Creator Kenneth Johnson (developed for television by) Stars Gary Graham Eric Pierpoint Michele Scarabelli See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video buy from $19.99 More watch options Add to Watchlist 20 User reviews It gives us a background but not a lot of detail,"[6] Collis noted that the film was even "reminiscent of the work I did in Cocoon. Between 1990 and 1992, Malibu Comics printed several comics adaptations. [7] One conceit of the script was that immigrations officials ran out of names for the 300,000 aliens, and began to name them after familiar appellations of the past. The alien Newcomers are relegated to a second-class status. Capitalizing on the success and popularity of the movie, this series used many of the same plot devices and dynamics, yet eventually found a footing of its own. Meanwhile Sikes must also deal with his budding romantic feelings for his neighbor and scientist Cathy Frankel (Treas) a gorgeous newcomer. It was a lot of silly stuff, creatively. Matthew Sykes: Well Yeah, it's rubber. [3] In trying to emphasize the uniqueness of the characters, Mahan commented, "We wanted the audience to be able to recognize the actors immediately. Alien Nation is a Buddy Cop Show with a Sitcom twist: the minority partner is a space alien. We can get along in peace and harmony. Inverted: if you give flowers to the Tenctonese make sure the roots are intact. They were all so good, it would have been a shame to cover them up completely. Alien Nation was released in the United States on October 7, 1988, and grossed over $32 million worldwide, becoming a moderate financial success. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. Alternatively, the beverage plant was used as a disguise for a petroleum factory. Why did this Series only last One Season??? 1 Mar. Did this show get silly and tedious at times? On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The movie is simply a failure of imagination. (Alien Nation movie) Among the first non-military individuals to meet the Tenctonese was Professor Charles Tower who was an astronomer who did his best to free the race from quarantine as well as learn where they came from which meant he was greatly respected by the species. Many of the episodes centered around what one would expect for any immigrants; settling in, retaining one's own culture, defining a new identity etc. They get drunk on sour milk (the lumpier the better), havetwo hearts, are very intelligent, and salt water burns away theirskin. Matt compares the Purist objections to Newcomer children in US schools with racism toward black people openly and shames them. So, I used the car headlights. ), and earth has made first contact with alien life three years prior. Its initial popularity inaugurated the beginning of the Alien Nation media franchise. The six-mile-long slave ship Gruza was transporting 250,000 Tenctonese especially bred and genetically engineered for hard labor in any environment. The Tenctonese name of the wife of Albert Einstein, the police precinct janitor, is "Okiana" (from the Russian word "okean", meaning "ocean"). For Harcourt's facial disintegration, the coordinators came up with a foam rubber base makeup superimposed with a layer of gelatin appliances. ALIEN NATION . These visitors, known as the Newcomers, have been created by genetic engineering to be good slaves; they're smart, strong and adaptable. The Storyline 250,000 genetically-modified refugee alien "Newcomers" crashed on Earth in a massive slave ship. STARRING: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard, Leslie Bevis, Peter Jason, George Jeneky, Jeff Kober, Rober Aaron Brown, Tony Simotes 1988, 94 Minutes, Directed by Graham Baker Description: They get drunk on sour milk. The film was a co-production between American Entertainment Partners and 20th Century Fox, which distributed it theatrically. Not only is this never brought up again, in the second TV-movie, Buck is joining protests against human/Newcomer mating. Grazer has more of a focus on the "jerk" part of the equation, but it's clear he cares about his officers (and Albert) very much. They are isolated by their culture and language, and have to strike a balance between assimilation into Earth culture and maintaining their roots. and they're just a race of Newcomers that enslaved the rest of them, physically identical and presumably from the same planet. In "Real Men", when Matt tells George that, Uncle Moodri accelerates this adaptation until he can. I wouldn't write it down as one of my favorite movies. Francisco commandeers a police helicopter and rescues Sykes from the water. I mean, I loved Mandy Patinkin. So I sometimes had to block all the streets with black paper." As Matt and the viewers got to know more about the newcomers, through George Francisco and his family, we began to love them and to realize how easily racism takes control of our emotions and that we must do everything we can to fight it in ourselves. This should have run at east a couple more seasons. By 1991, they have settled in Los Angeles and some of them have joined Los Angeles Police Department the city's police department. "[3] Application of the Newcomer makeup known as "spuds" or "potatoheads" on set, required four hours; a task which Patinkin described as being "a pain in the ass. According to Hurd, what really interested her about the film's story was the whole approach to the immigrant setting and the extrapolation of that to a science fiction setting. The