- ABC
- Science Fiction
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.
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1986 - 1987
Episode 1
The Return
Fri, Sep 19, 1986 60 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.
Episode 2
Like Father, Like Son
Fri, Sep 26, 1986 60 mins
Deciding that hitch-hiking is too inefficient a method of travel, Paul and Scott decide to buy an automobile, and after making the purchase pick up a mother and daughter who have car trouble. After dropping off the car at a garage and finding a hotel, Paul and Scott discover that the police are after their friends as well.
Episode 3
Fatal Flaw
Fri, Oct 3, 1986 60 mins
Forrester and Scott decide to lay low at an airfield. He meets a woman who along with her father were designing a new plane but when he suffered a stroke she tries to do it on her own. She doesn't even try talking to him. But with the sphere, Forrester is able to communicate with her father, who tells him some flaws with the plane which he tries to tell her about which she doesn't believe.
Episode 4
Blue Lights
Fri, Oct 17, 1986 60 mins
Scott erroneously uses the sphere to make some lights appears in the sky. And when a deputy sees them and he tells everyone about it, they don't believe him. But Fox upon hearing about it heads to investigate.
Episode 5
Best Buddies
Fri, Oct 24, 1986 60 mins
Encountering a couple who knew the real Paul Forrester, Paul and Scott's problems are compounded when the wife declares that she still loves Paul and wants to resume their affair.
Episode 6
Secrets
Fri, Oct 31, 1986 60 mins
The search for Jenny Hayden leads Paul and Scott to a mental institution where a woman may have a valuable lead for them, unless the whole thing is an elaborate trap.
Episode 7
One for the Road
Fri, Nov 7, 1986 60 mins
Weary of their life on the run, Paul and Scott start to enjoy staying in one place for a while, but when Paul sees that they must move on, Scott rebels.
Episode 8
Peregrine
Fri, Nov 14, 1986 60 mins
Coming across an injured peregrine falcon, Paul risks his freedom to seek the help of a veterinarian.
Episode 9
Society's Pet
Fri, Nov 28, 1986 60 mins
Paul takes Scott to see his foster father's sister, a wealthy widow who has a $10,000 inheritance for the boy, but she wants to gain custody of Scott for herself, even if this requires betraying Paul to his pursuers.
Episode 10
Fever
Fri, Dec 5, 1986 60 mins
When Forrester gets sick he ends up in the hospital and the doctor treating him has no idea what's making him sick or how to treat it. At the same time Fox has been relieved of his duty because of his failure to come up with tangible proof of "the alien's" existence.
Episode 11
The Gift
Fri, Dec 12, 1986 60 mins
Forrester gets a letter supposedly from Forrester's mother inviting him to come home for Christmas. When he arrives she claims that she didn't send him a letter. And it seems that Forrester was not exactly a good son and neither his mom nor the rest of the town like him. But he and Scott try to make it a good Christmas for her because she's dying.
Episode 12
The System
Fri, Jan 9, 1987 60 mins
When Forrester is arrested on a minor thing, an old warrant is served on him. It seems that the real Forrester took a photo of a man who was suspected of a crime which he claims he didn't commit. So Forrester is being asked to reveal the man's location but because he doesn't know he can't tell them so he's placed in jail. Scott is taken in by a lawyer representing Forrester. Fox eventually learns of this so tries to get Forrester but the police stonewall him. But when a mistake gets Forrester released he goes to Scott who shows him the photo and he thinks he can find the location.
Episode 13
Appearances
Fri, Jan 16, 1987 60 mins
When a blind girl receives acid burns, Paul heals her. Unfortunately she wants her eyes healed as well.
Episode 14
The Probe
Fri, Jan 30, 1987 60 mins
Paul falls in love with an astronomer who is having a crisis of conscious over the military's funding of her research.
Episode 15
Dusty
Fri, Feb 6, 1987 60 mins
While in Las Vegas Paul and Scott pick up a hitchhiker who takes off with their car. They later go to a hotel that Paul Forrester frequented and are taken in. They find the woman who they discover is a compulsive gambler. They try to get back the spheres but discover she sold their things. They try to help her.
Episode 16
Barriers
Fri, Feb 13, 1987 60 mins
Paul is taken to Mexico and is held prisoner. He must escape and help a pregnant women sneak into the United States to look for the father of her child.
Episode 17
Grifters
Fri, Mar 13, 1987 60 mins
Paul and Scott are tricked into a scam by two con-man.
Episode 18
The Wedding
Sat, Mar 21, 1987 60 mins
The owner of a fishing fleet hires Paul to photograph his daughter's wedding.
Episode 19
Fathers and Sons
Sat, Mar 28, 1987 60 mins
When Forrester and Scott meet with one of the real Forrester's friends who gives him a job. At the same time a young man is following them. When Scott confronts him he reveals that Forrester's his father.
Episode 20
Starscape: Part 1
Sat, Apr 4, 1987 60 mins
Paul recognizes his home star in a painting. He seeks out and finds the artist who painted it: Jenny Hayden.
Episode 21
Starscape: Part 2
Sat, Apr 11, 1987 60 mins
Paul convinces Jenny that he really is who he says he is. Together they search for Scott who has gone missing.
Episode 22
The Test
Sat, May 2, 1987 60 mins
Forrester takes a job as a dish washer in a diner. Scott goes to school. His teacher tells Forrester that she doesn't approve of their nomadic life and that Scott needs stability. Forrester discovers that a guy he works with is illiterate and tries to get the teacher to help him.
