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The following is a list of episodes of Weird Science , a 1994-1997 American television sitcom on USA Network, based on the 1985 movie of the same name. Six previously unaired season-five episodes premiered in 1998 on Syfy.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "She's Alive" | Max Tash | Alan Cross & Tom Spezialy | March 5, 1994 | 76101 |
| Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly create a cyber-genie, an attractive young woman called Lisa, with the help of Wyatt's computer and a freak lightning storm. Lisa's magic sends Wyatt's obnoxious elder brother to hell and makes the boy’s crushes attracted to them. When the spells expire, the girls reject the boys, and Chet returns. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Universal Remote" | Max Tash | Adam Barr & Peter Ocko | March 12, 1994 | 76106 |
| Gary wishes for a remote control that he can use to skip past the boring parts of his daily life. However, he becomes stuck in a time loop. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Cyrano De Brainiac" | Mark Jean | Story by : Doug Chamberlin & Chris Webb Teleplay by : Adam Barr & Peter Ocko | March 19, 1994 | 76102 |
| Gary is attracted to Amy - an intelligent, studious, pretty girl at school. He asks Lisa to give him Albert Einstein's brain. The brain arrives - but in a jar rather than in Gary's skull. The brain speaks with Einstein's voice. Gary brings the brain to school. He thinks that Einstein can help him woo Amy, but his ideas are inapplicable to 1990s America and Amy is not attracted to Gary. Lisa falls in love with Einstein and, when Chet arrives home, she puts the brain in Chet's skull. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Magnifico Dad" | Mark Jean | Alan Cross & Tom Spezialy | March 26, 1994 | 76105 |
| Gary's father switches bodies with male model Magnifico. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Feminine Mistake" | Max Tash | Story by : Kari Lizer & Eric Alan Teleplay by : Kari Lizer | April 9, 1994 | 76110 |
| In order for them to better understand the opposite sex, Lisa turns Gary and Wyatt into women. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Airball Kings" | Max Tash | Jeff Vlaming | April 16, 1994 | 76107 |
| Gary asks Lisa to get him and Wyatt on the school basketball team. Her spell makes the coach their biggest fans, even though they cannot play. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Party High, U.S.A." | Mark Jean | Paul Lieberstein | April 23, 1994 | 76108 |
| Gary wishes that his school classes were relevant to his interests. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "One Size Fits All" | Mark Jean | Story by : Kari Lizer Teleplay by : Adam Barr & Peter Ocko | April 30, 1994 | 76109 |
| Wyatt fancies an athletic girl, and wishes his body muscular to get her attention. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Keeps on Tickin'" | Max Tash | Jeff Vlaming | May 7, 1994 | 76111 |
| Lisa gives the boys watches that count down to Wyatt's death and the loss of Gary's virginity. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Mr. President" | Mark Jean | Jeff Vlaming | May 14, 1994 | 76140 |
| Wyatt wishes to be President of the school chess club, but instead he becomes the President of the United States. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Fatal Lisa" | Max Tash | Alan Cross & Tom Spezialy | May 21, 1994 | 76113 |
| Gary tries to wish Lisa into falling in love with him, but she falls madly in love with Wyatt. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Killer Party" | Tom Spezialy | Richard Doctorow | May 28, 1994 | 76112 |
| Gary throws a party. Lisa makes the boy's parents feel young again. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Sex Ed" | Max Tash | Adam Barr & Peter Ocko | June 4, 1994 | 76114 |
