Alien Nation

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 1989-09-18

Last Air Date: 1990-05-07

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 22

Created By: Kenneth Johnson, Rockne S. O'Bannon

Networks: FOX

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Top Cast

Gary Graham as Detective Matthew Sikes
Eric Pierpoint as Detective George Francisco
Michele Scarabelli as Susan Francisco
Lauren Woodland as Emily Francisco
Sean Six as Buck Francisco
Terri Treas as Cathy Frankel
Jeffrey Marcus as Albert Einstein
Ron Fassler as Captain Bryon Grazer
Jeff Doucette as Burns
Molly Morgan as Jill Molaskey

Seasons

Specials (1988)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Alien Nation (1988-10-07)

This 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.
Ep. 2: Dark Horizon (1994-10-25)

Picking 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.
Ep. 3: Body and Soul (1995-10-10)

Sikes 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.
Ep. 4: Millennium (1996-01-02)

It'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.
Ep. 5: The Enemy Within (1996-11-12)

When 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.
Ep. 6: The Udara Legacy (1997-07-29)

Matt 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.
Ep. 7: Alien Nation Behind the Scenes (2000-09-02)

Behind the Scenes look at the people behind the show.