TV series
The Dresden Files
Overview
A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
Details
- First air date
- 2007-01-21
- Status
- Canceled
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 12 episodes
- Genres
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama, Action & Adventure
- Network
- Syfy
- Production
- Saturn Films, BOC, Lionsgate Television
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Paul Blackthorne as Harry Dresden
- Valerie Cruz as Lt. Connie Murphy
- Terrence Mann as Bob
- Raoul Bhaneja as Kirmani
- Conrad Coates as Morgan
- Matt Gordon as Waldo Butters
- Daniel Kash as Justin Morningway
- Joanne Kelly
- Jane McLean
- Matthew Knight
- Steve Byers as Brady Whitfield
- Corey Sevier
Creators and crew
- Hans Beimler - Creator
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe - Creator
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe - Executive Producer
- David Simkins - Executive Producer
- Nicolas Cage - Executive Producer
- Hans Beimler - Executive Producer
Episodes
Episode 1: Birds of a Feather
A young boy wants to hire Harry because he believes that monsters are after him and his mom. Harry doesn't want to take the kid's money, but he also knows from his own experience that a child's monsters are often all too real.
Episode 2: The Boone Identity
A grieving father asks Harry to help put his daughter's spirit to rest. This should be easy. All Dresden has to do is track down the killer and make sure that justice has been done. There's only one catch: the killer died only hours after the murder.
Episode 3: Hair of the Dog
A series of ritualistic murders starts to look a lot like werewolves so Harry, of course, gets dragged in. Thing is, it looks like the lycanthropes aren't the killers... they're the victims.
Episode 4: Rules of Engagement
A beautiful young woman asks Harry to help her recover some stolen money. Before long, Dresden discovers a connection between this case and a dark, supernatural evil, and that his lovely client has been hiding something.
Episode 5: Bad Blood
After a failed hit on her life, Bianca, Chicago's most powerful vampire, calls upon Harry Dresden. In debt to her for saving his life years before, he agrees to help her find the mastermind behind the plan to take her down.
Episode 6: Soul Beneficiary
An otherwise healthy man experiencing premonitions of his own demise seeks Harry's help but ends up croaking right in his office. As the dark circumstances surrounding his death are revealed, Harry finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous magic-user; meanwhile, the crime that got Bob condemned to living in his own skull for all eternity finally comes to light.
Episode 7: Walls
Harry investigates the death of a college student which leads him to a most unusual ring of thieves. A group of students is using magick to commit a series of impossible thefts, and Harry must stop them quickly. Not only because what they are doing is wrong, but also because the magick will eventually kill them all.
Episode 8: Storm Front
We are introduced to Harry Dresden, private detective and practicing wizard. When he tries to help the Chicago Police Department solve a grisly murder, he finds himself the target of a homicidal magician. And as if that isn't bad enough, the High Council of wizards begins to think that he is falling to the dark side, so he must elude them as well. Now he must stop the murderer and clear his name before his time runs out.
Episode 9: The Other Dick
When Chicago PI Jim Brennan is murdered by supernatural means, Harry must team up with Brennan's assistant to find the murderer.
Episode 10: What About Bob?
Things seem to be going well between Harry and his new flame until she walks out on him... and takes Bob's skull. Now Dresden must find Bob and rescue him from the clutches of an old enemy. But will Bob want to be rescued?
Episode 11: Things That Go Bump
Morgan and Ancient Mai must come to Harry for protection and shelter from powerful enemies of Mai's. They make it to the relative safety of Dresden's place, but suddenly find that they are all trapped by a powerful spell. Now Harry must work with them to find a way out before the spell turns deadly.
Episode 12: Second City
Dresden and Murphy must work together to solve the mystery of a former gang member who drowns on dry land, miles from the nearest lake. Meanwhile, Murphy's father is in town, and he doesn't have a very high opinion of his daughter's freelance consultant.
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