44 minSeason 1 • Episode 13
LatestWhen three emergency room patients die mysteriously all at once under his care, Mark clashes with his father, a hospital board member, over his contention that he saw several tiny snake-like creatures in the equipment -- but neither is unaware of the sinister force present that coincides with the arrival of a sickly elderly woman. Elmer, Marian and the rest of the ""Others"" rush to help Mark after he is struck down by a phantom illness, and they discover that the missing link might be the geriatric female patient who is deathly fearful of ""the Mora,"" fearsome monsters from Eastern European folklore. When they find talismanic fetishes under the beds of the deceased patients, the Others' suspicions focus on the Russian janitor, but he turns out to be attempting to ward off the evil. The old woman turns out to be a 110-year-old former ballet star who fled the Russian Revolution, leaving her infant son behind, and who is afraid to die until she learns what happened to her son; the Mora are,
The Others is an American TV series created by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, and produced by Delusional Films, NBC and DreamWorks Television. It ran for 13 40-minute episodes from February 5, 2000 to June 10, 2000, airing on NBC in the US, Five in the UK and on Nine in Australia. It concerned a group of people with various psychic talents as they encountered different, and often evil, paranormal forces, Essentially an ensemble show.
Acting
Julianne Nicholson carries fragile dread beautifully.
Production
DreamWorks' failed prestige grab, gorgeous and doomed.
Writing
Brancato/Ferris: Terminator 3 writers doing paranormal soap.
Creators
Michael Ferris, John Brancato
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of NBC's 2000 'supernatural spring' alongside The Pretender and FreakyLinks—all dead by June.
John Billingsley played a professor here before becoming Enterprise's Dr. Phlox; fans call it his 'pre-space weirdo era.'
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