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Supernatural
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Supernatural Title Card
Created byEric Kripke
StarringJared Padalecki
Jensen Ackles
Country of originUSA
No. of episodes22
Production
Running time60 min (per episode, plus commercials)
Original release
NetworkThe WB
ReleaseSeptember 13, 2005 –
present

Supernatural is an American paranormal/horror/thriller/drama-themed television series that debuted on September 13, 2005 on the WB Television Network, (the show is aired on ITV2 in the UK). The show follows brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, who travel across the country in a black 1967 Chevy Impala investigating paranormal events and other unexplained occurrences.

Story

Template:Spoiler When Sam Winchester was an infant and his brother Dean was four years old, their mother, Mary, was murdered. Her husband, John, saw blood dripping onto Sam's cradle, looked up, and found his wife pinned to the ceiling, her midsection sliced open. A moment later she burst into flames. John told Dean to take baby Sam outside and made a desperate and futile attempt to save his wife while the house was consumed by flames.

After a psychic told John that a demon was responsible for Mary's death, he became obsessed with finding the thing. He trained his sons to recognize and defend themselves against paranormal entities. Sam and Dean became resourceful sleuths and competent fighters in order to assist their father in his quest to destroy dangerous creatures and find the demon that had killed Mary.

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Jared Padalecki (left) and Jensen Ackles (right)

Sam eventually had a falling-out with his father and left to live a "normal" life. He attended prestigious Stanford University on a full scholarship and lived with a girlfriend, Jessica, in an apartment near campus. Then one autumn night in Sam's senior year, Dean appeared, bearing the news that their father had gone missing while on a "hunting trip." Sam reluctantly agreed to help Dean look for their father.

The brothers traced John to Jericho, California, where they found more clues about their father's location and helped solve a murder mystery. But Sam declined his brother's invitation to continue the search and conduct more hunts, opting instead to return to his life with Jessica. Unfortunately, shortly after arriving in his apartment he found her pinned to the bedroom ceiling and bleeding from the abdomen. As Sam watched helplessly, she burst into flames.

Dean rescued his brother from the burning apartment, and the bereaved Sam decided to resume the search for the demon who killed his mother and his girlfriend. The Winchester boys then picked up the trail of clues leading to the whereabouts of their missing father.

Current cast

Production companies

Supernatural is a Warner Bros. Television Production Inc., in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision. From executive producers McG and Peter Johnson with writer/executive producer/creator Eric Kripke and director/executive producer David Nutter (Without a Trace, Smallville, Band of Brothers, The West Wing, ER, The X-Files)

The show is also expected to make the jump to the new CW Network for the 2006-2007 television season when the WB shuts down operations in September 2006.

Episodes

Season 1 List (2005–2006)

  • 1.01 - Pilot
  • 1.02 - Wendigo
  • 1.03 - Dead in the Water
  • 1.04 - Phantom Traveler
  • 1.05 - Bloody Mary
  • 1.06 - Skin
  • 1.07 - Hook Man
  • 1.08 - Bugs
  • 1.09 - Home
  • 1.10 - Asylum
  • 1.11 - Scarecrow
  • 1.12 - Faith
  • 1.13 - Route 666
  • 1.14 - Nightmare
  • 1.15 - The Benders
  • 1.16 - Shadow
  • 1.17 - Hell House
  • 1.18 - Something Wicked
  • 1.19 - Provenance
  • 1.20 - Dead Man's Blood
  • 1.21 - Salvation
  • 1.22 - Devil's Trap

