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"Swingtown" The Pilot (2008)


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Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   33 votes
Director:
Alan Poul
Writers:
Mike Kelley (creator)
Mike Kelley (written by)
Contact:
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TV Series:
"Swingtown" (2008)
Original Air Date:
5 June 2008 (Season 1, Episode 1)
Genre:
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Plot:
July 1976. Susan and Bruce Miller are moving their suburban family lives just a few blocks away, but the difference is enormous... more | full synopsis
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"Swingtown: The Pilot" got me really intrigued by episode's ending more (1 total)

Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)

Molly Parker ... Susan Miller

Jack Davenport ... Bruce Miller
Grant Show ... Tom Decker
Lana Parrilla ... Trina Decker

Josh Hopkins ... Roger Thompson
Miriam Shor ... Janet Thompson

Shanna Collins ... Laurie Miller
Aaron Christian Howles ... B. J. Miller

Brittany Robertson ... Samantha Saxton (as Britt Robertson)

Kate Norby ... Gail Saxton

Michael Rady ... Doug Stephens
Nick Benson ... Rick Thompson (as Nicholas J. Benson)

Kyle Searles ... Logan Rhode

Nicole Swahn ... Tammy

Damon Carney ... Bud Green
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Anachronisms: The airplane seen from the outside in flight is a Boeing 767 which wasn't yet in service in 1976. more
Quotes:
Susan Miller: Do you have any extra cardboard boxes in the back?
Frank: Ah, sure, Mrs. Miller, you want big? Small? Medium?
Susan Miller: Whatever you can spare. We're moving this weekend.
Janet Thompson: To a lakeside mansion.
Susan Miller: That's right, Frank, my butler will be doing shopping from now on.
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Soundtrack:
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"Swingtown: The Pilot" got me really intrigued by episode's ending, 30 June 2008
7/10
Author: tavm from Baton Rouge, La.

I just finished watching "Swingtown: The Pilot" four weeks after it aired. The '70s setting intrigued me from the start along with all the free love and music that came with it. I'm surprised IMDb didn't also mention a couple of songs that played here as anachronisms: both Rita Coolidge's "Your Love is Lifting Me (Higher and Higher)" and Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" came out the summer after the '76 one depicted here. While the three adult couples were the main focus, I was more intrigued by their teen offspring. There's also a woman who snorts coke and her daughter who is planning to run away. It took a while during the hour but by the end I was hooked. Bottom line, I liked this pilot episode of "Swingtown". I don't really feel like recapping here but I may when I watch the second episode so until then... P.S. CBS showed their old network promo of "Turn Us On, We'll Turn You On" before the program which was obviously a double entendre meant to raise a giggle though that slogan actually came from 1978.

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