This show picks up 14 years after the movie left off. The alien returns to earth to find the woman he had met during the movie and the child he had fathered. He finds the son, now a teenager, and together they search for the mother, while being hounded by a government agent. In the movie, the woman helped Starman (who apparantly had no corporal form of his own and assumes the body of a photographer who has just died in a helicopter accident in the show) learn about earth customs; in the tv show, the son does the same.
All in all, I thought this was a decent television show and a worthy companion to one of my favorite movies of all time.
All in all, I thought this was a decent television show and a worthy companion to one of my favorite movies of all time.