Paul (Robert Hays) and Scott (Christopher Daniel Barnes) are still on the hunt for Jenny Hayden in Fatal Flaw and end up helping a female pilot, Jessica (Patricia McPherson) and her father, Conrad (Kenneth Tobey).

Written by Mike Gray and John Mason, this episode was first broadcast on 3 October, 1986.

After an incident at a dirt bike rally necessitates the use of a sphere, the pair meet up with Jessica, and her ground team led by Joe (Sam Melville) whom Scott takes a shine to, and Joe seems to share a little (contrived) romantic tension with Jessica, something Paul disrupts.

While Paul ends up playing the overprotective father card, the pair attempt to help Jessica finish working on her father’s last plane design, The Hawk. Unfortunately, her father is mostly comatose thanks to a stroke and isn’t able to communicate his ideas to Jess.

When Paul uses one of his spheres (how many of these does he have? and why do they seem to operate a little differently than the single-use ones in the film?) to communicate with Joe, Jess doesn’t believe him. Joe insists that there are flaws in the plane and its design, but Jess is too busy trying to get it into the air to listen to the possible problems that the plane may have.

Joe seems a little bit sexist which seems to be okay for most of the people in the episode and is occasionally played for comedy. Ugh.

Hays’ performance isn’t quite as broad as the previous two episodes and is a little more earnest as Paul attempts to be a good father to Scott and understand familial relationships and the emotions that go with them.

And of course, George Fox (Michael Cavanaugh) continues his pursuit of Starman, and father and son may escape him this week, just in time… as usual.

Blue Lights was written by Tom Lazarus and it first aired on 17 October, 1986.

We get introduced to a deputy, Charlie Ewing (Rick Hurst) and a server, Laurie (Margot Rose) who are enjoying a romantic moment, despite Charlie’s self-doubt, and a little self-loathing because of his weight.

Paul and Scott are apparently camping nearby, and Scott (somehow) uses one of Paul’s spheres in an attempt to keep their fire going (why they have a fire going during the day is beyond me, they aren’t using it for cooking). Unfortunately, it goes sideways and causes a mass of blue lights to appear. Charlie sees them, and when he starts talking about what he’s seen no one believes him, and it may ostracize him in the community.

But Fox believes him. Can Paul and Scott get out of town before Fox tracks them down? There’s some pool hustlin’ to make some getaway cash, but Charlie arrests the pair before they can leave town, planning on holding them for Fox.

But of course, alien marble powers will help the pair escape just in time, and they help Charlie get his confidence back, as well as acceptance in the community again.

Once again there’s some ridiculous sexism and it’s embarrassing to see on screen treated so casually.

The journey to find Jenny Harden continues next week as I explore more of Starman: The Complete Series which is an incredible extra found on John Carpenter’s Starman which is included in Sony Entertainment’s Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection Volume 4, available now.