Hard Time on Planet Earth - Season 1

Episodes

Stranger in a Strange Land

Season 1Episode 160 min

Stranger in a Strange Land

An alien is exiled to Earth as punishment. Taking on human form, he must help humans in trouble in order to earn the possibility of returning home.

Something to Bank On

Season 1Episode 260 min

Something to Bank On

A hungry Jesse takes some food without paying for it and learns that he needs money. Jesse gets in trouble, however, when he takes and tries to return money that came out an automatic cash machine.

Season 1Episode 360 min

Losing Control

Season 1Episode 460 min

The Way Home

All That You Can Be

Season 1Episode 560 min

All That You Can Be

Battle of the Sexes

Season 1Episode 660 min

Battle of the Sexes

Jesse is working at a restaurant owned by Frank Russo, which Frank's daughter Connie wants to help run. But Frank refuses to take any of her advice because he feels women aren't as good at business as men. Frank's son Mike isn't interested in the business, as he's a musician. Connie discovers that the sons of an old friend of Frank's named Caretti, who he's done business with for many years, have been cheating them. When Connie threatens to tell their father about this, they threaten her, but Jesse defends her. Frank refuses to believe his friend's sons did what Connie says, and he fires Jesse. Meanwhile, Mike invited Jesse to a club to hear him play and also to meet women. Jesse met a woman named Danielle who later turned out to be from his homeworld, sent to find out where his followers were hiding in exile, and then to terminate him. They fought, Jesse won, and said that on Ondarius he would have killed her, but on Earth he'd learned the value of life. Eventually Frank and Caretti l

Death Do Us Part

Season 1Episode 760 min

Death Do Us Part

While delivering sandwiches to a TV studio, Jesse is asked to fill in as bachelor #3 on The Dating Game, and is chosen by Jane to be her date. It turns out that after she had agreed to be on the show, she had met someone named Michael through a matchmaking magazine ad. But Jane still wanted to be Jesse's friend and help him meet the right woman for him. It turned out that Michael and a partner were behind a string of thefts from single women who'd answered their ads in the magazine, and Jane was their latest target. Jesse thwarted their initial burglary attempt, but when Michael found out a large trust fund of Jane's had just matured, he decided to marry and kill her. He also framed Jesse as the thief, to get rid of him, and was going to blame him for murdering Jane. But of course he failed.

The Hot Dog Man

Season 1Episode 860 min

The Hot Dog Man

Jesse becomes a professional wrestler and helps fight an crooked real estate developer.

Jessie's Fifteen Minutes

Season 1Episode 960 min

Jessie's Fifteen Minutes

Season 1Episode 1060 min

Rodeo

Not in Our Stars

Season 1Episode 1160 min

Not in Our Stars

Jesse has a dream in which he's told his vice commander ordered the assassination of the Council's Grand Elder. So he wants to send this message home. He reads a book that was written by a professor at a nearby university, goes there, and gets involved in a project to transmit messages to other worlds. He designs a microchip that will enable faster-than-light communications, but the professor steals it, and ultimately Jesse is forced to destroy the chip, because humanity isn't prepared for extra-terrestrial contact.

The All American

Season 1Episode 1260 min

The All American

Jesse met Bill Mitchner, a young man in high school who turned out to be an exiled former member of his world's ruling Council. All leaders of a failed coup attempt had been executed, except this one, whose name was erased from the histories, and he was exiled to Earth in the body of an infant 17 years ago. He now planned to rise to power on Earth, despite the rule against exiles drawing attention to themselves. He was also willing to hurt others in pursuit of his goal. Jesse helped him see the error of his ways, and Bill and his own Control unit were recalled to their homeworld.

Season 1Episode 1360 min

Wally's Gang

Jesse joins the cast of a local kiddie television show and learns that the father of one of his fellow actors is in serious trouble.

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