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Mysterious Island

★ 7.1 306 votes 1995–1995 1 seasons · 22 episodes Ended
Starring
Alan ScarfeColette StevensonStephen LovattGordon Michael WoolvettJohn BachC. David Johnson
Starring
Alan ScarfeColette StevensonStephen LovattGordon Michael WoolvettJohn BachC. David Johnson
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The beginning of the series is much as in the novel. A group of refugees attempting to escape the American Civil War in a balloon wind up stranded on a remote Pacific island, where they are able to improvise a comfortable living for themselves while they wait for a passing ship. As time passes, they become suspicious that some unseen force is watching and directing their movements. The main difference between the protagonists of the series and those of the novel is the addition of a female character, the wife of Pencroft. The unseen watcher, Captain Nemo, is more active and less benevolent than in the novel. Able to monitor the island through steampunk-style closed-circuit television and other advanced devices, he treats the castaways as human laboratory specimens, influencing their environment to test their behaviour under stressful conditions. As the series progresses, his tests become more extreme as their continued co-operation threatens his preferred thesis that all humans are, at base, selfish and untrustworthy. In the series finale, Nemo apparently succeeds in breaking up the group; this proves to be a ruse by the protagonists, who are now certain of Nemo's existence. After they penetrate his hideaway, Nemo admits that the 'experiment' is ruined, and offers to return the castaways to civilisation in his submarine. In a final twist, he puts out to sea without them, apparently leaving them alone on the island, without his influence for good or ill.

All Seasons

Season 11995
5.53412215h 46m
EpTitleRatingVotesRuntime
1Genesis5.82143 min
2Down Under5.61943 min
3Safe Haven5.41743 min
4White Water5.41543 min
5A Death in the Family5.31843 min
6Love Thy Neighbour5.21643 min
7All That Glitters5.51543 min
8The Price of Vengeance4.91643 min
9The Phantom's Lair5.21643 min
10It Should Be an Englishman5.41743 min
11No One Rules Me5.71543 min
12He's Not Heavy6.11643 min
13Make Yourselves a Home6.21543 min
14First Impressions Are Skin Deep5.01343 min
15Gideon's Tale4.51343 min
16Last Rites of Spring5.21643 min
17Labours Lost4.91343 min
18The Visitor5.11343 min
19What Are You Afraid Of?5.31343 min
20Plan and Attack6.11543 min
21A Pact with the Devil6.21443 min
22Going, Going...6.41543 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Alan Scarfe Captain Cyrus Harding
Colette Stevenson Joanna Pencroft
Stephen Lovatt Gideon Spilett
Gordon Michael Woolvett Herbert Pencroft
John Bach Captain Nemo
C. David Johnson Jack Pencroft, Jack Pencrofft
Andy Marshall Neb Brown, Neb
Frank Whitten Ayrton
Glynis Paraha Medicine Woman, Katira
Jaesen Kanter Tinowa

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