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Hard Time on Planet Earth (1989)
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Hard Time on Planet Earth (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Hard Time on Planet Earth is an American science fiction series that aired on CBS as a midseason replacement in 1989. Airing for 13 episodes, the series starred Martin Kove and was created by Jim and John Thomas. Scheduled opposite NBC's Unsolved Mysteries and ABC's Growing Pains on Wednesdays, Hard Time on Planet Earth ranked 65th out of 81 programs upon its premiere. Ratings for the series never improved and the series was canceled by CBS in May 1989. The last episode aired on June 21, 1989.
Style: exciting, offbeat, serious, surreal
Plot: alien, parole officer, space and aliens, misfit, androids and robots, getting home, society, rehabilitation, imaginary, alien encounter, disorder, fish out of water, hopes, benign alien, cyborgs, exile, morality, extraterrestrial, pig, alien robot, moral dilemma, advisor, chick, misunderstanding, culture shock ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california

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Most similar movies to Hard Time on Planet Earth

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and epic films and TV series with plots about alien, space and aliens, imaginary, live action, escapades, danger and alien encounter mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like Hard Time on Planet Earth: They Came from Outer Space (1990), My Favorite Martian (1963), Quantum Leap (1989), Andromeda (2000), The Greatest American Hero (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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They Came from Outer Space (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: They Came from Outer Space is an American science fiction comedy series that aired in syndication from October 1990 to March 1991. The series was created by Tom McLoughlin.
Style: offbeat, humorous, slapstick, slapstick comedy, sitcom
Plot: fish out of water, disorder, chase, chases and races, space and aliens, misfit, alien encounter, teaching the ways of the world, teenage life, special agent, dating, teenager ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
My Favorite Martian (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes. The show starred Ray Walston as Uncle Martin and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara. John L. Greene created the central ...
Style: sitcom, retro, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: mars, spaceship, alien, martian, time travel, intergalactic, invasion, alien disguised as human, friendly alien, friendship, fish out of water, reporter ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 8.2
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Quantum Leap (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown ...
Style: exciting, stylized, captivating, touching, witty ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, getting home, impersonating, fish out of water, sent to the past, experiment gone awry, altering history, hopes, alternate timeline, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min.
TV show
Story: An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive. Based on the book by Douglas Adams, the dialog follows the book closely. This was originally a 6-part series ...
Style: humorous, offbeat, light, talky, futuristic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: benign alien, space travel, ufo, imaginary, mysterious planet, alien, space, satire, time travel, fantasy world, spacecraft, outer space ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Andromeda (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Andromeda is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: space travel, alien, outer space, spacecraft, space battle, artificial intelligence, space wars, intergalactic, space, spaceship, androids and robots, military ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The chronicles of  teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has ...
Style: epic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: super powers, pop culture, fbi, federal bureau of investigation, secret identity, special agent, heroes, superhuman powers, imaginary, rivalry, good versus evil, escapades ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.4
 39K
ALF (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
Style: humorous, sitcom, cliffhanger, hilarious, game show ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: benign alien, alien, extraterrestrial, suburbs, family relations, space and aliens, fish out of water, space, muppets, buddies, magic, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.2
 483
Masked Rider (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Masked Rider is an American adaptation of the Japanese television series Kamen Rider Black RX, the ninth in a line of series in the popular Kamen Rider Series franchise. It was produced by Saban and aired on FOX part of the Fox Kids program block ...
Style: family comedy, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: deep space, kamen rider, rivalry, benign alien, youth, heroes, imaginary, space and aliens, good versus evil, alien encounter, power rangers, morphing ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Colony (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which has been occupied by a force of outside intruders. While some people have chosen to collaborate with ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot: alien invasion, rebellion, occupation, space and aliens, colony, distopia, danger, resistance, survival, evil alien, family in danger, intruder ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.2
 13K
Mork & Mindy (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mork & Mindy is an American science fiction sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, game show ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: odd couple, benign alien, intergalactic, team, alien disguised as human, magic, super powers, deja vu, friendly alien, weirdo, farce, fish out of water ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Time Tunnel (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and ...
Style: psychotronic, homoerotic, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: kids
Plot: time travel, time machine, fish out of water, time, occult, future war, paradox, magic, kaiju, space opera, portal, dinosaur ...
Time: 20th century, near future, year 1968, 1910s, 60s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Bionic Woman (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, retro ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: spy, superheroine, androids and robots, superhero, superhuman powers, escapades, danger, investigation, undercover, government agency, chases and races, government facility ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Alien Nation (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Alien Nation is a science fiction television series, loosely based on the movie of the same name. Gary Graham starred as Detective Matthew Sikes, a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly working with "Newcomer" alien George Francisco, ...
Style: detective, spooky, exciting, semi serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, alien invasion, spaceship, culture clash, fictional reality, police, police detective, car chase, space, intergalactic, buddy, dystopia ...
Time: future, 80s, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
V: The Final Battle (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 272 min.
