Something is Out There - Lyndon Chubbuck - (1988) DVD

When a police officer investigating a series of brutal murders questions a young woman who has been seen at the crime scenes, it turns out she is from an interstellar prison ship and that the murders have been committed by an escaped alien prisoner. After they join forces to defeat the alien killer, her spaceship is destroyed and she is stranded on Earth, where she helps him on his cases while searching for a way to contact her people.

Something Is Out There was an expensive (and expansive) sci-fi TV movie and series in the tradition of the miniseries V and the film The Hidden (1988). LA cop Joe Cortese finds himself with an unlikely partner, gorgeous extraterrestrial Maryam D'Abo. Both Earthling and alien are on the hunt for an evil entity called a "xenomorph," which has escaped from D'Abo's spaceship. The xenomorph has the capacity to take over the bodies of humans and to assume any shape (Alien meets The Thing).

The creature design is courtesy of makeup maestro Rick Baker, while the special effects are cooked up by Star Wars' John Dykstra. Still, the one element of Something Is Out There that sticks in the memory is also the simplest: Maryam D'Abo is attracted to Joe Cortese because she thinks his hands are beautiful. It was fun and engrossing and like most shows I really like was canceled quickly.

Episodes:

1. Something Is Out There (Pilot Movie)
2. Gladiator
3. Don't Look Back
4. In His Own Image
5. Night of the Visitors
6. A Message from Mr. Cool
7. Good Psychics are Hard to Come By
8. A Hearse of Another Color
9. The Keeper

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