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I Was a Sixth Grade Alien!

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{{Infobox television

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| alt_name = My Best Friend Is an Alien!

| genre = Science fiction comedy

| creator = Daphne Ballon
Sheri Elwood

| developer = Ellis Iddon
Phil Meagher

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| starring = Daniel Clark
Panou
Shadia Simmons
Ryan Cooley
Lauren Collins
Michael Cera
Kyle Schmid
Julian Richings
C. David Johnson
Ali Mukaddam

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| country = Canada
United Kingdom

| language = English

| num_seasons = 2

| num_episodes = 44

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| company = Winklemania Productions
AAC Kids

| channel = YTV

| first_aired = {{start date|1999|7|13}}

| last_aired = {{end date|2001|1|10}}

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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 never really succeeds. 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 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 (1999–2000)=

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| Title = They Called Him Pleskit!

| DirectedBy = Carl Goldstein

| WrittenBy = Sheri Elwood

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|7|13}}

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| Title = Aliens to Blow Up Earth!

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| Title = Alien Dinner Massacre!

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| Title = They Saved Grandpa's Brain!

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| Title = They Shoot, They Splorked!

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| Title = I Was Dealt a Dung Deal!

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| EpisodeNumber = 7

| EpisodeNumber2 = 7

| Title = Sixth Grade Rebellion Mayhem!

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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|8|17}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 8

| EpisodeNumber2 = 8

| Title = Pre-Teen Party from Outer Space!

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| EpisodeNumber = 9

| EpisodeNumber2 = 9

| Title = The Haunting of Blim Blomkins!

| DirectedBy = Bill Fleming

| WrittenBy = Cameron Rothery

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|8|31}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 10

| EpisodeNumber2 = 10

| Title = Alien Time Warp Madness!

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| EpisodeNumber = 11

| EpisodeNumber2 = 11

| Title = Alien Dustbuster Bedlam!

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| EpisodeNumber = 12

| EpisodeNumber2 = 12

| Title = My Bodyguard Is a Rat Fink!

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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|9|21}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 13

| EpisodeNumber2 = 13

| Title = Woodlander Bodysnatcher Pandemonium!

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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|9|28}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 14

| EpisodeNumber2 = 14

| Title = Floormat from the Putrid Lagoon!

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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|10|5}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 15

| EpisodeNumber2 = 15

| Title = Invasion of the Substitute Teacher Superfiend!

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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|10|11}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 16

| EpisodeNumber2 = 16

| Title = Alien Snogorama Snafu!

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| EpisodeNumber = 17

| EpisodeNumber2 = 17

| Title = Alien Appliance Outbreak!

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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|11|7}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 18

| EpisodeNumber2 = 18

| Title = Gro-Gro-Grown-Up Dementia!

| DirectedBy = Ron Murphy

| WrittenBy = Derek Schreyer

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|11|14}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 19

| EpisodeNumber2 = 19

| Title = The Return of Captain Driscoll!

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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|11|16}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 20

| EpisodeNumber2 = 20

| Title = School Dance Gone Wrong!

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| EpisodeNumber = 21

| EpisodeNumber2 = 21

| Title = Escape from Planet Earth!

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| EpisodeNumber = 22

| EpisodeNumber2 = 22

| Title = Attack of the 1000 Foot Veeblax!

| DirectedBy = Carl Goldstein

| WrittenBy = John Slama

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|3|9}}

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=Season 2 (2000–2001)=

  1. "There's an Alien in My Seat!"
  2. "I Am Larrabe Hicks!"
  3. "Hevi Hevi Beat Crazy!"
  4. "Once Upon a Robot!"
  5. "Alien Tracker Freak-a-Mania!"
  6. "The Pleskit Club!"
  7. "Bride of Pleskit!"
  8. "The Revenge of Septic Willy!"
  9. "Alien Quiz Show!"
  10. "Escape from Zartopia!" (hereafter only shown on YTV in Canada)
  11. "McNally the Menace!"
  12. "Dr. Pleskit and Mr. Ventraa!"
  13. "Super-Fiend Strikes Back!"
  14. "Great Coville Galaxies!"
  15. "A Very Buttsman Christmas"
  16. "Truth-O-Rama Crunchdown!"
  17. "His Girlfriend Is an Alien!"
  18. "To See the Invisible Geek!"

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0204093|title=I Was a Sixth Grade Alien}}
  • {{epguides|IWasaSixthGradeAlien}}
  • [http://www.abc.net.au/abckids/shows/prog112.htm Australian Broadcasting Corporation website, "My Best Friend is an Alien".]

{{Former YTV original series}}

Category:Canadian children's science fiction television series

Category:1990s Canadian children's television series

Category:2000s Canadian children's television series

Category:1999 Canadian television series debuts

Category:2001 Canadian television series endings

Category:YTV (Canadian TV channel) original programming

Category:Television series by Alliance Atlantis

Category:Television series about extraterrestrial life

Category:Television shows based on American novels