TV show
Story: A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerrilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious, futuristic ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: alien, resistance, apocalypse, save the world, heroic mission, alien encounter, good versus evil, chaos, heroes, evil alien, murder, ufo ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
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Night Man (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Night Man is an American action/adventure/sci-fi series that aired in syndication from September 15, 1997 to May 17, 1999. The series is loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and was created by Steve Englehart and developed for ...
Style: epic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: superhero, super powers, telepathy, comic book, martial arts, comic hero, jazz singer, superpower, rivalry, imaginary, fighting crime, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Incredible Hulk (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Incredible Hulk is an American television series based on the Marvel Comics character, the Hulk. The series aired on the CBS television network and starred Bill Bixby as David Banner, Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, and Jack Colvin as Jack McGee. In ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, sentimental, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: superhero, villain, experiment gone awry, scientist, one against many, false accusation, uncontrollable, superhuman powers, antidote, unstoppable, mutant, danger ...
Time: 70s, 80s, future, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 4K
Seven Days (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: "Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get screwed up, I'm the guinea ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, time machine, struggle for survival, super powers, paradox, time loop, alternate history, spy, time, top secret, secret government organization ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story: After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
Style: futuristic, cerebral, bleak, tense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space wars, outer space, imaginary, space battle, cyborgs, space and aliens, androids and robots, space, space opera, good versus evil, obsessive quest ...
Time: future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to ...
Style: exciting, saga, intellectual, epic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, space travel, alien, space, intergalactic, military, space wars, benign alien, post apocalypse, dystopia, space station, galaxy ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Starman (1986)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Starman is an American science fiction television series, starring Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes and continuing the story from John Carpenter's 1984 film. The series ran on the ABC network from September 19, 1986 to May 2, 1987. The ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: super powers, alien invasion, alien, fugitives, friendly alien, special agent, imaginary, space and aliens, hidden identity, family relations, parents and children, alien encounter ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.8
 17K
V (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 197 min.
TV show
Story: Aliens pretending to be friendly come to Earth and are received openly. The aliens have masqueraded themselves to look just like humans. When it is discovered that the aliens' planet is dying and that they have come to rape the Earth of its ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, epic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: evil alien, alien invasion, human versus alien, alien, save the world, battles, cover-up, extraterrestrial, danger, journalism, escapades, heroic mission ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.1
 93K
Falling Skies (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, serious, stylized, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, ufo, alien encounter, apocalypse, military, evil alien, survival, resistance, life is a bitch, human spirit ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.1
 394
Tracker (2001)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Tracker is a 2001 Canadian science fiction television series starring Adrian Paul and Amy Price-Francis. The series is based on a short story by Gil Grant and Jeannine Renshaw. The pilot episode and two other episodes were edited into the film Alien ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, scary, exciting
Plot: bounty hunter, hidden identity, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, conspiracy, extraterrestrial, super powers, alien encounter, space and aliens, benign alien, evil alien ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
Style: futuristic, exciting, stylized, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, space opera, space and aliens, space wars, cyborgs, space battle, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, extinction, human in outer space, military ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Final Days of Planet Earth (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 173 min.
TV show
Story: An archaeologist discovers that aliens posing as government officials are secretly harvesting human bodies in a bid to take over earth.
Style: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien planet, alien, space and aliens, evil alien, survival, save the world, danger, heroic mission, space travel, artificial intelligence, journalism, race against time ...
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Galactica 1980 is a science fiction television series, and a spin-off from the original Battlestar Galactica television series. It was first broadcast on the ABC network in the United States from January 27 to May 4, 1980. It was later shown in ...
Style: saga, epic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: battlestar galactica, space opera, time travel, intergalactic, time dilation, alien invasion, star wars, androids and robots, space and aliens, space, military, world war two ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Visitor (1997)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Visitor is a science fiction television series created by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin which aired on Fox from 1997–1998. It starred John Corbett as Adam McArthur who was abducted by extraterrestrials 50 years earlier and escapes back to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious
Plot: supernatural, good deed, alien abduction, time travel, outer space, save the world, on the run, superpower, heroes, danger, healing power, space and aliens ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Munsters Today (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Munsters Today is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from 1988 to 1991. The series served as a sequel to the 1960s sitcom The Munsters.
Style: spooky, sitcom, not serious, offbeat, humorous
Audience: horror for children
Plot: satire, halloween, family relations, eccentric family, disorder, parents and children, suburbs, suburban life, fish out of water, experiment gone awry, supernatural ability, imaginary ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. The show is set in the nearby regions of the Milky Way galaxy, approximately during the 2360s and ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, epic, intellectual ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: space travel, space opera, star trek, space exploration, outer space, alien planet, space, spacecraft, captain, alien encounter, benign alien, spaceship ...
Time: future, 24th century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 8.4
 34K
Babylon 5 (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, it's goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be ...
Style: serious, saga, suspense, philosophical, retro ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, outer space, space travel, space station, benign alien, time travel, good versus evil, danger, space and aliens, space, culture clash, friendship ...
Time: future, 23rd century, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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