The Tommyknockers
The Tommyknockers
1993
1 Season
5.5
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutants.

Episodes

Part 1
E1May 9, 19931h 29m

Part 1

In the small town Haven, in Maine, the aspiring writer Roberta 'Bobbi' Anderson lives in an isolated house with her alcoholic boyfriend, the poet James "Gard" Gardner; and their dog Petey. While Gard is traveling to a poet's convention, she stumbles with a green stone and she becomes obsessed to excavate the object. Further, she overhears voices that teach her how to fix the heater and how to write a novel using a typewriter operated by telepathy.

Part 2
E2May 10, 19931h 32m

Part 2

As the people of Haven become more obsessed with their inventions, such as Nancy Voss's "disintegrator ray", Merrill goes missing and town's telephone line cuts off. Convinced that something in Haven caused his grandson's illness Ev Hillman begins researching the town's history, Trooper Butch Duggan returns to Haven looking for Merrill and his missing troopers and Anderson is determined to uncover the object.

Top Cast

Jimmy Smits

Jimmy Smits

Jim 'Gard' Gardner

Marg Helgenberger

Marg Helgenberger

Bobbi Anderson

E.G. Marshall

E.G. Marshall

Ev Hillman

William Johnson

William Johnson

Elt Barker

Joanna Cassidy

Joanna Cassidy

Ruth Merrill

John Ashton

John Ashton

Butch Duggan

Allyce Beasley

Allyce Beasley

Becka Paulson

Robert Carradine

Robert Carradine

Bryant Brown

Annie Corley

Annie Corley

Marie Brown

Cliff DeYoung

Cliff DeYoung

Joe Paulson