| Lisa becomes the teacher of Gary and Wyatt's sex education class. | ||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | "Lisa's Virus" | Max Tash | Kari Lizer | August 6, 1994 | 76125 |
| Lisa catches a computer virus. While Gary and Wyatt look for the disk, Lisa thinks she is part of a soap opera. | ||||||
| 15 | 2 | "The Bazooka Boys" | David Grossman | Eric Alan | August 13, 1994 | 76127 |
| Lisa makes bubble gum clones of Gary and Wyatt, which plot to take over their lives. | ||||||
| 16 | 3 | "The Most Dangerous Wish" | Max Tash | Adam Barr & Peter Ocko | August 20, 1994 | 76132 |
| To get revenge on the boys for taking her for granted, Lisa brings a video game villain to life. | ||||||
| 17 | 4 | "Wyatt Erectus" | David Grossman | Jeff Vlaming | August 27, 1994 | 76131 |
| In an attempt to make Wyatt more assertive, Lisa gives him a magic cologne. But when he uses too much, he begins turning into a caveman. | ||||||
| 18 | 5 | "A Tale of Two Lisas" | Ricardo Méndez Matta | Kari Lizer | September 10, 1994 | 76128 |
| Lisa splits herself between the two boys to be more like what each of them wants. | ||||||
| 19 | 6 | "Nightmare on Chett Street" | David Grossman | Paul Lieberstein | September 17, 1994 | 76129 |
| Gary uses a dream machine to control Chett for his first day on a new job. | ||||||
| 20 | 7 | "Magic for Beginners" | Tom Spezialy | Alan Cross & Tom Spezialy | September 24, 1994 | 76130 |
| Gary makes a wish to do real magic to win a talent show. | ||||||
| 21 | 8 | "Copper Top Girl" | David Grossman | Jeff Vlaming | October 1, 1994 | 76133 |
| Gary asks Lisa to find a perfect date for Wyatt, but pressed for time, she creates a robotic girl. | ||||||
| 22 | 9 | "Switched at Birth" | Ricardo Méndez Matta | Kari Lizer | October 8, 1994 | 76134 |
| Gary and Wyatt swap places with each other. | ||||||
| 23 | 10 | "Camp Wannabe" | David Grossman | Adam Barr & Peter Ocko | October 15, 1994 | 76135 |
| Gary wishes to go back in time to get a girl and seek revenge. Wyatt finds his teacher and dates her. | ||||||
| 24 | 11 | "Circuit Courtship" | Ricardo Méndez Matta | Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | October 22, 1994 | 76137 |
| Lisa creates a supercomputer, but when he falls for Lisa, the boys are in danger. | ||||||
| 25 | 12 | "Chett Reborn" | Steve Dubin | Story by : Paul Lieberstein Teleplay by : Paul Lieberstein & Kari Lizer & Jeff Vlaming | October 29, 1994 | 76138 |
| Lisa turns Chett into a baby and Wyatt tries to raise him to be nice. | ||||||
| 26 | 13 | "Unplugged" | David Grossman | David Steven Cohen | November 5, 1994 | 76136 |
| Gary, Wyatt and Lisa become rock stars, but their producer (Ryan Stiles) fires them when they cannot write any good songs after their first hit. | ||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | "Earth Boys Are Easy" | Max Tash | Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | April 8, 1995 | 76206 |
| After Chett breaks up with his girlfriend, Lisa finds him a new woman, who turns out to be an alien who eats her mates. | ||||||
| 28 | 2 | "Horseradish" | Troy Miller | Peter Ocko | April 15, 1995 | 76202 |
| Gary forgets Lisa's new password, leaving her locked out of the computer without her powers. | ||||||
| 29 | 3 | "Grampira" | Max Tash | Kari Lizer | April 22, 1995 | 76205 |
| Wyatt wishes for his grandmother to spend a day with the energy of a young person, but she gains this energy by sucking it from any young person she touches. | ||||||
| 30 | 4 | "Rock Hard Chett" | David Grossman | Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | April 29, 1995 | 76203 |
| To save Chett from a prank gone wrong, Lisa makes him invulnerable. When he discovers his new powers, he becomes the superhero "The Star-Spangled Butt-Kicker." | ||||||
| 31 | 5 | "Lucky Suit" | Max Tash | Kari Lizer | May 6, 1995 | 76207 |
