When Sam Winchester was an infant and his brother Dean was four years old, their mother, Mary, was murdered. Her husband, John, saw blood dripping onto Sam's cradle, looked up, and found his wife pinned to the ceiling, her midsection sliced open. A moment later she burst into flames. John told Dean to take baby Sam outside and made a desperate and futile attempt to save his wife while the house was consumed by flames.
After a psychic told John that a demon was responsible for Mary's death, he became obsessed with finding the thing. He trained his sons to recognize and defend themselves against paranormal entities. Sam and Dean became resourceful sleuths and competent fighters in order to assist their father in his quest to destroy dangerous creatures and find the demon that had killed Mary.
Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki, left) and older brother Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles, right)
Sam eventually had a falling-out with his father and left to live a "normal" life. He attended prestigious Stanford University on a full scholarship and lived with a girlfriend, Jessica, in an apartment near campus. Then one autumn night in Sam's senior year, Dean appeared, bearing the news that their father had gone missing while on a "hunting trip." Sam reluctantly agreed to help Dean look for their father.
The brothers traced John to Jericho, California, where they found more clues about their father's location and helped solve a murder mystery. But Sam declined his brother's invitation to continue the search and conduct more hunts, opting instead to return to his life with Jessica. Unfortunately, shortly after arriving in his apartment he found her pinned to the bedroom ceiling and bleeding from the abdomen. As Sam watched helplessly, she burst into flames.
Dean rescued his brother from the burning apartment, and the bereaved Sam decided to resume the search for the demon who killed his mother and his girlfriend. The Winchester boys then picked up the trail of clues leading to the whereabouts of their missing father.
On May 18, 2006, it was confirmed that the show will be getting renewed to make the jump to the new CW Network for the 2006-2007 television season when the WB shuts down operations in September2006. Supernatural is scheduled to air on Thursdays on the CW, along with Smallville.
The Season 1 DVDs come out in the US on September 5, 2006. They will include all 22 episodes, cast/crew commentaries, deleted scenes, a gag reel, and several featurettes including "Supernatural: Tales From the Edge of Darkness" and "Day in the Life of Jared and Jensen." There will also be a DVD-ROM "sneak peek" of season 2. [1]
In the UK, "Season One - Part One" will be released in May 2006.
Sam is about to graduate from Stanford and has an interview set up to join one of the most prestigious law schools in the country. His brother Dean, whom he has not seen since he went to college, shows up at his house in the middle of the night to tell him that their father went missing while on a hunting trip. Leaving his girlfriend behind to find their dad, Sam joins Dean in an effort to find their father in a little town called Jericho, where unmarried men have been disappearing without a trace. The culprit is found to be a "Woman in White," a ghost who preys on unfaithful men. When Sam returns home at the end of the episode, he finds his girlfriend murdered by the same demon that murdered his mother, causing him to leave his old life behind and join Dean in demon hunting and trying to find their father.
Sam and Dean pose as park rangers to help a brother and sister search for their lost sibling, who the Winchester brothers believe may have been taken by a Wendigo.
Featured Music: Hot Blooded - Foreigner, Fly By Night - Rush
While going through the newspaper, Dean comes across a mysterious drowning victim. Upon further research they soon discover more people who have drowned in the same lake, but their bodies were never found. When the boys show up in town they befriend a boy whose father has drowned. The brothers come to believe the lake is haunted by a spirit. Amy Acker guest stars as the mother of the young boy.
Featured Music: Round and Round - Ratt, Movin' On - Bad Company
While on the road, Dean and Sam get a phone call from a man who had received help from Dean and their father some time ago about a poltergeist. They end up going through a series of routines, involving a demon which manifests itself through those with psychological issues and causes planes to crash after they have been in the air for forty minutes.
Featured Music: Paranoid - Black Sabbath, Working Man - Rush
Dean and Sam go to Toledo, Ohio to investigate the mysterious death of a man who lost his eyes. Skeptical at first for several reasons, including that their dad never found evidence that the urban legend indeed existed, the Winchester brothers come to the conclusion that Bloody Mary is haunting the town through a mirror on which a murder victim (named Mary) attempted to write the name of her killer before dying.
Sam learns that one of his old college friends, Zach, has been arrested for murdering his girlfriend. Sam convinces Dean that they should go see Zach's sister, Rebecca, who insists that Zach is innocent. The brothers help her investigate the murder and soon discover that the real culprit is a being with shapeshifting abilities. Things get even more complicated when the shapeshifter takes the form of Dean.
Featured Music: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly, All Right Now - Free
Dean and Sam visit a town pretending to be new college students to investigate the death of one of the other students, who was found hanging upside down above the car he and his girlfriend were in. The girlfriend, a reverend's daughter, says the attacker was invisible. More attacks occur, all connected to the reverend's daughter. The Winchester brothers discover the legendary Hook Man is behind the attacks, and that the reverend's daughter is unknowingly summoning him. Note: The Hookman urban legend as portrayed in the episode differs from the commonly held legend.
