Brimstone
Series

Brimstone (1998)

2 critics 2 lists ★ 7.5 TMDb ✓ Verified on TMDb 47 min 1 seasons DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Brimstone is a short-lived Fox television series, featuring a dead police detective whose mission is to return to Hell 113 spirits who have escaped to Earth. The series ran for only one partial season. Since cancellation, Brimstone reruns have aired on Syfy in the United States from the summer of 1999 onward. The reruns have no set schedule, but are usually aired in marathons during the channel's seasonal events like "Creatureland", "Inhumanland" and "the 31 Days of Halloween". Chiller also began airing reruns, on July 28, 2007. It currently airs in sporadic weekday marathons, like Syfy, and has no set airing schedule.

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Is Brimstone worth watching?
2 of our critics, from Boomer, Gen X, put Brimstone on their lists; it appears in 2 Listen Watch Play lists so far.
Shows like Brimstone?
Our critics most often pair it with Poltergeist: The Legacy, Lexx, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Alien Nation.
When did Brimstone come out?
1998 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy.

The Generation GapWhat our critics say

The Broadcast Fossil
The Broadcast FossilBoomer

Fox had a golden habit of burying inventive genre television on Friday nights, and this underworld procedural vanished far too quickly. Peter Horton played a dead detective recruited by Satan to hunt escaped damned souls across earth. John Glover stole every frame as the Prince of Darkness, delivering wicked lines with the playful theatricality of Vincent Price. Shot on gorgeous 35mm film, the show possessed rich blacks and practical pyrotechnics that made network broadcasting feel genuinely dangerous after dark.

from “Dim the cathode tube: 11 eerie supernatural shows for October nights” →
The Cathode Rebel
The Cathode RebelGen X

This was a dark horse from Fox, a grim supernatural procedural about a cop sent back from hell to recapture escaped damned souls. John Glover as the Devil was pure scenery-chewing gold, and Peter Horton brought a weary gravitas. It was gothic, gritty, and surprisingly violent for network TV, pushing the boundaries of what you could show. A hellish journey that felt like a spiritual successor to Millennium, but with more fire and brimstone.

from “11 Analog Oddities: Broadcasts from the Fringe of the Dial” →

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Poltergeist: The Legacy Poltergeist: The Legacy 1996 Lexx Lexx 1997 The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. 1993 Alien Nation Alien Nation 1989