The BEST episodes of Starman
Every episode of Starman ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Starman!
Some 15 years after an alien was stranded briefly on Earth, he returns to rejoin the son he left behind and to search for the woman he fell in love with. He assumes the identity and likeness of photojournalist Paul Forrester, whose dead body lies undiscovered in a remote area due to a helicopter crash. He is again being pursued by George Fox, the US government agent who has been obsessed with capturing him since his original visit to Earth.
#1 - One for the Road
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1986
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.
#2 - Best Buddies
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1986
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.
#3 - Starscape (1)
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/4/1987
Paul recognizes his home star in a painting. He seeks out and finds the artist who painted it: Jenny Hayden.
#4 - Starscape (2)
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/11/1987
Paul convinces Jenny that he really is who he says he is. Together they search for Scott who has gone missing.
#5 - Blue Lights
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1986
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.
#6 - Peregrine
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1986
Coming across an injured peregrine falcon, Paul risks his freedom to seek the help of a veterinarian.
#7 - The Gift
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1986
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.
#8 - Secrets
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1986
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.
#9 - Society's Pet
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1986
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.
#10 - The Probe
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/30/1987
Paul falls in love with an astronomer who is having a crisis of conscious over the military's funding of her research.
#11 - Like Father, Like Son
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1986
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.
#12 - Fever
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1986
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.
#13 - Fathers & Sons
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/28/1987
Paul and Scott are being followed by a boy who reveals that he is Paul's son.
#14 - Barriers
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/13/1987
Paul is taken to Mexico and is held prisoner. He must escape and help a pregnant women sneak into the United States to look for the father of her child.
#15 - Dusty
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/1987
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.
#16 - The Return
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1986
Paul manages to find his son Scott in an orphanage, but he has trouble winning the boy's trust.
#17 - The System
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1987
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.
#18 - Grifters
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/13/1987
Paul and Scott are tricked into a scam by two con-man.
#19 - The Wedding
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/21/1987
The owner of a fishing fleet hires Paul to photograph his daughter's wedding.
#20 - Fatal Flaw
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1986
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.
#21 - Appearances
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1987
When a blind girl receives acid burns, Paul heals her. Unfortunately she wants her eyes healed as well.
#22 - The Test
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/2/1987
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.