| Believing that Wyatt's father is successful because of his lucky suit, Gary wishes for his dad to have a lucky suit of his own. | ||||||
| 32 | 6 | "Gary Wallace: Boy Reporter" | David Grossman | Jeff Vlaming | May 13, 1995 | 76204 |
| To impress the beautiful editor of the school paper, Gary uses a magic pen that can make any story come true. | ||||||
| 33 | 7 | "Hot Wheels" | Troy Miller | Adam Barr & Peter Ocko | May 27, 1995 | 76208 |
| Lisa transforms Wyatt's car into a sleek, sexy talking car named "Nadine," with whom both the boys literally fall in love. | ||||||
| 34 | 8 | "Bikini Camp Slasher" | David Grossman | Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | June 3, 1995 | 76210 |
| Lisa and the boys become trapped in a horror movie, where they must depend on Gary's encyclopedic knowledge of slasher movie conventions to keep them alive. | ||||||
| 35 | 9 | "What Genie?" | Troy Miller | Kari Lizer | June 10, 1995 | 76213 |
| Lisa has been forced to work as someone else's genie and erase Gary and Wyatt's memories of her existence. | ||||||
| 36 | 10 | "Sci-Fi Zoned" | David Grossman | Alan Cross & Tom Spezialy | June 17, 1995 | 76211 |
| After Gary and Wyatt have a falling out, Lisa zaps them into the Twilight Zone-like TV show that made them friends in the first place. | ||||||
| 37 | 11 | "The Wyatt Brief" | Les Landau | Chris Black | June 24, 1995 | 76214 |
| A glimpse into the future shows Wyatt that he is destined to steal Gary's prom date. To turn the girl off, Lisa gives him Chett's personality. | ||||||
| 38 | 12 | "Free Gary" | David Grossman | Jeff Vlaming | July 1, 1995 | 76209 |
| Lisa tries to give the boys the "Super Bowl of wishes": being Baywatch lifeguards. At the beach, she meets a man who may be another genie. | ||||||
| 39 | 13 | "Quantum Wyatt" | Ron Ames | Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | July 15, 1995 | 76219 |
| To test out possible careers, Lisa gives Wyatt a box of magic chocolates that leap him into the bodies of various professionals. | ||||||
| 40 | 14 | "Fly Boy" | David Grossman | Jeff Vlaming | July 22, 1995 | 76212 |
| Gary is spotted using a pair of flying shoes Lisa created, bringing FBI agents Scolder and Molly to town to investigate rumors of the paranormal. | ||||||
| 41 | 15 | "Teen Lisa" | Les Landau | Kari Lizer | July 29, 1995 | 76222 |
| Lisa and the guys trade lives, with Lisa becoming a homely teenager and Gary and Wyatt becoming incompetent genies. | ||||||
| 42 | 16 | "Dead Can Dance" | David Grossman | Adam Barr & Peter Ocko | August 5, 1995 | 76218 |
| A time vortex brings a visit from a brawling, boozing Donnelly ancestor, who bonds with Chett. | ||||||
| 43 | 17 | "The Legend of Red Brick Wallace" | Les Landau | Jeff Vlaming | August 12, 1995 | 76227 |
| Lisa transports Gary and Wyatt back to the Old West to watch Gary's great great grandfather, Red Brick Wallace, defeat a gang of desperadoes with his bare hands. Unfortunately, Gary's interference threatens to change history - and get Red Brick killed. | ||||||
| 44 | 18 | "Spies 'R' Us" | David Grossman | Alan Cross & Tom Spezialy | September 9, 1995 | 76221 |
| Gary overloads Lisa's virtual reality spy game and turns Farber High into a real-life James Bond adventure. | ||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 1 | "Searching for Boris Karloff" | Tom Spezialy | Chris Black | January 6, 1996 | 76228 |
| Lisa takes Gary and Wyatt to meet the only other person who has successfully created life and inspired them to create Lisa, Dr. Victor Frankenstein. | ||||||
| 46 | 2 | "Men in Tights" | David Grossman | Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | January 13, 1996 | 76225 |
| When a zap of Lisa's magic turns into an unbeatable tag team, Chett and Wyatt become instant stars on the big time wrestling circuit. | ||||||
