666 Park Avenue | |
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Genre | Supernatural drama Horror fiction Drama |
Format | Serial drama |
Created by | Gabriella Pierce (based on her novel) |
Developed by | David Wilcox |
Starring | Rachael Taylor Dave Annable Robert Buckley Mercedes Masohn Erik Palladino Helena Mattsson Samantha Logan Vanessa Williams Terry O'Quinn |
Composer(s) | Trevor Morris |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 (List of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Alex Graves Leslie Morgenstein Gina Girolamo David Wilcox Matt Miller |
Producer(s) | Mary Rae Thewlis |
Editor(s) | Russell Denove |
Cinematography | Anette Haellmigk |
Running time | 43 minutes (approx.) |
Production company(s) | Warner Bros. Television Alloy Entertainment |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | ABC |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
Audio format | Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Original run | September 30, 2012 | – present
External links | |
Official website |
666 Park Avenue is an American supernatural drama series starring Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Vanessa Williams and Terry O'Quinn. The series was created and produced by David Wilcox, and was loosely based upon the novel of the same name by Gabriella Pierce. The series follows a couple who learns that the Manhattan apartment building that they just moved into, including its upscale tenants, might be possessed by a mysterious demonic force.
ABC ordered the pilot on January 20, 2012,[1] and it was picked up for a full first season of thirteen episodes on May 11, 2012.[2] It currently airs on Sunday evenings at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central, with the series Revenge serving as its lead in. The first season premiered on September 30, 2012.[3][4] On November 16, 2012, ABC announced that the series had been canceled, and will finish its thirteen-episode run.[5]
The elaborate Beaux-Arts building located on the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan called "The Drake" in the series is an actual apartment building, The Ansonia in New York City.[6]
The plot of 666 Park Avenue focuses on the new co-managers of the Drake residential hotel located at 999 Park Avenue. It also centers around the other tenants in the building and the married owners of the building.
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD release date | ||||
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Series premiere | Series finale | Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | |||
1 | 13[20] | September 30, 2012 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
U.S. viewers (million) |
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1 | "Pilot" | Alex Graves | David Wilcox | September 30, 2012 | 296822 | 6.90[21] |
Jane Van Veen and Henry Martin get hired as the new managers of 'The Drake'. When they first move into the hotel, they believe that everything is normal about it, until Jane starts to have weird dreams, and meets one of the tenants with blood all over him. Jane also finds a dragon mosaic in the basement. Henry and Jane both try to form a friendship with the owners of the hotel, Olivia and Gavin Doran; while one of the tenants, Louise, gets into an accident when the elevator door almost kills her; and the tenant Nona steals Jane's necklace. The neighbor that Jane met earlier, ends up striking a deal with Gavin to bring his wife back, but only if he killed certain people, after being asked to kill one more man, the tenant decides not to and is sucked into the wall, and his wife back to being dead. | ||||||
2 | "Murmurations" | Robert Duncan McNeill | David Wilcox | October 7, 2012 | 2J7352 | 4.99[22] |
Jane tries to find out more about the Drake and uncovers the secrets behind the dragon mosaic that she found in the basement. Henry and Gavin go golfing, only to meet someone that Henry is working against in court, which makes Henry realize that he could get in serious trouble for talking to the man. Louise ends up in the hospital from the elevator accident that happened, while Brian is at home Alexis walks in on him after a shower, and they share a kiss. Jane continues to research about the Drake, and finds birds in the wall of one of the hotel rooms; After realizing that there are more birds than she could handle, she calls an exterminator, but the exterminator soon goes missing, and Jane eventually realizes that the birds are a part of the Drake. | ||||||
3 | "The Dead Don't Stay Dead" | Alex Zakrzewski | Matt Miller | October 14, 2012 | 2J7353 | 4.82[23] |
Jane starts seeing a little girl in the laundry room, while every time she tries to talk to her, she disappears. Gavin tries to talk Henry into a career change into politics, only for Henry to shoot him down; A young journalist, Annie Morgan, at the hotel starts writing articles to see if it could help boost her journalism career. She goes to Gavin, after she writes about a killer, and the killer ends up going after her; When she goes to him, he promises to deal with the problem, only for him to ask her to send the killer after someone else. Jane continues to search for her missing necklace, and finds out that people have been having stuff stolen from them for a long time, and sets off to find the thief. | ||||||
4 | "Hero Complex" | John Behring | Elizabeth Craft Sarah Fain | October 21, 2012 | 2J7354 | 4.81[24] |
Henry learns Gavin is under investigation and is threatened to help put Gavin away in prison or his career would not survive; Nona has a meeting with a social worker, and ends up stealing her sunglasses; When the worker asks Jane if she's seen them, Jane realizes that the thief is Nona, and says that she won't turn her in if she returns everything that she stole. That night before going to a party at the mayor's Nona has a vision of Henry getting murdered by the same man that Annie had created up the day before, she then tells Jane and warns her not to let Henry out of her sight. At the party, Jane witnesses the man Nona described grabbing a gun, yelling Henry's name, saving Henry's life, but the tenant, Annie Morgan, pays the price having the bullet strike her in the head. | ||||||
