Season 1 of Deadwood consists of twelve episodes and was filmed between June 2003 and November 2003. Season 1 had a budget of approximately $5 million per episode.[1] Season 1 of Deadwood was released on DVD in the United States and United Kingdom on December 9, 2008. On September 19, 2004 the show was nominated for 11 Primetime Emmy Awards winning 2 including Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. David Milch was the creator of the show with Gregg Fienberg and Mark Tinker as executive producers.
The season premiered on March 21, 2004.
Production
The production
Cast
Starring Cast
- Timothy Olyphant as Seth Bullock (1 episode)
- Ian McShane as Al Swearengen (1 episode)
- Molly Parker as Alma Garret (1 episode)
- Jim Beaver as Whitney Ellsworth (1 episode)
- W. Earl Brown as Dan Dority (1 episode)
- Dayton Callie as Charlie Utter (1 episode)
- Kim Dickens as Joanie Stubbs (1 episode)
- Brad Dourif as Doc Cochran (1 episode)
- John Hawkes as Sol Star (1 episode)
- Paula Malcomson as Trixie (1 episode)
- Leon Rippy as Tom Nuttall (1 episode)
- William Sanderson as E.B. Farnum (1 episode)
- Robin Weigert as Calamity Jane (1 episode)
- Bree Seanna Wall as Sofia Metz (1 episode)
- Powers Boothe as Cy Tolliver
- Keith Carradine as Wild Bill Hickok (1 episode)
Guest Cast
- Jeffrey Jones as A.W. Merrick (1 episode)
- Timothy Omundson as Brom Garret (1 episode)
- Garret Dillahunt as Jack McCall (1 episode)
- Ray McKinnon as Reverend H.W. Smith (1 episode)
- Sean Bridgers as Johnny Burns (1 episode)
- Geri Jewell as Jewel (1 episode)
- Keone Young as Mr. Wu (1 episode)
- Jamie McShane as Ned Mason (1 episode)
- Dan Hildebrand as Tim Driscoll (1 episode)
- Peter Jason as Con Stapleton (1 episode)
- Dean Rader-Duval as Jimmy Irons (1 episode)
- Gill Gayle as Huckster (1 episode)
- Everett Walin as Joey (1 episode)
Crew
Producers
- David Milch: executive producer
- Mark Tinker: co-executive producer
- Gregg Fienberg: co-executive producer
- Davis Guggenheim: producer
- Scott Stephens: producer
- Steve Turner: co-producer
- Walter Hill: consulting producer
- Jody Worth: consulting producer
- Kathryn Lekan: associate producer
- Bernadette McNamara: associate producer
- Hilton Smith: associate producer
- Lloyd Amern: director of photography
- Jim Hensz: first assistant director
- Ken Roth: second assistant director
- Freeman Davies: editor
- Steven Mark: additional editing
- Elizabeth Sarnoff: executive story editor
- Maria Caso: production designer
- Katherine Jane Bryant: costume designer
- Michael Brook: composer
- Julie Tucker: New York casting director
- John Hubbard: London casting director
- A.C. Lyles: consultant
- Allan Graf & Mike Watson: stunt coordinators
Writers
- David Milch: episode 1,
Directors
- Walter Hill: episode 1
Episode List
| # | Title | Airdate | Viewers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Deadwood" | March 21, 2004 | 5.79[2] |
| In year 1876, 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. Saloon owner Al Swearengen contends with a bungled robbery turned mass murder that threatens to incite mob violence throughout the camp. Hickok and his companions arrive in Deadwood. The people of Deadwood go off to hunt down the Native Americans who they suspect butchered a family of white people. | |||
| 02 | "Deep Water" | March 28, 2004 | 4.88[3] |
| As suspicions arise that "road agents" may have been the true perpetrators of the massacre as opposed to Sioux scouts, 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. Brom Garret suspects his newly acquired gold claim may not be all it was advertised. | |||
- Reconnoitering the Rim
- Here Was a Man
- The Trial of Jack McCall
- Plague
- Bullock Returns to the Camp
- Suffer the Little Children
- No Other Sons or Daughters
- Mister Wu
- Jewel's Boot Is Made For Walking
- Sold Under Sin