So it was with some delight that I saw the series on DVD
recently. That gave me a chance to watch the series in its entirety. I
immediately wondered why it took so long to come out, and learned that the
reason was because of the background music … it was basically pop music of the ‘60s
and the producers had a difficult time getting all the permissions and
releases.
They finally found a DVD releasing company (Shout) to handle
all of that.
Dark Skies is pretty intriguing. What if all that we knew in
our nation’s history from the 1950s and onward was really a lie? What if
significant events and personalities were actually manipulated by aliens who
visited us from out there? For example, what if the Vietnam War was actually
the result of Russians accidently downing a UFO? What if JFK was killed because
alien-infected humans didn’t want him revealing the truth? What if … what if …
what if?
The story centers around two people just out of college – John
Loengard (Eric Close) and Kimberly Sayers (Megan Ward) – and the chief
conspirator, Navy Capt. Frank Bach (J.T. Walsh). Capt. Bach knows all
about what really happened at Roswell, when a UFO landed and then was shot down
when Pres. Harry Truman ordered it.
Throughout the episodes, famous political and historical
figures pop up – Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Jack Ruby, Nelson Rockefeller,
Carl Sagan, Dr. Timothy Leary, Capt. Norman Schwarzkopf, Dorothy Kilgallen, J.
Edgar Hoover, Marilyn Monroe, Ed Sullivan, the Beatles, Jim Morrison, Henry
Kissinger, and on and on and on.
Of particular interest was my discovery that Megan Ward, one
of the principal characters, is a 1987 (I think) graduate of Kaiser High School
in Honolulu, Hawaii.
She also appeared as Kate Howard in the daytime drama (soap
opera), General Hospital in 2007-2010.
How ‘bout that, huh? She joins Bette Midler, Yvonne Elliman,
and Kelly Preston as notable women actors/performers who went to high school and grew up in Hawaii.
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