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Dead Like Me: Season 1

Dead Like Me

Dead Like Me: Season 1

MGM/UA (Jun 01, 2003)
TV Series | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
USA | English | Color | 10:27
The Complete First Season
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
027616903150
| 4 discs
Region 1
Custom Case

18-year-old George Lass (Ellen Muth) dies when a toilet from the MIR space station falls from the sky and hits her. Upon her death she discovers that she has been slated to become a reaper, a figure who removes souls from others just before death to ease them into thier individual afterlives. Rube (Mandy Patinkin), her new boss in the afterlife introduces her to fellow reapers Roxy (Jasmine Guy), Mason (Callum Blue), and Betty (Rebecca Gayheart). In addition to reaping George discovers she must find a way to support herself in the afterlife and takes a job at a temp agency working for Delores Herbig (Christine Willes) where she had worked at the time of her death. The series also follows the continuing drama of how George's family is dealing with her death as she follows the lives of her mother Joy (Cynthia Stevenson), father Clancy (Greg Kean) and sister Reggie (Britt McKillip).


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1 Pilot 60 min | Jun 01, 2003

When smart, cynical 18-year-old George is killed by an errant toilet seat falling from space, she joins the ranks of an undead group of grim reapers. As she clumsily learns to adjust to her new role in the afterlife, George haphazardly hurtles towards her first dreaded assignment: to collect the soul of a little girl.

Director: Scott Winant
Writer: Bryan Fuller
Guest stars: Stefan Arngrim, Kevin Blatch, Reg Tupper, John Shaw, David Kaye, Tammy Pentecost, Darrin Klimek, Mary Ann Skoll, Carin Moffat, Trever Havixbeck, David Hurtubise, Jim S. Smith, Art Kitching, William MacDonald, Blu Mankuma, Matthew Currie Holmes, David Lewis, Jodelle Ferlan
2 Dead Girl Walking 60 min | Jul 04, 2003

New reaper George tries to avoid having to take souls. Mason steals money from parking meters. Reggie steals toilet seats from school and neighborhood.

Director: Kevin Dowling
Writer: Bryan Fuller
Guest stars: Patti Allan, Philip Granger, Robin Webb, Andy Thompson, Linden Banks, Colin Lawrence, Matthew Robert Kelly, C. Ernst Harth, Catherine Barroll, Reginald Colin Rowley
3 Curious George 60 min | Jul 11, 2003

George continues to visit her home to check up on her parents, until she discovers the price to pay for doing what she has been forbidden. Meanwhile, at the Lass' home, the family prepares to have their picture taken.

Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: Peter Ocko
Guest stars: Blake Stovin, Trevor Roberts, Michael Robinson, Michael Eklund, Heather Feeney, Raugi Yu, Bruce James, Avery Tiplady
4 Reapercussions 60 min | Jul 18, 2003

George finds a loophole in the "reaper rules" and decides to spare her next soul, but quickly learns that if you flip off Fate, Fate flings it back at you ten-fold.

Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: Harry Victor, Dan Fesman
Guest stars: Peter Hanlon, Ian Bolton, Gary Collins, Mary Ann Mobley, Forbes Angus, Kwesi Ameyaw, Robin Mossley, Kenneth McIntyre, Nancy Robertson, Landon Hansen
5 Reaping Havoc 60 min | Jul 25, 2003

George spends some time with Betty and realizes that she actually found a real friend, but soon as she becomes happy, Betty decides to take a one-time chance and go to the other side. Meanwhile, Mason reaps an old woman and spends some time with her.

Director: James Marshall
Writer: J.J. Philbin
Guest stars: Tom Shorthouse, Terence Kelly, Enid-Raye Adams, Jackie Burroughs, Bo Fred Olsson, Daniel Bacon, Erica Cerra, Frank Cassini, Raugi Yu, Gary Jones
6 My Room 60 min | Aug 01, 2003

George is devastated after losing Betty and gets even more depressed when a new reaper called Daisy Adair arrives to take her place. Meanwhile, George is put on the Happy Time bowling team and we see a caring side to George as well as a competitive side to Deloris.

