Starman - Complete Series

At long last STARMAN arrives on DVD!!!
STARMAN (1986-87) arrives on DVD at long last! It's been a LONG WAIT (25 years!) but this CLASSIC 1980's sci-fi/fantasy TV series is finally being released on DVD! STARRING Robert Hays ("Airplane!) as Paul Forrester/Starman, C.B. (Christopher Daniel) Barnes ("Brady Bunch: The Movie") as Scott Hayden, Michael Cavanaugh ("Dark Shadows: The Revival") as George Fox; co-starring Patrick Culliton as Wiley. Fourteen years after the events of the "Starman" movie starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen, the alien returns to Earth to locate the son he's never known. He assumes the identity (and body via cloning) of Paul Forrester, a recently deceased freelance photographer and soon, he and Scott begin a quest to locate Jenny Hayden, Scott's mother. The duo are pursued by George Fox, a government agent determined to capture them both. The following is a list of all 22 episodes of STARMAN.
1. "THE RETURN"--Guest Starring Mimi Kuzyk ("Wolf"), Jason Wingreen, Lydie Denier ("Tarzan")...

A Real Gem!
Starman is a gem of a TV show that was largely missed when originally aired, and later became a fan favorite with reruns on The Scifi Channel generating legions of fans who declare it one of their top ten shows of all time. Many say the TV series, a sequel to the movie (which had earned Jeff Bridges his first Oscar nomination), was even better than the movie. It managed to turn a chase for an alien into a show with strong family values between father and son (almost an oxymoron these days), a show where each learns from the other, with a theme about helping people to better lives along the way, in locales from Seattle to Sedona. Order and enjoy with your family.

And for more "episodes", check out the Starman fan fiction on Archive of Our Own dot org.

From the Starman fan club: "The 1986-87 television season saw something remarkable -- an hour-long drama suitable for family viewing. The show was STARMAN. Most people never saw it."

"A few of the...

An excellent, family-friendly sci-fi show
You know, there's a pretty short list of big-screen movies that have spawned successful t.v. series. Off the top of my head, there's BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, M*A*S*H, STARGATE SG-1, and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. And while calling this short-lived small-screen continuation of STARMAN "successful" might be stretching it a bit, I definitely feel the show outdid the movie in most every way.

The basic, Fugitive-style plot, of course, was nothing groundbreaking. But where Starman shines is in the casting. It may be hard at first to put aside one's memories of Jeff Bridges--he did, after all, receive an Oscar nomination for his role in the feature film--but Robert Hayes quickly makes it his own. It helps that his alien character actually takes on a DIFFERENT body than the one in the film, so hopefully he is easier for audiences to accept. Alien "fish out of water" stories were also nothing new, even in 1986. But again, Hayes is up the challenge. His Paul Forrester may be an...

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