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Are You Afraid of the Dark?

The Tale of the Unexpected Visitor

Season 5, Episode 8, Aired Jan 13, 1996

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Using the equipment of Jeff's father, who's working on a special space project, two friends send some of their music into space. This apparently attracts the attention of an alien creature who has received their message.

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Charlie Hofheimer

Jeff
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Chris Wilding

Perch
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Tommy Mezey

Bobby

JoAnna Garcia

Samantha (Seasons 3-5)
Ross Hull

Gary (Seasons 1-5)
Jodie Resther

Kiki (Seasons 1-5)
Daniel DeSanto

Tucker (Season 3+)
Codie Wilbee

Stig (Season 5)
Raine Pare-Coull

Betty Ann (Seasons 1-5)

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Two bandmates have trouble writing songs because their lives are tedious. When they sneek into a parent's secret workstation, one of them sends the melody of their song into space...little do they know, this move will provide plenty of inspiration.moreless

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By chasmatic, May 31, 2006

The episode is fine until the end...the creatures are mortifyingly cheap (computerized golden forms) and the child alien only wanted to play? Quite lame indeed. The storyline is pretty unique, and had the aliens been well done and had a different reason for being there, this would have been a far better episode.
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By amybeeman, Jan 08, 2006

this is not what are you afraid of the dark is about its about scaring people with monsters and demons and ghosts but not sending a dinky message into space and getting an answer i mean in real life if you got an answer youd go straight to nasa to claim your reward mony and be excited no scareed that you broke your dads thingy-ma-bobber do-hicky.
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- Perch: Top secret! Un-Puking-Believable!
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- This story was told by Kiki.
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- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: If the idea of using music to communicate with aliens sounds familiar that's probably because it's the plot of the family classic Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
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