Starman (TV)
| Fandom | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Starman |
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| Creator: | Mike Gray |
| Date(s): | 1986-1987 |
| Medium: | television series |
| Country of Origin: | United States |
| External Links: | IMDB Spotlight Starman |
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The single-season television series Starman was a spinoff of the 1984 feature film of the same name starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen.
The series' premise was that the film's alien returned 15 years after the movie to find his son living in an orphanage. Together, father and son toured around the American Southwest looking for the boy's mother.
Fandom
Starman fandom coalesced around the (unsuccessful) efforts to prevent the series from being canceled after its first season. Spotlight Starman formed in 1987, and still produces the "Blue Lights" newsletter/zine, runs the STARMANET mailing list, and sponsors annual conventions.
The fandom has never been a prolific producer of fan fiction or fan art, although there were a fair number of print zines being circulated in the late 1980s.
The fanworks in Starman are all gen or mild het.
Fanfic
- stories on the Yuletide archive.
- stories on the Archive of Our Own.
- stories on fanfiction.net.
- stories at Spotlight Starman.
Fanzines
A Byte of Time | Across the Valley | Alone | Amazing Variety | A Starman in My Pocket | The Ambassador | Best Buddies | Blue Lights (Starman newsletter) | The Blue Lights (Starman poetry zine) | Captured! | Caught in the Middle | Changes | Credits Where Credits Are Due | Distant Relations | The Doug Clark Affair | Endangered Species | False Fronts | The Finding of Jenny Hayden | The Flight of the Starman | Follow You, Follow Me | Fox on the Run | Friends of My Father | Good Things from the Starman Universe | He's a Man, George! | Homecoming | The Legacy of the Starman | Loose Ends | Love Can Build a Bridge | Moonlight Express | Never, Ever | Of Fathers & Sons | One Christmas Eve | Serenade | Silver Spheres | Snowstorm | Songs of the Sphere | The Sounds of Silence | The Spirit of Starman | Spotlight Starman of Ohio Newsletter | A Star by Any Other Name | Starscapes | Starborn | Starcrossed (Quantum Leap/Starman zine) | Starlight | Starlore | Starman Calendar | The Starman Episode Guide | A Starman for the Ages | The Starman Survey | Together | Trials and Triumph | TRHIFC Celebrates Starman | Twins | Visit from Home | Viva Las Vegas | The Wanderer from the Stars | Why Do They Hate Me? | Wylie's Girl