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''Starman'' is a ScienceFiction series that aired for one season (1986–87) on Creator/{{ABC}}. It was [[RecycledTheSeries spun off]] from the 1984 [[Film/{{Starman}} film of the same name]].
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''Starman'' is a ScienceFiction series that aired for one season (1986–87) on Creator/{{ABC}}.[[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]]. It was [[RecycledTheSeries spun off]] from the 1984 [[Film/{{Starman}} film of the same name]].
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Teens Are Short was renamed to Short Teens Tall Adults. The example here does not compare the height of several teens in the series to adults, so I've removed it.
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* TeensAreShort: C.B. Barnes, as 14-year-old Scott, was (at the time) four or five inches shorter than Creator/RobertHays.
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* WalkingTheEarth: Because Paul and Scott are looking for Jenny all over the United States, they can't settle down in one hiding place. (The flags on the map in Fox's office show they stick to the states west of the Rockies throughout the show.)
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* WalkingTheEarth: Because Paul and Scott are looking for Jenny all over the United States, they can't settle down in one hiding place. (The flags on the map in Fox's office show they stick to the states west of the Rockies throughout the show.show, with the exception of the offscreen delivering of a car from Texas to a state west of the Rockies and the place Scott was in the first place before the run.)
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[[caption-width-right:300:Creator/RobertHays as Paul Forrester]]
''Starman'' is a 1986 TV series, spun off from the 1984 [[Film/{{Starman}} film of the same name]]. The starman from the film returns to Earth 15 years later, meets Scott, the son he fathered in the film, and spends a lot of time on the run from the government as they search for Scott's mother, Jenny Hayden.
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''Starman'' is a 1986 TV series, spun off from the 1984 [[Film/{{Starman}} film of the same name]]. The starman from the film returns to Earth 15 years later, meets Scott, the son he fathered in the film, and spends a lot of time on the run from the government as they search for Scott's mother, Jenny Hayden.
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''Starman'' is a
The starman from the film returns to Earth 15 years later, meets Scott, the son he fathered in the film, and spends a lot of time on the run from the government as they search for Scott's mother, Jenny Hayden.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Scott is the son of an alien dad and a human mom. Since the alien dad took on the DNA of a human man, the genetics are not that hard to explain, even if it is implied that deep down there is something alien about Scott. Technically, he has [[ExtraParentConception three genetic parents]].
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* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Scott is the son of an alien dad and a human mom. Since the alien dad took on the DNA of a human man, the genetics are not that hard to explain, even if it is implied that deep down there is something alien about Scott. Technically, he has [[ExtraParentConception three genetic parents]].
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* GrammarCorrectionGag: Scott corrects Fox's grammar in the middle of a hostage exchange.
-->'''Fox:''' Go on. Slow.
-->'''Scott:''' The word is slowly. It's an adverb.
-->'''Fox:''' Go on. Slow.
-->'''Scott:''' The word is slowly. It's an adverb.
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* YouMakeMeSic: Scott corrects Fox's grammar in the middle of a hostage exchange.
-->'''Fox:''' Go on. Slow.
-->'''Scott:''' The word is slowly. It's an adverb.
-->'''Fox:''' Go on. Slow.
-->'''Scott:''' The word is slowly. It's an adverb.
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* KeepingSecretsSucks: For someone who has lived 14 years as a normal boy, finding himself a human-alien hybrid and on the run with his alien dad sucks in a lot of levels.
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* KeepingSecretsSucks: For someone who has lived 14 years as a normal boy, finding himself a human-alien hybrid and on the run with his alien dad sucks in on a lot of levels.
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* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Scott is the son of an alien dad and a human mom. Since the alien dad took on the DNA of a human man, the genetics are not that hard to explain, even if it is implied that deep down there is something alien about Scott. Technically, he has [[ExtaParentConception three genetic parents]].
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* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Scott is the son of an alien dad and a human mom. Since the alien dad took on the DNA of a human man, the genetics are not that hard to explain, even if it is implied that deep down there is something alien about Scott. Technically, he has [[ExtaParentConception [[ExtraParentConception three genetic parents]].
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* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Scott is the son of an alien dad and a human mom. Since the alien dad took on the DNA of a human man, the genetics are not that hard to explain, even if it is implied that deep down there is something alien about Scott.
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* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Scott is the son of an alien dad and a human mom. Since the alien dad took on the DNA of a human man, the genetics are not that hard to explain, even if it is implied that deep down there is something alien about Scott. Technically, he has [[ExtaParentConception three genetic parents]].
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* TheNthDoctor: As in the film, Starman takes human form by adopting the identity of a recently-deceased human, thus neatly explaining why he's played by a different actor this time around. Fox and Karen, on the other hand, are Other Darrin-ed.
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* TheNthDoctor: As in the film, Starman takes human form by adopting the identity of a recently-deceased human, thus neatly explaining why he's played by a different actor this time around. Fox and Karen, Jenny, on the other hand, are Other Darrin-ed.