cast replacements fair well and there's more of a look into the racial undertones with the newcomers. Though short-lived, it really is worth watching. Matthew Sykes: Don't take it personally. "[5] He went on to say, "I thought it made a tremendous difference to the piece that the guy's name was George Jetson because it gave a cartoon feeling, an innocence that was important to the movie's whole idea. Graham, of course, is probably best remembered for the good job - well, okay, adequate job - he did in "The Hollywood Knights" and the not so good job in "Robot Jox". . They're highly intelligent, but if you drop them in seawater they'll melt into a puddle of . Alien Nation: They get drunk on sour milk. Elek recalled his disagreement with Winston as Stan felt, "the aliens should be a totally different color than the humans, with a lot of yellows, blues and grays. 2023. The kicker of the pilot is that an Overseer conspiracy is responsible for the death of Sikes's previous partner. a black man in a tuxedo wearing sunglasses, being lead by the hand to a chair. I wanted to have a very hard, but very natural, and strong look. Unused portions of the facility containing steel tanks were used as an interesting gloomy background. their flesh burns when exposed to seawater, serious relationship with a Newcomer woman, remorseful and this is why she created the cure, Matt and Cathy's child was unable to survive after being born, due to her mixed genetics, that LA's police has a history of rule-breaking in RL, Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life. Once, it's cute. Ahpossno is a member of this unit. [6] A methane lab was recreated with translucent tubes running through them, as though drugs were in the process of being refined. The detectives engage in a car chase with Harcourt and Kipling, ending in a head-on collision that leaves both parties injured. We sculpted the main characters, supervised the molding and production of their appliances and oversaw the sculpting of the secondary and background characters." But I have an eye and I learned from these tests. The ensemble cast features James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, and Terence Stamp. Prejudice toward Newcomers is quite like the experience of Human immigrants, alongside general difficulties they have in US society assimilating. Seriously. Storylines that blend science fiction, drama and humor with a little bit of alien sexiness, I think i posted before, But something else, The Pilot Episode fits right in today's headlines, Great show ruined by a mediocre and appalling finale, "This is really not what real Sci-Fi is all about". It allowed us to see the pain of "inter-species" relationships and the acceptance of beings "different" from us. Tenctonese believe that their souls leave their bodies in their sleep and that a serdso guides them back. Alien Nation: Body and Soul. Earth is practically one of these for the Tenctonese; see the explanation for Weaksauce Weakness. "[25] On a negative front, author Jay Carr of The Boston Globe commented on James Caan's performance, viewing him as "Looking like a Paul Newman gone wrong," He went on, further stating that "the film's air of enlightenment is only makeup deep. [6] Collis even mused how at one point, store owners liked, and wouldn't want to take down, the alien graffiti used during filming on their properties. 'Alien Nation' was probably was one of the best sci-fi shows of its time, taking the buddy cop idea and adding in aliens. Premiering on September 18, 1989, the series aired 22 episodes and ran for a single season, ending on May 7, 1990. We wanted the aliens to be charactersnot creatures. Siskel, Gene and Ebert, Roger (October 7, 1988). "[3] Other effects coordinators like Gillis remarked, "The actor who played Trent Porter, for exampleBrian Thompsonwas a really rugged guy, so he came off looking like a really tough character. So in our minds, he's George Jetson. An ingenious idea was devised by the crew to have six to eight weather balloons sent up and have artificial light bounce off of them to create the proper lighting mood. The smaller earthlings are easily overwhelmed by the huge, two-hearted, armed and deadly aliens. "Ahpossno" (from the Russian word "opasno", meaning "dangerous"), a fitting name for the Overseer scout, who came to Earth to investigate the disappearance of a quarter-million "cargo", although he saves the Tenctonese from a annihilation attempt by bio-weapon from a Purist group (. On October 19, 1988, a spacecraft from the planet Tencton crash-landed in California's Mojave Desert just outside of Los Angeles. Although the two mismatched cops have many differences and issues they have to work together thrown into the mix is George's family wife Susan (Scarabelli), young daughter Emily (Woodland) and teen aged son Buck (Six). But the important thing is that you do grow to like these people, and it's a worthwhile investment. [7] The audio soundtrack in Compact Disc format composed by Sobel was never officially released, but a limited edition of the original score initially composed by Goldsmith featuring 18 tracks, was released in 2005. The bioweapon is later used to convince other Overseers still out in the galaxy that the Tectonese on Earth are all dead and the planet houses a deadly disease. [13] The film went on to top out domestically at $25,216,243 in total ticket sales through a 5-week theatrical run. On the other hand, Kevyn Major Howardwho played Harcourt's