Oz (TV series)
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| Genre | |
| Created by | Tom Fontana |
| Written by | Tom Fontana Bradford Winters Sunil Nayar Sean Jablonski Sean Whitesell |
| Starring |
Kirk Acevedo Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Ernie Hudson Terry Kinney Christopher Meloni George Morfogen Rita Moreno Harold Perrineau J. K. Simmons Lee Tergesen Eamonn Walker Dean Winters |
| Theme music composer | Steve Rosen Dave Darlington |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 56 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Tom Fontana Barry Levinson Jim Finnerty |
| Producer(s) | Debbie Sarjeant Mark A. Baker Irene Burns Bridget Potter Jorge Zamacona Greer Yeaton |
| Editor(s) | Deborah Moran |
| Running time | 55 minutes |
| Production company(s) | The Levinson/Fontana Company Viacom Productions (2000-2002) Rysher Entertainment HBO Original Programming |
| Distributor |
North America Warner Bros. Television HBO Enterprises International CBS Studios International |
| Release | |
| Original network | HBO |
| Original release | July 12, 1997 – February 23, 2003 |
| Website | |
Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by the premium cable network HBO.Oz premiered on July 12, 1997 and ran for six seasons; the series finale aired February 23, 2003.
"Oz" is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a fictional level 4 maximum-security state prison, apparently in New York (given the New York state flag and motto seen in the background when public officials are shown speaking publicly, references to "upstate", a term commonly used in New York, and the format of the prisoner ID numbers). The prison is most likely named after New York Commissioner of Correctional Services Russell George Oswald, who was the head of New York's penal system at the time of the Attica Prison riot. The character Tim McManus refers to Attica as his hometown and the riot as his original impetus for his wanting to set up Emerald City.
The nickname "Oz" is also a reference to the classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939), which popularized the phrase "There's no place like home." In contrast, a poster for the series uses the tagline: "It's no place like home". Moreover, most of the series' story arcs are set in "Emerald City", a setting from the fictional Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
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