Episode Summaries

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Season 1

Sam is about to graduate from Stanford and has an interview set up to join one of the most prestigious law schools in the country. His brother Dean, whom he has not seen since he went to college, shows up at his house in the middle of the night to tell him that their father went missing while on a hunting trip. Leaving his girlfriend behind to find their dad, Sam joins Dean in an effort to find their father in a little town called Jericho, where unmarried men have been disappearing without a trace. The culprit is found to be a "Woman in White," a ghost who preys on unfaithful men. When Sam returns home at the end of the episode, he finds his girlfriend murdered by the same demon that murdered his mother, causing him to leave his old life behind and join Dean in demon hunting and trying to find their father.
Sam and Dean pose as park rangers to help a brother and sister search for their lost sibling, who the Winchester brothers believe may have been taken by a Wendigo.
While going through the newspaper, Dean comes across a mysterious drowning victim. Upon further research they soon discover more people who have drowned in the same lake, but their bodies were never found. When the boys show up in town they befriend a boy whose father has drowned. The brothers come to believe the lake is haunted by a spirit.
While on the road, Dean and Sam get a phone call from a man who had received help from Dean and their father some time ago about a poltergeist. They end up going through a series of routines, involving a demon which manifests itself through those with psychological issues and causes planes to crash after they have been in the air for forty minutes.
Dean and Sam go to Toledo, Ohio to investigate the mysterious death of a man who lost his eyes. Skeptical at first for several reasons, including that their dad never found evidence that the urban legend indeed existed, the Winchester brothers come to the conclusion that Bloody Mary is haunting the town through a mirror on which a murder victim (named Mary) attempted to write the name of her killer before dying.
Sam learns that one of his old college friends, Zach, has been arrested for murdering his girlfriend. Sam convinces Dean that they should go see Zach's sister, Rebecca, who insists that Zach is innocent. The brothers help her investigate the murder and soon discover that the real culprit is a being with shapeshifting abilities. Things get even more complicated when the shapeshifter takes the form of Dean.
Dean and Sam visit a town pretending to be new college students to investigate the death of one of the other students, who was found hanging upside down above the car he and his girlfriend were in. The girlfriend, a reverend's daughter, says the attacker was invisible. More attacks occur, all connected to the reverend's daughter. The Winchester brothers discover the legendary Hook Man is behind the attacks, and that the reverend's daughter is unknowingly summoning him. Note: The Hookman urban legend as portrayed in the episode differs from the commonly held legend.
Dean and Sam arrive in a town checking up a report of a mysterious death of a contractor on a new housing development. They stop at a realtor's open house barbecue to learn more. Sam meets the realtor's son Matt, who is fascinated with bugs. Soon the town is invaded by swarms of deadly bugs, and there may be no way out.
Sam has nightmares of their old home, the brothers return to Lawrence, Kansas to investigate. They discover that a new family has moved into the old Winchester's home, and the woman is the one that Sam has been dreaming about. The family has been hearing and seeing frightening things, and the brothers think it might be haunted by the thing that killed their mother. They enlist the help of their father's psychic friend, Missori, to rid the house of the angry poltergeist.
After receiving a tip from their father, Sam and Dean travel to Rockford, Illinois to investigate the haunted Roosevelt Asylum. An evil force inside causes Sam to lose his sanity and turn on his brother.
Sam and Dean are urged by their father to uncover the reason behind the mysterious disappearances of young couples in a rural Indiana town. It is revealed in this episode that a dark force is conspiring against the remaining members of the Winchester family and a young woman named "Meg" is introduced as the daughter, if taken in the literal sense, of a possible central antagonist who is dogging the brothers' every step. Note: This episode aired out of its sequential production order.
While battling a demon, Dean is electrocuted, resulting in permanent damage to his heart and leaving him with only a couple of months to live. A despondent Sam searches desperately for a way to save his brother and believes he may have found an answer through a preacher who claims to heal the incurable. However, Dean and Sam discover that the preacher is getting help from a reaper (who is being controled by the preachers wife) trading one life for another she (the wife) feels is less worthy.
Dean is contacted by his first love Cassie (Megalyn Echikunwoke), a multiracial (African-American and Caucasian) girl, who asks him to come to Mississippi to investigate a string of racially motivated murders. Each murder is linked to a mysterious truck that seems to have no driver and leave no tracks.
Sam has a premonition that a man was killed, but the murder is made to look like a suicide. Sam and Dean goes to investigate the case, but the two are puzzled when they fail to find anything that indicates the death is supernatural until they meet Max (Brendan Fletcher), the son of the first victim, who has been using his recently acquired telekinesis power to kill his family members that used to abuse him. Sam also discovers that Max's mother was killed by the same fiery demon that took his mom.
Sam and Dean head to Minnesota where a young boy (Ryan Drescher) witnesses a man vanish into thin air. Upon searching for clues, Sam is abducted by what he assumes is a supernatural being, and Dean is left to team up with a female cop to search for his brother. However, they are stunned when they realize the kidnappers are human.
While investigating a mysterious death in Chicago, Sam and Dean run into Meg, who is thrilled to see Sam again. The brothers soon discover Meg is behind the murders and attempt to catch her. Unfortunately, Meg is one step ahead of them and unleashes shadow spirits on the brothers to ambush them. Sam and Dean realize the trap isn't for them, but for their father.
Sam and Dean investigate a house haunted by the ghost of Mordecai, a man who killed his six daughters during the 1930s. The brothers discover a website dedicated to the Mordecai legend and realize the town is unknowingly conjuring up the evil spirit through the site.
Sam and Dean investigate a small town in Wisconsin where children are falling into comas for no apparent reason. The brothers discover that a Shtriga is creeping into the bedrooms of the children and stealing their "life force." While battling the Shtriga, Dean recalls a past mistake that almost cost Sam his life at the hands of the very same witch, an event which has fueled Dean's protectiveness over Sam and his blind obedience to his father.
A young couple is murdered in their home shortly after buying an antique painting of a family portrait circa 1910. Upon reviewing the painting's provenance, Sam and Dean learn that everyone who has ever bought the painting has been murdered and race to discover how the portrait is causing the deaths before it can claim its next victim.
After Daniel Elkins, a vampire hunter and John's mentor, is murdered, Sam and Dean are surprised when John himself shows up to solve the case. John discovers the vampires have taken an antique gun, which has the power to kill all supernatural beings. The Winchester family sets out to retrieve the gun from the vampires so they can use it to kill the demon that took Sam and Dean's mother.
Sam has a vision of a family being attacked in the same manner as the attack on his mom, so he, Dean and John head off to Salvation, Iowa, to save this family and finally kill the demon using the Colt gun. However, Meg calls and lets the family know she is going to start killing their friends unless they return the gun. John meets Meg to deliver a fake gun, while the boys are left to deal with the demon.
On a mission to save their father from Meg, Sam and Dean seek help from an old family friend, Bobby (guest star Jim Beaver). When Meg shows up on Bobby's doorstep, the brothers lure her into a trap and exorcise the demon from her body after learning where John is being held prisoner. While trying to rescue John, the demon shows up and a full battle ensues between the Winchesters and the demon they have been searching for all their lives.

