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Season 1

  • The Sandkings
    7.2/101,212 votes

    The Sandkings

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/1995

    Scientist Simon Kress finds himself the master of a colony of Sandkings -- creatures from Mars that look like insects, but have the intelligence of much higher beings.

    Director: Stuart Gillard

    Writer: Melinda M. Snodgrass, George R. R. Martin

  • Valerie 23
    7.4/10995 votes

    Valerie 23

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/31/1995

    Frank Hellner, a lonely paraplegic, takes part in a top-secret project -- allowing an "inorganic human," or robot named Valerie, to be his companion for a week. The experiment goes awry when Valerie, unable to control her programmed emotions, becomes jealous and threatens the life of Frank's physical therapist and close friend Rachel.

    Director: Timothy Bond

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner

  • Blood Brothers
    6.4/10627 votes

    Blood Brothers

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/7/1995

    Two diametrically opposed brothers, wrestle for control of a million-dollar pharmaceutical company. A vaccine that could hold the secret to eternal life, becomes the object of the brothers' bitter struggle.

    Director: Tibor Takács

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • The Second Soul
    6.9/10640 votes

    The Second Soul

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/14/1995

    Man's first encounter with beings from another planet -- the N'Tal -- appears to be a mutually rewarding arrangement. But a leery doctor/scientist must decide whether the N'Tal are friend or foe.

    Director: Paul Lynch

    Writer: Alan Brennert

  • White Light Fever
    6.1/10572 votes

    White Light Fever

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/21/1995

    An experiment at St. Peter's Hospital threatens nature's order of existence, when billionaire Harlan Hawkes pays a brilliant cardiologist, Dr. "Mac" McEnerney to help him cheat death.

    Director: Tibor Takács

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Choice
    6.5/10568 votes

    The Choice

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/28/1995

    A young girl with strange, supernatural powers is shunned by her friends, but welcomed by a nanny with similar gifts, while her parents must decide what's ultimately best for their child.

    Director: Mark Sobel

    Writer: Ann Lewis Hamilton

  • Virtual Future
    6.6/10539 votes

    Virtual Future

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/5/1995

    A brilliant young scientist discovers a way to see the future, but gets caught up in a billionaire's ambitious political schemes, and must alter the future to save his own life.

    Director: Joseph L. Scanlan

    Writer: Shawn Thompson

  • Living Hell
    6.4/10483 votes

    Living Hell

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/12/1995

    Ben Kohler's life is saved after having an experimental chip implanted in his brain, but when he starts seeing and experiencing violent images, it becomes clear something is desperately wrong.

    Director: Graeme Campbell

    Writer: Melinda M. Snodgrass, Pen Densham

  • Corner of the Eye
    6.7/10523 votes

    Corner of the Eye

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/19/1995

    A disillusioned priest is given healing power by aliens who use him as they attempt to save their own planet by destroying all human life.

    Director: Stuart Gillard

    Writer: David J. Schow

  • Under the Bed
    6.4/10494 votes

    Under the Bed

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/26/1995

    When a little boy is abducted the only witness, his sister, claims that someone or something under the bed took him.

    Director: René Bonnière

    Writer: Lawrence Meyers

  • Dark Matters
    6.8/10525 votes

    Dark Matters

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/2/1995

    Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein must save the transport vessel by facing his past and ultimately trusting his own decisions.

    Director: Paul Lynch

    Writer: Alan Brennert

  • The Conversion
    7.7/10754 votes

    The Conversion

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/9/1995

    Henry Marshall is a greedy man who has paid for his greed with a prison sentence but has yet to learn his lesson. His life abruptly changes when he encounters visitors from another planet who instill new sense of compassion for others.

    Director: Rebecca De Mornay

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • Quality of Mercy
    8.1/10898 votes

    Quality of Mercy

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/16/1995

    Major John Skokes is taken prisoner by the enemy during a savage galactic war and a seemingly undefeatable alien race. The tension increases when his cellmate, a cadet named Pri, is being transformed into one of them. Skokes must find an escape to save his cellmate and to avoid a disturbing revelation of the course of this war.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • The New Breed
    7.9/10626 votes

    The New Breed

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 6/23/1995

    The discovery of a gifted scientist falls into the wrong hands, bringing what at first appears to be a lifesaving miracle, but ultimately the untimely death of his closest friend.

    Director: Mark Sobel, Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: Grant Rosenberg

  • The Voyage Home
    7.1/10498 votes

    The Voyage Home

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 6/30/1995

    When an astronaut returning from Mars discovers an alien aboard ship, he must face the loss of his shipmates, and make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prevent the alien from reaching Earth.

    Director: Tibor Takács

    Writer: Grant Rosenberg

  • Caught in the Act
    6.8/10602 votes

    Caught in the Act

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/1/1995

    A chaste co-ed is enveloped by a strange power that gives her an insatiable sexual appetite, which is perpetuated by encounters with consenting men who, after making physical contact, morph into her body and disappear.

    Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi

    Writer: Grant Rosenberg

  • The Message
    7.2/10494 votes

    The Message

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/16/1995

    A deaf woman with a transplanted device, which is supposed to enable her to hear, turns into a transmitter for aliens, who are crying for help.

    Director: Joseph L. Scanlan

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • I, Robot
    7.5/10567 votes

    I, Robot

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 7/23/1995

    Adam, a powerful robot, kills his creator when the scientist attempts to convert him into a military killing machine by destroying his more human qualities.

    Director: Adam Nimoy, Tibor Takács

    Writer: Brad Wright

  • If These Walls Could Talk
    6.7/10459 votes

    If These Walls Could Talk

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 7/30/1995

    Levi Mitchell, a physicist and skeptic, meets Lynda Tillman, a woman whose strength and faith help him unravel the mystery of a haunted house.

    Director: Tibor Takács

    Writer: Eric Estrin, Manny Coto

  • Birthright
    7.2/10466 votes

    Birthright

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/13/1995

    An environmentally-friendly U.S. Senator's life changes drastically after a freak accident, when he realizes he's actually an alien in disguise, with a "mission" to surreptitiously reconfigure the earth's atmosphere.

    Director: William Fruet

    Writer: Eric Estrin

  • The Voice of Reason
    6.0/10414 votes

    The Voice of Reason

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/20/1995

    A civilian with strong ties to the military tries desperately to use concrete evidence to convince a high level committee that alien forces are trying to overcome the human race.

    Director: Neill Fearnley

    Writer: Brad Wright