Starman — Season 1

Aired 19 September 1986 • 60 min

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

Aired 26 September 1986 • 60 min

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.

Aired 3 October 1986 • 60 min

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 photographer.

Aired 17 October 1986 • 60 min

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.

Aired 24 October 1986 • 60 min

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.

Aired 31 October 1986 • 60 min

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.

Aired 7 November 1986 • 60 min

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.

Aired 14 November 1986 • 60 min

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

Aired 28 November 1986 • 60 min

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.

Aired 5 December 1986 • 60 min

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.

Aired 12 December 1986 • 60 min

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.

Aired 9 January 1987 • 60 min

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.

Aired 16 January 1987 • 60 min

Aired 30 January 1987 • 60 min

Aired 6 February 1987 • 60 min

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 belongings including the spheres. Paul later shows her herself and she finally decides to try and change her ways. And when they leave the hotel they discover that they accumulated a very large bill.

Aired 13 February 1987 • 60 min

Aired 13 March 1987 • 60 min

Aired 21 March 1987 • 60 min

Aired 28 March 1987 • 60 min

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

Aired 4 April 1987 • 60 min

Aired 11 April 1987 • 60 min

Aired 2 May 1987 • 60 min

Paul answers an ad for a ""pearl diver"", which he learns upon arriving at the diner is a dishwasher. Scott goes to school. While working at the diner, Paul discovers that his co-worker is illiterate. Scott's teacher talks to Paul about their gypsy ways and thinks that Paul should consider staying in one place so Scott can explore his full potential. Paul then brings his co-worker to her, so that he can learn how to read.