Eureka: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

With the help of Albert Einstein and other trusted advisors, President Harry S. Truman commissioned a top-secret residential development in a remote area of the Pacific Northwest, one that would serve to protect and nurture America's most valuable intellectual resources. There our nation's greatest thinkers, the über-geniuses working on the next era of scientific achievement, would be able to live and work in a supportive environment.

The best architects and planners were commissioned to design a welcoming place for these superlative geniuses to reside, an area that would offer the best education for their children, the best healthcare, the best amenities and quality of life. A community was created to rival the most idyllic of America's small towns— with one major difference: this town would never appear on any maps. At least, none that haven't been classified "eyes only" by the Pentagon.

Thus, the town of Eureka was born. But for all its familiar, small-town trappings, things in this secret hamlet are anything but ordinary. The stereotype of the absent-minded professor exists for a reason, and most of the quantum leaps in science and technology during the past 50 years were produced by Eureka's elite researchers. Unfortunately, scientific exploration is rarely what one expects, and years of experiments gone awry have yielded some peculiar by-products.

With the population's unique talents, troubled psyches and limitless resources, these small-town concerns have a way of becoming big-time problems. It is at that intersection, where human frailty and super-science collide, that Eureka began…

Series details

• Title: Eureka
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction
• Premiere date: 2006-07-18
• Final broadcast date listed: 2012-07-16
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Syfy
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 61 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 8.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 542

Cast and credited roles

• Colin Ferguson — Jack Carter
• Erica Cerra — Josefina "Jo" Lupo
• Salli Richardson-Whitfield — Allison Blake
• Joe Morton — Henry Deacon
• Neil Grayston — Douglas Fargo
• Niall Matter — Zane Donovan
• Jordan Hinson — Zoe Carter
• Neil Grayston — S.A.R.A.H.
• Ed Quinn — Nathan Stark
• Trevor Jackson — Kevin Blake
• Meshach Peters — Kevin Blake
• Debrah Farentino — Beverly Barlow

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2006-07-18; final listed air date 2006-10-03; episode order: 12.
• Season 2: premiered 2007-07-10; final listed air date 2007-10-02; episode order: 13.
• Season 3: premiered 2008-07-29; final listed air date 2009-09-18; episode order: 18.
• Season 4: premiered 2010-07-09; final listed air date 2011-12-06; episode order: 20.
• Season 5: premiered 2012-04-16; final listed air date 2012-07-16; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

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