Miniseries · ABC
The Tommyknockers
Something wonderful is happening in Haven. Pray it doesn't happen to you.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Jimmy Smits
Jim 'Gard' Gardner
2 eps
Marg Helgenberger
Bobbi Anderson
2 eps
E.G. Marshall
Ev Hillman
2 eps
William Johnson
Elt Barker
2 eps
Joanna Cassidy
Ruth Merrill
2 eps
John Ashton
Butch Duggan
2 eps
Allyce Beasley
Becka Paulson
2 eps
Robert Carradine
Bryant Brown
2 eps
Annie Corley
Marie Brown
2 eps
Cliff DeYoung
Joe Paulson
2 eps
Traci Lords
Nancy Voss
2 eps
Chuck Henry
Chaz Stewart
2 eps
Leon Woods
Hilly Brown
2 eps
Paul McIver
Davey Brown
2 eps
Yvonne Lawley
Mabel Noyes
2 eps
John Steemson
Barney Applegate
2 eps
Rick Leckinger
Jingles
2 eps
Peter Rowley
Benton Rhodes
2 eps
John Sumner
Mr. Arberg
2 eps
Elizabeth Hawthorne
Patricia McCardle
2 eps
Craig Parker
Student Bartender
2 eps
Larry Sanitsky
Neurologist
2 eps
Helen Medlyn
Neurologist #2
2 eps
Jim McLarty
Dr. Etheridge
2 eps
Daniel Bieber
Boy at Vet
2 eps
Timothy Bartlett
Mr. Allison
2 eps
Karyn Malchus
Tommyknocker
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Tommyknockers actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Tommyknockers reads strongest on Bingeability, World Building and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutants.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 2 episodes.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Jayne BieberProducer
- Lawrence D. CohenProducer
- Frank KonigsbergExecutive Producer
- Larry SanitskyExecutive Producer
- Jane ScottProducer
Writing
- Lawrence D. CohenWriter
Direction
- John PowerDirector
Cinematography
- Dan BurstallDirector of Photography
- David EggbyDirector of Photography
Where to watch
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