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"John Doe" Pilot (2002)


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"John Doe" (2002): Season 1: Episode 1 -- A man with amnesia assists Seattle police with a missing persons case, using his encyclopedic knowledge of the world.

Overview

User Rating:
8.7/10   836 votes
Director:
Mimi Leder
Writers:
Brandon Camp (creator) &
Mike Thompson (creator) ...
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Contact:
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TV Series:
"John Doe" (2002)
Original Air Date:
20 September 2002 (Season 1, Episode 1)
Genre:
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi more
Plot:
A man awakens on an island only to discover that he has no memory of who he is. Without knowing his identity... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
A Must-Watch That Nobody Does... more

Cast

  (Episode Credited cast)

Dominic Purcell ... John Doe

Jayne Brook ... Jamie Avery
John Marshall Jones ... Frank Hayes
Sprague Grayden ... Karen Kawalski

William Forsythe ... Digger

Romy Rosemont ... Mrs. Nichols

John Rosenfeld ... Evan Nichols
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Doug Abrahams ... Cashier

Daniel Boileau ... Greasy
Peter Bryant ... Paramedic

Erica Carroll ... Girlfriend

Matthew Currie Holmes ... Sweetheart
Glynis Davies ... Inquisitive

Jodelle Ferland ... Jenny Nichols

Ona Grauer ... Theresa
Patricia Idlette ... Bureaucracy

Fred Keating ... Car Salesman
Jenny Kim ... Inquisitor

Karin Konoval ... Beehive
Dion Luther ... Stockbroker

Claudette Mink ... Turquoise

Marilyn Norry ... Lipstick Realtor

Julie Patzwald ... Girl who Asks 'When Will I Die'

Daniel Pepper ... Uniform Cop
Meshach Peters ... Tyler Hayes

Chad Rook ... Spiked Hair (as Chad E. Rook)

Robert Seckler ... Sleepy Cop

Haig Sutherland ... Shaggy

George Touliatos ... Sausage
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Germany:43 min
Country:
USA | Canada
Language:
English | Khmer
Color:
Black and White (some sequences) | Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
John Doe: So what am I? Escaped mental patient? Alien that sees in black and white? Government lobotomy experiment? What else was I to think? For a guy who had all the answers, I didn't have the ones that mattered the most. more
Movie Connections:
Features "Jeopardy!" (1984) more
Soundtrack:
Trouble more

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
A Must-Watch That Nobody Does..., 26 April 2003
9/10

In a time when Reality-TV and copy-cat Sitcoms dominate the air, one show has come to give the viewers something unique, mentally stimulating and exciting. The show follows the exploits of John Doe (Purcell), a man who knows every bit of trivia except for who he is. His super-human knowledge is used two-fold every episode, to assist the police is solving a crime-of-the-day and to figure out something about himself. While at first the concept seems a little far-fetched at first, Purcell and the excellent cast around him, especially William Forsythe as Doe's best friend Digger, keep you ready for the next episode. The writers make sure that every episode gives you just enough information to realize that all your predictions from the week before were wrong and enough teasers of what's to come to let you make some more guesses.

Unfortunately, this show got its start in the Friday 9pm timeslot, one not the best for the youthful crowd the show appeals to. However, Fox showed a willingness to stick with it, and the writers responded with an added enthusiasm that will no-doubt bring the show to the status it deserves, ranking it with the cult-status once reserved only for the X-Files and MyST3K.

I recommend this to anyone looking for something different in a television show: One hour will leave you hooked.

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