TekWar (TV series)

TekWar
Genre	Science fiction
Directed by	William Shatner George Bloomfield
Starring	Greg Evigan Eugene Clark William Shatner Maria del Mar
Theme music composer	David Michael Frank
Ending theme	"Real or Not"
Composer(s)	Warren Zevon Fred Mollin
Country of origin	Canada United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	22 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	William Shatner Peter Sussman Hans Beimler Richard Manning
Editor(s)	Bill Goddard Dave Goard Gary L. Smith
Location(s)	Toronto, Canada
Production company(s)	Atlantis Films Limited Western International Communications Lemli Productions Universal City Studios
Broadcast
Original channel	CTV USA Network
Picture format	4:3
Audio format	Dolby Surround
Original run	January 25, 1994 (1994-01-25) – February 9, 1996 (1996-02-09)

TekWar is a series of television films and a television series, based on the TekWar novels. Greg Evigan played Cardigan in the television adaptation. The films were produced in 1994 and the TV series produced from 1995 to 1996.^[1] The series was a Canadian production, filmed in Toronto, Canada, in association with United States studios and aired in the United States during Universal Television's Action Pack. Koch Entertainment released the complete television series without the four television films on DVD in Canada in 2004. Image Entertainment released the complete series without the four television films on DVD, June 10, 2008. On May 24, 2011, Alliance Home Entertainment released TekWar: The Complete Series on DVD in Canada. This 7-disc set includes the four telefilms.

Cast

Main cast

• Greg Evigan as Jake Cardigan
• Eugene Clark as Sid Gomez
• William Shatner as Walter H. Bascom
• Maria del Mar as Sam Houston

Recurring cast

• Torri Higginson as Beth Kittridge
• Laurie Holden as Rachel Tudor
• Von Flores as Sonny Hokori
• Marc Marut as Danny Cardigan
• Natalie Radford as Nika
• Maurice Dean Wint as Lt. Winger, an android

Guest stars

• Sheena Easton as Warbride
• Sandahl Bergman as Valkyrie

Television films

1. TekWar (sometimes called Tekwar: The Movie)
2. TekLords
3. TekLab
4. TekJustice (also marketed as Tekjustice: The Final Showdown)

Television series

The TekWar television series aired from December, 1994 to February, 1996^[2] on CTV. With the TV films included, the series is sometimes considered Season Two.^[3]

Episodes

1. "Sellout"
2. "Unknown Soldier"
3. "Tek Posse"
4. "Promises To Keep"
5. "Alter Ego"
6. "Stay Of Execution"
7. "Killer Instinct"
8. "Chill Factor"
9. "Deadline"
10. "Carlotta's Room"
11. "Deep Cover"
12. "Cyber Hunt"
13. "Zero Tolerance"
14. "Forget Me Not"
15. "The Gate"
16. "Skin Deep"
17. "Redemption"
18. "Betrayal"

DVD releases

On June 10, 2008, Image Entertainment released a 3-disc set featuring all 18 episodes of the series on DVD in the US.^[4] However, the original television film and "sequels" are not part of this collection.

On May 24, 2011, Alliance Home Entertainment released TekWar: The Complete Series on DVD in Canada.^[5] This 7-disc set includes the four telefilms (previously unavailable on DVD) listed as episodes 1 through 4 of 22, and are elsewhere described in the packaging as "The Original 4-Part Pilot!" Both English and French audio is available on all episodes, but no extras.

Notes

1. ^ http://www.retrovisionmag.com/tekworld.htm
2. ^ http://epguides.com/TekWar
3. ^ http://net.saipan.com/personal/mac/tv.html
4. ^ http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=10053
5. ^ http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/TekWar-The-Complete-Series/15257

External links

• TekWar: The Movies
• Original TV movie at the Internet Movie Database
• TekWar at TV.com
• TV series at the Internet Movie Database
• TekWar: TekLords at the Internet Movie Database
• TekWar: TekLab at the Internet Movie Database
• TekWar: TekJustice at the Internet Movie Database