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The Tommyknockers

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"Something wonderful is happening in Haven. Pray it doesn't happen to you."

Release

9 May 1993

Country

United States

Language

English

Production

ABC

Overview

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

Plot

The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of the Tommyknockers.

Cast

Jimmy SmitsMarg HelgenbergerJohn Ashton

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 5.4/10Rotten Tomatoes: 35%

Miniseries

The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of the Tommyknockers.

Air Date:10 May 1993
Available

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.

Runtime:1h 29m
Air Date:10 May 1993Available

Episodes of Miniseries

2 episodes

EP 1
EP 2
S1 E1