The Strangerers

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The Strangerers
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Genre	Comedy drama Science fiction
Created by	Rob Grant
Written by	Rob Grant
Directed by	Liddy Oldroyd Nick Wood
Starring	Mark Williams Jack Docherty Sarah Alexander Mark Heap Milton Jones Morwenna Banks David Walliams Paul Darrow Doon Mackichan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Camera setup	Single-camera setup
Running time	60 minutes (Episode 1) 30 minutes (Episodes 2–9)
Production companies	Absolutely Television Taken for Granted Productions Ltd.
Original release
Network	Sky One
Release	15 February (2000-02-15) – 11 April 2000 (2000-04-11)

The Strangerers is a British television comedy-drama science fiction series written by Rob Grant (best known as co-creator of Red Dwarf) and was broadcast on Sky One between 15 February and 11 April 2000.

A single series was made with a total of nine episodes (the first being one hour in length and the rest 30 minutes each). The show ended on a cliffhanger but despite this it ended up being cancelled and a second series was never produced. It has not been released on DVD, nor repeated since its original run.

The story centres around two alien agents, Cadet Flynn and Pseudo-Cadet Niven. They are incredibly advanced and evolved vegetables on a fact finding mission to Earth, where they take on human form. Their supervisor is accidentally decapitated shortly after arrival, leaving the cadets to fend for themselves. Through the course of the series the aliens discover the intricacies of basic needs, like the eating ritual, the sleeping ritual and how to purchase things, usually doing so in their own idiosyncratic manner.

Their exact whereabouts on Earth is something of a mystery. The society in which they find themselves bears some resemblance to both Britain and America, and there are hints that a totalitarian government is in charge. There are also street gangs parodying those in A Clockwork Orange. Two agents and their apparently psychopathic commander try to capture the aliens. The aliens repeatedly escape, but not without suffering occasional injuries themselves.

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• 2000 in British television

• The Strangerers at IMDb
• Episode 1 on YouTube