Mysterious Ways (TV series)
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| Created by | Peter O'Fallon |
| Written by |
Peter O'Fallon Carl Binder Dawn Ritchie Steven Barwin Melissa Byer Treena Hancock |
| Starring |
Adrian Pasdar Rae Dawn Chong Alisen Down |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| No. of episodes | 44 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Lionsgate Television Paxson Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | CTV / Pax (Seasons 1-2) / NBC (Seasons 1-2) |
| Original release | July 24, 2000 – May 14, 2002 |
Mysterious Ways is a Canadian/American television science fiction/drama series that was produced in-house by what was once PAX TV, in association with Lionsgate Television and CTV. The show first aired in the United States in 2000 on PAX. NBC, which had a minority interest in PAX, aired the show during the summer months. Mysterious Ways was created by Peter O'Fallon, but was written and directed by a number of people. It was cancelled in 2002 after two seasons. Mysterious Ways currently airs in syndication on VisionTV in Canada.
The series focuses on the search for explanations of, and evidence for, seemingly miraculous phenomena. This search is carried out by the protagonist Declan Dunn (Adrian Pasdar). Declan is a professor of anthropology at the Northern University of Oregon and is often compared with Indiana Jones due to his energetic enthusiasm for solving a mystery. His passion for miraculous events has its roots in a self-experienced mischance of being caught in an avalanche and getting out alive. He considers this to be miraculous and attributes it as the turning point in his life. In several episodes he makes references to this event and the impact it had on his life.
Always ready to help out with the research, though sometimes they appear slightly reluctant, are Declan's close friends Dr. Peggy Fowler (Rae Dawn Chong), a psychiatrist at a nearby hospital, and Miranda Feigelsteen (Alisen Down), a physics graduate student and Declan's research assistant. Peggy is the most levelheaded of the three and is generally the one presenting the mundane alternatives to Declan's theories. (However, her so-called "rational explanations" often provide no explanation whatsoever, e.g. "It was just a freak occurrence".)
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