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Starman
Starman

Starman

★ 7.0•1986•1 Seasons•ANIME
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Starman is an American science fiction television series, starring Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes and continuing the story from John Carpenter's 1984 film. The series ran on the ABC network from September 19, 1986 to May 2, 1987. The series was an adaptation and sequel to a movie of the same name produced in 1984.

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Top Cast

Robert Hays

Robert Hays

Paul Forrester / Starman

Christopher Daniel Barnes

Christopher Daniel Barnes

Scott Hayden

Michael Cavanaugh

Michael Cavanaugh

George Fox

Episodes

The Return

1. The Return

60m

Paul manages to find his son Scott in an orphanage, but he has trouble winning the boy's trust.

Aired: 9/19/1986
Like Father, Like Son

2. Like Father, Like Son

60m

Although on the run from Fox in a newly purchased used car, Paul and Scott stop to help a woman who is having car trouble and is also on the run, having just kidnapped her own daughter.

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Aired: 9/26/1986
Fatal Flaw

3. Fatal Flaw

60m

Trouble with their truck in the desert forces Paul and Scott to seek refuge at a woman's experimental aircraft plant, whose problems could be worsened due to an unrecognized flaw in her father's radical airplane design, and for the first time Paul tries to resume his body's former job as a photographer.

Aired: 10/3/1986
Blue Lights

4. Blue Lights

60m

When Scott decides to try out the blue sphere's otherworldly powers, the light causes a small town sheriff to report that he has seen a flying saucer and put Paul and Scott in jail, with Fox on the way.

Aired: 10/17/1986
Best Buddies

5. Best Buddies

60m

Encountering a couple who knew the real Paul Forrester, Paul and Scott's problems are compounded when the wife declares that she still loves Paul and wants to resume their affair.

Aired: 10/24/1986
Secrets

6. Secrets

60m

The search for Jenny Hayden leads Paul and Scott to a mental institution where a woman may have a valuable lead for them, unless the whole thing is an elaborate trap.

Aired: 10/31/1986
One for the Road

7. One for the Road

60m

Weary of their life on the run, Paul and Scott start to enjoy staying in one place for a while, but when Paul sees that they must move on, Scott rebels.

Aired: 11/7/1986
Peregrine

8. Peregrine

60m

Coming across an injured peregrine falcon, Paul risks his freedom to seek the help of a veterinarian.

Aired: 11/14/1986
Society's Pet

9. Society's Pet

60m

Paul takes Scott to see his foster father's sister, a wealthy widow who has a $10,000 inheritance for the boy, but she wants to gain custody of Scott for herself, even if this requires betraying Paul to his pursuers.

Aired: 11/28/1986
Fever

10. Fever

60m

The fugitives get a brief respite when Agent Fox is taken off Paul's case, but then Paul's life is endangered by a common cold and Scott comes to realize how much he would miss his newfound father.

Aired: 12/5/1986
The Gift

11. The Gift

60m

Paul receives a letter from the real Paul's mother that prompts him to return to Paul's home town for the Christmas holidays, but when he arrives the woman says she did not send the letter and asks him to leave.

Aired: 12/12/1986
The System

12. The System

60m

A simple traffic violation causes Paul to be arrested, when a computer check reveals an old contempt citation regarding photographs taken by the real Paul of an attorney charged with murder.

Aired: 1/9/1987
Appearances

13. Appearances

60m

No overview available.

Aired: 1/16/1987
The Probe

14. The Probe

60m

No overview available.

Aired: 1/30/1987
Dusty

15. Dusty

60m

While going through Las Vegas, Paul and Scott pick up a woman. while they are away, she steals their vehicle. She then proceeds to sell it and gamble it all away. A hotel thinking that he is ""Paul Forrester"" gives him a room. They find the lot where she sold the vehicle and recover their belongings including the spheres. Paul later shows her herself and she finally decides to try and change her ways. And when they leave the hotel they discover that they accumulated a very large bill.

Aired: 2/6/1987
Barriers

16. Barriers

60m

No overview available.

Aired: 2/13/1987
Grifters

17. Grifters

60m

No overview available.

Aired: 3/13/1987
The Wedding

18. The Wedding

60m

No overview available.

Aired: 3/21/1987
Fathers and Sons

19. Fathers and Sons

60m

Paul and Scott are being followed by a boy who reveals that he is Paul's son.

Aired: 3/28/1987
Starscape (1)

20. Starscape (1)

60m

No overview available.

Aired: 4/4/1987
Starscape (2)

21. Starscape (2)

60m

No overview available.

Aired: 4/11/1987
The Test

22. The Test

60m

Paul answers an ad for a ""pearl diver"", which he learns upon arriving at the diner is a dishwasher. Scott goes to school. While working at the diner, Paul discovers that his co-worker is illiterate. Scott's teacher talks to Paul about their gypsy ways and thinks that Paul should consider staying in one place so Scott can explore his full potential. Paul then brings his co-worker to her, so that he can learn how to read.

Aired: 5/2/1987