Strange World
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Created by | Tim Kring Howard Gordon |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 (10 unaired) (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Production companies | Teakwood Lane Productions 20th Century Fox Television |
Distributor | 20th Television |
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Original network | ABC |
Picture format | Color |
Original release | March 8 – March 16, 1999 |
Strange World is an American television program about military investigations into criminal abuses of science and technology. ABC commissioned 13 episodes, of which three aired in March 1999, before the network cancelled the program. The remaining ten episodes produced subsequently premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in Spring 2002. The series was created by Howard Gordon and Tim Kring.
In a webchat during the 2002 run on Sci Fi, Gordon stated that, since the producers felt ABC was not going to support the show, the producers had the opportunity to write a conclusion to the story.[1]
Plot[]
- USAMRIID was created in 1970 to counter the threat of chemical and biological weapons.
- Section 44 of the charter permits it to investigate criminal abuses of science.
—Text at the beginning of the pilot episode.
Captain Paul Turner (Tim Guinee) is a doctor for The United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), who suffers from a rare form of aplastic anemia as a result of exposure to chemical weapons during the Persian Gulf War. USAMRIID lures him out of his sickbed with the opportunity to bring justice to others suffering from unethical uses of science and technology. Unknown to his superiors, he is given a temporary cure for the symptoms of his disease by a mysterious woman who is an agent of a shadowy organization that may be trying to thwart the goals of USAMRIID. He requires periodic doses of the cure to remain functional, a weakness that the shadowy organization occasionally uses to control him. Both the machinations of the "shadowy organization" and Turner's dependency on the "cure" are ultimately resolved in the final episode of the series.
Cast[]
- Tim Guinee as Captain Paul Turner
- Kristin Lehman as Dr. Sidney MacMillan
- Saundra Quarterman as Major Lynne Reese
Title sequence[]
The opening-title sequence was added to the permanent collection of the American Institute of Graphic Arts[2] in 1999. It was created by Imaginary Forces.[citation needed]
Episodes[]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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1 | "Pilot" | Mick Jackson | Howard Gordon & Tim Kring | March 8, 1999 | 1ACG79 |
2 | "Lullaby" | Joseph Scanlan | Tim Minear | March 9, 1999 | 1ACG03 |
3 | "Azrael's Breed" | Vern Gillum | Manny Coto | March 16, 1999 | 1ACG08 |
4 | "Spirit Falls" | Peter Markle | Story by : Todd Ellis Kessler Teleplay by : Todd Ellis Kessler & Tim Minear | UNAIRED | 1ACG05 |
5 | "The Devil Still Holds My Hand" | Tucker Gates | John Chambers | UNAIRED | 1ACG06 |
6 | "Skin" | Brett Dowler | Jessica Scott & Mike Wollaeger | UNAIRED | 1ACG07 |
7 | "Man Plus" | Peter Markle | Howard Gordon & Thania St. John | UNAIRED | 1ACG02 |
8 | "Rage" | James Whitmore Jr. | Manny Coto | UNAIRED | 1ACG01 |
9 | "Aerobe" | Dan Lerner | Story by : Manny Coto Teleplay by : Hans Tobeason & Manny Coto | UNAIRED | 1ACG04 |
10 | "Eliza" | Vern Gillum | Tim Minear | UNAIRED | 1ACG10 |
11 | "Down Came the Rain" | Ian Toynton | Manny Coto & Jose Molina | UNAIRED | 1ACG11 |
12 | "Food" | Tucker Gates | Story by : John Chambers & Thania St. John Teleplay by : John Chambers | UNAIRED | 1ACG09 |
13 | "Age of Reason" | Dwight Little | Howard Gordon & Tim Minear | UNAIRED | 1ACG12 |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Howard Gordon". (Chat transcript) SciFi.com. February 8, 2002. Archived from the original on June 14, 2002.
- ^ "AIGA's Strange World exhibit". Archived from the original on July 20, 2006. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
External links[]
- "Strange World". Official site (Sci Fi Channel). Archived from the original on December 19, 2002.
- "Strange World Opens Well". Sci Fi Wire, (Sci Fi Channel). February 13, 2002. Archived from the original on April 13, 2002.
- Strange World at IMDb
- American Broadcasting Company original programming
- 1990s American medical television series
- American military television series
- 1999 American television series debuts
- 1999 American television series endings
- 1990s American science fiction television series
- Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
- Television shows filmed in Vancouver
- Television series created by Tim Kring