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"Twin Peaks" Pilot (1990)


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"Twin Peaks" (1990): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Harry Truman discover more about the troubled secret life of the murdered Laura Palmer

Overview

User Rating:
8.7/10   7,694 votes
Director:
David Lynch
Writers:
Mark Frost (written by) &
David Lynch (written by)
Contact:
View company contact information for Pilot on IMDbPro.
TV Series:
"Twin Peaks" (1990)
Original Air Date:
8 April 1990 (Season 1, Episode 1)
Tagline:
A Mystery That Holds Its Secret To The Very End
Plot:
Twin Peaks, 1990. A popular teenage girl in a strange town is murdered, and a stranger FBI agent is sent in to investigate. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
Hawk, Would You Please Put on the Kitchen Mittens more

Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

Runtime:
94 min | USA:113 min (video version) | 90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Norwegian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Trivia:
Although Joan Chen assumed the role of Jocelyn "Josie" Packard, the character was originally written as an Italian woman named Giovanna Pasquialini Packard, with Isabella Rossellini slated for the role. This earlier version of the character appears in the first pilot script David Lynch and Mark Frost submitted to ABC. In this seminal draft, the series was entitled NORTHWEST PASSAGE. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Dale and Harry spot James and Donna on the motorcycle, a close-up of the sheriff's car shows Harry turn on the red lights and siren and start to drive onto the highway. The camera switches to a long shot of the sheriff's car turning to pursue the motorcycle, but the red lights and siren are not on. Back to a close-up and they are on again. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Pete Martell: She's dead. Wrapped in plastic.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Fainaru fantajî IX (2000) (VG) more
Soundtrack:
Falling more

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26 out of 27 people found the following comment useful:-
Hawk, Would You Please Put on the Kitchen Mittens, 26 July 2003
10/10
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA

I was ten years old when this show premiered on TV. I had a hot to trot fourth grade teacher who was fresh out of college (I had the biggest crush on her---oh, Ms. Beckett, where are you now?) who would come in the morning after an episode aired and share all the details with the advanced reading group I was in. THIS WAS IT. This was the greatest TV show ever made. I don't know how I talked my parents into letting me watch it (a few episodes involving BOB gave me nightmares), but since then I've rewatched it over and over and over again. Mystery, soap opera antics, mumbo jumbo, log ladies, midgets, damn fine coffee, cherry pie, cliffhangers and the best music ever composed for a TV series made the first season (which was HUGE in the ratings, and only seven episodes long as it was a mid-season replacement) the most memorable of any TV show in history. The second season got darker and weirder (which led to a drop in ratings, time slot shifts, and naturally more drops in the ratings). After the producers were forced by the network to solve the murder of Laura Palmer half way through the season (and what a f*** you to the powers to be that revelation was), wild soap opera antics ensued as a cover up for one of the most labyrinthine mythologies ever conceived (I'll take the agents of the Black and White Lodges over aliens and government conspiracies any day), and Lynch left the die-hard fans who clung on to the very end one doozy of a cliffhanger in the very last episode (WHERE'S ANNIE?).

After turning my friends on to Lynch with "Mulholland Drive" (which was ironically a failed TV pilot turned into a brilliant cinematic f*** you to the same powers that be that tried to ruin Peaks) they can't believe it when I tell them he made a TV show back when we were kids. "That must've been weird," they say. Oh, it was, weirder and more wonderful and brilliant than you could ever imagine.

Without this show there never would've been "The X-Files", "Northern Exposure", "Picket Fences" or the idea that TV could be thrilling, ground-breaking, quirky, and weird. Also recommended: Lynch's mind-boggling film prequel "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" that confounds beautifully and raises more questions than answers, "Blue Velvet" (the precursor to Peaks), and of course "Mulholland Drive."

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