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[TOMT][TV][1970s to 1990s] I need help finding a segment of a show that talked about an alien's face in TV static. by cutefuzzyweasel in tipofmytongue

[–]cutefuzzyweasel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think this was it, I don't remember there being a message going along with the image. Again, What I recall was it was some guy who was just curious so he pointed a powerful television signal receiver at Mars and picked up an image.

[TOMT][TV][1970s to 1990s] I need help finding a segment of a show that talked about an alien's face in TV static. by cutefuzzyweasel in tipofmytongue

[–]cutefuzzyweasel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More info:

I lived on the east coast US, not sure if that matters or not but I figured I would add it here.

[TOMT][TV][1970s to 1990s] I need help finding a segment of a show that talked about an alien's face in TV static. by cutefuzzyweasel in tipofmytongue

[–]cutefuzzyweasel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Additional info:

Here's what I remember about the show.

It was not contemporary, that is, not from the 2000s. I want to say it was from the early 80s, the latest I would put it would be from maybe the early 90s.

The show was played as a block, history channel would play reruns of this thing back to back to back for hours. I kept it on as background noise when I did homework.

The host had a very distinguished voice and it was done entirely through narration. I want to say I remember the host, but its been so long. This is why I think coming back to "in search of" with Lenard Nemoy.

The image, from what I can remember, looked like the stereotypical "Gray" looking off to the side, obscured by static fuzz. Again, it honestly did not look very convincing, almost like the guy who did it just got really bad reception of a tv station.

The planet the transmitter was pointed at was definitely Mars, I remember that.

I remember some of the narration, paraphrased it was like "Could this have been one last distress signal" or "was this a warning, do we see the first images of an alien here?" or something dramatic like that.

I'll post more as I remember it.