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Fox series 'Alien Nation' premieres

When: 1989
Sources: 2 public sources

Gary Graham, who played detective Matt Sikes in the Fox series Alien Nation Keith McDuffee from Northborough, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fox turned the 1988 film Alien Nation into a weekly police series about a human detective and his Newcomer partner, a thinly veiled satire on race relations. Fox dropped it after one season in 1990; TV movies followed from 1994.

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Press'Alien Nation' returns at last (opens in a new tab)Deseret News / 1994-10-24
PressMinear to develop 'Alien Nation' for Sci Fi (opens in a new tab)TV Guide / 2009

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