Dark Skies(1996)

series - first aired/released 1996-09-21 - audience 7.2

Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure

Directed by David Jackson, James A. Contner, Jim Charleston, Lou Antonio, Martha Mitchell, Michael Levine, Perry Lang, Rodman Flender, Thomas J. Wright, Tobe Hooper, Tucker Gates, Winrich Kolbe

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."