2:00 AM The Visitor (SciFi) - Teufelsnacht
On Halloween, Adam plays cat-and-mouse with the pilot of an alien vehicle.
2:15 AM Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (TBS)
Acting on little more than a hunch, the usual suspects gather to steal the Enterprise and rescue their allegedly dead Vulcan friend from an idyllic paradise.
3:10AM Tales From A Parallel Universe: Supernova (Showtime Beyond)
Part two of the original four-part Lexx saga. Our heroes fight a cannibal woman and are perplexed by Tim Curry as "The Poet Man."
12:15PM Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Showtime Beyond)
Musical aliens get up close and personal with Francois Truffaut (as a thinly-disguised Jacques Vallee), Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr and other Earth people, while "tinkerbell" brings up the rear. A classic 1977 example of Steven Spielberg's sensibilities
12:30 PM Invasion of the Body Snatchers (AMC)
The original epic tale of interplanetary paranoia from 1956. A cosmopolitan doctor returns to a small town, only to find that the locals are being replaced by duplicates.
1:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Book of Shadows
Cade goes to Salem to see whether a murderous high school cheerleader is in league with aliens.
2:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Marker 262
Acting on a tip from Crazy Eddie, Cade investigates a "dead man's curve" in Missouri that may have extraterrestrial overtones..
3:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Motel California
Pillar of the community has hallucinations of a dominatrix. Cade suspects she may be an alien plot.
4:00 PM Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (MoreMax)
Seminal 1956 saucer invasion co-written by early pioneering UFOlogist Donald Keyhoe boasts somber atmosphere, Harryhausen effects.
4:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Breeding Ground
The aliens use chemicals to manipulate human DNA.
5:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Cul-De-Sac
Cade gets mixed up with Nick Patterson, a teen-ager who thinks he saw an alien with the power of self-healing get up and walk away after being murdered.
6:00 PM The X-Files: Fight the Future (Cinemax)
In their big screen debut, Scully and Mulder travel to the ends of the earth, from the deserts of Texas to the icy plains of Antarctica, out to stop the alien menace and menaced by bees every step of the way.
6:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Hypnotic
Cade wrestles with "alien abduction" phenomena -- is the psychologist in league with the aliens?
6:45 PM Starship Troopers (TBS)
In this 1997 production based on Robert Heinlein's novel, heavily armed forces from Earth go off-world to battle alien "bugs" bent on planetary conquest. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, who is otherwise known in the science-fiction scene as the director of 'Robocop' and 'Total Recall'.
7:00PM Tales From A Parallel Universe: Eating Pattern (Showtime Beyond)
Third installment of the Lexx series takes the crew to an apparently barren planet where humans play addictive video games and cannibalism plays a sinister role. Shocking, controversial and darkly funny -- a perfect environment for guest star Rutger Hauer.
7:00 PM Farscape (SciFi) - PK Tech Girl
King Rygel freaks out when the Moya encounters a vagabond ship on which he was once imprisoned. Meanwhile, the crew fights alien brigands.
8:00 PM Earth Girls Are Easy (Comedy)
The lovely and talented Julie Brown co-wrote and headlines an all-star cast (including Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans) in this ode to the love between spacemen and Earth women.
8:35PM Star Hunter (Showtime Beyond)
Predator rip-offs stalk a bus full of football players in this marginally inspired creature feature, to which Roddy McDowell and Stella Stevens lend their unique talents.
10:00PM Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Showtime Beyond)
11:00 PM Slaughterhouse-Five (Bravo)
Faithful 1972 adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's mind-expanding novel takes Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) from the ashes of Dresden to far-off planet Tralfamador.
11:00 PM Farscape (SciFi) - PK Tech Girl
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