In this series the alien returns to find and assist the child he fathered fourteen years before on his visit to Earth. When he arrives he takes on the identity of Paul Forrester a prize-winning free-lance photographer with a rather wild reputation killed in a helicopter accident. He finds the child (Scott Hayden) and his mother (Jenny) have been separated. Paul convinces Scott to help him to locate Jenny his friend from his first visit to Earth. Unfortunately their search is plagued by George Fox a paranoid government agent who feels Paul and Scott are dangerous and wants to capture examine and probably kill them.
Review
This show picks up 14 years after the movie left off. The alien returns to earth to find the woman he had met during the movie and the child he had fathered. He finds the son now a teenager and together they search for the mother while being hounded by a government agent. In the movie the woman helped Starman (who apparantly had no corporal form of his own and assumes the body of a photographer who has just died in a helicopter accident in the show) learn about earth customs in the tv show the son does the same.
All in all I thought this was a decent television show and a worthy companion to one of my favorite movies of all time.