murderous henchmanhad very delicate, boyish kind of features, so we used that quality to create a creepy juxtaposition. They have their own language, their own signs. To some humans--including seasoned Los Angeles cop Matt Sykes (James Caan)--the Newcomers are unwelcome "slags." "[3] While effects coordinators were struggling to finish the final design and full-scale production of the alien prosthetics, Hurd chose makeup artist Zoltan Elek to supervise the overall application. The abnormality noticed by Francisco on the body of the Newcomer criminal turns out to be a visual sign of the drug's influence. Det. As the Bromo Seltzer started to fizzle, the hot water began eating its way through the gelatin skin and his face appeared to bubble and melt." [7], The film premiered in cinemas on October 7, 1988. This is actually a pretty good continuation taking place a short time after the events of the 1988 film. By the end of the saga, the two completely different humanoids have combined their talents and overcome their social barriers to complete their task.[3]. Alien Nation: They get drunk on sour milk. But only lasted 1 season ?!? before stating, "Yeah, well, I don't know. Salt water hurts them and sour milk gets them drunk. That was the last thing to expect there. The Tenctonese aren't necessarily any better and the racism not only goes both ways, but exists within their own species. [3], Later, Hurd contacted cinematographer Adam Greenberg at his home in Israel to work on the production. This leads Sykes and Francisco to a nightclub to question a Newcomer named Joshua Strader, but Strader is murdered by a criminal ring led by Newcomer businessman William Harcourt and his henchman Rudyard Kipling. The show attempted to move away from the original film's "Buddy Cop" premise, and delve more into the aliens' distinct culture and characteristics. With 250,000 names to distribute, and some of the officials apparently acting out of either an inapropos sense of humor or petty malice, some of the names are demeaning jokes at the Newcomers' expense. Excellent science fiction based on the movie from 1988. We tried to do all the scenes in the movie that appear to be their places heavily favored by this deep blue color. Samuel 'George' Francisco: And that fits? It's sort of like Miami Vice with aliens! "Karabla" (from the Russian word "karabl' ", meaning "ship") a religious object used in Tenctonese marriage ceremonies (the spouses place their "serdsos" (see above) in the karabla to symbolize their marriage as a journey of two souls together), shaped like a ship. Very good writing, acting for the late 80's It's not Babylon 5 but it's up there. D'Angelo, Carr (November 1988). It is possible that I actually did watch it at some point, but I don't have any specific memory of watching it and I couldn't remember a single plot point as I watched it yesterday. Nobody looked at the screenplay and observed that it didn't try hard enough, that it had no surprises, that it didn't attempt to delight its audiences with twists and turns on the phoned-in plotline. ", Mike Spatola was head of the painting crew for the mask design. Det. Working with co-producer Richard Kobritz, Hurd secured funding from Fox Studios and began casting an experienced makeup team for the creation of the alien society. Later the series would imply that the Newcomers had in fact evolved from insect like creatures. The word word 'miliciya' means in Tenctonese, like it meant in Russian, "police". They take on roles in society just as if they were human.You see. But you do have to take into consideration that this entire show had a smaller budget than a single episode of Game of Thrones. The genre of science fiction, in regards to representing aliens, tends to usually be in the form of one or two beings as shown on network series like Star Trek. The newcomers or derogatory called slags have settled into their new homes, mostly in southern California. Each of the actors who played aliens also had their hands painted in a spot pattern, as an original plan of supplying them with appliances for hand pieces was discarded. Quotes.net. During the design phase, the producers supported the subtlety of the makeup and trying to make the aliens look as human as possible. A routine cop thriller with a comedic sci-fi twist, Alien Nation has two things working in its favor: Caan and Patinkin form a memorable duo, and the basic premise--as conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon (who later developed the film as a TV series)--intelligently accounts for the sociological impact of an alien population. The Newcomers Hubley, Porter, and Strader were involved in the planning phases of the operation, but were later murdered due to Harcourt's desire to exclude them from any future financial rewards. Racism was a key theme encountered by the character of Francisco. They're highly intelligent, but if you drop them in seawater they'll melt into a puddle of goop. At least the films have kept it going in fine fashion. We knew there was going to be a lot of makeup application time and removal timethat was a given." Elek explained, the crew "dug out chunks from the foam rubber pieces, filled the holes with Bromo Seltzer, then laid the gelatin appliances over the whole thing and colored them so you could not see the holes below. Not a bright premise. [5] Patinkin added, "Everything in the script is Jetson, everything on the makeup is labeled Jetson, we always refer to him as Jetson. Full series, over 17 hours. Directed by Graham Baker. A side plot involved the younger Newcomer Buck, played by actor Sean Six, enlisting to become a police officer. Director Kenneth Johnson Writers Rockne S. O'Bannon (characters) Kenneth Johnson Stars Gary Graham before we got what we wanted."