
Scripted series · FOX
Tru Calling
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Tru Calling actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Tru Calling reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and World Building.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S01E02 · Signature episode
Putting Out Fires
When the corpse of a handsome young man asks for Tru's help, she quickly learns he's a determined firefighter killed trying to save two children trapped in an apartment building fire. As Tru tries to change the man's fate, the day gets even more complicated when she develops feelings for him in the episode.

S01E20 · Signature episode
Two Weddings and a Funeral
In the first season-finale episode, Tru and Jack--her sworn nemesis--find themselves on a collision course with the stakes as high as they can be after the body of Tru's brother, Harrison, asks for help. Despite his friendship with Harrison, Jack vows to ensure Harrison's death when the day rewinds. Tru struggles to protect her brother, and the game is on as an epic battle of life and death between Tru and Jack is set in motion. But Tru's attempts to save Harrison will lead to the shocking death of someone very close to her.
- Directed by Michael Katleman
- Written by Jon Harmon Feldman

S01E11 · Signature episode
The Longest Day
Tru is forced to relive a day to rescue a man from getting his heart shot. But her rescue mission takes a dangerous turn when she accidentally sacrifice a shopowner in order to save the man, and she finds herself caught in a loop of rewinding days, and it won't end unless she, herself, find an end.
- Directed by David Grossman

S01E03 · Signature episode
Brother's Keeper
When Tru's brother, Harrison, falls in love with a beautiful young woman, only Tru knows that he could be implicated in the death of the woman's estranged husband. Tru must race against time in order to keep her brother from committing murder or being killed himself
- Directed by Paul Shapiro
- Written by Jon Harmon Feldman

S01E09
Murder in the Morgue
When a dead bride comes into morgue, her devastated financé comes into the morgue. Tru lets him to have some time alone with his loved one. When Davis comes in, he's mad at Tru for letting the man near the body. He finds him removing the bullet from the body. Davis tries to call the security but the man shoots him. He shoots at Tru, but the dead bride asks for help right before the bullet hits Tru. Tru has to find out who was the man, did he kill the bride and why was she killed, and ultimately she needs to save her life.
- Directed by David Solomon
- Written by Chris Levinson, Zack Estrin

S01E16
Two Pair
Tru faces a new dilemma when her day fails to restart after a body asks for help. Fearful that her gift has deserted her, Tru is shocked later that day when a different body's plea forces the day to restart. Now, she must race against the clock to save two people on the same day in different parts of the city. Jack reveals a bit about his sinister intentions.
- Directed by Rick Rosenthal
- Written by Doris Egan
Recently aired
Latest Episodes

S02E06
'Twas the Night Before Christmas... Again
- Directed by Jesús Salvador Treviño
- Written by Zack Estrin


S02E04
The Last Good Day
- Directed by Michael Katleman
- Written by Richard Hatem


S02E01
Perfect Storm
- Directed by Michael Katleman
- Written by Jon Harmon Feldman

S02E02 · Signature episode
Grace
- Directed by Dan Lerner
- Written by Doris Egan
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Jon Harmon Feldman
Showrunner

Neal H. Moritz
Executive producer
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Marty Adelstein
Executive producer

Phillip Noyce
Executive producer
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R.W. Goodwin
Executive producer

Dawn Olmstead
Executive producer
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Chris Brancato
Executive producer

Douglas Petrie
Executive producer
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Robert Doherty
Writer
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William Sind
Writer
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Chris Levinson
Writer

Jane Espenson
Writer
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Richard Hatem
Writer
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Doris Egan
Writer
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Chad Hodge
Writer
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Zack Estrin
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Created by
- Jon Harmon FeldmanCreator
Executive production
- R. W. GoodwinProducer
- Neal H. MoritzExecutive Producer
- Neal H. MoritzProducer
- Robert DohertyProducer
- Marty AdelsteinExecutive Producer
- Marty AdelsteinProducer
Writing
- Robert DohertyWriter
- William SindWriter
- Chris LevinsonWriter
- Jane EspensonWriter
- Richard HatemWriter
- Doris EganWriter
Direction
- Jesús Salvador TreviñoDirector
- Phillip NoyceDirector
- Allan KroekerDirector
- Paul ShapiroDirector
- David SolomonDirector
- Dan LernerDirector
Cinematography
- David MoxnessDirector of Photography
- Robert McLachlanDirector of Photography
Music
- Robert DuncanOriginal Music Composer
- Jason DerlatkaOriginal Music Composer
- Jon EhrlichOriginal Music Composer
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