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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County was based on an earlier work done by director Dean Alioto, which was simply titled The McPherson Tape. The film had a limited distribution that was cut short by a fire that destroyed the distributor. Rather than fade away, someone unknown to Alioto re-cut the footage and circulated it in the UFO community as a real story. Fairly soon, shows like Unsolved Mysteries, Encounters, and others tracked down Alioto to see if he knew the origin of the tape and if it, in fact, was real. Alioto laughed it off, but the film generated enough interest to be adapted into a full-length TV-movie. The rest is history Source: Writer/director Dean Alioto | Submitted by TheCabinet on March 03, 2009.
Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County was originally slated for a two-hour timeslot, but due to a poor test screening with network executives, the filmmakers were dumped and someone else was brought in to re-cut the film down to one hour. In addition, several "interviews" with supposed abductees and experts were inter-spliced into the footage. The accompanying credits on this page includes both the original and the cast that was later added for the network debut. After the original airing scored high ratings for the network, they edited in more of the family footage and aired it for a second time. The original longer cut of the film that was not aired, which just featured the footage of the McPherson family, was distributed in Europe and is the one primarily seen on second-hand copies today. Source: Writer/director Dean Alioto | Submitted by TheCabinet on March 03, 2009.
UPN decided to run Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County without the traditional, so-called "bumper tags," which were to run at the end of the commercial break and alert the viewers that the footage was entirely fictional. Without the standard taglines, several people were duped into believing the footage was real, which resulted in a backlash when the truth came out. Similarly, the UFO community was also very upset with the network over presenting the faux footage as somewhat genuine. A nation-wide boycott of UPN was started, but the effectiveness of that boycott is not known. Source: Writer/director Dean Alioto | Submitted by TheCabinet on March 03, 2009.
The airing of Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County was a smash-hit for UPN and became the highest rated show ever for UPN's Tuesday primetime slot. The network's Web site reported over 300,000 hits during the hour the show ran. At the time, they averaged 10,000 hits a day. Source: Writer/director Dean Alioto | Submitted by TheCabinet on March 03, 2009.
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