Eureka (TV series)

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Synopsis

Characters

• Colin Ferguson
  Colin Ferguson (actor)
  
  Colin Ferguson is a Canada actor. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and is a graduate of Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario, Ontario and McGill University in Montreal....
   as Sheriff Jack Carter, a U.S. Marshal
  United States Marshals Service
  
  The United States Marshals Service is a United States Federal law enforcement in the United States within the United States Department of Justice and is the second oldest federal law enforcement agency in the United States.While the United States Postal Inspection Service first agent was appointed in 1772, performed Chief Postal Inspect...
   who reluctantly ends up as Sheriff of Eureka. Jack is consistently dumbfounded by the wonders Eureka produces, as well as their propensity to produce things that often threaten the entire town, if not the world. Despite being an average man in a town full of geniuses, Jack's admittedly stupid ideas often save the day. Jack is in love with Allison Blake, current director of Global Dynamics, and, as of the middle of season 3, is currently unemployed after being fired by General Mansfield.
• Salli Richardson-Whitfield
  Salli Richardson
  
  Salli Elise Richardson-Whitfield is an United States movie actress....
   as Dr. Allison Blake, a Department of Defense agent who acts as the liaison between Eureka and the federal government, and later becomes the director of Global Dynamics. She is always at the forefront of any dilemma that might arise.
• Jordan Hinson
  Jordan Hinson
  
  Jordan Danielle Hinson is an United States actor. She is best known as Zoe Carter on the Sci Fi Channel series Eureka .Growing up as a dedicated gymnast, Hinson began acting in plays at six years-old, which pulled her far away from gymnastics and opened the whole new world of acting....
   as Zoe Carter, Jack's rebellious teenage daughter. Unlike her father, she is intelligent enough to keep up with the town's residents (her IQ is 157), yet like her father, possesses the street smarts that most of the town's residents do not.
• Joe Morton
  Joe Morton
  
  Joseph Morton, Jr. is an American stage, television, and film actor....
   as Dr. Henry Deacon, the town jack-of-all-trades. Henry's assistance is often invaluable in defusing the situations the experiments in town create. So much so that in the middle of season 3, he was elected mayor as a write-in candidate.
• Ed Quinn
  Ed Quinn
  
  Arthur Edward Quinn, , is an American actor who has appeared in several film and TV roles, including Starship Troopers 2 and Jack & Jill ....
   as Dr. Nathan Stark, one of Eureka's top scientists who is modeled after Tony Stark. He and Jack are frequently at odds, though both respect the other. He was formerly married to Allison, and they rekindled their relationship in the second season. They were supposed to get remarried in the third season, but he died while saving the world from a time paradox on the day of their wedding.
• Erica Cerra
  Erica Cerra
  
  Erica Cerra is a Canada actress of Italian people descent.Erica was captivated by acting from the age of eight and appeared in numerous commercials as a child....
   as Deputy Jo Lupo, another of the town's few nongenius residents. Jo is a tough, no-nonsense cop who loves her gun collection (maybe a little bit too much).
• Neil Grayston
  Neil Grayston
  
  Neil Gordon Grayston is a Canada actor.Neil currently plays a recurring character Douglas Fargo in Eureka , a Sci-Fi network series that began broadcasting in 2006....
   as Dr. Douglas Fargo
  Douglas Fargo
  
  Douglas Fargo ? usually referred to as simply "Fargo", or occasionally "Doctor Fargo" ? is a character on the United States science fiction drama Eureka , an employee of Global Dynamics, the research facility in Eureka....
  , an average scientist who more often than not ends up a victim of the disasters that befall the town.
• Debrah Farentino
  Debrah Farentino
  
  Debrah Farentino is an United States model and actress....
   as Dr. Beverly Barlowe, the town psychiatrist who secretly works for a conglomerate of business interests that wish to exploit Eureka's innovations.
• Matt Frewer
  Matt Frewer
  
  Matthew Frewer is a Canada and United States stage, TV, and film actor. Acting since 1983, he is probably best known for portraying the 1980s icon Max Headroom ....
   as Dr. Jim Taggart, a somewhat eccentric animal expert.
• Chris Gauthier
  Chris Gauthier
  
  Christopher Gauthier is an actor.Chris currently has a recurring role on the Sci-Fi network Tv series Eureka , as cafe owner Vincent....
   as Vincent, the owner of Cafe Diem. He prides himself on being able to make anything his customers ask for. It is implied in at least two episodes that Vincent is gay
  Gay
  
