Alpha Scorpio (1974)

Country

Australia

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two university students go camping and start seeing weird things. They learn their friend is an alien from a planet in another star system. This Australian show from 1974 had only six episodes.

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What happens

Alpha Scorpio is a short-lived Australian children's science fiction television series, written and produced by James Davern, and which aired on ABC Television in 1974. It starred Peter Hepworth and Kevin Wilson as two university students who begin to witness strange events while camping at Aireys Inlet in Victoria. The two soon discover that their friend Mirny (Kurt Ludescher) is a member of a group of aliens who have recently landed from the 5th planet of Antares. The series lasted only six episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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