List of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a science fiction drama series developed for the Fox Broadcasting Company by Josh Friedman. The series follows the characters of Sarah and John Connor (portrayed by Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker, respectively) after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. In the pilot, the pair are transported from 1999 to 2007 by a terminator named Cameron Phillips (Summer Glau) who was sent back from 2027 to protect John. From that point, the show chronicles the trio's attempt to stop the computer system Skynet from going online, triggering a nuclear holocaust and declaring war on mankind in an apocalyptic future.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles premiered on Sunday, January 13, 2008 after the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys playoff game at 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central to the highest ratings for a scripted television program on Fox in seven years and the most viewers for a scripted show on the network in eight years. Additionally, it also had the highest ratings of a scripted program debut during prime time among adults 18–34 and 18–49 (key demographics for advertisers) in three years and the most viewers for a scripted program premiere in two years. A second episode followed the next day, Monday, in the show's regular timeslot at 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central.
Due to the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, only nine of the original thirteen episodes for the first season were completed.
The producers of the show announced that it was renewed for a second season, initially for only 13 episodes. The new season began airing on September 8, 2008 in the United States. On October 17, 2008 the network gave the show a full second season order, bringing the total number of season 2 episodes to 22. The series went on a brief hiatus mid-season, from December 16, 2008, to February 13, 2009. When it returned, it was scheduled with Joss Whedon's Dollhouse on Friday nights.
A total of 31 episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles aired before the series was cancelled on May 18, 2009.
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Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 9 | January 13, 2008 | March 3, 2009 | |
| 2 | 22 | September 8, 2008 | April 10, 2009 | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2008)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | David Nutter | Josh Friedman | January 13, 2008 | 276022 | 18.36 |
| In 1999, after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah Connor and her son, John Connor, are fugitives from the police and FBI. In the series opener, Sarah and John move to a small town in New Mexico; a Terminator named Cromartie attacks John's school; a reprogrammed Terminator named Cameron transports Sarah and John to 2007, where they will battle Skynet. Meanwhile, FBI Agent James Ellison becomes obsessed with finding Sarah. | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Gnothi Seauton | David Nutter | Josh Friedman | January 14, 2008 | 3T6851 | 10.08 |
| Three days after they arrive in 2007, Cameron takes Sarah to get new identities from four resistance fighters who were also sent back. Finding three dead, one missing and another terminator whom the pair fight off, Sarah elects to visit Enrique to obtain new IDs. Meanwhile John grows frustrated at being contained in the house; Sarah is told by Cameron that she died from cancer in 2005, and remnants of Cromartie begin to reassemble. The episode ends with Sarah taking tests, clearly frightened by what Cameron had told her. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Turk" | Paul Edwards | John Wirth | January 21, 2008 | 3T6852 | 8.65 |
| As Sarah tracks down a new lead into the creation of Skynet, she becomes involved with a cell phone salesman called Andy, who is constructing a chess-playing computer named The Turk. John and Cameron attempt to remain inconspicuous in their new high school, which proves difficult when John attempts to stop a girl from committing suicide. Cromartie continues its search for a biological covering while Agent Ellison attempts to solve the case of the three dead fighters from the previous episode. | |||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Heavy Metal" | Sergio Mimica Gezzan | John Enbom | February 4, 2008 | 3T6854 | 8.84 |
| While searching through stolen cargo, John becomes separated from his mother and he discovers how unsafe the future has become. | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Queen's Gambit" | Matt Earl Beesley | Natalie Chaidez | February 11, 2008 | 3T6853 | 8.34 |
| When Sarah's friend Andy reveals that he reprogrammed his chess-playing prototype and is going to submit it into a chess competition, she worries about the computer's capabilities and comes face-to-face with the man who's been following her. Cameron gets called into grief counseling. John makes a new friend in shop class. Cromartie poses as FBI agent Robert Kester, and Agent Ellison finds a terminator hand. | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Dungeons & Dragons" | Jeffrey Hunt | Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz | February 18, 2008 | 3T6858 | 8.09 |
| While receiving medical treatment Derek Reese (Brian Austin Green) has flashbacks of his life in the future, and his personal battle against the machines. Meanwhile, Sarah finds herself trying to explain the past to Charley. | |||||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Demon Hand" | Charles Beeson | Toni Graphia | February 25, 2008 | 3T6855 | 7.12 |
| When Sarah breaks into Agent Ellison's apartment looking for the missing T-888 endo-arm, she finds dossiers, files and videos from her stay in the mental hospital and John learns what it took her to escape. The files lead Ellison to hospital psychiatrist Dr. Peter Silberman, a doomsday convert who made Sarah's hospital stay unbearable. Meanwhile, Cameron enrolls in a ballet class taught by Dmitri's sister, in an effort to track down his whereabouts and find out who has The Turk. | |||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Vick's Chip" | J. Miller Tobin | Daniel T. Thomsen | March 3, 2008 | 3T6857 | 7.98 |
| John and Derek are at odds when John disagrees with Derek's suspicions about Cameron, while Sarah attempts to reacquire the Turk. Sarah, John, Cameron, and Derek work together to disable Skynet's future surveillance network. | |||||||
| 9 | 9 | "What He Beheld" | Mike Rohl | Ian Goldberg | March 3, 2008 | 3T6856 | 8.29 |
| Negotiation for the Turk proves tougher than expected with a mysterious businessman. Agent Ellison and an HRT team try to take down Cromartie posing as FBI agent Robert Kester. Derek takes John out for his birthday where they meet the young brothers Derek and Kyle Reese, John's father. Cameron's fate is left unknown, as the first season comes to a close. (This episode makes prominent use of Johnny Cash's song, "The Man Comes Around".) | |||||||
Season 2 (2008–09)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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