Starman

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Theme/Plot#1: Bridges plays an alien "anthropologist," from a civilization in a distant star system, part of a team that studies living species all over the universe. Bridge's civilization has developed scientific and technical applications far beyond those in use on Earth, and hence is at a great advantage in dealing with Earthlings.

The alien is shot down by SETI [Search for Extraterriastrial Intelligence], the government institution that invited him to visit via transmissions from 1977's Voyager 2 rocket travelling through space. Charles Martin Smith's character, Mark Shermin, works as SETI's resident alien expert and is called into action. (Shermin is surely one of the models on which Fox Mulder, David Duchovny's `X-Files' character, is based.) The alien is forced into an emergency crash-landing near the home of a young widow, Jenny Hayden [Allen], in northern Wisconsin.

The alien materializes in the human form of Scott Hayden, Jenny's late husband, and recruits Jenny to help him travel to the meeting with his mother ship, three days hence. This means traveling from Wisconsin to Winslow, Arizona, site of a giant meteorite crater.

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