[6]. The viewers could relate to Matthew Sikes, who was prejudice against the newcomers because they looked strange and were taking ``our'' jobs away from us. I hope you understand how special your world is, how unique a people you humans are. out of self-interest; the Overseers don't profit from dead "cargo", due to the aging process slowing down once they reach about 20 Earth years of age, water with high salinity burns them like sulphuric acid burns naked mole rats. The original James Caan movie was a decent buddy cop flick, but the premise really lends itself to long0for television; and there's some great character development here as a result. [15], Alien Nation was released on VHS by CBS/Fox Video in 1989. [5] However, three days before the start of shooting, Hanna-Barbera wouldn't allow the name to be used. [12] In the month of November during its final weekend showing in theaters, the film came out in 10th place grossing $1,306,849. [43], On March 25, 2015, Fox announced a remake with Art Marcum and Matt Holloway writing. Rather, after about five minutes we wanted the audience to accept them as different from us, but not so different that no one is buying the storyline. Samuel 'George' Francisco: Shithead. The problem was, the hotel management wouldn't let us hang anything from the ceiling. Jack Collis on Alien Nation's language. It's too dull for one and too dumb for the other." It was the first time I had to deal with this kind of thing. Alien Nation has sour milk as akin to alcohol. A human detective named Matthew Sikes is partnered with an alien immigrant named George Francisco to solve crimes arising from the uneasy relationship between the "Newcomers" and their human neighbors. [38] Alien Nation: The Enemy Within was aired on November 12, 1996, and revolved around a story from which the detectives try to save their city from an alien threat originating from a waste disposal facility. [18] Currently, there is no exact set date on a future US Blu-ray Disc release for the film. Sometimes you have to feel your way. Alien Nation is a 1988 American science fiction action film written by Rockne S. O'Bannon and directed by Graham Baker. Noteworthy set design and strong performances, especially by Gossett, push this beyond mere mediocrity. It was nice because everything behind the villains fell into darkness. They have two hearts and bald, spotted heads. Caught by surprise, Greenberg recalled, "I was vacationing on the Dead Sea in a kibbutz (it was 125 degrees) and I got a call from Gale. I was hugely disappointed when this was cancelled.Although looking back i cant say i'm particularly surprised given the network it aired on.FOX network has a long history of cancelling cool sci-fi shows without giving them a fair chance.Their biggest blunder of course being Firefly.You know their regretting that one especially. If a light is on it is because you turned it on. Alien Nation: Millennium was released on January 2, 1996, and dealt with a mysterious cult that uses mind-altering alien artifacts to lure Newcomer followers into a doomsday scenario. Ultimately, Sykes and Francisco track down Harcourt, who is negotiating a timetable for the release of Jabroka. George's name was originally "Sam Francisco", but he changed it at Matt's request. For now, we have to make do with the inspired creations of talented science fiction writers, actors and directors who produce such shows/movies as Alien Nation, Star Trek, 2001, a Space Oddessy,Close Encounters of the Third Kind, etc etc. In their efforts to do just that, they adopt human-sounding names, which leads to one of the show's running gags. Look no further because you will find whatever you are looking for in here. Like all really good science fiction, it comes up with an utterly improbable premise (namely that an alien slave ship lands on Earth and the humanoid ex-slaves must integrate into human society) and proceeds to be completely real within that premise. He said, "We ended up with very deep, strong blue a sort of moonlight blue. "[5] In reference to the cartoon character, the producers would leave in the name "George" as a substitute. [6] Within a five-month shooting schedule, three weeks were spent shooting at studio locations. Normally I'm not a fan of sci fi but something about this series changed my opinion Alien Nation is probably one of the best cop shows that was on TV. Sykes's own virulent "speciesism" intensifies when Newcomer thugs kill his partner, but he sees logic in teaming up with Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin), the first Newcomer detective in the LAPD. As the story goes, at some point in the early 1990s, a malfunctioning starship loaded with a population of 250,000 alien slave laborers landed in the desert outside Los Angeles. I don't know. [27] Not nearly as impressed with the film was author NF of TimeOut Magazine, calling it "worthy, predictable, and dull." Fun to watch, good characters, believable plotsmaybe 'new' Hollywood should take notes. Worth watching, owning. Sykes's superior, Captain Warner, informs his squad that they will have to work with the newly promoted Newcomer detective Sam Francisco. 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