The Strangerers

30min

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Comedy

Drama

The Strangerers is a British television comedy drama science fiction series written by Rob Grant and was broadcast on Sky One between 15 February and 11 April 2000. A single series was made with a total of 9 episodes. The show ended on a cliffhanger. It has not been released on DVD, nor repeated since its original run.

Episodes

Cast

Space Cadets

1. Space Cadets

30min

15th Feb 2000

Cadets Flynn and Niven have landed and proceed with their mission, but things soon start to go wrong for them, and to make matters worse, they find out that the Government already know that they are here on Earth.

Vegetables

2. Vegetables

30min

22nd Feb 2000

The Strangerers arrive in the city, and start to look for a place to stay. They eventually find a down and out seedy hotel, run by a man called C.D. and decide to hide out there, unaware that Rina and Harry are back on to their trail and are watching them.

Crunchy Munchy

3. Crunchy Munchy

30min

29th Feb 2000

The Strangers are in CD's hotel and start to get down to some crunchy breakfast not knowing that Hotel owner has plans and so has Rina and Harry.

Fargle

4. Fargle

30min

7th Mar 2000

The Strangerers return to their room and discover that some things are not the same as when they left. When they are then set upon by the DNE Swat team, they handle the situation in a watery way to make their escape.

Zap Type 'Z'

5. Zap Type 'Z'

30min

14th Mar 2000

Cadet Flynn escapes certain termination with the help from the brother of the gunman. They manage to stagger to a car and make a terrible getaway to someone who can fix them up.

Angels

6. Angels

30min

21st Mar 2000

Cadet Niven and Cadet Flynn escape with the help of the Supervisor, but they are unaware that Rina is on their trail. They manage to find a house where strangers are welcome, only to find out that the old women there is a vegetable murderer.

The Streets of Laredo

7. The Streets of Laredo

30min

28th Mar 2000

The Supervisor brings the Super Supervisor to Earth, in a hope to rescue Flynn and Niven. Unaware of the danger, the Super Supervisor and the Supervisor get picked up by a strange cowboy trucker.

Eyepoppers

8. Eyepoppers

30min

4th Apr 2000

Flynn and Niven are caught by CD, Rats and the DNE team, but with a bit of alien magic they create holograms of themselves to fool Irius mann. Meanwhile, Super Supervisor Davis and Supervisor Fairbanks are still travelling with the cowboy trucker.

The Getawaying

9. The Getawaying

30min

11th Apr 2000

The cadets have finally been found by Super Supervisor Davis who is very annoyed with their progress, as the cadets have lost the briefcase and the raygun. They all start to make their way to the rendezvous point, only to find out that everyone wants to get them before they escape.

First air date

15th Feb 2000

Last air date

11th Apr 2000

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks