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Hard Time on Planet Earth : Season 1
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Air date: 01 Mar '89 - 13 episodesHard Time on Planet Earth is an American science fiction series that aired on CBS as a midseason replacement in 1989. Airing for 13 episodes, the series starred Martin Kove and was created by Jim and John Thomas. Scheduled opposite NBC's Unsolved Mysteries and ABC's Growing Pains on Wednesdays, Hard Time on Planet Earth ranked 65th out of 81 programs upon its premiere. Ratings for the series never improved and the series was canceled by CBS in May 1989. The last episode aired on June 21, 1989.
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List of Episodes (13)
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1. Stranger in a Strange Land
01 Mar '89Jesse is banished from his planet for political crimes. He arrives on earth accompanied by an observer named Control. He quickly gets in trouble with the police and must flee to Los Angeles.
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2. Something to Bank On
08 Mar '89A hungry Jesse takes some food without paying for it and learns that he needs money. Jesse gets in trouble, however, when he takes and tries to return money that came out an automatic cash machine.
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3. Losing Control
15 Mar '89
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4. The Way Home
22 Mar '89
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5. All That You Can Be
29 Mar '89
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6. Battle of the Sexes
05 Apr '89Jesse is working at a restaurant owned by Frank Russo, which Frank's daughter Connie wants to help run. But Frank refuses to take any of her advice because he feels women aren't as good at business as men. Frank's son Mike isn't interested in the business, as he's a musician. Connie discovers that the sons of an old friend of Frank's named Caretti, who he's done business with for many years, have been cheating them. When Connie threatens to tell their father about this, they threaten her, but
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7. Death Do Us Part
12 Apr '89While delivering sandwiches to a TV studio, Jesse is asked to fill in as bachelor #3 on The Dating Game, and is chosen by Jane to be her date. It turns out that after she had agreed to be on the show, she had met someone named Michael through a matchmaking magazine ad. But Jane still wanted to be Jesse's friend and help him meet the right woman for him. It turned out that Michael and a partner were behind a string of thefts from single women who'd answered their ads in the magazine, and Jane was
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8. The Hot Dog Man
26 Apr '89
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9. Jessie's Fifteen Minutes
03 May '89
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10. Rodeo
10 May '89
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11. Not In Our Stars
31 May '89Jesse has a dream in which he's told his vice commander ordered the assassination of the Council's Grand Elder. So he wants to send this message home. He reads a book that was written by a professor at a nearby university, goes there, and gets involved in a project to transmit messages to other worlds. He designs a microchip that will enable faster-than-light communications, but the professor steals it, and ultimately Jesse is forced to destroy the chip, because humanity isn't prepared for extra
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12. The All American
14 Jun '89Jesse met Bill Mitchner, a young man in high school who turned out to be an exiled former member of his world's ruling Council. All leaders of a failed coup attempt had been executed, except this one, whose name was erased from the histories, and he was exiled to Earth in the body of an infant 17 years ago. He now planned to rise to power on Earth, despite the rule against exiles drawing attention to themselves. He was also willing to hurt others in pursuit of his goal. Jesse helped him see the
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13. Wally's Gang
21 Jun '89The host of a children's television show tries to kill himself when the show is cancelled. Jesse saves him and gets a job on the show as the fix-it man.
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