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British short-lived science fiction comedy-drama television series
The Strangerers
is a
British television
comedy-drama
science fiction
series written by
Rob Grant
(best known as co-creator of
Red Dwarf
) and was broadcast on
Sky One
between 15 February and 11 April 2000.
A single series was made with a total of nine episodes (the first being one hour in length and the rest 30 minutes each). The show ended on a
cliffhanger
but despite this it ended up being cancelled and a second series was never produced. It has not been released on
DVD
, nor repeated since its original run.
Plot
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The story centres around two alien agents, Cadet
Flynn
and Pseudo-Cadet
Niven
. They are incredibly advanced and evolved vegetables on a fact finding mission to
Earth
, where they take on human form. Their supervisor is accidentally
decapitated
shortly after arrival, leaving the cadets to fend for themselves. Through the course of the series the aliens discover the intricacies of basic needs, like the
eating ritual
, the
sleeping ritual
and how to purchase things, usually doing so in their own idiosyncratic manner.
Their exact whereabouts on Earth is something of a mystery. The society in which they find themselves bears some resemblance to both
Britain
and
America
, and there are hints that a
totalitarian government
is in charge. There are also
street gangs
parodying those in
A Clockwork Orange
. Two agents and their apparently
psychopathic
commander try to capture the aliens. The aliens repeatedly escape, but not without suffering occasional injuries themselves.
Cast
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Episodes
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Not reported in the weekly top 10 programmes for Sky One.
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Rob Grant solo
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Doug Naylor solo
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