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Revision as of 13:56, 5 January 2012 by Drovethrughosts (talk | contribs) (Undid revision 469664497 by 78.145.93.81 (talk) unsourced)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Firefly first aired in 2002 on Fox, although the episodes were aired out of the intended order. Three of the fourteen episodes went unaired in the original broadcasts by Fox, but were subsequently aired on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK. A sequel movie, Serenity, was released in 2005.
The entire series and the movie are available on all DVD regions and available on Blu-ray.
Episodes
The fourteen episodes of the series are listed below in the order originally intended.
| # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Serenity" | Joss Whedon | Joss Whedon | December 20, 2002 (2002-12-20) | 1AGE79 |
| Malcolm Reynolds is a veteran and the captain of Serenity. He and his crew are smuggling goods, but they need to pick up some passengers for extra money. However, not all the passengers are what they seem. | |||||
| 2 | "The Train Job" | Joss Whedon | Joss Whedon & Tim Minear | September 20, 2002 (2002-09-20) | 1AGE01 |
| The crew of Serenity takes on a train heist commissioned by a crime lord. They steal the goods, only to find it is medicine that is desperately needed by the town. | |||||
| 3 | "Bushwhacked" | Tim Minear | Tim Minear | September 27, 2002 (2002-09-27) | 1AGE02 |
| Serenity is pulled in by an Alliance cruiser while investigating a spaceship that was attacked by Reavers. Simon and River must hide to prevent capture, while something is wrong with the lone survivor of the attacked spaceship. | |||||
| 4 | "Shindig" | Vern Gillum | Jane Espenson | November 1, 2002 (2002-11-01) | 1AGE03 |
| Inara attends a formal society dance, only to find Malcolm there as well, attempting to set up a smuggling job. Mal comes to blows with Inara's conceited date and finds himself facing a duel with a renowned swordsman, and only one night to learn how to fence. | |||||
| 5 | "Safe" | Michael Grossman | Drew Z. Greenberg | November 8, 2002 (2002-11-08) | 1AGE04 |
| Mal must choose which crew members to save when one is gravely wounded and two others are kidnapped. Simon finds an uneasy haven in a remote village, but River's uncanny perceptions jeopardize the Tams' temporary safety. | |||||
| 6 | "Our Mrs. Reynolds" | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Joss Whedon | October 4, 2002 (2002-10-04) | 1AGE05 |
| As an unexpected reward for an unpaid job, Mal finds himself married to a naïve, subservient young woman named Saffron. The crew are amused at his discomfort and Book lectures him on propriety, but things are not as smoothly straightforward as they thought them to be. | |||||
| 7 | "Jaynestown" | Marita Grabiak | Ben Edlund | October 18, 2002 (2002-10-18) | 1AGE06 |
| Returning to a planet where he ran into some serious trouble years ago, Jayne discovers that he's become a local folk legend. Mal decides to use this entertaining distraction to complete a job, but some unfinished business may derail his plans. | |||||
| 8 | "Out of Gas" | David Solomon | Tim Minear | October 25, 2002 (2002-10-25) | 1AGE07 |
| After Serenity suffers a catastrophe that leaves her crew with only hours of oxygen, flashbacks show how Mal and Zoe acquired Serenity and assembled their motley band. | |||||
| 9 | "Ariel" | Allan Kroeker | Jose Molina | November 15, 2002 (2002-11-15) | 1AGE08 |
| Hard up for cash, Serenity takes on a job from Simon: help him get a thorough diagnostic of River in return for the opportunity to loot the vast medical stores of an Alliance hospital on central world Ariel. But River's pursuers are hot on their trail, and they receive some unexpected inside help. | |||||
| 10 | "War Stories" | James A. Contner | Cheryl Cain | December 6, 2002 (2002-12-06) | 1AGE09 |
| Angered at Zoe's unshakable war connection to Mal, Wash demands a shot at a field assignment. Unfortunately, crime lord Niska chooses this moment to exact a brutal vengeance for Mal's failure to complete an earlier job. | |||||
| 11 | "Trash" | Vern Gillum | Ben Edlund & Jose Molina | June 28, 2003 (2003-06-28) | 1AGE12 |
| Saffron returns to plague Serenity with a scheme to steal a rare antique weapon from a wealthy landowner. Unfortunately for Mal, she neglects to mention just how she came across the information needed to break into the landowner's home. | |||||
| 12 | "The Message" | Tim Minear | Joss Whedon & Tim Minear | July 15, 2003 (2003-07-15) | 1AGE13 |
| A former Independence soldier who had served with Mal and Zoe returns in a dramatic manner, with a vicious Alliance officer chasing after him for some unusual smuggled goods. | |||||
| 13 | "Heart of Gold" | Thomas J. Wright | Brett Matthews | August 19, 2003 (2003-08-19) | 1AGE10 |
| A Companion-trained friend of Inara's who runs a brothel on a remote planet calls for help from Serenity when a local bigwig reveals his intentions to take the baby from a girl he impregnated. | |||||
| 14 | "Objects in Space" | Joss Whedon | Joss Whedon | December 13, 2002 (2002-12-13) | 1AGE11 |
| Serenity encounters a ruthlessly professional bounty hunter, Jubal Early, who will stop at nothing to retrieve River. But River, feeling unwelcome on the ship, takes a novel approach to escaping from the long arm of the Alliance. | |||||
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