Featured Music: Bang Your Head (Metal Health) - Quiet Riot, Peace of Mind - Boston
Dean and Sam arrive in a town checking up a report of a mysterious death of a contractor on a new housing development. They stop at a realtor's open house barbecue to learn more. Sam meets the realtor's son Matt, who is fascinated with bugs. Soon the town is invaded by swarms of deadly bugs, and there may be no way out.
Featured Music: Rock of Ages - Def Lepard, No One Like You - Scorpions
Sam has nightmares of their old home, the brothers return to Lawrence, Kansas to investigate. They discover that a new family has moved into the old Winchester's home, and the woman is the one that Sam has been dreaming about. The family has been hearing and seeing frightening things, and the brothers think it might be haunted by the thing that killed their mother. They enlist the help of their father's psychic friend, Missori, to rid the house of the angry poltergeist.
After receiving a tip from their father, Sam and Dean travel to Rockford, Illinois to investigate the haunted Roosevelt Asylum. An evil force inside causes Sam to lose his sanity and turn on his brother.
Featured Music: Hey You - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Sam and Dean are urged by their father to uncover the reason behind the mysterious disappearances of young couples in a rural Indiana town. It is revealed in this episode that a dark force is conspiring against the remaining members of the Winchester family and a young woman named "Meg" is introduced as the daughter, if taken in the literal sense, of a possible central antagonist who is dogging the brothers' every step. Note: This episode aired out of its sequential production order.
Featured Music: Lodi - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bad Company - Bad Company
While battling a demon, Dean is electrocuted, resulting in permanent damage to his heart and leaving him with only a couple of months to live. A despondent Sam searches desperately for a way to save his brother and believes he may have found an answer through a preacher who claims to heal the incurable. However, Dean and Sam discover that the preacher is getting help from a reaper (who is being controled by the preachers wife) trading one life for another she (the wife) feels is less worthy. Guest starring Julie Benz.
Featured Music: Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Dean is contacted by his first love Cassie (Megalyn Echikunwoke), a multiracial (African-American and Caucasian) girl, who asks him to come to Mississippi to investigate a string of racially motivated murders. Each murder is linked to a mysterious truck that seems to have no driver and leave no tracks.
Featured Music: Walk Away - The James Gang, She Brings Me Love - Bad Company, Can't find My Way Home - Blind Faith
Sam has a premonition that a man was killed in Saginaw, Michigan, but the murder is made to look like a suicide. Sam and Dean go to investigate the case, but the two are puzzled when they fail to find anything that indicates the death is supernatural until they meet Max (Brendan Fletcher), the son of the first victim, who has been using his recently acquired telekinesis power to kill his family members that used to abuse him. Sam also discovers that Max's mother was killed by the same fiery demon that took his mom.
Sam and Dean head to Hibbing, Minnesota where a young boy (Ryan Drescher) witnesses a man vanish into thin air. Upon searching for clues, Sam is abducted by what he assumes is a supernatural being, and Dean is left to team up with a female cop to search for his brother. However, they are stunned when they realize the kidnappers are human.
While investigating a mysterious death in Chicago, Sam and Dean run into Meg, who is thrilled to see Sam again. The brothers soon discover Meg is behind the murders and attempt to catch her. Unfortunately, Meg is one step ahead of them and unleashes shadow spirits on the brothers to ambush them. Sam and Dean realize the trap isn't for them, but for their father.
Sam and Dean investigate a house haunted by the ghost of Mordecai, a man who killed his six daughters during the 1930s. The brothers discover a website dedicated to the Mordecai legend and realize the town is unknowingly conjuring up the evil spirit through the site.
Featured Music: Fire of Unknown Origin - Blue Oyster Cult, Burning for You - Blue Oyster Cult
Sam and Dean investigate a small town in Wisconsin where children are falling into comas for no apparent reason. The brothers discover that a Shtriga is creeping into the bedrooms of the children and stealing their "life force." While battling the Shtriga, Dean recalls a past mistake that almost cost Sam his life at the hands of the very same witch, an event which has fueled Dean's protectiveness over Sam and his blind obedience to his father.
A young couple is murdered in their home shortly after buying an antique painting of a family portrait circa 1910. Upon reviewing the painting's provenance, Sam and Dean learn that everyone who has ever bought the painting has been murdered and race to discover how the portrait is causing the deaths before it can claim its next victim.
Dead Man's Blood - Originally aired April 20, 2006
After Daniel Elkins, a vampire hunter and John's mentor, is murdered, Sam and Dean are surprised when John himself shows up to solve the case. John discovers the vampires have taken an antique gun, which has the power to kill all supernatural beings. The Winchester family sets out to retrieve the gun from the vampires so they can use it to kill the demon that took Sam and Dean's mother.
