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Strange World (TV series)

American sci-fi crime drama television series

Summary

American sci-fi crime drama television series

Field	Value
image	Strange World titlecard.jpg
image_size	200
caption	Intertitle
runtime	43-44 minutes
creator	Howard Gordon
Tim Kring
composer	Michael Hoenig
starring	{{Plainlist
executive_producer	Howard Gordon
company	Teakwood Lane Productions
20th Century Fox Television
country	United States
language	English
network	ABC (1999)
Sci-Fi (2002)
first_aired
last_aired
num_episodes	13 (10 unaired)
num_seasons	1

Tim Kring

Tim Guinee
Kristin Lehman
Saundra Quarterman 20th Century Fox Television Sci-Fi (2002)

Strange World is an American sci-fi crime drama television series created by Howard Gordon and Tim Kring for ABC. 13 episodes were commissioned, of which three aired on ABC in March 1999 before the network cancelled the program. The remaining ten episodes produced subsequently premiered on Sci-Fi in Spring 2002.

In a web-chat during the 2002 run on Sci-Fi, Gordon stated that, since the producers felt ABC was not going to support the show, they 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

References

(February 8, 2002). "Howard Gordon". (Chat transcript) [[Syfy.
"AIGA's ''Strange World'' exhibit".

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