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* TheNthDoctor: As in the film, Starman takes human form by adopting the identity of a recently-deceased human, thus neatly explaining why he's played by a different actor this time around.
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* TheNthDoctor: As in the film, Starman takes human form by adopting the identity of a recently-deceased human, thus neatly explaining why he's played by a different actor this time around. Fox and Karen, on the other hand, are Other Darrin-ed.
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* TeensAreShort: C.B. Barnes, as 14-year-old Scott, was (at the time) four or five inches shorter than Creator/RobertHays.
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* AlienAmongUs: the whole premise of the show is about an alien who came to Earth 15 years ago for three days and met a woman named Jenny. Now he's back to take care of their son while looking for her.
* AlienAmongUs: the whole premise of the show is about an alien who came to Earth 15 years ago for three days and met a woman named Jenny. Now he's back to take care of their son while looking for her.
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* EnergyBeings: this is what Paul is supposed to be on his true, blue self.
* FlashedBadgeHijack: Fox does this in Grifters.
* FlashedBadgeHijack: Fox does this in Grifters.
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* EnergyBeings: this This is what Paul is supposed to be on his true, blue self.
* FlashedBadgeHijack: Fox does this inGrifters."Grifters".
* FlashedBadgeHijack: Fox does this in
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* InstantSedation: both Scott and Paul are shot with sedatives from an helicopter and are almost instantly unconscious.
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* InstantSedation: both Both Scott and Paul are shot with sedatives from an helicopter and are almost instantly unconscious.
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* LineageComesFromTheFather: everything special about Scott. No one ever says anything remotely "you get this from your mother".
* {{Masquerade}}: a whole conspiracy is going on to keep quiet that an alien came 15 years ago, and now is back walking among us.
* {{Masquerade}}: a whole conspiracy is going on to keep quiet that an alien came 15 years ago, and now is back walking among us.
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* LineageComesFromTheFather: everything Everything special about Scott. No one ever says anything remotely "you get this from your mother".
* {{Masquerade}}:a A whole conspiracy is going on to keep quiet that an alien came 15 years ago, and now is back walking among us.
* {{Masquerade}}:
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* PsychicPowers: everything Paul and Scott do comes from psychic powers, the most common ones being telekinesis and hologram-like images.
* {{Room 101}}: where Scott and Paul are taken during the Starscape episodes.
* {{Room 101}}: where Scott and Paul are taken during the Starscape episodes.
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* PsychicPowers: everything Everything Paul and Scott do comes from psychic powers, the most common ones being telekinesis and hologram-like images.
* {{Room 101}}:where Where Scott and Paul are taken during the Starscape "Starscape" episodes.
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* SeriesGoal: Paul returns to Earth when he learns the son he had with Jenny is in distress. Together they set out to find her, sometimes following clues and sometimes laying low to hide from Fox.
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* TimeSkip: Fifteen years have passed since the film...
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* TimeSkip: Fifteen years have passed since the film...film.
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* WalkingTheEarth: because Paul and Scott are looking for Jenny all over the United States, they can't settle down in one hiding place. (The flags on the map in Fox's office show they stick to the states west of the Rockies throughout the show.)
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* WalkingTheEarth: because Because Paul and Scott are looking for Jenny all over the United States, they can't settle down in one hiding place. (The flags on the map in Fox's office show they stick to the states west of the Rockies throughout the show.)
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* ActorAllusion: In "One for the Road", Paul is a chaperone at a school dance. At first he refrains from dancing when invited by one of the teachers because he doesn't know how, but when dragged onto the dance floor he soon picks it up (as he tends to do with skills and languages). As he gets into it, he briefly adopts the StayingAliveDancePose Hays famously parodied in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.
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* ActorAllusion: In "One for the Road", Paul is a chaperone at a school dance. At first he refrains from dancing when invited by one of the teachers because he [[ICantDance doesn't know how, how]], but when dragged onto the dance floor he soon picks it up (as he tends to do with skills and languages). As he gets into it, he briefly adopts the StayingAliveDancePose Hays famously parodied in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.
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* ActorAllusion: In "One for the Road", Paul is a chaperone at a school dance. At first he refrains from dancing when invited by one ofd the teachers because he doesn't know how, but when dragged onto the dance floor he soon picks it up (as he tends to do with skills and languages). As he gets into it, he briefly adopts the StayingAliveDancePose Hays famously parodied in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.
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* ActorAllusion: In "One for the Road", Paul is a chaperone at a school dance. At first he refrains from dancing when invited by one ofd of the teachers because he doesn't know how, but when dragged onto the dance floor he soon picks it up (as he tends to do with skills and languages). As he gets into it, he briefly adopts the StayingAliveDancePose Hays famously parodied in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.
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* ActorAllusion: In "One for the Road", Paul is a chaperone at a school dance. At first he refrains from dancing when invited by one ofd the teachers because he doesn't know how, but when dragged onto the dance floor he soon picks it up (as he tends to do with skills and languages). As he gets into it, he briefly adopts the StayingAliveDancePose Hays famously parodied in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.