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  • Show: Alien Nation

  • Status: Cancelled/ Ended

  • Where: FOX

  • First Aired: September 1989

  • Country: United States

Regular Cast
Gary Graham as Det. Matthew Sikes
Michele Scarabelli as Susan Francisco
Eric Pierpoint as Det. George Francisco
Sean Six as Buck Francisco
Lauren Woodland as Emily Francisco
Terri Treas as Cathy Franklin
Ron Fassler as Capt. Bryon Grazier
Jeff Marcus as Albert Einstein
Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs as Sgt. Dobbs
Jenny Gago as Beatrice Zepeda (Episodes 19+)
James Greene as Uncle Moodri
Jeff Doucette as Burns
Molly Morgan as Jill

Season One (1989 - 1990)

TV Movies (1994 - 1997)

  1. Alien Nation: TV Movie Pilot (Part 1)
  2. Alien Nation: TV Movie Pilot (Part 2)
  3. Fountain of Youth
  4. Little Lost Lamb
  5. Fifteen with Wanda
  6. The Takeover
  7. The First Cigar
  8. Night of the Screams
  9. Contact
  10. Three to Tango
  11. The Game
  12. Chains of Love
  13. The Red Room
  14. The Spirit of '95
  15. Generation to Generation
  16. Eyewitness News
  17. Partners
  18. Real Men
  19. Crossing the Line
  20. Rebirth
  21. Gimmee, Gimmee
  22. The Touch
  23. Green Eyes
     
  1. Dark Horizon
  2. Body and Soul
  3. Millennium
  4. The Enemy Within
  5. The Udara Legacy


















     

Season One

  1. Alien Nation: TV Movie Pilot (Part 1) (OAD 09/18/89)
    Guest Stars: L. Scott Caldwell (Lyddie), Diane Civita (Jill's Mother), William Frankfather (Purist Leader), Ketty Lester (Teacher), Loyda Ramos (Puente), Tim Russ (Ketnes), Brian Smiar (Priest), Evan Kim (Dr. Lee).

    When Tenctonese "Newcomers" the Francisco family move into a rich suburban part of Los Angeles, they get to experience hatred and racism spread by radical human Purists
     
  2. Alien Nation: TV Movie Pilot (Part 2) (OAD 09/18/89)
    Guest Stars: L. Scott Caldwell (Lyddie), Diane Civita (Jill's Mother), William Frankfather (Purist Leader), Ketty Lester (Teacher), Loyda Ramos (Puente), Tim Russ (Ketnes), Brian Smiar (Priest), Evan Kim (Dr. Lee).

    When Tenctonese "Newcomers" the Francisco family move into a rich suburban part of Los Angeles, they get to experience hatred and racism spread by radical human Purists
     
  3. Fountain of Youth (OAD 09/25/89)
    Guest Stars: Steve Rankin (Henry James), Jason Beghe (Trenner), Joel Polis (Windsor), Susan Gibney (Harriet Beecher), Gretchen Graham (Lisa), Robert V. Barron (Celinite Priest), Crystal Carson (Celeste), Randy Harrington (Man), Wendy Kapland (Beth Meadows), Barry Sherman (Executive), Liz Torres (Pathologist), Bonnie Urseth (Mrs. James).

    LAPD Detectives Sikes and Francisco (Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint) investigate a doctor who is killing Newcomers to benefit human patients.
     
  4. Little Lost Lamb (OAD 10/02/89)
    Guest Stars: Heather McAdam (Mary Shelley), Kimberly Kates (Dallas), Shannon Wilcox (Charlotte Bronte), Will Bledsoe (Dorian Gray), Trevor Edmond (Blentu), Catherine Lansing (Receptionist), Robert Maniardi (Harry Marcus), Noon Orsatti (Svabo), William Wellman Jr. (Rudy).

    Sikes and Francisco uncover a prostitution ring after a Newcomer prostitute, on the run from her pimp, is murdered in Sikes' apartment.
     
  5. Fifteen with Wanda (OAD 10/09/89)
    Guest Stars: Dave Bowe (Buster Keaton), Joan McMurtry (Victoria Fletcher), Cheryl Pollak (Kirby Sikes), Lori Petty (Sal), Sachi Parker (Wanda), Wayne Pere (Thor), Haskell V. Anderson III (Principal), Trevor Edmond (Blentu), Jean Sincere (Granny), Michael Wilson (Maitre'd), Thomas J. Hoageboeck (Officer), Mike Worth (Prep #1), Nikki Tyler (Salesgirl), Noon Orsatti (Svabo), Ron Howard George (Wayne Joshua).

    Sikes' daughter Kirby (Cheryl Pollak) visits, accompanied by her radical boyfriend, Thor (Wayne Pere); Buck Francisco (Sean Six) faces expulsion from school.
     
  6. The Takeover (OAD 10/16/89)
    Guest Stars: Gwynyth Walsh (Diane Elrea), Ji-Tu Cumbuka (Andrew Craig), Charley Lang (Kenny Dunstan), Tracey Walter (Tom Mulden), Michael Fairman (McKnight), Will Egan (Harry Dundee), Camila Griggs (Letitia Rosario).

    During heavy rioting the precinct is left all but deserted, and it's up to Sikes and Francisco to stop criminals who attempt to take over the precinct and raid its evidence lockers for drugs, money and weapons.
     
  7. The First Cigar (OAD 10/23/89)
    Guest Stars: Carlos Lacamara (Alvarez), Diana Bellamy (Betsy Ross), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Yamato), Carolyn Mignini (Ruth Steelman), John Patrick Reber (Ramna), Steve Susskind (Vahan), Jennifer Banko (Nina), Mike DeLuna (Cliff), Trevor Edmond (Blentu), Faith Minton (Bouncer), James Nixon (Newcomer Junkie), Noon Orsatti (Svabo), Jeff Skier (Delivery Man), Joon B. Kim (Korean Drug Dealer), Salvator Xuereb (Newcomer Drug Dealer).

    Francisco accepts a loan from a Newcomer loan officer before discovering she is a drug czar
     
  8. Night of the Screams (OAD 10/30/89)
    Guest Stars: David Opatoshu (Paul Revere), Brad English (Macy), James Polk (Richard), Mitch Pileggi (Jean-Paul Sartre), Michael Miladan (Officer #1), Harry Caeser (Car Buyer #1), Gwen E. Davis (Car Buyer #2), Suzanne Levelle (Newcomer Usher), Steven Majewicz (Adult Tagdot), Jessica Pesscas (Child Tagdot), Gabe Witcher (Lost Child), Wayne Powers (Car Dealer).

    The method of a serial killer stalking Newcomers is patterned after one of their most grisly legends.
     
  9. Contact (OAD 11/06/89)
    Guest Stars: Joel Polis (Carl Peterson), Annabelle Gurwitch (Marissa Meyers), Jeffrey Josephson (Sergius), Stuart Fratkin (Bob), Curt Lowens (Concierge), John Apicella (Jerry Bielack), Michael Paul Chan (Mr. Kim), Donald Hotton (Professor Tower), Alexis Arouette (John Barrymore), Vincent Leahr (Dr. Morales).

    While investigating a famous doctor's murder, Sikes and Francisco discover the victim was attempting to contact a probe hunting the crashed Newcomer slave ship.
     
  10. Three to Tango (OAD 11/13/89)
    Guest Stars: Alan Scarfe (Drevni), Dana Anderson (May O'Naise), Meagan Fay (Coroner), Ivan G'Vera (Bjorn), Charles Hayward (Goran), Patrick Johnson (Isaac Newton), Anva Liffey (Mrs. Sartre), Fiama Fricano (Guest), Laura Herring (Female Newcomer), James Polk (Male Newcomer), Charlie Skeen (Craig Keller).

    Sikes and Francisco search for a Purist radical who has been murdering Newcomers who belong to a special caste called the binnaum.
     
  11. The Game (OAD 11/20/89)
    Guest Stars: Andreas Katsulas (Coolock), Sam Anderson (Tom Edison), Teddy Wilson (Dr. Roscoe Brennan), Billy Ray Sharkey (Deon Flack), Joel Swetow (Joe Comet), Maggie Egan (Mrs. Comet), Bill Allen (Ruhtra), Craig Richard Nelson (Attorney), Henry Stolow (Challenger), Isabel Wolfe (Alva Edison), Martin Valinsky (Cop).

    Francisco is confronted with his past as a slave on the Newcomer spaceship, when it appears that an old Russian Roulette-style game he once was forced to play has returned to plague Newcomer society. Will Francisco take revenge for his brother, who died being hit by a bolt of saltwater while playing the game on the ship?
     
  12. Chains of Love (OAD 11/27/89)
    Guest Stars: Bennett Liss (Ralph Emerson), Caitlin O'Heaney (Jenny Hoffat/Clara Bow), Jeffrey Nordling (Ted Healy), S.A. Griffin (Marvin Gardens), Diana Barton (Emma Bovary), Teddy Wilson (Dr. Roscoe Brennan), Darren Dalton (Leonard), Theodore Raimi (Johnny Appleseed), Thom Zimerele (Daniel), Kurt Verbaarschot (Roland), John Hese (Lance Lot).

    Francisco goes undercover as a client at a computer-dating service for Newcomers, in order to locate a female Newcomer who is on a killing spree.
     
  13. The Red Room (OAD 12/18/89)
    Guest Stars: Katherine Justice (Dr. Marcie Wright), John P. Connelly (Jeffries), Tom Dugan (Silas Marner), Patricia Heaton (Amanda Russle), Ray Reinhardt (Dr. Chris Pettit), Chuck Bennett (Marcus Byer).

    Sikes and Francisco become involved in a federal search for a Newcomer who, while being held in the quarantine camps, was programmed to become a ruthless assassin.
     
  14. The Spirit of '95 (OAD 01/15/90)
    Guest Stars: Mark Thomas Miller (Wyatt Earp), Mark Joy (Max Klay), Clarence Felder (Jack Pearlman), Harvey Jason (Mr. Hopper), Henry Brown (Jesse Parker), Frances Bay (Mrs. Giller), Mark L. Taylor (Mike Wilmington), Marla Fries (Carol Wilmington), Michael Milhoan (Cop), Ron S. Herbes (Reporter), Arthur Seidel (Desk Sergeant), Martin Valinsky (Officer).

    Sikes and Francisco uncover a Purist plot to sabotage an election while investigating the bombing of a Newcomer voter campaign office.
     
  15. Generation to Generation (OAD 01/29/90)
    Guest Stars: Scott Jaeck (Henry Glass), Timothy Scott (Lowell Bratigan), Michael Faustino (Sydney Foley), Francis Guinan (Howard Thayer), Aubrey Morris (Auctioneer), Peggy Doyle (Lucille), Ernestine Mercer (Krasava), Ryan Cutrona (Philip Dunaway), Stephanie Baldwin (Girl), Damon Gourdine (Boy), Tony Muvor (Ruiz).

    Sikes and Francisco follow the trail of a mysterious Tenctonese box that is deadly to those who fail to comprehend its powers.
     
  16. Eyewitness News (OAD 02/05/90)
    Guest Stars: Deborah Goodrich (Virginia Hamm), Hugh MacGuire (Ernie Denton), Angela Bassett (Renee Longstreet), Gene Butler (Arvin Kaufman), Kelly Jean Peters (Mrs. Denton), Rob King (Mr. Denton), John Mese (Roger Rose), Evelina Fernandez (Female Executive), Ian Patrick Williams (John), David Hoskins (Joe), Terry Nunn (Male Executive), Kerrigan Mahan (Cameraman), Jennifer Roach (Tilly), Joseph Graham (Bailey).

    Sikes and Francisco trail a man (Hugh MacGuire) who is obsessed with a Tenctonese porn star (Deborah Goodrich).
     
  17. Partners (OAD 02/12/90)
    Guest Stars: Gilbert Lewis (Theo Miles), Tom Byrd (Bud Anderson), Terry Beaver (Sgt. Dustin Baxley), Bill Kalmensc (Ken Jester), Maria Rangel (Allison Wolfe), Crofton Hardester (Chester Charles), Wilson Raiser (Con), Branscombe Richmond (Haney), Arthur Seidel (Rankin), Gary Morgan (Garrison), Brad Orrison (Rickman), Robert Romanus (Pretty Boy Whalen).

    Sikes attempts to prove Francisco innocent in a drug case as Susan Francisco (Michele Scarabelli) prepares to transfer the pod to her husband.
     
  18. Real Men (OAD 02/19/90)
    Guest Stars: William Shockley (Nick Coletta), A.D. Muyich (Victor Wendkos), Robert Neary (Dan Zimmer), Hank Garrett (Marty Penn), Debbie Barker (Karina), M.E. Loree (Doctor), Martin Garner (Sol Birnbaum), Jeff Skier (Guest), Neil Nash (Andrew), Patty Toy (Nurse), Oscar Dillon (Carl), Arthur Seidel (Rankin), Joe Hoke (Cop).

    A violent confrontation with a drug suspect (A.D. Muylch) causes Francisco to give birth prematurely.
     
  19. Crossing the Line (OAD 02/26/90)
    Guest Stars: Heather McComb (Cindy), Tobin Bell (Doctor Death), Robert Alan Browne (Tool and Die Foreman), Ivory Ocean (Dutchman), Robert Balderson (Wounded Officer), Eva Von Widman (Nurse Adele).

    Sikes vows to capture a serial murderer who once eluded him when it appears the sociopath has killed again.
     
  20. Rebirth (OAD 03/12/90)
    Guest Stars: Brian Thompson (Peter Rabbit), Ellen Wheeler (Okno), Milt Kogan (Dr. Milt Kogan), Raffi DiBlasio (Billy), John Sudol (Sikes' Dad), Ryan Cash (Young Sikes), Rif Hutton (Officer), Terri Semper (Nurse).

    Sikes vows to capture the Newcomer convenience-store robber (Brian Thompson) who attacked him and left him near death.
     
  21. Gimmee, Gimmee (OAD 04/09/90)
    Guest Stars: Alan Fudge (Sleepy Phil), Beege Barkette (EPA Official), Kim Braden (Marilyn Houston), Armin Shimerman (Cyril Roman), David Selburg (Edgar Allen Poe), Beverly Leech (Rita Allen Poe), Michael Zand (Mr. Elias), Bob Minor (Cop), Lance E. Nichols (Delivery Man), Stephen Hart (Thug), Joseph Cali (Lee Smith).

    Francisco searches for the killer of a Newcomer corporate executive (David Selburg) who invented a durable synthetic fabric.
     
  22. The Touch (OAD 04/30/90)
    Guest Stars: Jonathan Brandis (Andy), Mike Preston (Rigac), Barbara Bush (Lorraine), Dorothy Fielding (Ella Day), Doug Ballard (Mr. Eugene), Martin La Platney (Troy), Margaret Howell (Andron's Mother), Yvette Freeman (Helen), Mitchell Allen (Andron), Vlado Benden (Desk Clerk), Dustin Berkovitz (Newcomer Boy), Eli Guralnick (Female Overseer), Marin May (Newcomer Girl), Tom Pabst (Newcomer Sacrifice), Van Quatro (Male Overseer).

    Sikes and Francisco uncover an overseer-rejuvenation plot when they investigate the dramatic behavioral changes of two boys (Mitchell Allen, Jonathan Brandis) whom Cathy Francisco (Terri Treas) knew on the Newcomer slaveship.
     
  23. Green Eyes (OAD 05/07/90)
    Guest Stars: Andras Jones (Hoah Ramsey), Lee Bryant (Darlene Bryant), Geoff Pierson (Dr. Bogg), Kim Braden (Marilyn Houston), Barbara Bush (Lorraine), John Calvin (Rick Parris), Geoffrey Bryant (Michael Bukowski), David Purdham (Marc Guerin), Haskell V. Anderson III (Principal Fisher), Edith Fields (Martha), Thomas Knickerbocker (Judge Kaiser), Thom Zimerele (Joshua Tree), Joe Hoke (Newcomer Cop), Michael Najjar (Delivery Man).

    While investigating a series of mysterious Newcomer deaths, Sikes and Francisco discover a plan to exterminate the Newcomer population with a lethal bacteria.

TV Movies

  1. Dark Horizon (OAD 10/25/94)
    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.
     
  2. Body and Soul (OAD 10/10/95)
    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 slaveship 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
     
  3. Millennium (OAD 01/02/96)
    It's 1999, and as the end of the millenium approaches, people are attempting to find spiritual enlightenment. But a few people want to skip all the work that entails, and a holy Tenktonese relic in the hands of a heretic is giving them a shortcut. But it's not quite as easily controlled as she says
     
  4. The Enemy Within (OAD 11/12/96)
    When detectives Sikes and Francisco is presented with the mysterious death of an Eeno, Matt is stupefied to discover that George rudely snubs 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
     
  5. The Udara Legacy (OAD 07/29/97)
    Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurences 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 rebellion group, the Udara, who we find Susan is a part of. Susan and George's lives are further disrupted when Buck enrolls in the police academy.

 

 

TV Season One Episode Synopsis courtesy of Sci-Fi