The Tommyknockers (1993)

Country of Origin: USA
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1993
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 2
Average Episode Running Times: 84 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: Dolby

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Konigsberg / Sanitsky Company
Executive Producers: Frank Konigsberg, Larry Sanitsky
Producers: Jayne Bieber, Jane Scott
Co-Producer: Lawrence D. Cohen
Unit Production Manager: Jane Gilbert
Unit Managers: Joan Petch, Peta Sinclair

SCRIPT
Script: Lawrence D. Cohen
Novel: Stephen King

DIRECTION
Director: John Power
1st Assistant Director: Chris Webb
2nd Assistant Director: John Martin

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Dan Burstall, David Eggby
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Donny Duncan
Camera Operator: David Williamson
1st Assistant Camera: Darrin Keough
Assistant Camera: Neil Cervin
Gaffer: Danny Thompson
Key Grip: Dennis Williams

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Tod Feuerman
Additional Editor: Michael S. Murphy
Associate Editor: Scot J. Kelly
Assistant Editor: Terry Blythe

MUSIC
Music: Christopher Franke
Conductor: Allan Wagner
Music Producer / Recordist: Richard E. Roth
Music Editor: Marty Wereski

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Fred Schultz
Sound Re-Recording Mixers: Gary Bolger, Larry Stensvold, Tom Perry
Supervising Sound Editor: Richard Taylor
Co-Supervising Sound Editor: Peter Austin
Sound Editors: David Beadle, Peter Bergren, Ken Gladden, Sonya Henry, Gary Lewis, Myron Nettinga, Brian Thomas Nist, Adam Sawelson, Matt Sawelson, Bruce Tanis
ADR Editors: James Hebenstreit, Albert Edmund Lord III
Sound Effects Editor: Myron Nettinga

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Marjory Hamlin
Make Up: Francia Smeets
Key Hair: Joan Petch
Hair: Francia Smeets
Assistant Costume Designer: Caroline Skakel
Costume Consultant: Taryn Dechellis

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Coordinator: Kevin Chisnall
Alien Supervisors: Brian Penikas, Richard Taylor, Vance Hartwell
Mechanical Props Supervisor: Tad Pride

Alterian Studios Inc
Tommyknocker Design and Creation Project Supervisor: Tony Gardner
Tommyknocker Design and Creation Project Coordinator: John Henry Jr

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Richard Malzahn
Visual Effects Producer: Jenny Fulle
Matte Artist: Jesse Silver

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Bernard Hides
Art Directors: Virginia Bieneman, Kim Sinclair
Set Designer: Neil Kirkland
Props: Chris Hollyer
Standby Props: Mark Brown
Scenic Artist: Ray Pedler
Graphic Designer: Sue Mercer
Harry Artist: Peter Remmers

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Lynn-Maree Danzey
Production Accountant: Dianne Cheek Blasco
Assistant Production Accountant: Bonnie Weis

LOCATIONS
Locations: New Zealand
Location Manager: Maude Heath

CASTING
Casting: Judith Holstra
Additional Casting: Maggie Maxwell

CAST
Jimmy Smits (Jim 'Gard' Gardner)
Marg Helgenberger (Bobbi Anderson)
John Ashton (Butch Duggan)
Allyce Beasley (Becka Paulson)
Robert Carradine (Bryant Brown)
Joanna Cassidy (Sheriff Ruth)
Annie Corley (Marie Brown)
Cliff De Young (Joe Paulson)
Traci Lords (Nancy Voss
E.G. Marshall (Ev Hillman)
Chuck Henry (Chaz Stewart)
Leon Woods (Hilly Brown)
Paul McIver (Davey Brown)
Yvonne Lawley (Mabel Noyes)
Bill Johnson (Elt Barker)
John Steemson (Barney Applegate)
Rick Leckinger (Jingles)
Peter Rowley (Benton Rhodes)
John Sumner (Mr Arberg)
Elizabeth Hawthorne (Patricia McCardle)
Craig Parker (student bartender)
Kay Helgenberger (Pearl)
Larry Sanitsky (neurologist)
Helen Medlyn (neurologist 2)
Jim McLarty (Dr Etheridge)
Daniel Bieber (boy at vet)
Timothy Bartlett (Mr Allison)
Karyn Malchus (Tommyknocker)
Dean Busch (Maine State Trooper)

PLOT SUMMARY

There are strange things afoot in the small US town of Haven - the locals are starting to invent strange devices powered by a strange green power source and they're digging something up in the woods. A UFO is being uncovered, a craft brought to Earth by the alien Tommyknockers...

Australia
Video Distributor: Warner Home Video

USA
Television Distributor: Vidmark Entertainment
DVD Distributor: Trimark Home Video (M 6842D)

Australia
Rating: PG

Germany
Rating: 16

UK
Rating: 15

USA
Rating: R

1993
May
9: USA - television broadcast (on ABC)

1995
January
3: UK - television broadcast (on Sky One)

August
8: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

1998
September
8: USA - DVD release (Trimark Home Video (M 6842D))

2003
July
18: UK - part one television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
20: UK - part two television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)

A chilling thriller from the master of horror.

You Can't Run. You Can't Hide. You Can Only Become... One Of Them.

Knackarna - Swedish title
Kolkuttajat - Finnish title
Rémkoppantók - Hungarian title
Stephen King's The Tommyknockers
Stephen Kings Tommyknockers - German title
Les tommyknockers - French title

1993
Emmy Awards, USA
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special (Richard Taylor, Peter Austin, David Beadle, Peter Bergren, Ken Gladden, Sonya Henry, Gary Lewis, Myron Nettinga, Brian Thomas Nist, Adam Sawelson, Matt Sawelson, Bruce Tanis, James Hebenstreit, Albert Edmund Lord III, Marty Wereski) – nominated (for part II)

SEE ALSO
Cujo (1983)
Dreamcatcher (2003)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

OnFilm vol.9 no.9 (October 1992) p.6 (New Zealand)
production notes

OnFilm vol.9 no.10 (November 1992) p.6 (New Zealand)
article

Sight and Sound vol.3 no.10 (October 1993) p.60 (UK)
note

Starburst no.179 (July 1993) pp.28-29 (UK)
illustrated review

Starburst Monster Special no.19 (1994) pp.4-7 (UK)
illustrated interview

KEYWORDS

alcoholics, alcoholism, aliens, book into film, dogs, esp, inventions, mind reading, premonitions, psychics, space, strait-jackets, the supernatural, ufos, writers

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009