Dark Skies

Season

1996

7.5

In 1960s America, a young couple struggles to expose the truth about a hidden alien invasion, while a secret government organization follows its own agenda in dealing with the threat.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Awakening (Pilot)

Idealistic couple John Loengard and his girlfriend Kim Sayers arrive in Washington DC to work for the Kennedys. However, John's world shatters when he gets reassigned to Project Blue Book and uncovers an alien conspiracy.

S1 • E2

Moving Targets

Following the assassination of President Kennedy, John learns more about the alien invasion as he and Kim struggle to keep the Hive from killing the world leaders attending the state funeral.

S1 • E3

Mercury Rising

Compelled by a series of strange dreams, Kim locates an astronaut she saw aboard the alien spacecraft.

S1 • E4

Dark Days Night

Loengard and Sayers uncover a Hive plot to use The Beatles' American television debut to induce a mass suicide.

S1 • E5

Dreamland

John and Kim come across the eccentric Howard Hughes while investigating a Hive operation in Las Vegas.

S1 • E6

Inhuman Nature

John and Kim uncover a Hive plot that uses livestock to breed new members.

S1 • E7

Ancient Future

Loengard and Sayers uncover the connection between the 1964 Alaskan earthquake and a Native American legend that revolves around a buried Hive spacecraft.

S1 • E8

Hostile Convergence

As John investigates a UFO sighting in New Mexico, Kim steals away to be at her sister's wedding.

S1 • E9

We Shall Overcome

John and Kim uncover a Hive breeding operation amidst the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.

S1 • E10

The Last Wave

John and Kim rely on a young Jim Morrison to help stop a bacteria being bred by the Hive.

S1 • E11

The Enemy Within

As a spy is uncovered inside Majestic, John finds his brother being brought into the alien hive.

S1 • E12

The Warren Omission

The Attorney General convinces John to tell his story to the Warren Commission.

S1 • E13

White Rabbit

Bach's pursuit of the wreckage of an alien ship helps start US involvement in the Vietnam War.

S1 • E14

Shades of Gray

John and Kim help draw an alien Gray into a Majestic trap.

S1 • E15

Burn, Baby, Burn

During the outbreak of a race riot, Kim is brought to Los Angeles to have her baby.

S1 • E16

Both Sides Now

As the aliens infiltrate the anti-Vietnam War movement, Kim must decide whether to return to the Hive.

S1 • E17

To Prey in Darkness

When Majestic learns that some film that shows the aliens is missing they look for it. They eventually find the film in the possession of TV news reporter who's hoping that it could get her into more serious work. So Loengard, Juliet, and Albano proceed to CBS and inform Majestic member William Paley of the situation. When the reporter turns up dead, they have to find it. But the hive also is there.