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Deadwood is a weekly HBO television drama that premiered in March 2004. The series is a Western set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota. At the time, Deadwood was little more than a makeshift camp, but it was a popular destination for those prospecting for gold in the Black Hills.
Deadwood features many historical figures, such as Wild Bill Hickok, Seth Bullock, Calamity Jane, and Al Swearengen. The plotlines involving these characters include historical truths as well as substantial fictional elements. Some characters are fully fictional, although certain of these may have been based on actual persons.
The show was created by Executive Producer David Milch of NYPD Blue.
Cast & Characters
- Main article at Characters of Deadwood.
Episodes
Season 1 (2004)
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| 1 | Deadwood (Pilot) | David Milch | Walter Hill | After executing a last act of justice as a Montana marshal, Seth Bullock relocates to a gold-mining camp known as Deadwood, where he and partner Sol Star look to start a hardware business.
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| 2 | Deep Water | Malcolm MacRury | Davis Guggenheim | As suspicions arise that "road agents" may have been the true perpetrators of the massacre, Swearengen takes a special interest in the health of its sole survivor, a young girl ministered to by the unlikely team of Doc Cochran and Calamity Jane.
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| 3 | Reconnoitering the Rim | Jody Worth | Davis Guggenheim | Competition arrives for Swearengen in the form of the Bella Union, a new gambling outfit from Chicago operated by savvy Cy Tolliver, Madame Joanie Stubbs and gaming guru Eddie Sawyer. Hickok puts up precious collateral in a poker game with McCall.
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| 4 | Here Was A Man | Elizabeth Sarnoff | Alan Taylor | Swearengen directs Farnum to buy back the Garret claim; Alma prevails on Calamity Jane and Hickok for help; Hickok commissions Bullock in his stead.
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| 5 | The Trial of Jack McCall | John Belluso | Ed Bianchi | Swearengen transforms the Gem to a courtroom as Deadwood is forced to make its own laws to try a cowardly murderer. With Jane off on a bender, Trixie is enlisted by Swearengen to help Alma with the Metz child and to keep her pliable to his purposes.
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| 6 | Plague | Malcolm MacRury | Davis Guggenheim | Bullock encounters native resistance in his quest to bring a murderer to justice. Swearengen presses a resentful Farnum to keep tabs on Alma and Trixie; the camp fathers pool their resources to dispatch riders after precious vaccine and build a sick tent.
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| 7 | Bullock Returns to the Camp | Jody Worth | Michael Engler | After tracking down a murderer, Bullock returns to Deadwood a changed man – and a marked one – while Utter must pay final respects to a fallen friend.
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| 8 | Suffer the Little Children | Elizabeth Sarnoff | Dan Minahan | Deadwood breathes easier when riders arrive with precious vaccine – and word of a possible treaty with the Sioux. Awaiting Trixie’s return, a pragmatic Swearengen resists counsel from a bloody-minded Farnum.
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| 9 | No Other Sons or Daughters | George Putnam | Ed Bianchi | With annexation looming, Swearengen calls a meeting to set up an informal government. Bullock and Alma compare notes on Ellsworth, and each other.
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| 10 | Mister Wu | Bryan McDonald | Dan Minahan | An opium theft leaves Swearengen trying to find common language with his supplier, as well as navigating tricky waters to deal with the mess.
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| 11 | Jewel's Boot Is Made For Walking | Ricky Jay | Steve Shill | Alma’s father, Otis Russell, arrives from New York to “help” with her claim. Swearengen strikes a bargain with Adams to rid him of some legal baggage.
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| 12 | Sold Under Sin | Ted Mann | Davis Guggenheim | In the Season 1 Finale, The U.S. Army under General Crook, a.k.a. “Custer's avengers,” rolls into Deadwood, prompting a parade – and business solicitations from Farnum and Tolliver.
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Season 2 (2005)
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| 13 | A Lie Agreed Upon, Part 1 | David Milch | Ed Bianchi | Anxious about the camp’s future, Swearengen calls out Bullock over the Sheriff’s relationship with Alma; the resulting confrontation turns inadvertently public -- and violent.
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| 14 | A Lie Agreed Upon, Part 2 | Jody Worth | Ed Bianchi | As the day’s injured recoup, the night brings a new set of tensions. Alma and an increasingly self-destructive Bullock face an abrupt decision on their future, even as the Sheriff seeks to make good a family pledge to recover his badge and guns.
