Alien Nation (TV series)

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Television series
German title Alien nation
Original title Alien nation
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1989-1990
1994-1997
length 45 minutes
Episodes 22 + 5 in 1 season
genre SciFi , crime , drama
idea Kenneth Johnson
music Joe Harnell ,
Steve Dorff
First broadcast September 18, 1989 (USA) on Fox
German-language
first broadcast		 January 3, 1991 on Sat.1
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Alien Nation is an American science fiction series based on the 1988 film Alien Nation - Spacecop LA 1991 .

action

In 1991: Five years ago an unknown flying object stranded in the Mojave Desert in southern California, which it turned out to be from the planet Tencton. On board were about 250,000 aliens who asked the US government for asylum so that they could finally live in freedom after years of imprisonment.

In the meantime, normality has set in and the so-called newcomers are now part of the normal cityscape of Los Angeles. There, the person Matthew Sikes and the Tenctone George Francisco form an unequal team in the police. Not only Sikes is critical of the slags , as the aliens are also pejoratively called. Like most people, he too has prejudices against the Tenctonese, who on the one hand made careers and embarked on high scientific or economic or even criminal careers. In addition, his former partner was murdered by a Tenctonese.

Racial hatred, envy and discrimination are additional problems that make peaceful coexistence between humans and Tenctones difficult. Cultural differences and the careful approach to them, especially through sikes, also play a major role in the series.

Successor works

Originally a second season was planned, which is why the last episode ends with a cliffhanger . Between 1994 and 1997 the five television films Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994), Alien Nation: The New Generation (original title: Alien Nation: Body and Soul ) (1995), Alien Nation: Millennium (1996), Alien Nation: Der Feind were made is among us (Original title: Alien Nation: The Enemy Within ) (1996) and Alien Nation: Das Udara-Vermächtnis (Original title: Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy ) (1997), which continued the open end of the series.

media

In addition to the soundtrack on CD, eight novels and various comic series were published in English, including the short-lived series Ape Nation , a crossover with Planet of the apes . The series has now also been released on DVD, but in Germany it is only available as an import. Only the five later television films are available in German on video cassette or on DVD.

Charisma

The German first broadcast of Alien Nation took place on Sat.1 on Thursdays around 11 p.m. The first and so far also the last repetition took place between March and August 1996 on kabel eins , whereby the episode helpless slaves, omitted by Sat.1, was shown for the first time. Only the later television films have been regularly repeated since July 1998 on VOX or ProSieben .

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