| 47 | 3 | "Puppet Love" | Michael Lange | Kari Lizer | January 20, 1996 | 76224 |
| Gary tries to woo a girl, using a handsome remote-controlled "puppet man." His plan goes awry, however, when the object of his affection is more attracted to the puppet than to him. | ||||||
| 48 | 4 | "Chett-A-Nator" | David Grossman | Adam Barr & Peter Ocko | January 27, 1996 | 76226 |
| Chett is abducted by aliens and replaced by an unstoppable android whose mission is to capture Lisa and make her the unsavory aliens' new "queen". | ||||||
| 49 | 5 | "Phantom Scampi" | David Grossman | Jimmy Aleck & Jim Keily | February 3, 1996 | K0912 |
| To keep Wyatt out of detention, Lisa uses her magic to turn Principal Scampi into his best friend. Unfortunately the spell goes out of control when the entire student body alienates Wyatt and Scampi tries his hand as a "Phantom of the Opera" style hero. | ||||||
| 50 | 6 | "Grumpy Old Genie" | Win Phelps | Jim Lincoln & Dan Studney | February 10, 1996 | K0911 |
| Lisa must deal with the humiliation of not being young and sexy when a hacker replaces her image file with a picture of Abe Vigoda. | ||||||
| 51 | 7 | "Funhouse of Death" | Christopher Hibler | Glen Merzer | February 24, 1996 | K0909 |
| Gary and Wyatt compete for the attention of a beautiful girl (Denise Richards). To settle the matter, Lisa locks them in a funhouse with a homicidal clown. | ||||||
| 52 | 8 | "It Takes a Geek" | David Grossman | Chris Black | March 2, 1996 | K0913 |
| Gary and Wyatt enlist Chett's help to rescue Lisa when she is trapped in Principal Scampi's computer. | ||||||
| 53 | 9 | "Slow Times at Farber High" | David Grossman | Sherri Budnick & Joanna Sandsmark | March 9, 1996 | K0906 |
| Gary gets a "brain buster" that turns smart people dumb, but he overloads it and creates a malevolent intelligence-sucking orb. | ||||||
| 54 | 10 | "Chett World" | Michael Lange | Glen Merzer | March 16, 1996 | K0902 |
| Lisa gives Chett a job that caters to his interests, but his bosses are hell-bent on turning all humans into macho Chett clones. | ||||||
| 55 | 11 | "By the Time We Got to Woodstock" | David Grossman | Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | March 23, 1996 | K0907 |
| When Gary, Wyatt and Lisa time travel back into 1969, Lisa gets amnesia and believes herself to be a hippie. A stranded Gary and Wyatt try to get to the Woodstock festival to find Lisa, while Chett tries to prevent the downfall of Richard Nixon. | ||||||
| 56 | 12 | "You'll Never Eat Brains in This Town Again" | Ricardo Méndez Matta | Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | March 30, 1996 | K0908 |
| Lisa brings in real zombies to be extras in a low-budget zombie movie. | ||||||
| 57 | 13 | "Demon Lisa" | David Grossman | Chris Black | April 6, 1996 | K0904 |
| Lisa is possessed by the spirit of a computer demon trying to escape cyberspace and take over the world. | ||||||
| 58 | 14 | "Cyborg Sam I Am" | Max Tash | Chris Black | April 13, 1996 | K0905 |
| Lisa brings Wyatt's childhood toys to life. | ||||||
| 59 | 15 | "It's a Wonderful Life... Without You" | Christopher Hibler | Kari Lizer | April 27, 1996 | K0918 |
| Wyatt and Lisa see what life would have been like if Wyatt had never been born, only to find that the wish has wiped them both out of existence. | ||||||
| 60 | 16 | "Lisa's Childhood Memories" | David Grossman | Story by : Seth Kurland Teleplay by : Chris Black | May 4, 1996 | K0915 |
| Gary and Wyatt program Lisa with memories of a family, but her magic makes the imaginary family (complete with a secret agent dad, a warrior princess mom, and an American Gladiator boyfriend) become real. | ||||||
| 61 | 17 | "Lisarella" | David Grossman | Jimmy Aleck & Jim Keily | May 11, 1996 | K0916 |
| Lisa sneaks in to a ball to meet the President of the United States, and winds up falling in love with him. | ||||||
