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1. The Return  

Community Score

9.3 Superb
First aired: 9/19/1986

Paul manages to find his son Scott in an orphanage, but he has trouble winning the boy's trust.

2. Like Father, Like Son  

Community Score

9.2 Superb
First aired: 9/26/1986

Although on the run from Fox in a newly purchased used car, Paul and Scott stop to help a woman who is having car trouble and is also on the run, having just kidnapped her own daughter.

3. Fatal Flaw  

Community Score

7.9 Good
First aired: 10/3/1986

Trouble with their truck in the desert forces Paul and Scott to seek refuge at a woman's experimental aircraft plant, whose problems could be worsened due to an unrecognized flaw in her father's radical airplane design, and for the first time Paul tries to resume his body's former job as a photographer.

4. Blue Lights  

Community Score

6.7 Fair
First aired: 10/17/1986

When Scott decides to try out the blue sphere's otherworldly powers, the light causes a small town sheriff to report that he has seen a flying saucer and put Paul and Scott in jail, with Fox on the way.

5. Best Buddies  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 10/24/1986

Encountering a couple who knew the real Paul Forrester, Paul and Scott's problems are compounded when the wife declares that she still loves Paul and wants to resume their affair.

6. Secrets  

Community Score

9.2 Superb
First aired: 10/31/1986

The search for Jenny Hayden leads Paul and Scott to a mental institution where a woman may have a valuable lead for them, unless the whole thing is an elaborate trap.

7. One for the Road  

Community Score

7.5 Good
First aired: 11/7/1986

Weary of their life on the run, Paul and Scott start to enjoy staying in one place for a while, but when Paul sees that they must move on, Scott rebels.

8. Peregrine  

Community Score

9.2 Superb
First aired: 11/14/1986

Coming across an injured peregrine falcon, Paul risks his freedom to seek the help of a veterinarian.

9. Society's Pet  

Community Score

9.2 Superb
First aired: 11/28/1986

Paul takes Scott to see his foster father's sister, a wealthy widow who has a $10,000 inheritance for the boy, but she wants to gain custody of Scott for herself, even if this requires betraying Paul to his pursuers.

10. Fever  

Community Score

7.5 Good
First aired: 12/5/1986

The fugitives get a brief respite when Agent Fox is taken off Paul's case, but then Paul's life is endangered by a common cold and Scott comes to realize how much he would miss his newfound father.

11. The Gift  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 12/12/1986

Paul receives a letter from the real Paul's mother that prompts him to return to Paul's home town for the Christmas holidays, but when he arrives the woman says she did not send the letter and asks him to leave.

12. The System  

Community Score

8.3 Great
First aired: 1/9/1987

A simple traffic violation causes Paul to be arrested, when a computer check reveals an old contempt citation regarding photographs taken by the real Paul of an attorney charged with murder.

13. Appearances  

Community Score

5.8 Mediocre
First aired: 1/16/1987

When a blind girl receives acid burns, Paul heals her. Unfortunately she wants her eyes healed as well.

14. The Probe  

Community Score

8.0 Great
First aired: 1/30/1987

Paul falls in love with an astronomer who is having a crisis of conscious over the military's funding of her research.

15. Dusty  

Community Score

6.0 Fair
First aired: 2/6/1987

While going through Las Vegas, Paul and Scott pick up a woman. while they are away, she steals their vehicle. She then proceeds to sell it and gamble it all away. A hotel thinking that he is "Paul Forrester" gives him a room. They find the lot where she sold the vehicle and recover their belongings including the spheres. Paul later shows her herself and she finally decides to try and change her ways. And when they leave the hotel they discover that they accumulated a very large bill.

16. Barriers  

Community Score

5.0 Mediocre
First aired: 2/13/1987

Paul is taken to Mexico and is held prisoner. He must escape and help a pregnant women sneak into the United States to look for the father of her child.

17. Grifters  

Community Score

7.0 Good
First aired: 3/13/1987

Paul and Scott are tricked into a scam by two con-man.

18. The Wedding  

Community Score

9.0 Superb
First aired: 3/21/1987

The owner of a fishing fleet hires Paul to photograph his daughter's wedding.

19. Fathers and Sons  

First aired: 3/28/1987

Paul and Scott are being followed by a boy who reveals that he is Paul's son.

20. Starscape (1)  

First aired: 4/4/1987

Paul recognizes his home star in a painting. He seeks out and finds the artist who painted it: Jenny Hayden.

21. Starscape (2)  

Community Score

6.0 Fair
First aired: 4/11/1987

Paul convinces Jenny that he really is who he says he is. Together they search for Scott who has gone missing.

22. The Test  

Community Score

8.0 Great
First aired: 5/2/1987

Paul answers an ad for a "pearl diver", which he learns upon arriving at the diner is a dishwasher. Scott goes to school. While working at the diner, Paul discovers that his co-worker is illiterate. Scott's teacher talks to Paul about their gypsy ways and thinks that Paul should consider staying in one place so Scott can explore his full potential. Paul then brings his co-worker to her, so that he can learn how to read.

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