Sam has a vision of a family being attacked in the same manner as the attack on his mom, so he, Dean and John head off to Salvation, Iowa, to save this family and finally kill the demon using the Colt gun. However, Meg calls and lets the family know she is going to start killing their friends unless they return the gun. John meets Meg to deliver a fake gun, while the boys are left to deal with the demon.
On a mission to save their father from Meg, Sam and Dean seek help from an old family friend, Bobby (guest star Jim Beaver). When Meg shows up on Bobby's doorstep, the brothers lure her into a trap and exorcise the demon from her body after learning where John is being held prisoner. Dean and Sam rescue John, who later turns out to be possessed. As John, the demon attacks the brothers, nearly killing Dean before Sam is able to wound the demon by shooting John in the leg. John becomes furious when Sam allows the demon to escape rather than fire a fatal shot while it's still in John's body. Sam rushes his wounded brother and father to the hospital, but before they can get there, their car is violently struck by a massive truck driven by a demon (presumably a minion of the demon). The season ends on a cliff-hanger, with the black-eyed trucker demon staring at the bloodied, unconcious, and possibly dead bodies of the Winchester family as CCR's "Bad Moon Rising" plays on the radio.
Featured Music: Fight the Good Fight - Triumph, Turn to Stone - Joe Walsh, Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
The show, similar to fellow sci-fi show Lost, does not have an opening credit sequence or theme music, only a title card. Most episodes have a brief recap of the show's back story and important events. The episode "Salvation" featured an extended, music-video-style recap set to "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas. The episodes of the show also tend to feature many classic rock songs. This differs somewhat from other shows broadcast on The WB which typically tend to feature music by newer, contemporary artists.
The car Sam and Dean drive is a 1967Chevrolet Impala. The show has five black Impalas that they use. The car has been nicknamed the "Metallicar" by fans of the show.
In "Dead in the Water," Sam and Dean introduce themselves as Agents Ford and Hamill, the surnames of Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill, both main actors in the Star Wars series of films.
In the "Hell House" episode, the two 'paranormal investigators' that Sam and Dean meet are Zeddemore and Spengler, which are the names of two characters from Ghostbusters.
In the "Hell House" episode, you can see Zeddemore and Spengler wearing "Ecto-Goggles, made to look like the pair in Ghostbusters II, worn by Dan Akroyd's character.
In the "Phantom Traveler" episode, Dean hums "Some Kind of Monster" by Metallica on the plane. He also introduces himself as Agent James Hetfield (the lead singer of Metallica) in the same episode.
The website that Sam discovers in "Hell House" is www.hellhoundslair.com, a website created by the show's producers.
In the opening of the "Hell House" episode, Dean sings the refrain to Blue Oyster Cult's "Fire of Unknown Origin". This is somewhat ironic considering that this would be the official reason given to explain the death of his own mother as well as Sam's girlfriend Jessica.
In the episode "Something Wicked," Sam researches the Shtriga at the local library, finding newspaper reports of similar deaths in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook -- the same three cities monorails were sold to in The Simpsons episode "Marge vs. the Monorail".
Supernatural premiered on ITV1 in the United Kingdom in early 2006 (although the show is exclusive to ITV2 in the UK).
In "Provenance," one of the cars panned past has the vanity licence plate "The Krip." This is a shout-out to writer/executive producer/creator Eric Kripke.
In "Nightmare," Sam and Dean introduce themselves as Father Simmons and Father Frehley, the bassist and lead guitarist of the rock band KISS.
Early on in the series, Dean's cell number is given, and for a while the studio had it set up so that anyone dialing the number would hear Jensen Ackles reading the message: "This is Dean Winchester. If this is an emergency, leave a message. If you are calling about 11-2-83, page me with your coordinates."
On the Supernatural's interactive website, the code to unlock the Winchesters' weapons trunk is 11-02-83 (the day their mother died).
The building in which the episode "Asylum" was filmed is a real closed-down asylum that is rumored to be actually haunted.
In the episode "Salvation," a meeting location is given as being at the corner of Wabash and Lake, an address used several times in the movie The Matrix.
The show has made several references to The X-Files. For instance, in the Pilot episode, Dean jokingly addresses two FBI agents as Mulder and Scully.
The name "Mary-Ann Liu" appears at least twice on props in the show, once on Sam's cell phone listing in "Scarecrow" and once on a birth certificate Sam is examining in "Salvation". This may be a shout-out to Vancouver artist and production designer Mary-Ann Liu, though it is at this point unconfirmed whether she has worked on the show.
The season finale, Devil's Trap, features a visual reference to the movie The Shining. In the reference scene an axe splinters a white door in the same fashion as in the Jack Nicholson movie. In the episode "Asylum" Dean repeatedly referred to Jack Nicholson and the movie. 'Just like my man Jack in The Shining."
"Bobby Singer", friend of the family Dean seeks out for help in the season finale, is a shout-out to executive producer Robert Singer.
The episode Hell House is supposed to take place in Jensen Ackles' hometown, Richardson, TX.
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