| 62 | 18 | "Family Affair" | Alan Cross | Jimmy Aleck & Jim Keily | May 18, 1996 | K0910 |
| Gary wishes that his girlfriend's family liked him, but they wind up liking him a little too much; Lisa tries to scare Chett out of his smoking habit. | ||||||
| 63 | 19 | "Gary & Wyatt's Bloodsucking Adventure" | Les Landau | Story by : Alan Cross & Kari Lizer & Tom Spezialy Teleplay by : Kari Lizer | June 1, 1996 | K0922 |
| To be cool enough for an exclusive club, Lisa, Gary and Wyatt become harmless vampires, but they do not realize the club is full of real vampires. | ||||||
| 64 | 20 | "It's a Mob, Mob, Mob, Mob World" | David Grossman | Jim Lincoln & Dan Studney | June 15, 1996 | K0919 |
| Wyatt wishes that he had a close-knit loving family, and winds up in the Mafia. | ||||||
| 65 | 21 | "Strange Daze" | Tom Spezialy | Alan Cross & Tom Spezialy | June 22, 1996 | K0901 |
| When Lisa grants Wyatt's request for a technologically advanced school, she creates a futuristic dystopia. | ||||||
| 66 | 22 | "Community Property" | David Grossman | Jimmy Aleck & Jim Keily | June 29, 1996 | K0923 |
| After an argument, Gary and Wyatt go to court to see who will get custody of Lisa. | ||||||
| 67 | 23 | "Master Chett" | Les Landau | Glen Merzer | July 6, 1996 | K0917 |
| Chett develops an immunity to Lisa's power to erase memories, leaving him permanently aware that she is a magic genie. | ||||||
| 68 | 24 | "Pirates!" | Tom Spezialy | Story by : Peter Ocko & Adam Barr Teleplay by : Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | July 13, 1996 | K0914 |
| Lisa's spell brings a pirate musical to life, and Chett becomes the leader of a band of bloodthirsty singing and disco dancing pirates. | ||||||
| 69 | 25 | "Swallow 13" | David Grossman | Jim Lincoln & Dan Studney | August 3, 1996 | K0903 |
| When Chett swallows the directions to the hottest party in town, Wyatt would rather get shrunk down and travel to Chett's stomach than ask a girl for another copy. | ||||||
| 70 | 26 | "Strangers in Paradise" | David Grossman | Story by : Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy & Jim Lincoln & Dan Studney Teleplay by : Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | August 10, 1996 | K0925 |
| Lisa and Chett are stranded together on a desert island in the Bermuda Triangle, where magic powers do not work. | ||||||
Six episodes that did not air during the series' original run eventually aired on Syfy. The first two premiered July 11, 1998, with the remainder premiering as pairs of episodes July 18 and 25, 1998. [1]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71 | 1 | "I Dream of Gene" | Sandy Smolan | Jeff Vlaming | January 5, 1997 | K1906 |
| Chett gets his first real competition for Lisa when she meets a fellow genie (Bruce Campbell) who works for a Texas billionaire. | ||||||
| 72 | 2 | "Girl Talk" | Ricardo Méndez Matta | Jimmy Aleck & Jim Keily | January 12, 1997 | K1909 |
| Lisa makes her first female friend, who cannot handle the revelation that she is a magic genie. | ||||||
| 73 | 3 | "Boys on the Hide" | David Grossman | Sherri Budnick & Joanna Sandsmark | January 19, 1997 | K1904 |
| The boys go on the run when they are falsely accused of defaced Scampi's portrait and turning them into fugitives from the law. Parodies "The Fugitive". | ||||||
| 74 | 4 | "Gary Had a Little Cram" | David Grossman | Jim Lincoln & Dan Studney | January 26, 1997 | K1908 |
| Gary tries to get into college, with the help of a magical Lisa device that makes him a great athlete. | ||||||
| 75 | 5 | "Forbidden Janet" | Christopher Hibler | Jimmy Aleck & Jim Keily | February 2, 1997 | K1907 |
| Lisa creates a machine that brings Wyatt's dream girl to life, but Gary and Chett ruin everything when they steal the device. | ||||||
| 76 | 6 | "Man's Best Friend" | Alan Cross | Kari Lizer | February 9, 1997 | K1902 |
