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Zombie TV Shows

Strictly speaking there aren't many actual TV shows starring Zombies but a large number of shows touch on the potent zombie theme.

Some from the top of my head to follow up at a later date:

Buffy, as you might imagine from everyone's favourite vampire slayer, deals with Zombies of various different origins (science, magic, etc.):

Some general discussion:

The Encyclopedia of Buffy Studies

http://www.restlessbtvs.com/az/z.html

http://www.atpobtvs.com/nondemons.html#oh

The relevant episodes are:

"Some Assembly Required" (Season 2 Episode 2)

http://www.buffyguide.com/episodes/assembly.shtml

http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season2/summaries/14_summ.htm

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/ass.shtml

http://www.atpobtvs.com/21.html#202me

"The Dark Age" (Season 2 Episode 8) - Giles in his misspent youth summoned the demon Eyghon which can possess the unconcious and the dead.

http://www.buffyguide.com/episodes/darkage.shtml

"Dead Man's Party" (Season 3 Episode 2):

http://www.atpobtvs.com/31.html#302

http://www.restlessbtvs.com/episodes/season3/2deadman/

http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season3/summaries/36_summ.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/indetail/deadmansparty/reviews.shtml

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/man.shtml

"Zeppo" (Season 3 Episode 13):

http://www.restlessbtvs.com/episodes/season3/13zeppo/

http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season3/summaries/47_summ.htm

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/zep.shtml

http://www.atpobtvs.com/33.html#313

"Primeval" (Season 4 Episode 21):

http://www.restlessbtvs.com/episodes/season4/21primeval/

http://www.atpobtvs.com/44.html#421meso

http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season4/summaries/77_summ.htm

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/prim.shtml

"Forever" (Season 5 Episode 17) - in which Dawn brings her dead mother back from the dead:

http://www.restlessbtvs.com/episodes/season5/17forever/

http://www.atpobtvs.com/54.html#517me

http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season5/summaries/95_summ.htm#top

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/buf_guide_95.shtml

"Bargaining" (Season 6 Episodes 1&2) - Buffy is brough back from the dead after dying at the end of the last series (Its mor successful than the attempt in "Forever"):

http://www.restlessbtvs.com/episodes/season6/1bargaining1/index.html

http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season6/summaries/101_summ.shtml

http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season6/summaries/102_summ.shtml

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/buf_guide_101.shtml

"Villians" (Season 6 Episode 20) - Willow tries to use the old summoning Osiris trick she used to bring Buffy back in "Bargaining" but is tol it won't work on naturally dead bodies (so techncially we don't get another reanimation but an insight into the process used earlier):

http://www.restlessbtvs.com/episodes/season6/20villains/index.html

http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season6/summaries/120_summ.shtml

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/buf_guide_120.shtml

"Lessons" (Season 7 Episode 1):

http://www.sadgeezer.com/buffy/episodes/episode7-01.htm

http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/summaries/123_summ.php

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/buf_guide_123.shtml

Angel also deals with zombies in a number of episodes, as you might imagine from a Buffy spin off.

http://www.atpobtvs.com/nondemons.html#oh

The relevant episodes are:

"The Thin Dead Line" (Season 2 Episode 14):

http://vrya.net/bdb/ep.php?ep=74&eptype=AtS

http://www.atpobtvs.com/a23.html#214me

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/angel_epg_36.shtml

"Provider" (Season 3 Episode 12):

http://www.atpobtvs.com/a33.html#312me

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/angel_epg_56.shtml

"Habeas Corpses" (Season 4 Episode 8) - the Beast enters Wolfram and Hart and kills everyone inside causing the lockdown procedures to seal the building trapping Connor inside so everyone has to return to get him out but the dead come back to life although the reason is unclear - it my be something to do with the Beast (which is unlikely as he never did it before or since) or it is part of the lockdown's defensive procedure.

http://www.atpobtvs.com/a42.html#408me2

http://www.buffy-vs-angel.com/angel_epg_74.shtml

The last contains a well known quote (amongst many good ones):

The Simpsons has mention zombies a large number of times. For example:

Tree House of Horror III (Season 4 - 9F04) - the third part "Dial Z for Zombie"

Treehouse of Horror XIII (Season 14 - DABF19) - the second part "The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms"

You can even buy Simpson Family Zombie Bendables

Kolchak

Episode 2 "The Zombie" is (as might be obvious from the title) the only episode to really deal with zombies and if the recollections on Jumping the Shark are anything to go on most people, while finding the series generally formulaic, did find the zombie episode on of the best (especially the death scene where he has to pour salt in the sleeping zombie's mouth and sew its lips shut).

