Strange World (TV series)

This article is about the TV series. For other uses, see Strange Worlds (disambiguation).

Strange World
Intertitle of Strange World
Created by	Tim Kring Howard Gordon
Starring	Tim Guinee Kristin Lehman Saundra Quarterman
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (10 unaired) (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production companies	Teakwood Lane Productions 20th Century Fox Television
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	March 8 – March 16, 1999 (1999-03-16)

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.

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 in 1999. It was created by Imaginary Forces.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
1	"Pilot"	Mick Jackson	Howard Gordon & Tim Kring	March 8, 1999 (1999-03-08)	1ACG79
2	"Lullaby"	Joseph Scanlan	Tim Minear	March 9, 1999 (1999-03-09)	1ACG03
3	"Azrael's Breed"	Vern Gillum	Manny Coto	March 16, 1999 (1999-03-16)	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

• Doomwatch
• Fringe

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