As fictional extraterrestrial immigrants, the Newcomers could stand in for social issues about various races, as well as sexual minorities such as gays and lesbians, and would invert the usual expectations. George and Susan discuss having another baby. Fox cancelled the series abruptly after one season, but continued the story in five TV movies.
Sikes' relations with his Newcomer neighbor, Cathy, develops. George worries about Susan's fidelity. [13] On September 9, 2016, Deadline reported that Jeff Nichols will write and direct the film.[14]. Alien Nation is a science fiction police procedural television series in the Alien Nation franchise. [1], The series ran for one season of 21 episodes and a feature-length pilot episode, ending in 1990. 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. There is also a new sub-plot running parallel to this one, the story of Ahpossno, a Tenctonese Overseer who lands on Earth to find any surviving Tenctonese and bring them back into slavery. When Sikes comes back after being pronounced dead, he becomes obsessed with finding the Newcomer he believes healed him. Although she does make some friends there is also resentment especially from a boy in a wheelchair. The franchise is set in the near future in the United States. It's December 1999 and as the end of the millennium approaches, people are attempting to find spiritual enlightenment. However, the network suffered from financial shortage caused by lower-than-expected advertising income.
George deals with the intrusion of Uncle Moodri and his traditional Tenctonese values. The installments include Dark Horizon (1994), Body and Soul (1995), Millennium (1996), The Enemy Within (1996), and The Udara Legacy (1997), the last two made back-to-back. Sikes leaves Francisco to help out an old girlfriend. The series offered social commentary by illustrating what it means to be human and the often bizarre rituals we observe. However, a few people want to skip all the work that entails. A series of murders of Binnaum, a rare kind of Tenctonese needed for catalyzing reproduction, raises fears that Purists are trying to stop the Tenctonese from breeding. Authors K. W. Jeter and Barry B. Longyear were regular contributors to the series with novels like, The Change[6] and Slag Like Me. [3] Some of the novels were pretexts for the movie sequels, such as the novel Cross of Blood authored by K.W. Matt becomes uncomfortable with his attraction to Cathy. In the TV series, she is unmarried and is of college age with a boyfriend. The series episode ended with contaminated flowers being delivered to the Francisco family and Cathy informing Matt that they have been hospitalised. Tucker, James (p). Spangler, Bill (w). The series began with the 1988 film Alien Nation, which was adapted into a Fox Network television series of the same name in 1989. [4] In 2015, it was reported that a remake of the series was again in the works, with Art Marcum and Matt Holloway writing the script.[5]. The murder of an astronomer leads Sikes and Francisco to the discovery of an extra-terrestrial probe passing through the solar system.
Matt and George both work for Captain Warner (, Commentary by Kenneth Johnson on the two-hour pilot telefilm, Full-length audio commentary on all 5 movies by Kenneth Johnson, "A Family Gathering – A Retrospective" featurette (2007 cast reunion), This page was last edited on 5 September 2020, at 23:46. It portrays alien refugees called Newcomers or Tenctonese integrating into human society in the Los Angeles area. A break in at a behavioral lab and a series of execution-style murders dredges up buried memories for Francisco. The Francisco’s teenage son Buck joins a gang of other newcomers and they end up having a fight with a gang of humans during which Buck shoots a human boy. But later in 2014, it was reported that the series was cancelled by the network in favor of paranormal reality shows and professional wrestling. The Tenctonese; referred to as Newcomers by some Humans; are a race of bipedal sapient humanoids indigenous to the planet Tencton, which are known for their genetic enhancement of certain members of their own species, for the express purpose of creating a subspecies of Tenctonese slaves that are distributed amongst their various colony worlds. Several parties claim ownership of a mysterious Tenctonese box that leaves a trail of death in its wake. Matt sells one of his lottery tickets to Albert, only to see him win. The weekly series ran for one season, from 1989 through 1990, and was one of the few successes the fledgling Fox Network had at the time. The Newcomers, former slaves and overseers whose ship ran aground on Earth, attempt to make new lives for themselves on Earth. Jill – (Molly Morgan) - A Human girl, Emily's friend, Detective George Francisco, (originally named "Sam Francisco" by the Human Immigration Authorities) the Newcomer detective, is played by, The TV series has a much lighter tone than the movie, with extensive subtle humor and wordplay, as well as building up the original buddy cop theme. [1] Beginning in 1994, the network continued the story in five TV movies, which brought back the entire cast.
