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Dark Skies
Original Run	September 21, 1996 – May 31, 1997
No. of Episodes	19
Genre(s)	Scifi Drama
Creator(s)	Bryan Zabel
Exec. Producer(s)	Bryan Zabel Joseph Stern
Starring	Eric Close Megan Ward Charley Lang J.T. Walsh Jeri Ryan
Country of Origin	United States
Original Channel	NBC

Dark Skies was a short-lived 1996 TV series that aired on NBC. The series starred Eric Close as John Loengard and Megan Ward as his fiancée, Kimberly Sayers.

Tagline: History as we know it is a lie.

Contents 1 Plot Summary 2 Cast 3 Episodes 4 External Links

Plot Summary

The series was set in the 1960s and followed the lives of a young couple, John Loengard and Kimberly Sayers. John is an aide to Congressman Charles Pratt and Kim works as a secretary in the White House. When John is sent to check into the Air Force's investigation into a UFO sighting, he meets a couple who claim to have been abducted by aliens. On his return to Washington, he's met by Navy Captain Frank Bach, who has had past experience with UFOs. Bach recruits John into a secret government operation known as Majestic-12. Majestic covered up the existence of extraterrestrials on Earth.

While working for Majestic, John is sent to interview a farmer who has been taken over by an alien parasite. The aliens, referred to as The Hive, have been on Earth since the 1940s. They are parasites who take humanoids as their hosts. The Greys, who crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico, were also hosts to these creatures.

Congressman Pratt became a victim of one of the alien parasites, and Kim was abducted by the aliens and implanted with a parasite. When John learned Kim and Pratt had been implanted, he successfully managed to get her to reject the creature using a chemical concoction devised by Majestic. John learned that the President, JFK, was unaware of the existence of Majestic or the alien conspiracy. He and Kim successfully informed the president but he was assassinated before he could tell the nation. Certain that the assassination was Bach's work, Kim and John go on the run from Majestic while trying to sabotage The Hive's plans.

Cast

• Eric Close as John Loengard
• Megan Ward as Kimberly Sayers
• J.T. Walsh as Frank Bach
• Tim Kelleher as Jim Steele
• Conor O'Farrell as Phil Albano
• Charley Lang as Dr. Halligan
• Jack Lindine as Jack Ruby
• Jeri Ryan as Juliet Stuart (1997) (credited as Jeri Lynn Ryan)

Episodes

1. "The Awakening, Part 1" Air Date: September 21, 1996

2. "The Awakening, Part 2" Air Date: September 21, 1996

3. "Moving Targets" Air Date: September 28, 1996

4. "Mercury Rising" Air Date: October 19, 1996

5. "Dark Days Night" Air Date: October 26, 1996

6. "Dreamland" Air Date: November 2, 1996

7."Inhuman Nature" Air Date: November 9, 1996

8."Ancient Future" Air Date: November 16, 1996

9."Hostile Convergence" Air Date: December 7, 1996

10."We Shall Overcome" Air Date: December 14, 1996

11. "The Last Wave" Air Date: January 4, 1997

12. "The Enemy Within" Air Date: January 11, 1997

13. "The Warren Omission" Air Date: January 18, 1997

14. "White Rabbit" Air Date: February 1, 1997

15. "Shades of Gray" Air Date: February 8, 1997

16. "Burn, Baby, Burn" Air Date: March 1, 1997

17. "Both Sides Now" Air Date: March 8, 1997

18. "To Prey in Darkness" Air Date: March 15, 1997

19. "Strangers In the Night" Air Date: May 24, 1997

20. "Bloodlines" Air Date: May 31, 1997

External Links

TV.com - Dark Skies

Brigattab - Dark Skies