Wild Palms

Wild Palms
Wild Palms main cast (listed below, L to R)
Created by	Bruce Wagner
Written by	Bruce Wagner
Starring	Nick Mancuso Bebe Neuwirth Angie Dickinson Dana Delany James Belushi Kim Cattrall Robert Loggia
Music by	Ryuichi Sakamoto
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	5
Production
Executive producer(s)	Oliver Stone Bruce Wagner
Producer(s)	Michael Rauch
Running time	285 minutes
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	May 16 – May 19, 1993

Wild Palms is a five-hour mini-series which was produced by Greengrass Productions and first aired in May 1993 on the ABC network in the United States. The sci-fi drama, announced as an "event series", deals with the dangers of politically motivated abuse of mass media technology, virtual realities in particular. It was based on a comic strip written by Bruce Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen first published in 1990 in Details magazine. Wagner, who also wrote the screenplay, served as executive producer together with Oliver Stone. The series stars James Belushi, Dana Delany, Robert Loggia, Kim Cattrall, David Warner, and Angie Dickinson. The episodes were directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Keith Gordon, Peter Hewitt and Phil Joanou.

In the United States in the year 2007, the left-wing "Fathers" dominate large sections in politics and in the media. A libertarian movement, the "Friends", opposes the government, often making use of underground guerilla tactics.