List of Twin Peaks episodes

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Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold Box Edition. This box set contains all 30 episodes from the first two seasons including special features on 10 DVDs.

Twin Peaks is an American serial drama television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost which spans 48 episodes over three seasons. The show's original run, which comprises two seasons and 30 episodes, premiered on April 8, 1990, on ABC in the United States and ended on June 10, 1991. ABC canceled the original run due to declining ratings in the second season. [1] The show's third season, consisting of 18 episodes, was announced in October 2014 [2] and premiered on Showtime on May 21, 2017. [3] The pilot and season 2 premiere are each 90 minutes long, while every other episode is approximately 45 minutes. Most episodes of the third season are approximately 60 minutes.

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Twin Peaks follows FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), who is sent to the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington, to investigate the murder of popular and respected high school student Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). A feature-length prequel film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me , was released on August 28, 1992, and depicts the events leading up to Laura's death. [4]

Both original seasons of Twin Peaks were released on DVD in the U.S., the first season in 2001 by Republic Pictures Entertainment/Artisan Home Entertainment and the second season in 2007 by Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment/CBS DVD. [5] [6] A DVD box set, The Definitive Gold Box Edition, was released on October 30, 2007, and included additional features. [7] The original series and the feature-length film were released together on Blu-ray with even more material on July 29, 2014. [8]

Series overview

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
1 8April 8, 1990 (1990-04-08)May 23, 1990 (1990-05-23) ABC
2 22September 30, 1990 (1990-09-30)June 10, 1991 (1991-06-10)
Fire Walk with Me August 28, 1992 (1992-08-28)N/A
3 18May 21, 2017 (2017-05-21)September 3, 2017 (2017-09-03) Showtime

Episodes

Season 1 (1990)

The first season originally aired on ABC in the United States between April 8 and May 23, 1990, consisting of eight episodes.

The feature-length pilot opens with the discovery of the plastic-wrapped body of high school student Laura Palmer, an event that profoundly impacts the residents of the small town of Twin Peaks, Washington. As the season progresses, FBI agent Dale Cooper and local sheriff Harry S. Truman investigate the murder and meet the town's residents, each quirky in their respective ways, as the seemingly normal appearance of the town begins to fade, revealing various secrets that expose it as disturbed and unsettling.

  1. ↑ An extended version of the pilot with an extended and closed ending was originally released as a made-for-television film on VHS in Europe. David Lynch reworked parts of this ending into Episode 2, which became the famous dream sequence.
  2. 1 2 Double-length episode (approximately 90 minutes).
  3. 1 2 The final two episodes of season two were aired together as one in the original broadcast.
  4. ↑ Director David Lynch performed uncredited rewrites, keeping the original script's basic structure but altering much of the dialogue, adding appearances by many of the series' supporting characters, and changing the tone and atmosphere of many scenes, particularly the scenes taking place in the red room (which were altered to more closely resemble the dream sequence in Episode 2, also directed by Lynch).
  5. 1 2 Parts 3 and 4 were made available immediately after the premiere of parts 1 and 2 through Showtime's digital platform. [36]

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No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
11"Pilot" [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2]
"Northwest Passage"		 David Lynch Mark Frost & David LynchApril 8, 1990 (1990-04-08)34.6 [9]
In February 1989 in Twin Peaks, Washington, the corpse of homecoming queen Laura Palmer is discovered. Soon after, Laura's classmate Ronette Pulaski is found beaten and in a fugue state, prompting idiosyncratic FBI Agent Dale Cooper to travel to Twin Peaks to assist Sheriff Harry S. Truman in the investigation. Finding a piece of paper under Laura's fingernail bearing the letter "R", Cooper suspects a killer responsible for a similar murder one year earlier may have struck again. Discerning from Laura's diary and her friend Donna Hayward that she was having an affair and was a cocaine addict, Cooper suspects more sinister goings-on than meet the eye. Deputies Andy Brennan and Tommy "Hawk" Hill discover the crime scene: an abandoned railway car containing half a locket and "Fire walk with me" written in blood. Donna realizes that James Hurley, Laura's secret lover, has the other half of the locket and persuades him to bury it. Following an altercation at the Roadhouse, a local bar, Truman arrests James, Laura's boyfriend Bobby Briggs, and Bobby’s friend Mike Nelson. Laura's mother, Sarah Palmer, has a nightmare depicting an unseen figure unearthing the locket.
22"Episode 1"
"Traces to Nowhere"		 Duwayne Dunham Mark Frost & David LynchApril 12, 1990 (1990-04-12)23.2 [10]
Staying at the Great Northern Hotel, Cooper meets Audrey Horne, the unruly teenage daughter of the hotel's owner, prominent businessman Benjamin Horne. Cooper and Truman interrogate James, who reveals he knew Laura was a cocaine addict, but that she had been recovering until a relapse in the previous week. In their jail cell, Bobby and Mike discuss money they owe to violent trucker Leo Johnson. After James, Bobby, and Mike are released from custody, James asks his uncle, mechanic Ed Hurley, to seek protection from the "Bookhouse Boys". Shelly Johnson, Bobby's secret lover and Leo's wife, is horrified to discover a shirt belonging to Leo covered in blood. Donna reveals to her mother, Eileen Hayward, that she and James had fallen in love while James and Laura were seeing each other. Donna visits Sarah to offer condolences, but Sarah has a horrifying vision of a grey-haired man. Angered that her brother's widow Josie Packard has control of the family sawmill, Catherine Martell plots with Ben to burn the mill down. Laura's eccentric psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, listens to secret cassette tapes she sent him, revealing he is the one who unearthed the locket.
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