If you missed out on how Sci-Fi Channel's "Farscape" got its start, you'll have a chance to catch up beginning tonight at 8 p.m. ET when the cable network starts showing all the episodes in the order series creator Rockne S. O'Bannon intended them to be shown in.



The series kicks off tonight with "Premiere" followed by "I, E.T." on Tuesday (a complete TV listing is available on the Airlock Alpha main page).



"It will be interesting to see if they actually now have the confidence in the show to play them in the original production order, and intended order," O'Bannon told Cinescape Magazine's Anna L. Kaplan. The Sci-Fi Channel originally showed the series in a different order, afraid that the episodes in their original order may lose viewers.



"The first DVD came out with the right order, with 'Premiere' and then 'I, E.T.' 'I, E.T.,' as I have said before, was in some ways a funky episode. Episode one and three were shot simultaneously, with Andrew Prowse who got it right from the beginning, and Brian Henson at the same time shooting three ['Exodus From Genesis']."