The Powers of Matthew Star — Season 1, Episode 12: Fugitives
Sci-Fi & Fantasy • 60 min • 1 season, 22 episodes • ★ 5.7/10
Episode synopsis
Matt takes Pam a plate of food. She's working as a candy striper for Dr. Lindsey at Memorial Hospital. Dr. Lindsey is frustrated at his thermomagnetic scanner and Pam thinks it would take a better image of Matt than a dummy. She promises it's just like a photograph. Matt brings the photos of his chest (shirt) home. Walt is grading tests until he spots the photos. They have thermomagnetic scanners back home and knows exactly what they do. He asks Matt why hospitals would spend thousands of dollars on these machines if all they do is take regular pictures. They now have an image of Matthew showing his two hearts and fifteen ribs. Matt feels bad and Walt says he'll take care of it. Dressed in a doctor's coat, Walt goes to the hospital and has Dr. Lindsey paged to the ER. With Dr. Lindsey gone, Walt sneaks in and deletes Matthew's data. Dr. Lindsey is aggravated and tries to find out who paged him, then returns to his room. Walt is forced to hide in an adjoining room and inadver
About The Powers of Matthew Star
The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC. It starred Peter Barton as the title character, alien prince Matthew ‘E’Hawke’ Star of the planet Quadris. Also starring were Amy Steel as Pam Elliot, Matthew’s girlfriend at Crestridge High, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as Matthew’s guardian Walt ‘D’hai’ Shepherd. In 2002, The Powers of Matthew Star was ranked #22 on the list of TV Guide's "50 Worst TV Shows of All Time".