Red Shoe Diaries

Red Shoe Diaries
The cover for one of the DVD releases
Genre	Erotic drama
Written by	Joëlle Bentolila Henry Cobbold Zalman King Elise D'Haene Melanie Finn Chloe King Patricia Louisianna Knop Kathy MacQuarrie Ed Silverstein Shane Stanley
Directed by	Philippe Angers Peter Care Daniel Duchovny Rafael Eisenman Stephen Halbert Michael Karbelnikoff Zalman King Dominique Othenin-Girard Tibor Takács David Womark
Starring	David Duchovny Anthony Addabbo Audie England Arnold Vosloo Michael Woods Matt LeBlanc Ely Pouget Nick Chinlund Alexandra Tydings Sheryl Lee Jennifer Burton Claire Stansfield Kate Jackson Richard Tyson
Composer(s)	George S. Clinton
Country of origin	USA
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	66 and 1 TV film
Production
Executive producer(s)	Zalman King Patricia Louisianna Knop David Saunders
Producer(s)	Yoram Barzilai Lori Bridwell Gaspard de Chavagnac David Dwiggins Anatoly Fradis Avram "Butch" Kaplan Chloe King Jordan Leibert Aladdin Pojhan Jeff Young
Running time	30 mins.
Release
Original network	Showtime
Original release	June 27, 1992 – June 1, 1997

Red Shoe Diaries is an erotic drama series that aired on the American cable television network Showtime from 1992 to 1997 and distributed by Playboy Entertainment overseas. Most episodes were directed by either Zalman King, Rafael Eisenman or both.

The story-lines usually have a thin plot revolving around some intrigue and the sexual awakening of a girl or woman who often also narrates. Sensuous love scenes with nudity as well as sultry, moody music are characteristic for most episodes. There is no story arc or characters connecting the different stories other than Jake Winters introducing each episode.

The tested episodes always open with a quick montage of a newspaper personals section ad under "Red Shoes" seeking women to mail in their personal diaries with stories of love, passion and/or betrayal. The presenter and host Jake Winters (David Duchovny) is then shown walking on desolate train tracks with his dog Stella. He begins reading a letter from his post office box out loud that begins with "Dear Red Shoes..." He first took out the ad after the suicide of his fiancée, and his subsequent confrontation of the man with whom she was having an affair, a construction worker and shoe salesman who sold her a pair of red high heels, inspiring the ad. He placed the ad in the newspaper in an effort to understand why it happened and learn his fiancée's reasons for killing herself through the stories of women in similar situations.

Red Shoe Diaries episodes were running on the Canadian television channel Showcase, early Saturday morning, as of August 2010. From time to time, episodes can also be viewed on Showtime. A few episodes can be viewed on Amazon Video or hulu.com.

On June 17, 2014, Kino Lorber released Season One on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. On the same day they also released Red Shoe Diaries - The Movie.

The series led to several Red Shoe Diaries movies, including one television movie released in 1992. Nineteen other direct to video Red Shoe movies were also released throughout and after the series' run.