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Firefly
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American space Western television series
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Firefly is an English-language television series created by Joss Whedon. The show aired on the FOX network and was classified under the genres of Drama, Action & Adventure, and Sci-Fi & Fantasy. It ran for one season, premiering on September 20, 2002, and concluding on December 20, 2002. The series was ultimately canceled.
The production details vary slightly across sources regarding its length and episode count. While one record lists 14 episodes with a 45-minute duration, another indicates 11 episodes with a 60-minute runtime. The series received a vote average of 8.3 and a rating of 8.9. It is referenced by 494 other encyclopedia articles.
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TV series · TMDB
★ 8.3In the year 2517, the universe is a vast frontier where lawlessness reigns and adventure awaits! Join Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his ragtag crew aboard the spaceship Serenity as they navigate the fringes of society, battling the oppressive Alliance and facing off against ruthless bounty hunters.
- Aired
- 2002–2002
- Seasons
- 1 · 11 episodes
- Status
- Canceled
- Created by
- Joss Whedon
- Network
- FOX
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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TV series
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- FOX
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction
- Runtime
- 60 min
- TVMaze rating
- 8.9/10
Key facts
- Genre
- Space Western Drama
- Created by
- Joss Whedon
- Showrunner
- Tim Minear
- Starring
- Nathan Fillion Gina Torres Alan Tudyk Morena Baccarin Adam Baldwin Jewel Staite Sean Maher Summer Glau Ron Glass
- Theme music composer
- Joss Whedon
- Opening theme
- "The Ballad of Serenity" performed by Sonny Rhodes
- Composer
- Greg Edmonson
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English
- Executive producers
- Joss Whedon Tim Minear
- Producer
- Ben Edlund
- Cinematography
- David Boyd
- Editor
- Lisa Lassek
- Camera setup
- Single-camera
- Running time
- 43–45 minutes
- Production companies
- Mutant Enemy Productions 20th Century Fox Television
- Network
- Fox
- Release
- September 20 ( 2002-09-20 ) –, December 20, 2002 ( 2002-12-20 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Firefly is a 2002 American space Western drama television series, created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as an executive producer, along with Tim Minear. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters living aboard Serenity. Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things."
The show explores the lives of a group of people, some of whom fought on the losing side of a civil war, making a living on the fringes of society as part of their star system's pioneer culture. The two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, united to form the central federal government, called the Alliance. According to Whedon's vision, "Nothing will change in the future: Technology will advance, but we will still have the same political, moral, and ethical problems as today."
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