I Was a Sixth Grade Alien!
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien! | |
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Also known as | My Best Friend Is an Alien! |
Genre | Science fiction comedy |
Created by | Daphne Ballon Sheri Elwood |
Developed by | Ellis Iddon Phil Meagher |
Starring | Daniel Clark Panou Shadia Simmons Ryan Cooley Lauren Collins Michael Cera Kyle Schmid Julian Richings C. David Johnson Ali Mukaddam |
Country of origin | Canada United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 44 |
Production | |
Production companies | Winklemania Productions AAC Kids |
Original release | |
Network | YTV |
Release | July 13, 1999 (1999-07-13) – January 10, 2001 (2001-01-10) |
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien! (known as My Best Friend is an Alien! in the UK and Australia) is a Canadian-British children's science fiction comedy television series following the chronicles of Pleskit, a purple-skinned, blue-haired extraterrestrial being with an antenna positioned on his head. He tries to fit in and make some friends, but due to his strange appearance, he does never succeed very well. He does make one friend, Tim, who is interested in space and aliens. The two friends go through the sixth grade together. During the series, they solve many unusual problems, from a trans-universal portal game to a blue-coloured, wailing pig creature from Pleskit's home planet. The show is premiered on July 13, 1999, ended on January 10, 2001, and was produced by UK-based Winklemania Productions and Canadian-based Alliance Atlantis Communications' children's unit, AAC Kids with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund/Fonds canadien de télévision, the Canadian Film Or Video Production Tax Credit, and the Shaw Television Broadcast Fund/Fonds de télédiffusion Shaw. The television series was based on Bruce Coville's book series of the same name.
Episode listing
The series consists of 39 episodes.
Season 1 (1999–2000)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1 | 1 | "They Called Him Pleskit!" | Carl Goldstein | Sheri Elwood | July 13, 1999 (1999-07-13) |
2 | 2 | "Aliens to Blow Up Earth!" | Unknown | Unknown | July 18, 1999 (1999-07-18) |
3 | 3 | "Alien Dinner Massacre!" | Unknown | Unknown | July 20, 1999 (1999-07-20) |
4 | 4 | "They Saved Grandpa's Brain!" | Unknown | Unknown | July 27, 1999 (1999-07-27) |
5 | 5 | "They Shoot, They Splorked!" | Unknown | Unknown | August 3, 1999 (1999-08-03) |
6 | 6 | "I Was Dealt a Dung Deal!" | Unknown | Unknown | August 10, 1999 (1999-08-10) |
7 | 7 | "Sixth Grade Rebellion Mayhem!" | Unknown | Unknown | August 17, 1999 (1999-08-17) |
8 | 8 | "Pre-Teen Party from Outer Space!" | Unknown | Unknown | August 24, 1999 (1999-08-24) |
9 | 9 | "The Haunting of Blim Blomkins!" | Bill Fleming | Cameron Rothery | August 31, 1999 (1999-08-31) |
10 | 10 | "Alien Time Warp Madness!" | Unknown | Unknown | September 7, 1999 (1999-09-07) |
11 | 11 | "Alien Dustbuster Bedlam!" | Unknown | Unknown | September 14, 1999 (1999-09-14) |
12 | 12 | "My Bodyguard Is a Rat Fink!" | Unknown | Unknown | September 21, 1999 (1999-09-21) |
13 | 13 | "Woodlander Bodysnatcher Pandemonium!" | Unknown | Unknown | September 28, 1999 (1999-09-28) |
14 | 14 | "Floormat from the Putrid Lagoon!" | Unknown | Unknown | October 5, 1999 (1999-10-05) |
15 | 15 | "Invasion of the Substitute Teacher Superfiend!" | Unknown | Unknown | October 11, 1999 (1999-10-11) |
16 | 16 | "Alien Snogorama Snafu!" | Unknown | Unknown | October 13, 1999 (1999-10-13) |
17 | 17 | "Alien Appliance Outbreak!" | Unknown | Unknown | November 7, 1999 (1999-11-07) |
18 | 18 | "Gro-Gro-Grown-Up Dementia!" | Ron Murphy | Derek Schreyer | November 14, 1999 (1999-11-14) |
19 | 19 | "The Return of Captain Driscoll!" | Unknown | Unknown | November 16, 1999 (1999-11-16) |
20 | 20 | "School Dance Gone Wrong!" | Unknown | Unknown | November 17, 1999 (1999-11-17) |
21 | 21 | "Escape from Planet Earth!" | Unknown | Unknown | November 21, 1999 (1999-11-21) |
22 | 22 | "Attack of the 1000 Foot Veeblax!" | Carl Goldstein | John Slama | March 9, 2000 (2000-03-09) |
Season 2 (2000-2001)
- "There's an Alien in My Seat!"
- "I Am Larrabe Hicks!"
- "Hevi Hevi Beat Crazy!"
- "Once Upon a Robot!"
- "Alien Tracker Freak-a-Mania!"
- "The Pleskit Club!"
- "Bride of Pleskit!"
- "The Revenge of Septic Willy!"
- "Alien Quiz Show!"
- "Escape from Zartopia!" (hereafter only shown on YTV in Canada)
- "McNally the Menace!"
- "Dr. Pleskit and Mr. Ventraa!"
- "Super-Fiend Strikes Back!"
- "Great Coville Galaxies!"
- "A Very Buttsman Christmas"
- "Truth-O-Rama Crunchdown!"
- "His Girlfriend Is an Alien!"
- "To See the Invisible Geek!"
References
External links
- I Was a Sixth Grade Alien at IMDb
- I Was a Sixth Grade Alien! at epguides.com
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation website, "My Best Friend is an Alien".
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