Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~60 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 19 episodes
- Status
- Cancelled
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
The story
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."
- alien
- conspiracy theory
- alternate history
- alien invasion
The bill
- Tim Kelleher
- Conor O'Farrell
- Charley Lang
- James F. Kelly
- Gregory Harrison
- Grant Mathis
- Jamie Renée Smith
- Robin Gammell
- Stanley Kamel
- Robert Carradine
- Mary Kay Adams
- Directed
- Thomas J. Wright, Perry Lang, Tobe Hooper, James A. Contner, Jim Charleston, Tucker Gates & 6 more
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 54 ratings
- Network & studio
- NBC
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
