Starman (1986)
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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Paul manages to find his son Scott in an orphanage, but he has trouble winning the boy's trust.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Coming across an injured peregrine falcon, Paul risks his freedom to seek the help of a veterinarian.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paul and Scott are being followed by a boy who reveals that he is Paul's son.
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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