Dark Skies

“History as we know it is a lie.”

19961h 0m / epSci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama · Action & Adventure

First aired

September 21, 1996

7.2

TMDB Score

72% match · 55 votes

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S01 · E18

Strangers in the Night

Season 1 · May 24, 1997

Following a disturbing message from the Soviet Union's counterpart to Majestic, Bach assembles a team that includes Loengard, Juliet and Army Major Colin Powell to investigate. While the team discovers most of Aura-Z's personnel are dead, they find a pair of researchers who survived. As Ludmilla and Pavel tell of experiments with prisoners that backfired and of the convicts who are now holding the head of Aura-Z and Juliet's mentor, Colonel Dmitri Mironov, back in the US, Bach enlists astronomer Carl Sagan in an effort to find the Hive's home planet.

About the Series

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Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAction & Adventure

Synopsis

Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hour pilot episode. The success of The X-Files on Fox proved there was an audience for science fiction shows, resulting in NBC commissioning this proposed competitor following a pitch from producers Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman. The series debuted September 21, 1996 on NBC, and was later rerun by the Sci-Fi Channel. Its tagline was "History as we know it is a lie."

First aired
September 21, 1996
Last aired
May 31, 1997
Seasons
1 season · 19 episodes
Status
Canceled
Original language
English
Network
NBC

Top Billed Cast

Eric Close

Eric Close

John Loengard

Megan Ward

Megan Ward

Kimberly Sayers

J.T. Walsh

J.T. Walsh

Frank Bach

Jeri Ryan

Jeri Ryan

Juliet Stuart

Tim Kelleher

Tim Kelleher

Jim Steele

Conor O'Farrell

Conor O'Farrell

Phil Albano

Charley Lang

Charley Lang

Dr. Halligan

JF

James F. Kelly

Robert Kennedy

Gregory Harrison

Gregory Harrison

Old John Loengard

GM

Grant Mathis

Pyne

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