Trivia

  • The shows are filmed in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and in California, USA.
  • The show, similar to fellow sci-fi show Lost, does not have an opening credit sequence or theme music, only a title card. Most episodes have a brief recap of the show's back story and important events. The episode "Salvation" featured an extended, music-video-style recap set to "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas.
  • The car Sam and Dean drive is a 1967 Chevrolet Impala. The show has five black Impalas that they use. The car has been nicknamed the "Metallicar" by fans of the show.
  • In "Dead in the Water," Sam and Dean introduce themselves as Agents Ford and Hamill, the surnames of Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill, both main actors in the Star Wars series of films.
  • In the "Phantom Traveler" episode, Dean hums "Some Kind of Monster" by Metallica on the plane. He also introduces himself as Agent James Hetfield (the lead singer of Metallica) in the same episode.
  • The website that Sam discovers in "Hell House" is www.hellhoundslair.com, a website created by the show's producers.
  • In the episode "Something Wicked," Sam researches the Shtriga at the local library, finding newspaper reports of similar deaths in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook -- the same three cities monorails were sold to in The Simpsons episode "Marge vs. the Monorail".
  • Supernatural premiered on ITV1 in the United Kingdom in early 2006 (although the show is exclusive to ITV2 in the UK).
  • In "Provenance," one of the cars panned past has the vanity licence plate "The Krip." This is a shout-out to writer/executive producer/creator Eric Kripke.
  • In "Nightmare," Sam and Dean introduce themselves as Father Simmons and Father Frehley, the bassist and lead guitarist of the rock band KISS.
  • Early on in the series, Dean's cell number is given, and for a while the studio had it set up so that anyone dialing the number would hear Jensen Ackles reading the message: "This is Dean Winchester. If this is an emergency, leave a message. If you are calling about 11-2-83, page me with your coordinates."
  • On the Supernatural's interactive website, the code to unlock the Winchesters' weapons trunk is 11-02-83 (the day their mother died).
  • The building in which the episode "Asylum" was filmed is real closed-down asylum that is rumored to be actually haunted.
  • In the episode "Salvation," a meeting location is given as being at the corner of Wabash and Lake, an address used several times in the movie The Matrix.
  • The show has made several references to The X-Files. For instance, in the Pilot episode, Dean jokingly calls two FBI agents as Mulder and Scully.
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