Taken (TV miniseries)

Taken, also known as Steven Spielberg Presents Taken, is a science fiction miniseries which first aired on the SciFi Channel in 2002 and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, it was written by Leslie Bohem, and directed by Breck Eisner, Flix Enrquez Alcal, John Fawcett, Tobe Hooper, Jeremy Paul Kagan, Michael Katleman, Sergio MimicaGezzan, Bryan Spicer, Jeff Woolnough, and Thomas J. Wright. The executive producers were Leslie Bohem and Steven Spielberg.

Taken spans five decades and four generations, and centers on three families the Keys, the Crawfords, and the Clarkes. Nightmares of abduction by extraterrestrials during World War II haunt Russell Keys the Roswell UFO incident transforms Owen Crawford from ambitious Air Force captain to amoral shadow government conspirator and an alien visitor impregnates an unhappily married Sally Clarke. As the decades go by, the heirs of each are affected by the machinations of the aliens, culminating with the birth of Allie Keys, the final product of the aliens experimentation and the key to their future.The Artifact is a mysterious device connected to the aliens. The Artifact was initially on one of the alien ships flying over Earth on July 2, 1947, but the ship collided with a spy balloon and crashed, and most of its crew died. The Artifact itself was thrown clear of the ship and left halfburied in the ground. It was found and retrieved by Sue, a local woman who was the estranged girlfriend of ambitious Air Force Captain Owen Crawford. ........

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