Roswell the TV Series

Heath Ledger auditioned for Max Evans.

Nick Wechsler, who plays Kyle Valenti, auditioned for four roles on the show.

The show was constantly under the threat of cancellation. During the first season fans of the show sent in tiny Tabasco sauce bottles to the WB network to show their support of the show. After this, the show was moved to a new night and time and renewed for a second season.

They didn't use real Tabasco sauce on set. They did in the beginning but the actors kept running off the set for water and their eyes were watering during filming, so they started using V8 Berry Splash.

The pilot episode was 20th Century Fox's highest testing episode they'd ever done.

The series was filmed in Covina, California, USA.

The Crashdown Cafe was purchased by fans and while the UFO has been taken down and the cafe has been renamed, it is still running.

The newspaper clippings shown in the credits are real newspaper clippings from after the 1947 crash.

One of the main attractions the show offers is the relationships between the characters, especially the love story. A quick glance through Roswell's soundtrack reveals the heavy love story theme of the show, particularly between Max and Liz, and Maria and Michael. It wouldn't be fitting to make a page about the show without mentioning the very complicated, moving, love stories the show follows.

In 2008 the Roswell DVDs were re-released with Katherine Heigl more prominently featured on the covers of the DVDs, due to her recent fame from the television series Grey's Anatomy. Nothing else has been changed on the 2008 DVD release from the original DVD release.

Due to licensing issues, songs on the DVD in the actual episodes of Roswell have been changed from their original airing. Buying licenses to songs that were in the original airings of the episodes cost too much money, so the original music supervisors from the show handpicked new songs to for the episodes on DVD. A number of the original songs, mainly those from the Roswell Soundtrack CD, were still put on the DVDs, including Roswell's theme song "Here With Me" by Dido.

While the original Roswell High book series for young adults does not follow the television series, they were the original inspiration for the show. Another range of books were published, however, that followed the events on the show. The novels focused on events that took place between episodes.

While the show was on air three books were published by Pocket Books, this series stopped after the show was canceled. The books, Loose Ends by Greg Cox, No Good Deed by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Little Green Men by DW Smith and KK Rusch, can all be found on amazon in the section directly below.

After the show was canceled in 2002 Simon Spotlight Entertainment picked up Roswell and published 8 more books! These can also be found on amazon below the first series of three under this section. They include: Shared by Mel Odom, Skeletons in the Closet by Andy Mangels and Michael A Martin, Dreamwalk by Paul Ruditis, Quarantine by Laura Burns, A New Beginning by Kevin Ryan, Nightscape by Kevin Ryan, Pursuit by Andy Mangels and Michael A Martin, Turnabout by Andy Mangels and Michael A Martin.

The first four novels of this series from Simon Spotlight Entertainment cover events between Seasons 2 and 3, the last four cover events after the series cancellation.