The BEST episodes of Starman season 1

Every episode of Starman season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Starman season 1!

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.

Last Updated: 9/5/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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8.17
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Claudio Guzman
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8.00
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Charles S. Dubin
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8.00
4 votes

#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.

Directors: Claudio Guzman
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7.75
4 votes

#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.

Directors: Claudio Guzman
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7.67
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Claudio Guzman
Writer: Tom Lazarus
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7.67
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Robert Chenault
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7.60
5 votes

#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.

Directors: Mike Gray
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7.50
4 votes

#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.

Directors: Bob Sweeney
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7.50
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Claudio Guzman
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7.50
4 votes

#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.

Directors: Mike Gray
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7.14
7 votes

#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.

Directors: Nancy Malone
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7.00
4 votes

#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.

Directors: Bill Duke
Writer: Tom Lazarus
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7.00
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Ted Lange
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7.00
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Mike Gray
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7.00
4 votes

#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.

Directors: Claudio Guzman
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6.93
14 votes

#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.

Directors: Charles S. Dubin
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6.75
4 votes

#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.

Directors: Bill Duke
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6.67
3 votes

#18 - Grifters

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/13/1987

Paul and Scott are tricked into a scam by two con-man.

Directors: Caudio Guzman
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6.67
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Nick Marck
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6.50
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Robert Chenault
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6.50
2 votes

#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.

Directors: Nick Marck
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6.50
2 votes

#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.

Directors: Robert Hays
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