5 | "A Crowd of Demons" | Robert Duncan McNeill | Sonny Postiglione | October 28, 2012 | 2J7355 | 4.61[25] |
While Olivia finishes the Halloween ball, it reminds her of a rather memorable Halloween in 1929, when a man murdered his wife and his daughter survived. Jane then finds an article on the attack and finds that the girl is the girl Jane has been seeing. the daughter tells Jane that her father has escaped the suitcase, only for the man to chase Jane through the hotel attempting to murder her with an axe. Gavin works to save Olivia's life when he receives threatening texts; Later on Olivia is kidnapped that night, when Gavin finds her he also finds that a box of his had been stolen. Brian starts to think that Louise is cheating on him when he finds her in the room alone with Dr. Todd Evans; After continually asking Dr. Todd for pills, he finally confronts Louise about his suspicions on her drug addiction, stating that he won't tell anyone if she helps herself. | ||||||
6 | "Diabolic" | Allison Liddi-Brown | Christopher Hollier | November 4, 2012 | 2J7356 | 3.99[26] |
Jane and Henry deal with the aftermath of Jane being attacked, with Jane having nightmares, and both of them talking to the police; After they talk to the police, they find that everything Jane experienced the night before isn't there anymore. Gavin continues to try to find the box that was stolen from him the night before, eventually finding the man responsible, and Olivia finds out that the reason she passed out was because of too much alcohol, or so Dr. Todd tells her; only for him to tell Gavin that he saw in the blood test that Olivia had been drugged. During lunch with Jane, a man comes by and tells Olivia that she needs to get away from Gavin before he tears him apart. Laurel continues to help Henry skyrocket his career, stating that he needs to stay being the most eligible bachelor; Jane tells one of the cops about what really happened the night before. | ||||||
7 | "Downward Spiral" | J. Miller Tobin | Leigh Dana Jackson Mimi Won Techentin | November 11, 2012 | 2J7357 | 3.90[27] |
In 1998, Nona's mother Melissa comes to visit her mother at the Drake, only for her mother to tell her to leave and not return until after Nona is born. On her way out, Melissa gets stuck in an elevator and gives birth to Nona there. In the present day, Henry gets awarded for stopping the gunman a week before, while Jane continues to say she wants to leave. Brian decides to leave Louise; while Henry decides to ask Jane to marry him, with the help of Olivia and Gavin. Nona finds her grandmother in the hallway, telling her to not let Jane leave. | ||||||
8 | "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" | Dean White | Josh Pate | November 25, 2012 | 2J7358 | 3.94[28] |
Henry finds a confused and scared Jane in the hospital. She wishes to go home; he thinks she is safer there. Jane later learns her behavior is similar to another patient's, Julian Waters. She visits him and sees he has written symbols on his wall and writes them on her wall. Shaw tells Gavin that Olivia knows the truth about Sasha's death ? that she killed herself out of fear of Gavin. Olivia confirms this, telling him that she was trying to protect him. Gavin goes to retrieve the red box at church where Shaw had placed it, while Olivia confronts Shaw. He tells her that Sasha is still alive and can take Olivia to see her, if she releases him. Kandinsky and Gavin later arrive to find Shaw's empty chair. Jane is released from the hospital and is visited by Nona, who knows someone who can help her. One of Julian's symbols can be seen etched in the door frame of Maris's apartment as Jane rings the doorbell. | ||||||
9 | "Hypnos"[29] | Stephen Cragg | Ellen Fairey Matthew Tabak | December 2, 2012 |
# | Title | Air date | Rating/share (18?49) | Viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Pilot" | September 30, 2012 | 2.1/5 | 6.90[21] |
2 | "Murmurations" | October 7, 2012 | 1.7/4 | 4.99[22] |
3 | "The Dead Don't Stay Dead" | October 14, 2012 | 1.5/4 | 4.82[23] |
4 | "Hero Complex" | October 21, 2012 | 1.7/4 | 4.81[24] |
5 | "A Crowd of Demons" | October 28, 2012 | 1.6/4 | 4.61[25] |
6 | "Diabolic" | November 4, 2012 | 1.3/4 | 3.99[26] |
7 | "Downward Spiral" | November 11, 2012 | 1.2/3 | 3.90[27] |
8 | "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" | November 25, 2012 | 1.2/3 | 3.94[28] |
Series star Vanessa Williams stated that she perceives the characters of Gavin and Olivia Doran as a "supernatural" Bernie and Ruth Madoff. "It's a world that I wanted to explore," she said. "It's the Upper East Side. It's luxurious. It's a couple that are very powerful. I thought about the Madoffs immediately because they were extremely wealthy. They had incredible land holdings all over that people knew about and knew that they had a great amount of wealth. And then we all saw the dark side and what happened and how they created their empire."[30]
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in late October 2012, the sets of 666 Park Avenue were damaged.[31][32]
On November 16, 2012, 666 Park Avenue was canceled by ABC. The network will air the thirteen episodes produced, but ultimately decided to pass on the two extra scripts that were ordered.[5][33] On November 21, 2012, it was announced that producers had been given enough notice of the show's cancellation that they were reworking the final episode to function as a series finale and give the fans closure.[34]
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