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"Firefly" (2002): Season 1: Episode 12 -- The crew helps an old friend of Inara’s defend her bordello from a gunslinger.
"Firefly" (2002): Season 1: Episode 14 -- Mal and Zoe can’t figure out why the alliance wants to stop them when they try to transport a corpse to burial.
"Firefly" (2002): Season 1: Episode 13 -- A plan to seal a weapon from a criminal doesn't go as planned.
"Firefly" (2002): Season 1: Episode 10 -- A bounty hunter ben on apprehending River boards the ship at night, catching the crew off-guard.
"Firefly" (2002): Season 1: Episode 9 -- Tensions begin to run high on board the Serenity when Wash finds himself feeling threatened by the closeness between Mal and Zoe.

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Release Date:
20 September 2002 (USA) more
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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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Won Primetime Emmy. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations more
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5 Sneak Peeks – Dollhouse 2.07 & 2.08
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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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Also Known As:
Firefly: The Series (USA) (long title)
Joss Whedon's Firefly (Australia)
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42 min (15 episodes)
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1.78 : 1 more
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UK:12 (12 episodes) | UK:PG (2 episodes) | Singapore:M18 | Australia:M
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The Alliance's full title is the "Anglo-Sino Alliance". Joss Whedon intended the Alliance to be the merger of the USA and China, the last of the world's superpowers. (This is why many characters on the show sometimes speak Chinese.) The Alliance flag, seen in the original pilot episode, is a blending of the US and Chinese flags. more
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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 colors (green and blue, respectively). more
Quotes:
Jubel Early: You ever been shot?
Simon: No.
Jubel Early: You oughta be shot. Or stabbed, lose a leg. To be a surgeon, you know? Know what kind of pain you're dealing with. They make psychiatrists get psychoanalyzed before they can get certified, but they don't make a surgeon get cut on. That seem right to you?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Re-Lighting the Firefly (2005) (V) more
Soundtrack:
The Ballad of Serenity more

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So, what exactly is the deal with Shepherd Book?
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298 out of 303 people found the following comment useful.
Excellent, unique DVD, 1 February 2004
Author: attlcox

Never heard of Firefly? Get your hands on the DVD.

Saw some, weren't that impressed? Get your hands on the DVD.

Loved it? Well, you don't need convincing.

Fox did an incredible disservice to this show by showing the episodes out of order. They still made sense on a very low level, i.e., there weren't a lot of plot points that were part of the continuing arc that ended up being out of order in the order they were aired, but this show is so much better if you see it in the order intended. In the aired episodes, characters would sometimes do things that either seemed out of character or really weird, or sometimes even just boring, that make so much more sense on the DVDs, even though there's a grand total of one scene (and only about 3 lines of that scene) that's different between the DVD and the aired version.

That said, this show is the most innovative thing I've ever seen on TV, even despite its mistreatment. It has nine main characters, all of which are fairly well developed in the pilot episode, who then grow and change but remain true to their characters as originally conceived throughout the rest of the series. I could talk about the incredible attention to detail for the special effects, etc., but special effects are getting really good, so that doesn't really set this apart from a lot of movies out there. The concept seems odd at first, but is amazingly well done, with each world they go to having its own quirks, charms and dangers, but it always comes back to the characters and their relationships with each other.

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