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| 15 | New Money | Elizabeth Sarnoff | Steve Shill | Francis Wolcott, tricky chief scout for a powerful mining operation, arrives to shake up the status quo – beginning with Tolliver. Dority, Burns and Trixie fret as an ailing Swearengen refuses visitors and medical attention.
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| 16 | Requiem For A Gleet | Ted Mann | Alan Taylor | Cochran contemplates a procedure that could cure Swearengen – or kill him. His employer indisposed, Dority must attend to a former fellow-bushwacker come to request Swearengen’s permission to pull a job, and to Wu, who attempts to convey news of a “tong” rival newly arrived from San Francisco.
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| 17 | Complications | Victoria Morrow | Gregg Fienberg | As a convalescing Swearengen bridles, Cochran schools Burns and Dority how best to assist his recovery. Alma too is feeling unwell in the mornings. Unexpected profits at the Chez Ami lead Tolliver to an unexpected discovery about Wolcott.
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| 18 | Something Very Expensive | Steve Shill | Steve Shill | Alma proposes forming a bank, and looks to familiar faces to run it. To test himself, Swearengen grants audience to a long line of supplicants; talks with Farnum and Miss Isringhausen prove most illuminating.
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| 19 | E.B. Was Left Out | Jody Worth | Michael Almereyda | Tolliver enlists Lee to clean up Wolcott's mess. Stubbs confides in Utter, who overreacts when Wolcott "steps on his toe." Swearengen meets Alma to inform her of a Pinkerton agent in camp; she and Bullock confer about her bank--and other expanding prospects.
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| 20 | Childish Things | Regina Corrado | Tim Van Patten | Wolcott offers on a rich claim operated by two ornery brothers, and reports to Hearst on their progress overall. Nuttall proudly unveils his new "Bone-Shaker" bicycle--but some doubt he can ride it. Swearengen and Bullock discuss alternatives to annexing the Hills to Dakota.
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| 21 | Amalgamation and Capital | Elizabeth Sarnoff | Ed Bianchi | Merrick goes overboard printing rumors in the Pioneer, earning rebuke from Swearengen. Tolliver aims to fleece Mose Manuel of his bloodstained profits. Utter's enraged when Wolcott interrupts his and Bullock's interrogation of Mose.
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| 22 | Advances, None Miraculous | Sara Hess | Dan Minahan | When Cochran delivers a dire prognosis, the entire camp stands vigil. Swearengen enlists Star and Adams to help improvise a con on the newly returned Commissioner Jarry. Andy Cramed, former Deadwood pariah, offers himself as the camp's new minister. Martha regrets her move to Deadwood.
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| 23 | The Whores Can Come | Bryan McDonald | Gregg Fienberg | Telegraph lines to Yankton heat up as Jarry fears Bullock and Hearst have each thrown their weight behind Montana. Swearengen uses a camp tragedy to delay an altercation between Wu and Lee.
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| 24 | Boy The Earth Talks To | Ted Mann | Ed Bianchi | In the Season 2 Finale, as Deadwood readies for a celebration, George Hearst's arrival in camp brings upheaval. Swearengen's manipulations extract a counter-offer from Yankton. Hearst comes to separate arrangements with Farnum and Swearengen.
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Season Timeframe
- Season 1: Spring 1876: Soon after Custer's Last Stand, the first season of Deadwood takes place six months after the founding of the camp. Most of those who live far and outside of the camp have dreams of living in Deadwood to get richer and have a gold claim however when they arrive, new citizens find that Deadwood is unlike it has been told. It is a lawless, godless place where greed and corruption rule and in order to make your fortune you have to make yourself something.
- Season 2: End of Spring/ Early Summer 1877: One year after the events that occurred previously in the camp of Deadwood, Seth Bullock has become the Sheriff with Charlie Utter as his deputy, what was once a lawless place has miraculously become orderly. The camp is progressing swimmingly with many inventions that later have become a necessity such as the telegram and a bank. Former Bella Union hostess, Joanie Stubbs has formed her own brothel called the Chez Amis. Both a well-connected geologist and a government official have arrived at the camp to the dismay of the other residents. Al Swearengen is still known as the "unofficial" head of the camp. Seth Bullock's family have arrived in town which forced a breaking off of his relationship with Alma Garret and balancing out time between his work, sheriff's duties, and family.
- Season 3: Airing in Spring of 2006.
Broadcasting
Deadwood is broadcast on the following channels around the world:
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