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Starman: Season 1

22 episodes Premiered Sep 19, 1986 Updated Oct 5, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Mytharc (5): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (17): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

The Return

Sep 19, 1986 · 60 min

Paul manages to find his son Scott in an orphanage, but he has trouble winning the boy's trust.

S1·E2 Core

Like Father, Like Son

Sep 26, 1986 · 60 min

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 daug

S1·E3 Core

Fatal Flaw

Oct 3, 1986 · 60 min

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 i

S1·E4 Core

Blue Lights

Oct 17, 1986 · 60 min

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

S1·E5 Core

Best Buddies

Oct 24, 1986 · 60 min

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.

S1·E6 Core

Secrets

Oct 31, 1986 · 60 min

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.

S1·E7 Core

One for the Road

Nov 7, 1986 · 60 min

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.

S1·E8 Core

Peregrine

Nov 14, 1986 · 60 min

Coming across an injured peregrine falcon, Paul risks his freedom to seek the help of a veterinarian.

S1·E9 Core

Society's Pet

Nov 28, 1986 · 60 min

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 requ

S1·E10 Core

Fever

Dec 5, 1986 · 60 min

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

S1·E11 Core

The Gift

Dec 12, 1986 · 60 min

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 th

S1·E12 Mytharc

The System

Jan 9, 1987 · 60 min

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 wi

S1·E14 Core

The Probe

Jan 30, 1987 · 60 min

S1·E15 Core

Dusty

Feb 6, 1987 · 60 min

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

S1·E16 Core

Barriers

Feb 13, 1987 · 60 min

S1·E17 Core

Grifters

Mar 13, 1987 · 60 min

S1·E19 Mytharc

Fathers and Sons

Mar 28, 1987 · 60 min

Paul and Scott are being followed by a boy who reveals that he is Paul's son.

S1·E22 Mytharc

The Test

May 2, 1987 · 60 min

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-w

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