Surface (2005 TV series)

Did You Know?

• The complete series was released on DVD in Australia on April 4, 2007.
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment released Surface: The Complete Series on DVD on August 15, 2006.
• The series was broadcast in Croatia under the title Stvorenja.

Synopsis

Oceanographer Laura Daughtery is attacked by an unknown life-form during a submersible dive in the North Pacific Ocean. In North Carolina, teenager Miles Barnett encounters a strange sea creature after falling from his wakeboard. Richard Connelly loses his brother to a suspicious diving accident in the Gulf of Mexico. Worldwide, unusual oceanic events occur: shooting stars fall into the Caribbean, a lighthouse in South Africa hears a horrific howl, and an unknown carcass washes ashore in South Carolina, which the government claims is a beached whale killed by red tide. Daughtery's research is seized by officials led by Dr. Aleksander Cirko, and she is fired. Miles finds pods he calls eggs in the water and takes one home. Connelly travels to South Carolina and meets Daughtery after both are detained for asking questions. Miles's egg hatches, and the creature escapes at a pool party. Daughtery and Connelly retrieve a hagfish that fed on the carcass and send its stomach contents for testing. Reports of creatures beaching themselves worldwide begin to emerge.

Themes

This TV series examines the consequences of genetic engineering and advanced biotechnology. A secret company artificially creates a new organism. In one episode, a job applicant learns the firm recovered the Archaeopteryx and mastered cloning decades before Dolly the sheep.

International distribution

During its initial run, Surface aired in syndication on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States. It was broadcast in Canada on CH, on ITV2 in the UK, on Network Ten in Australia, on VT4 in Belgium, on La Sexta and Calle 13 in Spain, and on Universal Channel in Mexico. In summer 2006, it aired on ProSieben in Germany, on Fox in Portugal and Brazil, on Yes in Israel, and on Canal+ in most of Scandinavia. In summer 2008, Veronica in the Netherlands broadcast it. The entire series repeated on ITV1 in the UK from July 23 to October 30, 2009. Additional broadcasts included Italia 1 in Italy, TVNorge in Norway, TVI in Portugal, Sci Fi Channel in Australia, La Sexta in Spain, MTV3 in Finland, Space in Canada, MBC3 in Mauritius, TVN Siedem in Poland, Alter Channel in Greece, TV3 in New Zealand, RTL Televizija in Croatia, StarWorld in Singapore, and Digit Alb + in Albania. Other countries and channels included Canal 13 in Argentina, RTL-TVI in Belgium, Rede Record in Brazil, Citytv Bogotá in Colombia, Red TV in Chile, DR1 in Denmark, Canal+ and TF1 in France, kabel eins in Germany, TV2 in Hungary, Star World in India, TV6 in Latvia and Lithuania, TV3 in Malaysia, Canal 9 SNT in Paraguay, and America TV in Peru.