  The term gay was originally used, until well into the mid-20th century, primarily to refer to feelings of being "carefree," "happy," or "bright and showy"; it had also come to acquire some connotations of "immorality" as early as 1637....
  .
• Niall Matter
  Niall Matter
  
  Niall Matter is a Canada actor mainly known for his work in television. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Matter worked for eight years on oil rigs, to fund his education at Vancouver Film School....
   as Zane Donovan
  Zane Donovan
  
  Zane Donovan is a character on the science-fiction comedy-drama series, Eureka . Prior to his arrival in Eureka, Zane is a computer hacker and a smalltime criminal....
  , a rebellious genius recruited in the second season after being arrested for fraud. He is said to have caused the New York Stock Exchange
  New York Stock Exchange
  
  New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in New York City, New York. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by United States dollar market capitalization of its listed companies' Security ....
   to crash; he denies the allegations. He develops a relationship with Jo Lupo shortly after he arrives in town.
• Frances Fisher
  Frances Fisher
  
  Frances Fisher is an English-American actor....
   as Eva Thorne, a corporate fixer hired to make Eureka more profitable, which she mainly accomplishes by downsizing. She seems to have an ulterior motive involving an underground military base built before Eureka was founded.
• Barclay Hope
  Barclay Hope
  
  Barclay Hope is a Canada actor, born on 25 February 1958 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He's brother of actor William Hope .Life and work ...
   as General Mansfield, an army general who frequently visits Eureka to check up on government projects, or to enforce martial law
  Martial law
  
  Martial law is the system of rules that takes effect when the military takes control of the normal administration of justice.Martial law is sometimes imposed during wars or occupied territory in the absence of any other civil government....
   when experiments get out of control.
• Jaime Ray Newman
  Jaime Ray Newman
  
  Jaime Ray Newman is an United States Actor. She is also known as Jamie Ray Newman....
   as Dr. Tess Fontana, a new employee at Global Dynamics coming in season 3.

Episodes

Ratings

Critical reaction

It's all very quirky. Too quirky, maybe, for an audience that is used to spaceships, robots, and explosions. Though every episode promises an "aha!" moment based in quantum physics and obscure scientific laws, this world is relatively flat, conceptually speaking, in comparison to the complexity woven into series such as Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1 is an United States-Canadian science fiction television series, part of the Stargate. Its story begins one year after the events of the 1994 science fiction film Stargate ....
 and Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica is a Media franchise of science fiction films and television program, the Battlestar Galactica was produced in 1978. A series of book adaptations, original novels, comic books and video games have also been based on the concept....
. This does not mean Eureka is a complete waste of time. Not at all. The characters are fun, Ferguson

Colin Ferguson (actor)

Colin Ferguson is a Canada actor. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and is a graduate of Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario, Ontario and McGill University in Montreal....
 is believable and pleasant, the script is solidly constructed, and the visuals are slickly produced. All in all, it's a sweet series and probably not long for this world.

With its playful new series "Eureka," set in the Pacific Northwest and telling the story of an outsider who comes to explore, and settle in, a remote town full of eccentrics, Sci-Fi Channel isn't just inviting comparisons to "Twin Peaks" and "Northern Exposure." It's demanding them. But co-creators Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia hold up to them pretty well. "Eureka" has a premise, a cast and a plot that make it one of the TV treats of the summer. The folks at Sci-Fi Channel clearly intended to reinvent the summer TV series here, and come up with something breezy and fun. And "Eureka" - they've done it!

Awards

Production notes

Main Crew

• Michael Lange
  Michael Lange
  
  Michael Lange is an United States television director and record producer....
   
• Mike Rohl (4 episodes, 2006-2007)
• Michael Robison (3 episodes, 2006-2008)
• Michael Grossman
  Michael Grossman
  
  Michael V. Grossman is an United States television director.He has directed a number of episodes from dozens of different television series, perhaps most notably his work on Grey's Anatomy and the backdoor pilot of its spin-off, Private Practice....
    (2 episodes, 2006-2007)
• Jefery Levy
  Jefery Levy
  
  'Jefery Levy' is an United States film and TV film director. He has worked on Numb3rs, ...
    (2 episodes, 2006)
• Jeff Woolnough
  Jeff Woolnough
  
  Jeffrey W. Woolnough is a television and movie director, with an active career beginning in the late 1980s. Woolnough has directed multiple episodes of a variety of highly rated series, including:...
    (2 episodes, 2006)
• Eric Laneuville
  Eric Laneuville
  
  Eric Laneuville is an United States television television director and actor. His first prominent acting roles were in the 1971 science-fiction cult classic The Omega Man with Charlton Heston and the ABC television series Room 222, which ran from 1969 to 1974....
    (2 episodes, 2007-2008)
• Jaime Paglia (34 episodes, 2006-2008)
• Andrew Cosby (Head Writer
  Head writer
  
  A head writer is a person who oversees the team of writers on a television or radio series. The title is common in the soap opera genre, but in prime time series this function is generally performed by an executive producer....
  )
• Johanna Stokes (5 episodes, 2006-2007)
• Thania St. John (5 episodes, 2007-2008)
• Dan E. Fesman (3 episodes, 2006)
• Harry Victor (3 episodes, 2006)
• Charles Grant Craig (3 episodes, 2007-2008)
• Bruce Miller
  Bruce Miller
  
  Bruce Miller is an United States attorney born in 1945. He is known for arguing a legal case claiming Welfare to be a constitutional right....
    (3 episodes, 2007-2008)
• Karl Schaefer (2 episodes, 2006)
• Eric Wallace
  Eric Wallace
  
  Eric Wallace was a reporter and presenter for Border Television and an independent film director in Cumbria, England. He was born in Carlisle and spent his whole life there....
  

Filming locations

• Chilliwack, British Columbia
  Chilliwack, British Columbia
  
  Chilliwack is a Canada city in the Province of British Columbia. It is a predominantly agricultural community with an estimated population of 70,000 people....
    – Downtown Wellington Avenue on April 12, 2006
• Duncan, British Columbia
  Duncan, British Columbia
  
  Duncan is a city on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada....
  
• Ladysmith, British Columbia
  Ladysmith, British Columbia
  
  Ladysmith is a town located on the 49th Circle of latitude on the east coast of Vancouver Island British Columbia, Canada. The local economy is based on forestry, tourism and agriculture....
   – Downtown First Avenue
• Nanaimo, British Columbia
  Nanaimo, British Columbia
  
  Nanaimo is the second largest city on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It has been dubbed the "Bathtub Racing Capital of the World" and "Harbour City"....
   – Ney Drive, Biggs & Townsite Roads
• Surrey, British Columbia
  Surrey, British Columbia
  
  Surrey is a Canada city in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that lies within the Metro Vancouver district, and geographically at the centre of the larger region known as the Lower Mainland of BC....
   – (Sullivan Heights Secondary School, Fraser Heights Secondary School
  Fraser Heights Secondary School
  
  Fraser Heights Secondary is a public High school#Canada in Surrey, British Columbia part of School District 36 Surrey. Around the school is a vast park area, a large field as well as the Fraser Heights Recreation Centre....
  )
• Victoria, British Columbia
  Victoria, British Columbia
  
  Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria is a major tourism destination seeing more than 3.65 million visitors a year who inject more than one billion dollars into the local economy....
  
• Port Moody, British Columbia
  Port Moody, British Columbia
  
  Port Moody is a small, crescent-shaped city in Metro Vancouver, located at the east end of Burrard Inlet in British Columbia, Canada. Port Moody is the smallest of the Tri-Cities , bordered by Coquitlam on the east and south, and Burnaby on the west....
   – (Heritage Woods Secondary School
  Heritage Woods Secondary School
  
  Heritage Woods Secondary School is a coeducational high school located in Port Moody, British Columbia. Heritage Woods celebrated their first graduating class in June 2007....
  ) Exterior shots of Global Dynamics
  Global Dynamics
  
  Global Dynamics, also known as the Eureka Advanced Research Facility, is a fictional organization on the United States science fiction drama Eureka ....
  . The interior of the school has also been used as the school that Brian Perkins attends, on May 3, 2007. This school's interior has also been used as the school that Zoe Carter attends as well (in the episode, "Duck, Duck Goose"). The roof of the school was also used as the location of the astronomy tower (also in the episode, "Duck, Duck Goose").
• Ashland, Oregon
  Ashland, Oregon
  
  Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, Oregon, United States, near Interstate 5 and the California border, and located in the south end of the Rogue Valley....
   – (City Hall) Interior and exterior shots of city hall
• Burnaby, British Columbia
  Burnaby, British Columbia
  
  Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is the city immediately east of Vancouver. It is the third-largest city in British Columbia by population, surpassed only by nearby Surrey, British Columbia and Vancouver itself....
   – Vancouver Film Studios
  Vancouver Film Studios
  
  Vancouver Film Studios is a film production center located in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the largest production facility outside of Los Angeles in North America and is operated by the McLean Group of Companies....
   for the majority of the Global Dynamics building interiors, cafe interiors as well as the home of Sheriff Carter.

International distribution

DVD releases

Season One

Season Two

Spin-offs

Original soundtrack

Comics

External links

• at Sci Fi.com