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Dark Skies

  • 1996
  • TMDB 7.2/10
  • 1 season

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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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."

Cast

  • Eric CloseJohn Loengard
  • Megan WardKimberly Sayers
  • J.T. WalshFrank Bach
  • Jeri RyanJuliet Stuart
  • Tim KelleherJim Steele
  • Conor O'FarrellPhil Albano
  • Charley LangDr. Halligan
  • James F. KellyRobert Kennedy

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