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Original Air Date:
18 September 1989
(Season 1, Episode 0)
Plot:
A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's...
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Cast
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| Episode Crew |
Directed by | |||
| Kenneth Johnson | |||
| Harry Longstreet | |||
Writing credits(WGA) | ||
| Rockne S. O'Bannon | (characters) | |
| Kenneth Johnson | (written by) | |
Produced by | |||
| Kenneth Johnson | .... | executive producer | |
| Art Seidel | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Joseph Harnell | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| John McPherson | (director of photography) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Alan C. Marks | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Francis J. Pezza | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| R. Christopher Biggs | .... | special makeup effects artist | |
| Steve LaPorte | .... | special makeup effects artist | |
| Rick Stratton | .... | makeup designer | |
| Rick Stratton | .... | makeup supervisor | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Jon H. Epstein | .... | second unit director | |
| Ray Malinda | .... | second assistant director | |
| Jason Saville | .... | dga trainee | |
Art Department | |||
| Dragon Dronet | .... | key props | |
| Scott Nifong | .... | assistant property master | |
Sound Department | |||
| Charles Bruce | .... | sound editor | |
| Bob Costanza | .... | sound effects editor | |
| Michael T. Ryan | .... | dialogue editor | |
| Erick Jolley | .... | commentary re-recordist (uncredited) | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| R. Christopher Biggs | .... | 3D matte paintings and compositing | |
| Hoyt Yeatman | .... | visual effects (uncredited) | |
Stunts | |||
| Rick Avery | .... | stunts | |
| Jon H. Epstein | .... | stunt coordinator | |
| Pat Romano | .... | stunt rigger | |
| Joseph Michael Roth | .... | stunts | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Gary S. Christie | .... | best boy grip | |
| Riggs Murdock | .... | first assistant camera | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Roosevelt Brody | .... | assistant editor | |
| Ron S. Herbes | .... | first assistant picture editor | |
| Ron South | .... | assistant editor | |
| Joan Wrzala | .... | assistant editor | |
Transportation Department | |||
| Dean E. Mason | .... | transportation coordinator | |
| James Nordberg | .... | driver | |
| James Nordberg | .... | transportation | |
| Tim Sisson | .... | picture car mechanic | |
Other crew | |||
| Judi Brown | .... | script supervisor | |
| Kenneth Johnson | .... | developer | |
| Scott Mislan | .... | key production assistant | |
| Scott Mislan | .... | key set production assistant | |
| Series Crew These people are regular crew members. Were they in this episode? |
Casting by | |||
| Meg Liberman | |||
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Robert Reed Altman | .... | first assistant camera | |
| John Burnett | .... | director of photography: second unit | |
Other crew | |||
| Steve M. Miliotti | .... | craft service | |
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USA:102 min | USA:102 min
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Trivia:
The alien ship that lands is called the Gruza. "Gruza" is a Russian word that means "cargo".See more »
Quotes:
[a group of human Purists have are protesting the admission of a Newcomer student by blocking the school door]
Ms. Purist:They're unnatural. They've already taking too many jobs, our jobs! If we let her in here now, there'll be a hundred more next week.
Protestor:We don't want them mixing with our kids. Their quarantine wasn't long enough. The ACLU got them released too soon. How do we know they're really safe?
Ms. Purist:I say we run them back to Slagtown!
[Matt fires his gun and the crowd falls silent]
Matt:Why stop with running them back to Slagtown, why don't we just kill them?
[fires his gun again]
Matt:Teach them a lesson. Keep them in their place. Keep America pure.
[crowd cheers]
Matt:We don't even need to paint little stars on them to recognize them, do we?
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Ms. Purist:They're unnatural. They've already taking too many jobs, our jobs! If we let her in here now, there'll be a hundred more next week.
Protestor:We don't want them mixing with our kids. Their quarantine wasn't long enough. The ACLU got them released too soon. How do we know they're really safe?
Ms. Purist:I say we run them back to Slagtown!
[Matt fires his gun and the crowd falls silent]
Matt:Why stop with running them back to Slagtown, why don't we just kill them?
[fires his gun again]
Matt:Teach them a lesson. Keep them in their place. Keep America pure.
[crowd cheers]
Matt:We don't even need to paint little stars on them to recognize them, do we?
[...]
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Followed by Alien Nation: Millennium (1996) (TV)See more »
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Like many other series before - and since - "Alien Nation" was adapted for the small screen from a big screen motion picture, in this case starring Mandy Patinkin and James Caan, if you can believe that. Gary Graham reprises the role played by Caan of Det. Sgt. Matt Sykes, a bigot LA cop. Graham, of course, is probably best remembered for the good job - well, okay, adequate job - he did in "The Hollywood Knights" and the not so good job in "Robot Jox". Like the movie, the series concerns itself with a shipload of basically human-looking aliens, who are in fact escaped slaves, that arrive on Earth and try to adapt to human culture. They have their quirks, like getting drunk on sour milk, and their weaknesses, like dying horribly on contact with salt water, but basically they just want to get along. In their efforts to do just that, they adopt human-sounding names, which leads to one of the show's running gags. Sykes' alien partner, for example, is Det. Sam Francisco. Once, it's cute. But more than once, or even occasionally, it can easily get out of hand, and did, with characters like Pete Moss, Mike Raphone, et al ad nauseum. Did this show get silly and tedious at times? Yup, but no more so than other sci-fi series, like "Timecop", the brainchild of Harve Bennett (yes, THAT Harve Bennett), "RoboCop", "Mantis", "Viper", and a whole raft of other sackrace losers that all fell out of a Crumbum Tree and hit every branch on the way down. Having said this, we actually liked this show, and didn't for one centon believe Fox's reason for cancellation, to wit: the makeup costs of the actors prosthetic headpieces for a weekly show were just too high. Tell it to someone who believes it. This was, in the last analysis, a pretty good show as these things go, and really deserved better