Halt and Catch Fire: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Halt and Catch Fire is set roughly one year after IBM all but corners the market with the release of its first major product – the IBM PC. In this fictional drama, a former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark, a great engineer whose unrealized dreams of creating a revolutionary product have created tension in his marriage to Donna, and Cameron Howe, a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan's rogue PC project. Halt and Catch Fire thrives on the spirit of innovation and explores what it's like to stand at the forefront of something world-changing and work towards it, no matter the risk.

Series details

• Title: Halt and Catch Fire
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2014-06-01
• Final broadcast date listed: 2017-10-14
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: AMC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 8.1/10
• TVMaze ID: 191

Cast and credited roles

• Lee Pace — Joe MacMillan
• Scoot McNairy — Gordon Clark
• Mackenzie Davis — Cameron Howe
• Kerry Bishé — Donna Clark
• Toby Huss — John Bosworth
• Aleksa Palladino — Sara Wheeler
• David Wilson Barnes — Dale Butler

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2014-06-01; final listed air date 2014-08-03; episode order: 10.
• Season 2: premiered 2015-05-31; final listed air date 2015-08-02; episode order: 10.
• Season 3: premiered 2016-08-23; final listed air date 2016-10-11; episode order: 10.
• Season 4: premiered 2017-08-19; final listed air date 2017-10-14; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

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