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The Visitor (1997)

The Visitor poster
Directed by
Kevin Kerslake, Randy Zisk
Genre
science fiction television series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 13 episodes
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man who was abducted by aliens 50 years ago returns to Earth. He tries to help humanity with what he has learned.

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What happens

The Visitor is an American science fiction television series created by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin which was produced by Centropolis Television and 20th Century Fox Television that aired on Fox from September 19, 1997 to January 16, 1998. It starred John Corbett as Adam McArthur who was abducted by extraterrestrials 50 years earlier and escapes back to Earth to help improve life for humanity. The series was created in parallel with the world's first webshows, the now defunct Thevisitor.com, which featured alternate characters, interweaving storylines and early use of DHTML animation. The premise of The Visitor is similar to the 2004 television series The 4400. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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