Pasadena (TV series)

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Pasadena
Genre	Soap opera
Created by	Mike White
Starring	Dana Delany Martin Donovan Balthazar Getty Alison Lohman Chris Marquette Nicole Paggi Alan Simpson Mark Valley Natasha Gregson Wagner
Composer	Mark Snow
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (9 unaired)
Production
Production companies	Brad Grey Television Go Mike Go Productions Columbia TriStar Television
Original release
Network	Fox
Release	September 28 (2001-09-28) – November 2, 2001 (2001-11-02)

Pasadena is an American prime time soap opera that originally aired on Fox from September to November 2001.

Summary[edit]

The series starred Alison Lohman as Lily McAllister, an initially naïve young woman who witnesses a stranger's suicide and begins to investigate the secrets being hidden by her own very wealthy California family, the Greeleys. Other cast members included Dana Delany and Martin Donovan as Lily's parents, Will and Catherine McAllister, and Chris Marquette as Lily's brother Mason. Mark Valley, Balthazar Getty, and Natasha Gregson Wagner portrayed Catherine's siblings Robert, Nate, and Beth Greeley, while Philip Baker Hall and Barbara Babcock played Greeley patriarch and matriarch George and Lillian. Alan Simpson was cast as Lily's love interest Henry Bellow, with Derek Cecil as Henry's brother Tom.

Cast[edit]

• Dana Delany as Catherine McAllister
• Martin Donovan as Will McAllister
• Balthazar Getty as Nate Greeley
• Alison Lohman as Lily McAllister
• Christopher Marquette as Mason McAllister
• Nicole Paggi as Jennie Bradbury
• Alan Simpson as Henry Bellow
• Mark Valley as Robert Greeley
• Natasha Gregson Wagner as Beth Greeley

Production[edit]

Pasadena was created by Mike White, who attended elementary and high school in Pasadena, California. Actress/director Diane Keaton directed the pilot episode, and was among the show's executive producers. Other producers included Mark B. Perry, Dana Baratta, R. W. Goodwin, and Bill Robinson. The pilot was edited by Tatiana S. Riegel.

Episodes[edit]

Release[edit]

Broadcast and syndication[edit]

Only four episodes were originally aired in the U.S. in 2001, though thirteen were filmed, with the last episode seemingly resolving the central mystery of the series. In late 2005, the series was shown in its entirety for the first time in the United States, on the cable channel SoapNet.^[1]

In 2003 and 2004, all thirteen episodes were aired in various countries such as Romania (by the public television TVR 1), Bulgaria (BTV Channel), Colombia, Croatia, México, Serbia, Slovakia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, Russia, South Africa (on the pay channel M-Net), Israel (on cable Channel 3) and China. It began airing in Belgium on Club RTL on June 27, 2010.

Home media[edit]

Mill Creek Entertainment announced the series on DVD.^{[citation needed]}

Reception[edit]

Although the show was critically acclaimed,^[1] it was watched by only 4.3 million viewers.^[2] The general speculation at the time was that, with the series having premiered two weeks after the September 11, 2001 attacks, American audiences were not willing to watch a show like Pasadena, with its dark atmosphere and cynical storylines.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Pasadena at IMDb