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COLLECTION · Series · 1996

Dark Skies

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."

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* 7.2 (52)ActionAdventureDramaFantasyScience Fiction
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NBC
Runtime
44–60 min/ep
Release
21/09/1996
Score
7.2 / 10 (52)

Awards and nominations

  • Winner at 49th Primetime Emmy Awards — Mike Jones
  • Nominated at 49th Primetime Emmy Awards — Michael Hoenig
  • Nominated at 49th Primetime Emmy Awards — Bryce Zabel and Brent V. Friedman
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
19 episodes · 1996
The Awakening
Episode 1. The Awakening
1996-09-21 · 93 min

Arriving in Washington D.C. on the heels of the election of President John F. Kennedy, Kimberly Sayers finds work at the White House as boyfriend John Loengard plunges into his job as an aide to Congressman Charles Pratt. Sent to look…

Moving Targets
Episode 2. Moving Targets
1996-09-28

Following the Kennedy assassination, Bach heads for Dallas to recover the artifact Loengard used to prove the alien invasion to the President. However, when he's sent by Robert Kennedy to get it too, John meets Jesse Marcel, a government…

Mercury Rising
Episode 3. Mercury Rising
1996-10-19

A dream is drawing Sayers to Florida. And though Bach isn't far behind, Loengard reluctantly agrees to help find the astronaut she's seeing. As Majestic prepares a space probe to locate the alien base, Kim and John arrive in Cape…

Dark Days Night
Episode 4. Dark Days Night
1996-10-26

Tracing alien radio transmissions received in New York City, Loengard and Sayers suspect the Hive is planning an operation around the American debut of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. At the studio where preparations are underway,…

Dreamland
Episode 5. Dreamland
1996-11-02

With $500 in poker chips they found on Steele, Loengard and Sayers head for Las Vegas. As John makes his way to the gaming tables, Kim lands a job and meets Susan Swenson, a cocktail waitress who already knows more than she wants to about…

Inhuman Nature
Episode 6. Inhuman Nature
1996-11-09

Following some sightings in Wisconsin, Loengard and Sayers question dairy farmer Kester Boehm about the strange lights he's been seeing and the unusual deaths of some of his herd. Finding one of his cows implanted with a trio of…

Ancient Future
Episode 7. Ancient Future
1996-11-16

Following up on some mysterious magnetic disturbances, Loengard and Sayers head North to Chiliwack, Alaska. There, Reverend Gary Barrow, a local minister, introduces them to his uncle, Tug Barrow. Told of an old Tlingit Indian legend…

Hostile Convergence
Episode 8. Hostile Convergence
1996-12-07

Loengard's wife Kim decides that she cannot miss her sister's wedding in Denver and sneaks away from John while he meets with one of the few people who know his terrible secret. The man that Kim's sister is planning to marry is Rob…

We Shall Overcome
Episode 9. We Shall Overcome
1996-12-14

Following a message from his congressional colleague Mark Simonson, John and Kim are drawn to Meridian, Mississippi, where the struggle for voting rights is clouded by the disappearance of three civil rights workers. As Kim senses the…

The Last Wave
Episode 10. The Last Wave
1997-01-04

Following the suspicious suicide of college classmate Robert Dewey, John and Kim arrive in Los Angeles to see their old friends Nat Heller and Gina Abbott. Learning that Dewey's corpse was mysteriously confiscated by someone claiming to…

The Enemy Within
Episode 11. The Enemy Within
1997-01-11

Following the deaths of both President Kennedy and his assassin, Bach realizes that the alien hive has planted a spy inside Majestic - and all the evidence points to his trusted aide, Jim Steele. However, Steele escapes into the Majestic…

The Warren Omission
Episode 12. The Warren Omission
1997-01-18

With the Warren Commission looking into the assassination of his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asks John to testify. Despite Bach's warning, Kennedy paves the way with his own testimony before Loengard describes the events…

White Rabbit
Episode 13. White Rabbit
1997-02-01

When Soviet operatives fire on a Hive ship over the Gulf of Tonkin, Bach claims that US naval vessels were their target and starts the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. After air strikes down a Hive ship, Bach kidnaps Loengard for…

Shades of Gray
Episode 14. Shades of Gray
1997-02-08

Despite tensions between Loengard and Albano, Bach is determined to get a glyph decoder held by Juliet. Realizing that it's just the weapon that could help with a takeover of Majestic, Juliet agrees to let Bach use it to attract an alien…

Burn, Baby, Burn
Episode 15. Burn, Baby, Burn
1997-03-01

When Kim feels strangely compelled to have her baby in California, Bach sends her to a doctor working with pregnant mothers who were at one time abducted by the Hive. As Kim arrives on the West Coast where she will be observed along with…

Both Sides Now
Episode 16. Both Sides Now
1997-03-08

As Steele works on Sayers to willingly accept returning to the Hive, Loengard seeks anyone he believes can lead him to his wife. So, when Bach Juliet to Berkeley where the Hive is infiltrating the growing antiwar movement, John insists…

To Prey in Darkness
Episode 17. To Prey in Darkness
1997-03-15

When film of Truman's meeting with the aliens is stolen, Bach sends Loengard to see Carl Hertzog, a retired Majestic doctor. After denying any knowledge of its whereabouts, Hertzog is hanged to death in what appears to be suicide. Then,…

Strangers in the Night
Episode 18. Strangers in the Night
1997-05-24

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,…

Bloodlines
Episode 19. Bloodlines
1997-05-31

Alerted to a planet size object transmitting a message to Earth, Bach orders Dr Carl Sagan to decode it while he keeps the news from Majestic's directors. And though he's kept in the dark, Albano agrees to ask the captured Gray to shed…

Cast by season
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
?
James F. Kelly
Robert Kennedy
Gregory Harrison
Gregory Harrison
Old John Loengard
?
Grant Mathis
Pyne
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