Brimstone

Some men will go to hell and back in the name of justice

1998 · 1 season · Drama
7.5 Modest

Series canceled

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Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Brimstone is a short-lived Fox television series, featuring a dead police detective whose mission is to return to Hell 113 spirits who have escaped to Earth. The series ran for only one partial season. Since cancellation, Brimstone reruns have aired on Syfy in the United States from the summer of 1999 onward. The reruns have no set schedule, but are usually aired in marathons during the channel's seasonal events like "Creatureland", "Inhumanland" and "the 31 Days of Halloween". Chiller also began airing reruns, on July 28, 2007. It currently airs in sporadic weekday marathons, like Syfy, and has no set airing schedule.

Country of origin
🇺🇸 United States
Year
1998
Created by
Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris
Channel
FOX

Trivia & behind the scenes

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Trivia

Episodes were originally filmed in a different order than they aired; for instance, the episode 'Poem' was produced as the second episode but broadcast as the fifth.

References

Each morning the protagonist wakes up with exactly $36.27 in his pocket, a subtle biblical reference to Ezekiel 36:27, which fits both his name (Ezekiel Stone) and his new spiritual mission.

References

The villain Gilbert Jax causes birds to fall dead from the sky in his presence, which may be an inverted reference to the song '(They Long to Be) Close to You'.

Reception

The series aired only one partial season on Fox during 1998–99 before being cancelled.

Reception

After cancellation, Brimstone found a second life in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel (later Syfy) starting in summer 1999, often airing during themed marathon events like 'Creatureland' and 'The 31 Days of Halloween', and later also on Chiller starting July 28, 2007.

Reception

Despite fan interest, Brimstone was ranked 13th on TVShowsOnDVD.com's list of most-wanted unreleased shows, and in a 2008 Home Theater Forum chat, Warner Home Video representatives confirmed there were no plans to release it on DVD despite praising the work of stars Peter Horton and John Glover.

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