Tru Calling: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

FOX | Season Premiere Date: October 30, 2003

Starring: Eliza Dushku, Jason Priestley, Zach Galifianakis

Summary: What would you do if you could relive a day? If you're TRU DAVIES (Eliza Dushku), you'd save lives. Tru is a smart and sexy recent college graduate who - when her high-powered medical internship falls through - finds herself working the midnight shift at the city morgue. One night, Tru questions reality when she thinks she hears a murderWhat would you do if you could relive a day? If you're TRU DAVIES (Eliza Dushku), you'd save lives. Tru is a smart and sexy recent college graduate who - when her high-powered medical internship falls through - finds herself working the midnight shift at the city morgue. One night, Tru questions reality when she thinks she hears a murder victim asking for her help. But the next morning, our heroine wakes up to find that she is back at the beginning of that very same day - twelve hours before a death that only she knows about is set to take place.

Now with the clock ticking, Tru is compelled to traverse the city over the next twelve hours to try to prevent this tragedy, while at the same time trying to rescue members of her own family from their dangerous and self-destructive lives.

With the sexiness and speed of "Run Lola Run," plus the ticking clock suspense of 24, Tru Calling puts a stylish new spin on the procedural crime format as Tru uses her newfound ability to try to stop tragedies before they actually happen.

In the series, Tru is surrounded by HARRISON (Shawn Reaves), her handsome and charming younger brother who has a knack for finding trouble; MEREDITH (Jessica Collins), their older sister who has a great career and money, but battles drug addiction; LINDSAY (A.J. Cook), Tru's loyal but unsuspecting best friend; and DAVIS (Zach Galifianakis), the quirky morgue staffer Tru works with on the graveyard shift.

In the middle of the first season, we were introduced to a new character named Jack Harper(Jason Priestly), who plays a new morgue attendent, who seems to have a strange effect on Tru's abilities when he's around. Tru discovers that he also has the power to go back in time...only he is her true universal opposite, which means he wants the people to STAY dead...

The pilot episode was directed by renowned filmmaker Phillip Noyce. Tru Calling is a production of 20th Century Fox Television and Original Film and was created by executive producer/writer Jon Harmon Feldman. Marty Adelstein, Neal Moritz, Dawn Parouse and R. W. (Bob) Goodwin are also executive producers.

Theme Song: "Can Somebody Help Me?" - Full Blown Rose

Original Title: Tru
Show Type: FOX Drama
First Telecast: October 30th, 2003
Last Telecast: April 21, 2005… Expand

Creator: Jon Harmon Feldman

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Suspense, Science Fiction

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E20. Two Weddings and a Funeral
Air Date: April 29, 2004
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S1:E19. D.O.A.
Air Date: April 29, 2004
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S1:E18. Rear Window
Air Date: April 22, 2004

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Gillian Flynn

Jun 17, 2013

Fox is squandering Tru's gift of a premise. ... Dushku has to regain the vibrancy she buzzed with in Buffy and Bring It On, and the writers can help. Liven Tru up. Give her a sense of mischief. Or humor. Read full review

Terry Kelleher

Jun 28, 2013

This show needs to make the supernatural seem less ordinary. Read full review

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TW236

Aug 12, 2014

This was a great series, every episode was really good, unlike most shows where one of the episodes is boring but it's crucial to watch due to the storyline, this show nailed that aspect. The characters were well written and so was the scripting. Loved Dushku's portrayal of Tru. The show wasThis was a great series, every episode was really good, unlike most shows where one of the episodes is boring but it's crucial to watch due to the storyline, this show nailed that aspect. The characters were well written and so was the scripting. Loved Dushku's portrayal of Tru. The show was also funny, mainly due to Harrison's antics when learning of Tru's power. It had me hooked from the end of the first episode. Seriously, it just got better and better. I wish they never cancelled it. It was, really, brilliant.… Expand

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danielb1982

Nov 14, 2016

I was looking for a new show to watch and being a massive fan of Eliza Dushku in Buffy as Faith, I decided to buy the Tru Calling box-set.

I'm so glad I did, was such a great series, every episode had me gripped. Eliza shined in this show, and was helped by a very good supporting cast.I was looking for a new show to watch and being a massive fan of Eliza Dushku in Buffy as Faith, I decided to buy the Tru Calling box-set.

I'm so glad I did, was such a great series, every episode had me gripped. Eliza shined in this show, and was helped by a very good supporting cast.

Was a great shame that it wasn't renewed after two seasons, although I thought the end of series two wrapped it up well, but also left it open for more, and left me with so many questions unanswered.… Expand

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Eliot2

Jan 28, 2015

A great concept that took the best part of a season to find its feet really but got into Tru high gear with the season one finale and season two, where the mythology was revealed to be far beyond what Tru could know. In need of a rewind.

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drlowdon

Feb 14, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Tru Calling starts off as a fairly standard piece of television in which Tru Davies (Eliza Dushku) is surprised to find that dead people, in the morgue in which she works, start asking for her help. She is then sent back to the start of that day with the goal of saving that person’s life.

While these early episodes are entertaining enough it is not until about half-way through this first season, with the introduction of Jack Harper (Jason Priestley), that things start to get really interesting. We soon discover that not everyone believes Tru's ability is a good thing and that by interfering in the lives and deaths of the people asking for help she is causing more harm than good in the long run. It is this moral dilemma that lifted the show to a higher level as we begin questioning the acts of each of the main characters.

I must warn people that Tru Calling was cancelled early in its second season and so there is no conclusion to Tru and Jacks story. What you do get however is 26 very good episodes of a show that sadly finished before its time.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: March 31, 2005
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 30, 2003
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  S1:E20. Two Weddings and a Funeral
  Air Date: April 29, 2004
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  S1:E19. D.O.A.
  Air Date: April 29, 2004
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  S1:E18. Rear Window
  Air Date: April 22, 2004
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  S1:E17. Death Becomes Her
  Air Date: April 15, 2004
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  S1:E16. Two Pair
  Air Date: April 8, 2004
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  S1:E15. The Getaway
  Air Date: April 1, 2004
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  S1:E14. Daddy's Girl
  Air Date: March 25, 2004
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  S1:E13. Drop Dead Gorgeous
  Air Date: March 18, 2004
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  S1:E12. Valentine
  Air Date: February 12, 2004
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  S1:E11. The Longest Day
  Air Date: February 5, 2004
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  S1:E10. Reunion
  Air Date: January 22, 2004
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  S1:E9. Murder in the Morgue
  Air Date: January 15, 2004
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  S1:E8. Closure
  Air Date: January 8, 2004
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  S1:E7. Morning After
  Air Date: December 18, 2003
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  S1:E6. Star Crossed
  Air Date: December 11, 2003
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  S1:E5. Haunted
  Air Date: December 4, 2003
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  S1:E4. Past Tense
  Air Date: November 20, 2003
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  S1:E3. Brother's Keeper
  Air Date: November 13, 2003
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  S1:E2. Putting Out Fires
  Air Date: November 6, 2003
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: October 30, 2003