Medium is an American supernatural procedural drama series franchise created by Glenn Gordon Caron only for the CBS Entertainment Group. The original tv series originally aired on the NBC channel for five seasons from January 3, 2005, to June 1, 2009, and on CBS for two more seasons from September 25, 2009, to January 21, 2011 before it's cancellation.
Main Cast and characters[]
| Actor/Actress | Character | Role | Notes | Duration |
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| Patricia Arquette | Allison DuBois | The medium | Protagonist | Season 1–7 |
| Jake Weber | Joe DuBois | Allison's husband | Engineer | |
| Miguel Sandoval | Manuel Devalos | Allison's boss | District Attorney of Phoenix | |
| Sofia Vassilieva | Ariel DuBois | Oldest DuBois daughter | Student | |
| Feodor Lark | Bridgette DuBois | Middle DuBois daughter | Student | |
| David Cubitt | Lee Scanlon | Detective | Allison's co-worker | Season 2–7 Season 1 (recurring) |
| Madison and Miranda Carabello | Marie DuBois | Youngest DuBois daughter | Season 1–7 (recurring) | |
| Tina DiJoseph | Lynn DiNovi | Mayor's liaison, later Deputy Mayor | Lee's girlfriend, later wife | Season 1–7 (recurring) |
| Ryan Hurst/ David Arquette |
Michael "Lucky" Benoit | Allison's half-brother | Hurst in first three seasons, Arquette in seventh | Seasons 1–3 (recurring) Season 7 (recurring) |
| Arliss Howard | Kenneth Push | A captain in the Texas Rangers | meets Allison in the Pilot episode | Seasons 1–3 (recurring) |
| Holliston Coleman | Hannah | Ariel's best friend | Student | Seasons 1–6 (recurring) |
| Bruce Gray | Mr. Dubois | Joe's father (already deceased from season 1) | Ghost | Season 1–7 (recurring) |
| Kathy Baker | Mrs. Dubois | Joe's mother (deceased from season 7) | Dies from cancer in the season seven episode "Blood on the Tracks" | Seasons 1–7 (recurring) |
| Margo Martindale | A psychic whom Allison later depends on | A friend/mentor of Allison's | Helped Allison when she was a novice and coming to terms with her special gifts. Started in Episode 1.1 | Seasons 1–4 (recurring) |
| Olivia Sandoval | Manny's daughter | A ghost who helps her father | Her mysterious suicide is a recurring theme. She is played by the real life daughter of Miguel Sandoval | Seasons 3 and 6 (recurring) |
| Kurtwood Smith | Edward Cooper | FBI agent (deceased) and serial killer | Ghost | Seasons 3–5 (recurring) |
| Zak Lee Guarnaccia | Julian Pierce | Killer (deceased) | Julian Pierce ambushed and exchanged fire with Edward Cooper in a hotel room. | Seasons 3–5 (recurring) |
| Roxanne Hart | Lily Devalos | Manuel's wife | Seasons 3–7 (recurring) | |
| John Prosky | Tom Van Dyke | Former district attorney and Manuel's rival, later deceased | Smug and ruthless district attorney who takes over (temporarily) for Devalos. He is diagnosed with cancer and asks for Allison's help. This leads to conciliation at the end of season 4. | Seasons 3 & 4 (recurring) |
| Anjelica Huston | Cynthia Keener | AmeriTips investigator and Allison's employer in season 4 | Arrested for the murder of her daughter's killer | Seasons 4 & 5 (recurring) |
| Annamarie Kenoyer | Ashley Whitaker | Ariel's friend | Seasons 5 & 6 (recurring) |
Media[]
Main series[]
- Main article: Medium (television series)
The tv show based on the franchise is shown on January 3, 2005 as NBC's Primetime Dramas to January 21, 2011 before it's cancellation on NBC & CBS.
Television specials[]
There are several television film specials from the television series' episodes are shown here:
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| When Push Comes to Shove | Aaron Lipstadt |
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| Joe and the kids are getting tired of Allison never being home, but Devalos needs her help tracking down a serial killer. After seeing Capt. Kenneth Push in a vision at the murder scene, Allison calls upon his assistance to find the serial killer. Push says the cases in Phoenix resemble an earlier serial killer spree in Texas, where the words "Isaiah 14:21" were present at every crime scene, the killer cut out the victims' hearts, and the killings stopped abruptly. The first two are quickly established as matching to the Phoenix cases. Based on the biblical verse, Allison figures out that the victims are somehow related to each other, and DNA tests show the victims have the same father. Allison and Joe's relationship continues to deteriorate the longer the case drags on. Captain Push's heart condition flares up and when he dies for a minute or two, he shows up in Allison's dreams to tell her the next victim's name, only to disappear when he is resuscitated. Captain Push is about to have surgery to get a pacemaker, but when he finds out the next victim has already been killed, he puts his life on the line to help Allison solve the case. Captain Kenneth Push is still in a coma, Allison hasn't had any dreams in the past 3 months, and she and Joe have been working on their marriage with success. As part of fixing their marriage, Allison vowed to try and cut back at work, while Joe promised to attend therapy. When Joe goes to his first therapy appointment, his therapist says Allison is very inconsiderate of his feelings by running to her job at all hours. While visiting Captain Push at the hospital, Allison sees the ghost of Push's father, who tells Allison she has to finish the dream Push risked his life to give her or she will not only never find the serial killer, but she will also never have her dreams again. Joe wants her to sacrifice her dreams, but Allison refuses because Devalos figures out the father of the victims was a sperm donor, and the serial killer has killed all of the sperm donor's children (the victims of both the Texas and Phoenix sprees) except for one: eighteen-year-old Phoenix resident Bella, who is in protective custody. Allison finishes Captain Push's dream, which reveals that the sperm donor left his fiancé, who was pregnant with their son at the time. As soon as Allison finishes the dream, Captain Push awakes from his coma. Allison realize the sperm donor's son, named Isaiah after the biblical verse, was raised by his mother off the grid so that he would be nearly impossible to find, and that she raised him to carry out vengeance against his father's other children. Bella agrees to return to work as a concession stand worker at the basketball arena so that Allison, Push, Devalos, and Scanlon can attempt to lure Isaiah out of hiding. After the game is over, it appears their plan has failed until an officer shows up to take Bella back to protective custody. Captain Push realizes the officer is wearing hightop sneakers and repeatedly calls for him to stop. The officer, really Isaiah, pulls out a gun and he and Push exchange fire; Push kills Isaiah. | ||||||
