TV series
The Second Coming
Overview
Video store clerk Steve Baxter realises that he is in fact the Son of God. He has just a few days to find the human race's Third Testament and thus avert the Apocalypse.
Details
- First air date
- 2003-02-09
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 2 episodes
- Genres
- Drama
- Network
- ITV1
- Production
- Red Production Company
- Country
- GB
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Christopher Eccleston as Stephen Baxter
- Lesley Sharp as Judith Roach
- Mark Benton as Johnny Tyler
- Kenny Doughty as PC Simon Lincoln
- Annabelle Apsion as Fiona Morris
- William Travis as Dave Morris
- Ace Bhatti as Peter Gupta
- Peter Armitage as Frank Baxter
- Peter Wight as Chief Supt. Len Chadwick
- Jazmine Franks as Jane Morris
- Jack Watson as Alex Morris
- Angel Coulby as PC Louise Fraser
Creators and crew
- Russell T Davies - Creator
- Nicola Shindler - Producer
- Adrian Shergold - Director
- Russell T Davies - Writer
- Russell T Davies - Screenplay
Episodes
Episode 1: Part One
Stephen Baxter is an easygoing, larger drinking, working class video-store assistant born and bred in Manchester, Northern England. The same Stephen Baxter also claims to be the Son of God returned to the mortality he departed some two thousand years earlier, to once more deliver a profoundly important message unto Humankind.
Episode 2: Part Two
Steven Baxter is the Son of God, and can produce the miracles to prove it. How does the world react when he announces it has to produce a Third Testament within five days, or else it's Judgment Day?
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