The storylines generally revolved around morality plays on the evils of racism and bigotry using Newcomers as the discriminated minority. Sikes and Francisco investigate possible steroid dealings at a gym. Francisco worries that Sikes is hiding something when he cancels his vacation plans to help track down a killer.
The show built a strong fan base, and popular demand led to "Dark Horizon", the episode that would have begun the second season, being novelized and adapted as a comic book as well as spawning a series of novels. Tensions between partners erupt when Francisco passes the Detective 2 exam and is promoted over Sikes. Episodes explore themes of racism and the treatment of minority ethnic groups.
Retaining the film's police drama format, the series stars Eric Pierpoint as George Francisco and Gary Graham as Matthew Sikes. The Francisco family prepares for the Ejection, when the baby will transferred from Susan to George. Alien Nation is an American science fiction media franchise comprising film, television, and other media productions about alien refugees living on Earth. Alien Nation's premise is that a ship of aliens, all former slaves, crashlands on Earth. [11] Other contributors to the series included illustrators Terry Pallott and Leonard Kirk to titles like, The Skin Trade. As with the film, the series follows the Newcomers, an alien race bred as slaves on a distant planet whose ship crashes on Earth. In the movie, Francisco has a wife named Susan (played by. The idea of a signal sent into space by the surviving Overseers was explored in the Alien Nation episode "Contact".
In 1990, a flying saucer crashes in the Mojave Desert containing a race of extraterrestrials, the Tenctonese, escaping from slavery under a cruel Overseer race. Susan and George's lives are further disrupted when Buck enrolls in the police academy. The mysterious death of a Newcomer judge points to a lethal bacterium being used as a weapon. The movie is essentially a.
He is portrayed by actor Terence Stamp, who also played General Zod in Superman and Superman II, Mankar Camoran in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Ramsley in Disney's The Haunted Mansion. The five telefilms that followed after the series was cancelled were released in Region 1 by Best Buy exclusively on September 11, 2007, and worldwide on April 15, 2008,[2], In June 2009, Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) announced that they were developing a new take on the series.
George must reconcile his and humanity's conceptions of manhood while he is pregnant. Sikes' issues with aging are intensified when he learns that the Newcomer life-span is almost twice that of humans. Among first released titles were, The Spartans created with the help of author Bill Spangler and illustrator James Tucker,[8] and A Breed Apart, authored by Steve Jones. "Alien Nation", Jones, Steve (w). Produced by the Fox Network, Alien Nation lasted a single season, ending in 1990 with a cliffhanger series finale. Cathy finds a boy she knew from the ship, but suspects he has been abused. George investigates the murder of the chief scientist at a company in which he is heavily invested. The cliffhanger ending was resolved in the TV movies that eventually followed. Four years later, after a change of management at Fox, the story of Alien Nation continued with five television movies (including all the original cast), picking up with the cliffhanger. For instance, during the run of the series, George became pregnant (the male of his species carrying the fetus for part of its gestation) and during much of the episode dialog included lines like, "If you females had to feel the pain we males feel during pregnancy, there wouldn't be any babies." [3] Tim Minear (Angel, Firefly) was announced to pen the series.
The series also produced other media and merchandising tie-ins, including novels and comics.
Buck, inspired by one of his teachers, protests that the workers at the company are being exploited.
[7], From 1990 to 1992, Malibu Comics began printing several comics from an adaptation of the Alien Nation storyline.
[2], Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, began publishing a novel series in connection with the franchise starting in 1993. Alien Nation is a 1988 science fiction film set in a future where a race of worker aliens (derisively termed "Slags") have accidentally landed on Earth and have faced constant prejudice in the ensuing years from the human population.