Director: David Grossman
Writer: Harry Victor, Dan Fesman
Guest stars: Joelly Segal, Zak Santiago, Leslie Jones, Deanne Henry, John Kapelos, Francis Boyle, Mark Acheson, Lee Jay Bamberry, Jada Stark, Gordon Tipple, Daniel Bacon, Lorena Gale, Bruce Fontaine, Marsha Regis
7 Reaper Madness 60 min | Aug 08, 2003

George has her first affair in the afterlife with a living schizophrenic, Ronnie Dobbs, whose disease allows him to see gravelings. Clancy and Joy are arguing about sending Reggie to a public school.

Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Tom Spezialy
Guest stars: Tygh Runyan, Tegan Moss, Brendan Beiser, Gil Hayward, Malcolm Stewart, Daniel Boileau
8 A Cook 60 min | Aug 15, 2003

After George brings home a dog left behind by one of her assignments, her life suddenly gets considerably more complicated. Meanwhile, Rube takes a job as a short order cook at Der Waffle Haus, after he reaps the main chef.

Director: Kevin Dowling
Writer: Stephen Godchaux, John Masius
Guest stars: Kevin Hansen, Peter Kelamis, John Kapelos, Deanne Henry, Maxine Miller, Lillian Carlson, Helena Yea, Miguel Castillo
9 Sunday Mornings 60 min | Aug 22, 2003

Mason rescues a college student Charlotte (guest star A.J. Cook) from a date rape and she becomes fast friends with George. However, their friendship might be at stake when George realizes that Charlotte is enamored with her English Professor, who turns out to be George's father, Clancy. Meanwhile, Roxy takes desperate actions to stop a renegade from acting badly, but that might just turn and hit her in the back.

Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: Peter Ocko
Guest stars: Mike Battie, Cascy Beddow, Kett Turton, Mike Savage, Kevin Durand, A.J. Cook, Tony Sampson, David Milchard, Cam Cronin, Sandra-Jessica Couturier, Charisse Baker
10 Business Unfinished 60 min | Aug 29, 2003

Daisy recruits George and Mason for a money-making-scheme using the ghost of a rich lady. Meanwhile, Roxy is having troubles dealing with the anniversary of her death and Rube is there to help her.

Director: David Straiton
Writer: Harry Victor, J.J. Philbin, Dan Fesman
Guest stars: Cam Cronin, Susan Sullivan, Fulvio Cecere, Louis Chirillo, Vicky Lambert, Pam Hyatt, Deanne Henry, Stephanie Daniel, Mary Black, Haig Sutherland
11 The Bicycle Thief 60 min | Sep 05, 2003

George wants to buy a bicycle and decides to quit her job at Happy Time and move on to a new one that a fellow partner found for her. This causes a big celebration party for her, where Delores is everything but happy. Meanwhile, Daisy wants to steal a picture from a dead painter, so he won't go away until he is assured that Daisy won't take it away.

Director: Peter Lauer
Writer: Paul Lieberstein
Guest stars: Todd Sherman, Sarah Lind, James Ashcroft, Justin Stillwell, James Purcell, Andrew McIlroy, Lovena Fox, Jenny Mitchell, Ben Bass
12 Nighthawks 60 min | Sep 12, 2003

It's time for annual evaluations for the Reapers. Meanwhile, George is desperate to know whose name is on Rube's post-it, for the address is that of her family's house.

Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Bridget Carpenter, Stephen Godchaux
Guest stars: Troy Aldridge, Alvin Sanders
13 Vacation 60 min | Sep 19, 2003

When death takes a holiday and no one is supposed to die, the team has a completely different task - they have to do paperwork for all the people reaped by Rube's division and George has a brilliant idea to make a long-process finish earlier. Daisy and Mason get closer, while the Lass family goes on an annual vacations by the lake.

Director: David Grossman
Writer: Peter Ocko
14 Rest in Peace 60 min | Sep 26, 2003

George goes back to Happy Time hoping to get her job back, but Delores is not open to this at all. That is, until her cat ends up getting very sick. Rube goes on a reap-assignment to a yoga-class where he shares a few good words with the professor. Meanwhile, The Lass's prepare to visit Georgia's grave.

Director: Helen Shaver
Writer: Stephen Godchaux, John Masius
Guest stars: Spencer Achtymichuk, Jay Brazeau, Jewel Staite, Ali Liebert, Matt Bellefleur, Patricia Mayen-Salazar, Nick Misura, Colin Banner, Jake D. Smith, Sonya Salomaa, Harold Perrineau Jr.