As of July 2026, Starman Season 1 aired in 1986 with 22 episodes — streaming now on fuboTV. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Starman Season 1

1986 22 Episodes Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy ⭐ 7/10

Right now you can watch Starman Season 1 on — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. With 22 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Watch it for Robert Hays — the performance elevates material that could easily tip into self-seriousness. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Starman Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Starman Season 1 treats its concept seriously enough to follow it all the way through. Season 1 of Starman includes 22 episodes. It aired from September 1986 to May 1987. This season stars Robert Hays, Christopher Daniel Barnes and Michael Cavanaugh. Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1986. Starman Season 1 resists the temptation to explain everything, trusting the audience to sit with ambiguity. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Viewers burned by ambitious sci-fi that could not sustain its premise should give Starman Season 1 a chance. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Robert Hays grounds the bigger ideas in something human. Once you are in, you will want to talk about it.

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🎬 Starman Season 1 — Episode Guide

Paul manages to find his son Scott in an orphanage, but he has trouble winning the boy's trust.

Like Father, Like Son

Although on the run from Fox in a newly purchased used car, Paul and Scott stop to help a woman who is having car trouble and is also on the run, having just kidnapped her own daughter.

Trouble with their truck in the desert forces Paul and Scott to seek refuge at a woman's experimental aircraft plant, whose problems could be worsened due to an unrecognized flaw in her father's radical airplane design, and for the first time Paul tries to resume his body's former job as a photograp...

When Scott decides to try out the blue sphere's otherworldly powers, the light causes a small town sheriff to report that he has seen a flying saucer and put Paul and Scott in jail, with Fox on the way.

Encountering a couple who knew the real Paul Forrester, Paul and Scott's problems are compounded when the wife declares that she still loves Paul and wants to resume their affair.

The search for Jenny Hayden leads Paul and Scott to a mental institution where a woman may have a valuable lead for them, unless the whole thing is an elaborate trap.

One for the Road

Weary of their life on the run, Paul and Scott start to enjoy staying in one place for a while, but when Paul sees that they must move on, Scott rebels.

Coming across an injured peregrine falcon, Paul risks his freedom to seek the help of a veterinarian.

Paul takes Scott to see his foster father's sister, a wealthy widow who has a $10,000 inheritance for the boy, but she wants to gain custody of Scott for herself, even if this requires betraying Paul to his pursuers.

The fugitives get a brief respite when Agent Fox is taken off Paul's case, but then Paul's life is endangered by a common cold and Scott comes to realize how much he would miss his newfound father.

Paul receives a letter from the real Paul's mother that prompts him to return to Paul's home town for the Christmas holidays, but when he arrives the woman says she did not send the letter and asks him to leave.

A simple traffic violation causes Paul to be arrested, when a computer check reveals an old contempt citation regarding photographs taken by the real Paul of an attorney charged with murder.

While going through Las Vegas, Paul and Scott pick up a woman. while they are away, she steals their vehicle. She then proceeds to sell it and gamble it all away. A hotel thinking that he is ""Paul Forrester"" gives him a room. They find the lot where she sold the vehicle and recover their belonging...

Fathers and Sons

Paul and Scott are being followed by a boy who reveals that he is Paul's son.

🎭 Cast of Starman Season 1

Robert Hays

Paul Forrester / Starman

Christopher Daniel Barnes

Christopher Daniel Barnes

Michael Cavanaugh

Michael Cavanaugh

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