I Was a Sixth Grade Alien! | |
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Also known as | My Best Friend Is an Alien! |
Genre | Science fiction comedy |
Created by | Daphne Ballon Sheri Elwood |
Developed by | Ellis Iddon Phil Meagher |
Starring | Daniel Clark Panou Shadia Simmons Ryan Cooley Lauren Collins Michael Cera Kyle Schmid Julian Richings C. David Johnson Ali Mukaddam |
Country of origin | Canada United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 44 |
Production | |
Production companies | Winklemania Productions AAC Kids |
Original release | |
Network | YTV |
Release | July 13, 1999 – January 10, 2001 |
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien! (known as My Best Friend is an Alien! in the UK and Australia) is a Canadian-British children's science fiction comedy television series following the chronicles of Pleskit, a purple-skinned, blue-haired extraterrestrial being with an antenna positioned on his head. He tries to fit in and make some friends, but due to his strange appearance, he does never succeed very well. He does make one friend, Tim, who is interested in space and aliens. The two friends go through the sixth grade together. During the series, they solve many unusual problems, from a trans-universal portal game to a blue-coloured, wailing pig creature from Pleskit's home planet. The show is premiered on July 13, 1999, ended on January 10, 2001, and was produced by UK-based Winklemania Productions and Canadian-based Alliance Atlantis Communications' children's unit, AAC Kids with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund/Fonds canadien de télévision, the Canadian Film Or Video Production Tax Credit, and the Shaw Television Broadcast Fund/Fonds de télédiffusion Shaw. The television series was based on Bruce Coville's book series of the same name.
Episode listing
The series consists of 39 episodes.
Season 1 (1999)
- "They Called Him Pleskit!"
- "Aliens to Blow Up Earth!"
- "Alien Dinner Massacre!"
- "They Saved Grandpa's Brain!"
- "They Shoot, They Splorked!"
- "I Was Dealt a Dung Deal!"
- "Attack of the 1000 Foot Veeblax!"
- "Sixth Grade Rebellion Mayhem!"
- "Pre-Teen Party from Outer Space!"
- "Alien Time Warp Madness!"
- "The Haunting of Blim Blomkins!"
- "Alien Dustbuster Bedlam!"
- "My Bodyguard Is a Rat Fink!"
- "Woodlander Bodysnatcher Pandemonium!"
- "Floormat from the Putrid Lagoon!"
- "Invasion of the Substitute Teacher Superfiend!"
- "Alien Snogorama Snafu!"
- "Alien Appliance Outbreak!"
- "Gro-Gro-Grown-Up Dementia!"
- "The Return of Captain Driscoll!"
- "School Dance Gone Wrong!"
- "Escape from Planet Earth!"
Season 2 (2000-2001)
- "There's an Alien in My Seat!"
- "I Am Larrabe Hicks!"
- "Hevi Hevi Beat Crazy!"
- "Once Upon a Robot!"
- "Alien Tracker Freak-a-Mania!"
- "The Pleskit Club!"
- "Bride of Pleskit!"
- "The Revenge of Septic Willy!"
- "Alien Quiz Show!"
- "Escape from Zartopia!" (hereafter only shown on YTV in Canada)
- "McNally the Menace!"
- "Dr. Pleskit and Mr. Ventraa!"
- "Super-Fiend Strikes Back!"
- "Great Coville Galaxies!"
- "A Very Buttsman Christmas"
- "Truth-O-Rama Crunchdown!"
- "His Girlfriend Is an Alien!"
- "To See the Invisible Geek!"