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"Firefly" (2002) More at IMDbPro »TV series 2002-2003

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"Firefly" (2002): Season 1: Episode 12 -- The Serenity goes to the moon of Deadwood to answer a distress call from Inara's old friend who runs a brothel.
"Firefly" (2002): Season 1: Episode 14 -- What starts out as a nice day at a space station goes very wrong when Mal and Zoe receives the corpse of their old war buddy in the mail.
"Firefly" (2002): Season 1: Episode 13 -- Mal has to make a tough choice in whether he should trust his ex-wife again as she offers the Serenity crew an opportunity to make a lot of money.
"Firefly" (2002): Season 1: Episode 11 -- In this original pilot episode, the crew transports passengers to another planet to sell salvaged goods only to discover that an undercover Alliance agent is on board the Serenity.
"Firefly" (2002): Season 1: Episode 10 -- A bounty hunter named Jubal Early sets his sites on capturing River Tam and manages to sneak aboard the Serenity to do so.

Overview

User Rating:
9.5/10   29,254 votes
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Creator:
Joss Whedon
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Contact:
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Seasons:
1 full episode list
Release Date:
20 September 2002 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Sci-Fi more
Plot:
Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small, mobile, spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them. full summary
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Awards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations more
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User Comments:
What was FOX thinking?! more

Cast

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Nathan Fillion ... Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds (14 episodes, 2002-2003)

Gina Torres ... Zoë Washburne (14 episodes, 2002-2003)

Alan Tudyk ... Hoban 'Wash' Washburne (14 episodes, 2002-2003)
Morena Baccarin ... Inara Serra (14 episodes, 2002-2003)

Adam Baldwin ... Jayne Cobb (14 episodes, 2002-2003)
Jewel Staite ... Kaylee Frye (14 episodes, 2002-2003)

Sean Maher ... Dr. Simon Tam (14 episodes, 2002-2003)

Summer Glau ... River Tam (14 episodes, 2002-2003)
Ron Glass ... Shepherd Book (14 episodes, 2002-2003)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Firefly: The Series" (USA) (long title)
"Joss Whedon's Firefly" (Australia)
"Firefly - A szentjánosbogár" (Hungary) [hu]
"Firefly - Der Aufbruch der Serenity" (Germany) (DVD box title) [de]
"Firefly" (Finland) [fi]
"Firefly" (Hungary) (promotional title) [hu]
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Runtime:
42 min (15 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Mandarin
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
UK:12 (12 episodes) | UK:PG (2 episodes) | Australia:M

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Trivia:
The cast preferred to use the ship's lounge instead of a green room or other accommodations when waiting between shots. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The Chinese characters for "Blue Sun" change from episode to episode. On Jayne's T-shirt, "Blue Sun" is "qing ri", but in logo signs, it's "lan ri". "Qing" and "lan" refer to different hues of blue (sky blue vs. indigo). more
Quotes:
[opening narration for episodes: Safe, Ariel, War Stories, Heart of Gold]
Mal: Here's how it is: The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths. Some rich and flush with the new technologies, some not so much. The Central Planets, thems formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it...
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Halo 3 (2007) (VG) more
Soundtrack:
The Ballad of Serenity more

FAQ

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1,110 out of 1,144 people found the following comment useful:-
What was FOX thinking?!, 10 October 2003
Author: zakal from Salt Lake City

FOX must have the greatest talent scouts in the world, but the worst executives. "Firefly" is the best example. It was simultaneously the best new show, the best western series in decades, and the best sci-fi show on TV (and coming from a die-hard Trekkie, placing them above "Enterprise" is saying something). They didn't have a single bad episode, and some were spectacular. The premise, the characters, the plots and the dialogue were all top-notch. And FOX cancelled it without even really giving it a chance.

Maybe the show couldn't stand in the end. Maybe I'm alone in this, and there aren't enough fans to justify what the show cost. But making that call after half a season, with half of the episodes pre-empted for baseball playoffs was a phenomenally stupid thing to do. That show should have been here to stay, and it got axed without a chance to prove itself. I only pray the movie works out. At least we'll have something.

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