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"Dawson's Creek" Detention (1998)


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Overview

User Rating:
8.2/10   40 votes
Director:
Allan Arkush
Writers:
Mike White (written by)
Kevin Williamson (creator)
Original Air Date:
3 March 1998 (Season 1, Episode 7)
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
After Dawson, Joey, Jen and Pacey individually commits various violations at school, they all get stuck... more | add synopsis

Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)
James Van Der Beek ... Dawson Leery

Michelle Williams ... Jen Lindley

Joshua Jackson ... Pacey Witter

Katie Holmes ... Joey Potter

Mary-Margaret Humes ... Gail Leery (credit only)

John Wesley Shipp ... Mitch Leery (credit only)
Mary Beth Peil ... Evelyn 'Grams' Ryan (credit only)

Nina Repeta ... Bessie Potter (credit only)

Monica Keena ... Abby Morgan

Helen Baldwin ... Mrs. Tringle
Mati Moralejo ... Grant

Mike Pniewski ... Mr. Pickering
Micah Leamer ... Daniel
Barry Bell ... Coach
Lyndabeth Bureau ... Cheerleader #1 (as Linda Bureau)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
44 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Certification:
USA:TV-14

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Kevin Williamson created the character Mrs. Tringle based on an English teacher whom he'd had in real life who had a very negative impact on him. She was the basis for his villainous character in the movie Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), in which Katie Holmes also starred. more
Quotes:
Dawson Leery: This is so Breakfast Club!
Jen: Breakfast Club?
Dawson Leery: You know John Hughes movie where the five kids are stuck in detention all day?
Joey Potter: Yeah, in the beginning they hate each other and then by the end they're best friends.
Jen: Oh yeah. God that movie stunk! Whatever happened to those actors?
Dawson Leery: Well, Anthony Michael Hall developed some weird thyroid condition, Molly Ringwald lost her gawky ingenue appeal and the rest and languishing somewhere in TV hell.
Pacey: No way man! Emilio Estivez was in those duck movies. Those were classic. So funny!
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Movie Connections:
References The Mighty Ducks (1992) more
Soundtrack:
Dammit more

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