| Touched by Chett's affection for a stray dog, Lisa temporarily turns the dog into a human. | ||||||
| 77 | 7 | "Show Chett" | Tom Spezialy | Chris Black | February 16, 1997 | K1905 |
| To teach Chett a lesson about treating people as sex objects, Lisa turns him into a male stripper. | ||||||
| 78 | 8 | "Bee in There" | David Grossman | Jimmy Aleck & Jim Keily | February 23, 1997 | K1912 |
| The boys go back in time, in their parents' bodies, to teach their younger selves to play catch. | ||||||
| 79 | 9 | "Future Bride" | Ricardo Méndez Matta | Adam I. Lapidus | March 7, 1997 | K1914 |
| Wyatt wishes to meet the girl he is destined to marry; Chett tries to convince Lisa that she is his future mate. | ||||||
| 80 | 10 | "Stalag 16" | Ricardo Méndez Matta | Ed Ferrara & Kevin Murphy | March 14, 1997 | K1910 |
| Chett and his arch-nemesis Principal Scampi must work together when they are trapped in a virtual reality game. | ||||||
| 81 | 11 | "I, Chettus" | Tom Spezialy | Chris Black | March 21, 1997 | K1903 |
| Chett goes back in time to ancient Rome and becomes a hero by introducing the people to jeeps and beef jerky. | ||||||
| 82 | 12 | "The Genie Detective" | David Grossman | Christer Hokanson & Howard Klausner | April 11, 1997 | K1913 |
| Chett butts into Lisa's black-and-white film noir game, only to find out if he dies in the game, he will die for real. | ||||||
| 83 | 13 | "Magic Comet Ride" | David Grossman | Jim Lincoln & Dan Studney | July 11, 1998 | K1915 |
| To find out more about herself and why her powers are so unpredictable, Lisa meets with a wise "genie master." | ||||||
| 84 | 14 | "School Spirits" | Tom Spezialy | Jimmy Aleck & Jim Keily | July 11, 1998 | K1916 |
| Lisa and the boys try to protect the ghosts of Farber High teachers from a creepy ghost-buster hired by Principal Scampi. | ||||||
| 85 | 15 | "Wicked Wish" | David Grossman | Jim Lincoln & Dan Studney | July 18, 1998 | K1917 |
| Lisa gives Wyatt's mom a magic mirror to make her feel young and beautiful, but the mirror turns her into a vain and evil witch. | ||||||
| 86 | 16 | "Night of the Swingin' Steves" | Ricardo Méndez Matta | Chris Black | July 18, 1998 | K1918 |
| The alien race known as "Steve" returns to ask Lisa to be their queen, and she calls in Agents Scolder and Molly to help. | ||||||
| 87 | 17 | "Genie Junior" | Ricardo Méndez Matta | Susannah Hardaway | July 25, 1998 | K1919 |
| To test Chett's ability to commit, Lisa makes herself pregnant. | ||||||
| 88 | 18 | "WS4" | David Grossman | Jim Lincoln & Dan Studney | July 25, 1998 | K1920 |
| In the series finale, when rivalries heat up between the different clubs at Farber High during the school's Groundhog Day Gala, Lisa gets the galaxy's most peaceful aliens to teach everyone how to get along. However the aliens attack the school and are seemingly unstoppable with plans to end everything when the final bell rings at 3 o'clock. | ||||||
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Wynonna Earp is a Western horror television series. Developed by Emily Andras, the Canadian-American program is based on the comic book series by Beau Smith. Melanie Scrofano plays the titular character, the great-great-granddaughter of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. In the series, Wynonna returns to her hometown of Purgatory, near the Canadian Rockies, where she battles revenants, the reincarnated outlaws that Wyatt killed.
Channel Zero is an American horror anthology television series created by Nick Antosca, who serves as writer, showrunner, and executive producer. The series was greenlit for two 6-episode, self-contained seasons, which aired in late 2016 and late 2017 on Syfy. The storylines for the series are based on popular creepypastas. On February 9, 2017, Syfy renewed the series for a third and fourth season.
