Miracles (2003)

Genre

drama television series, science fiction television series

Country

United States, Canada

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rated

14

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Catholic Church investigator of miracles witnesses a true supernatural event but is dismissed for lack of evidence. He leaves the church and joins a secret organization that tracks unexplained phenomena to fight an approaching darkness.

mysteriouscontemplativepensivesuspensefulcreeping dreaduncannyspiritualatmospheric

What happens

Miracles is an American mystery drama television series starring Skeet Ulrich and Angus Macfadyen that aired on ABC from January 27 to March 31, 2003. The series created by Richard Hatem and Michael Petroni, the series was dubbed a "spiritual version of The X-Files" by its creators. Following the pilot, David Greenwalt, co-creator of Angel (the spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) served as the show's executive producer and head writer for the remaining twelve episodes. Miracles follows Paul Callan, an investigator of modern miracles for the Catholic Church who questions his faith after repeatedly finding mundane explanations for various supposed supernatural phenomena. After he witnesses a true, supernatural miracle that saves his life, only for his findings to be dismissed on a lack of evidence, Paul leaves the Church behind and is approached by Alva Keel to join his organization Sodalitas Quaerito (Latin for "Brotherhood in search of truth"), investigating and cataloging "unexplainable" supernatural phenomena. Along with former police officer Evelyn Santos, Paul and Alva attempt to battle the impending "darkness" before it's too late. The series premiered as part of ABC's "Super Monday" line-up on January 27, 2003. Six episodes were broadcast on ABC before the series was canceled because of low ratings, with its final broadcast episode drawing five million viewers on March 31, 2003. The series was preempted a number of times during its run, once for a rebroadcast of the documentary special Living with Michael Jackson, and various other times to air repeats or news magazine specials about the then-developing Iraq War. Miracles fans, angered by the cancellation and what they saw as ABC's mismanagement of the show's Monday 10:00pm time slot, began a fan campaign to revive the show. Fans wrote messages on napkins (referencing a plot point in the pilot episode) and mailed them to various networks hoping the show would be revived by another broadcaster; however, efforts were unsuccessful and the show did not continue past its initial order of thirteen episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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