The Tommyknockers

Synopsis

A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutants.

First Air Date: 1993-05-09

Last Air Date: 1993-05-10

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 2

Created By: Stephen King

Networks: ABC

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Top Cast

Jimmy Smits as Jim 'Gard' Gardner
Marg Helgenberger as Bobbi Anderson
E.G. Marshall as Ev Hillman
William Johnson as Elt Barker
Joanna Cassidy as Ruth Merrill
John Ashton as Butch Duggan
Allyce Beasley as Becka Paulson
Robert Carradine as Bryant Brown
Annie Corley as Marie Brown
Cliff DeYoung as Joe Paulson

Seasons

Miniseries (1993)

The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of the Tommyknockers.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Part 1 (1993-05-09)

In the small town Haven, in Maine, the aspiring writer Roberta 'Bobbi' Anderson lives in an isolated house with her alcoholic boyfriend, the poet James "Gard" Gardner; and their dog Petey. While Gard is traveling to a poet's convention, she stumbles with a green stone and she becomes obsessed to excavate the object. Further, she overhears voices that teach her how to fix the heater and how to write a novel using a typewriter operated by telepathy.
Ep. 2: Part 2 (1993-05-10)

As the people of Haven become more obsessed with their inventions, such as Nancy Voss's "disintegrator ray", Merrill goes missing and town's telephone line cuts off. Convinced that something in Haven caused his grandson's illness Ev Hillman begins researching the town's history, Trooper Butch Duggan returns to Haven looking for Merrill and his missing troopers and Anderson is determined to uncover the object.