| Four Dreams | Aaron Lipstadt | Glenn Gordon Caron & Javier Grillo-Marxuach | November 15, 2006 | 9.44 | ||
| Allison and Bridgette are having dreams (though Bridgette's are animated) about several violent crimes that are taking place. | ||||||
| Burn Baby Burn |
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| When her mother-in-law Marjorie Dubois comes to visit, Allison learns the real reason why and struggles with her plea to not discuss it with Joe, the one person with whom she has no secrets. Meanwhile, Ameritips investigator Cynthia Keener hopes to nudge Allison’s gifts to her open cases. Later, an arson-related murder brings Allison, Devalos and Scanlon back together in an unexpected manner. While struggling to keep her mother-in-law's secret from Joe, Allison attempts to find the link between her dreams, a case she's working on for Cynthia Keener, Devalos' arson-related murder case, and Ariel's prediction of the death of an acquaintance's mother. | ||||||
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| Allison discovers a secret from Ameritips investigator Cynthia Keener's past while looking for a missing local girl named Melanie. Cynthia's own daughter, Suzie (Sarah Drew), went missing from a mall parking lot in 1998 and has not been found. Allison dreams that Suzie was held captive in a fall-out shelter with another girl named Joanna Wheeler (Lily Rabe) only a few blocks away from Suzie's home. When Cynthia and Allison visit the home containing the fall-out shelter, however, an elderly woman is now in residence and doesn't remember who sold the house to her. They also find Joanna alive and well in her mother's knitting shop, and Cynthia fires Allison out of anger. Allison's unemployment doesn't last, though: Cynthia rehires Allison after Melanie escapes her captor and contacts the police. When Allison turns on the news, she discovers the kidnapper is dead and that Joanna Wheeler was held captive alongside Melanie and rescued. Cynthia believes Allison mixed up Suzie and Melanie's faces in her dreams, but Allison isn't so sure. Allison's belief in her dream's accuracy is strengthened when the current owner of the house and fall-out shelter sends her a fax containing a photo of the previous owner, Peter Campbell, and he looks just like Suzie's kidnapper. Meanwhile, Joe's relationship with Allison is tested when Bridgette's science class project sparks his imagination. Cynthia and Allison investigate whether the recent kidnapping of a local girl named Melanie and Cynthia's daughter Suzie in 1998 are related. Joanna Wheeler is determined to be the common denominator in both cases when Allison realizes her previous dreams about Joanna being kept in the fall-out shelter with Suzie were correct. Allison continues to have dreams about Joanna, which reveal she is a psychopath who masterminded Suzie's kidnapping and forced her then-boyfriend Peter Campbell to take part, and that Joanna killed her most recent boyfriend and let Melanie escape after realizing Cynthia and Allison were on her trail. Allison also has a dream in which Cynthia and Suzie are reunited before Suzie walks into a scenic lake and doesn't resurface. Cynthia and Allison track down Peter Campbell, and while he denies involvement in Suzie's kidnapping, his resolve is visibly cracking. While driving back to Phoenix, Allison sees the lake from her most recent dream and tells Cynthia about her dream; Suzie's skeleton is subsequently recovered from the bottom of the lake. Peter Campbell is soon found dead and with no physical evidence to connect Joanna to Suzie's murder, Cynthia takes matters into her own hands and kills Joanna herself. When Allison realizes what happened, Cynthia says that since she failed to stand up for Suzie in life, she killed Joanna in an attempt to make amends and has made peace with the fact that she will go to prison. Meanwhile, after helping Bridgette with her science project, Joe gets a prediction from his middle daughter about his future finances. | ||||||
| The Devil Inside | Peter Werner |
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| Allison is being stalked by a man who believes that it is his duty to end her life in the name of God. This soon puts her entire family at risk and they are forced into a home lockdown. Allison is no longer able to trust her dreams because the ghost of a madman has jumped into her mind and is turning all of her dreams into nightmares. | ||||||
| How to Make a Killing in Big Business |
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| Allison is recruited by a Fortune 500 company to predict business trends. However, she continues to dream about a case involving a serial killer that she was working on in the DA's office. The company founder Douglas Lydecker (David Morse) asks Allison to identify any suspicious employees, but the only person she has a bad feeling about is Douglas' son, Justin. After Allison alerts Scanlon about the police detective involved in the murders, Douglas threatens Allison with suing her to poverty if she reveals her dreams to the police again. Meanwhile, Ariel takes her friend's anti-anxiety pills because a ghost won't leave her alone while she studies for the PSATs. Allison holds a dark secret and Ariel has dreams that indicate her teacher may be in grave danger. | ||||||