. From the Kolchak timeline:

http://members.fortunecity.com/lost_giant/kolchak/kolchak1.htm

See also:

http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Kolchak/Zombie.htm

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-2694/epid-43615

http://www.scifilm.org/tv/kolchak/kolchak2.html

South Park has touched on zombies at least once (Season 1 episode 7: "Pink Eye") where Kenny get an infusion from a bottle of Worcestershire Sauce after being squashed by the Mir space station leading to a lot of good old fashioned zombie action and chef really rises to the occasion, in more ways than one. See:

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-344/epid-2423/

http://southpark.overthelimit.com/scripts/107.htm

There is also a "28 Days Later" reference in "Casa Bonita" (series 7 episode 11):

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-344/epid-284638/

Also in one of my favourite episodes "Mecha-Streisand" (Series 1 episode 12) a newsman refers to an attack of zombies:

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-344/epid-2428/

There is also a flashback to the zombie attack in "Red Man's Greed" (series 7 episode 7):

http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/southpark/southpark707.htm

Spaced had an episode ("Art" Series 1 Episode 3) on zombies which eventually got turned into the full length film Shaun of the Dead.

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Network/8023/ep3.html

Father Ted had an epsiode ("Night of the Nearly Dead" - episode 23 season 3) with Eoin McLove where the zombies were in fact infatuated old ladies (possibly the most frightening of them all).

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-3409/epid-52904/

The X-Files possibly touches on the issue a few times most notably in the episode 'Millenium' where they team up with Frank Black.

http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/tv/xfiles_704_991129.html

The Haitian zombie is also featured in the episode 'Fresh Bones' where a number of guards at a processing centre for Haitian refugees start dying and one turns up alive (series 2 episode 15). See:

http://www.carterphile.com/EpGuides/OS/FreshBones.html

Zombies feature prominently in the computer game "Resist or Serve" which is presented as 3 'extra' episodes from the 7th series.

Andromeda - in "Dance of the Mayflies" an alien virus/species gets on board the ship and reanimates the dead.

http://www.bibliora.com/P5_0502/html/and215.html

Doctor Who in epsidoe 3 of the current series "The Unquiet Dead" aliens from another part of the universe were crossing over and taking over dead human bodies of Cardfiff in 1869 and all sorts of fun ensues!! It does have a similar feel to the above Andromeda episode but the period details and the zombies (which were mentioned by name: "You put me in a room full of zombies!!!") were nicely done and it was a satisfying episode.

Lexx - most obviously Kai ("the Jimmy Dean of the walking dead" as well as being the last of the Brunnen G and an assassin for the Divine Order) is an undead assassin who has been dead for millenia and is only kept alive with proto-blood and being put into stasis - see:

http://www.sadgeezer.com/lexx/kai.htm

http://www.lexxdirectory.co.uk/kaimore.html

There was also the episode "Xevivor" (Season 4 episode 5) which featured the odd carrot-shaped probes (which are designed to taste things, inclduing people, and report back to their mothership) which then reanimate the people they've killed ino "cyborg killing machines" but then get distracted by a ship offshores who's passengers are blending carrots "bad boat, bad boat" (don't ask me why it was confusing even by Lexx's standards and a great episode to boot). See:

http://www.sadgeezer.com/lexx/lexx4-05.htm

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-2065/epid-57542

At one point Xev is killed and in a truly dreadful episode, "A Midsummers Nightmare" (Season 4 Episode 11), they get Oberon the Fairy King to bring her back to life:

http://www.sadgeezer.com/lexx/lexx4-11.htm

Angry Beavers - in "Open Wide for Zombies" (Episode 24 in Season 2) the young beavers get swept away in a flood and they meet a swamp witch and a man who wants beaver teach for his voodoo potion.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-4052/epid-79966/

Jonathon Creek - In "The Three Gamblers" (Series 3 Episode 6) the wizard's apprentice (well OK trickmaker) is called in a case where a man with 6 bullets in his head seems to have come back to life to seek revenge on his murderers using the power of Haitian voodoo.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-2988/epid-57124

Links:

Fresh Brains: Zombies on TV - not an overly comprehesnive guide.

Wicklinks

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