A dramatized history of the personal computer industry from the viewpoint of the engineers and programmers at a fictitious video game company started in Texas in the early 1980s, whose cutting-edge products always fail because of interpersonal conflicts.
Show Details:
Start date: Jun 2014
End date: Oct 2017
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): AMC (US)
Run time: 60 min
Episodes: 40 eps
Genre(s): Drama, Historical
End date: Oct 2017
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): AMC (US)
Run time: 60 min
Episodes: 40 eps
Genre(s): Drama, Historical
Credits:
- Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe
- Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark
- Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark
- Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan
- Toby Huss as John Bosworth
- Annabeth Gish as Diane Gould [ 3 ]
- Manish Dayal as Ryan Ray [ 3 ]
- Mark O'Brien as Tom Rendon [ recurring ]
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 01 Jun 14 | I/O |
| 2. | 1-2 | 08 Jun 14 | FUD |
| 3. | 1-3 | 15 Jun 14 | High Plains Hardware |
| 4. | 1-4 | 22 Jun 14 | Close to the Metal |
| 5. | 1-5 | 29 Jun 14 | Adventure |
| 6. | 1-6 | 06 Jul 14 | Landfall |
| 7. | 1-7 | 13 Jul 14 | Giant |
| 8. | 1-8 | 20 Jul 14 | The 214s |
| 9. | 1-9 | 27 Jul 14 | Up Helly Aa |
| 10. | 1-10 | 03 Aug 14 | 1984 |
| Season 2 | |||
| 11. | 2-1 | 31 May 15 | SETI |
| 12. | 2-2 | 07 Jun 15 | New Coke |
| 13. | 2-3 | 14 Jun 15 | The Way In |
| 14. | 2-4 | 21 Jun 15 | Play with Friends |
| 15. | 2-5 | 28 Jun 15 | Extract and Defend |
| 16. | 2-6 | 05 Jul 15 | 10Broad36 |
| 17. | 2-7 | 12 Jul 15 | Working for the Clampdown |
| 18. | 2-8 | 19 Jul 15 | Limbo |
| 19. | 2-9 | 26 Jul 15 | Kali |
| 20. | 2-10 | 02 Aug 15 | Heaven is a Place |
| Season 3 | |||
| 21. | 3-1 | 23 Aug 16 | Valley of the Heart's Delight |
| 22. | 3-2 | 23 Aug 16 | One Way or Another |
| 23. | 3-3 | 30 Aug 16 | Flipping the Switch |
| 24. | 3-4 | 06 Sep 16 | Rules of Honorable Play |
| 25. | 3-5 | 13 Sep 16 | Yerba Buena |
| 26. | 3-6 | 20 Sep 16 | And She Was |
| 27. | 3-7 | 27 Sep 16 | The Threshold |
| 28. | 3-8 | 04 Oct 16 | You Are Not Safe |
| 29. | 3-9 | 11 Oct 16 | NIM |
| 30. | 3-10 | 11 Oct 16 | NeXT (70 min) |
| Season 4 | |||
| 31. | 4-1 | 19 Aug 17 | So It Goes |
| 32. | 4-2 | 19 Aug 17 | Signal to Noise |
| 33. | 4-3 | 26 Aug 17 | Miscellaneous |
| 34. | 4-4 | 09 Sep 17 | Tonya and Nancy |
| 35. | 4-5 | 16 Sep 17 | Nowhere Man |
| 36. | 4-6 | 23 Sep 17 | A Connection is Made |
| 37. | 4-7 | 30 Sep 17 | Who Needs a Guy |
| 38. | 4-8 | 07 Oct 17 | Goodwill |
| 39. | 4-9 | 14 Oct 17 | Search |
| 40. | 4-10 | 14 Oct 17 | Ten of Swords |
NOTES
"Halt and Catch Fire" is a joking reference to a computer software command that could supposedly cause some early machines to go out of control, overheat and catch fire.
"Halt and Catch Fire" is a joking reference to a computer software command that could supposedly cause some early machines to go out of control, overheat and catch fire.