Cupid (1998 TV series)
| Cupid | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Rob Thomas |
| Starring | Jeremy Piven Paula Marshall Jeffrey D. Sams |
| Opening theme | “Human” by The Pretenders (cover of “Human on the Inside” by Divinyls) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 17, 14 aired |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Scott Winant Joe Voci Scott Sanders |
| Running time | approx. 44(?) minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | abc |
| Release | September 26 1998 – February 11 1999 |
Cupid was a 1998-1999 American dramedy series created by Rob Thomas, which featured Paula Marshall as Dr. Claire Allen, a Chicago psychiatrist who is given charge of a man named Trevor Hale (Jeremy Piven). Hale believes he is Cupid, sent down from Mt. Olympus by Zeus to connect 100 couples without his powers, as a punishment for his arrogance. He begins in Claire’s singles therapy group, with mixed results. Claire and Trevor become attracted to each other as the show progresses, but are unable and unwilling to act on their feelings: she out of a desire to maintain a profesional detachment, he because he believes he cannot form a relationship with a mortal woman, since he would have to leave Earth after completing his penance. Viewers are never told whether Trevor is really Cupid, and are given hints both ways.
The show suffered from a poor time slot, and consequently lasted only one season.
Cast
Regular Cast
- Jeremy Piven — Cupid/Trevor Hale
- Paula Marshall — Dr. Claire Allen
- Jeffrey D. Sams — Champ
Recurring Cast
- Paul Adelstein — Mike
- Noelle Bou—Sliman — Tina
- Daniel Bryant — Laurence
- Melanie Deanne Moore — Jaclyn
- Jeff Parise — Nick
- Geryll Robinson — Chris
Recurring Guests
- Kevin Scott Greer — Single Guy (4 episodes)
- Joe Flanigan — Alex (4 episodes)
- Hollis Resnik — Linda (3 episodes)
Staff
- Rob Thomas — Creator, executive producer, supervising producer
- Scott Winant — Executive producer, director
- Joe Voci — Executive producer
- Scott Sanders — Executive producer
- Jeff Reno — Executive producer
- Ron Osborn — Executive producer
- Hart Hanson — Co-Executive Producer
- W.G. “Snuffy” Walden — Composer
Writers
Directors
- Michael Engler
- Michael Fields
- Tucker Gates
- Michael Katleman
- Elodie Keene
- Patrick Norris
- Peter O’Fallon
- David Petraraca
- Scott Winant
- Deran Sarafian
Episodes
- “Pilot” (September 26 1998)
- “The Linguist” (October 3 1998)
- “Heaven, He’s In Heaven” (October 10 1998)
- “A Truly Fractured Fairy Tale” (October 17 1998)
- “First Loves” (October 24, 1998)
- “Meat Market” (October 31 1998)
- “Pick-Up Schticks” (November 7 1998)
- “Heart of the Matter” (November 21 1998)
- “The End of an Eros” (December 12 1998)
- “Hung Jury” (December 19 1998)
- “A Great Personality” (January 7 1999)
- “Grand Delusions” (January 14 1999)
- “Bachelorette Party” (January 28 1999)
- “The Children’s Hour” (February 11 1999)
Episodes not aired in U.S.
Reviews & articles
- E! Online named Cupid as #4 on its “Top Ten Shows Cancelled Before Their Time”.
- Two 1998 articles from Tim Goodman San Francisco Examiner and Alan Sepinwall New Jersey Star-Ledger as listed on Rob Thomas’s Site.
Production Notes
- Cupid was produced by Columbia TriStar Television and Mandalay Productions[citation needed].
- Cupid was filmed on location in the Chicago, due to its Piven’s love for the city.[citation needed]
Notes and trivia
- “The Children’s Hour,” the last episode broadcast before the show’s cancellation in the U.S., aired shortly before Valentine’s Day 1999; it features Trevor’s ruminations on why the holiday should instead be “Cupid’s Day”.
- In a December 24 2004, Entertainment Weekly article, creator Rob Thomas mentions that the show would have ended with Trevor and Claire becoming Trevor’s 100th match — and without revealing whether Trevor really was Cupid.[1]
- Series stars Paula Marshall and Jeffrey D. Sams both have recurring roles on Rob Thomas’s current series Veronica Mars. Thomas has stated that, if the opportunity arose, he would write an episode featuring both of their characters, as well as their Cupid co-star Jeremy Piven. Additionally, an episode featured a brief glance at a website of high school basketball stats, with a high school named “Trevor Hale”, an homage to Thomas’s first series.[2]
External links
- Creator Rob Thomas’s site, including show synopsis, reviews and scripts for unaired episodes.
Sources
 | This article about a television show originating in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |