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Firefly is a cult American science fiction television series that premiered in the United States and Canada on September 20 , 2002 . Its naturalistic future setting, modeled after traditional Western movie motifs, presents an atypical science fiction backdrop for the narrative. It was conceived by writer and director Joss Whedon , creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel , under his production tag, Mutant Enemy . Whedon served as executive producer , along with Tim Minear .
Firefly was originally broadcast on the FOX network but was cancelled after only eleven of the fourteen produced episodes were aired. Despite the series' relatively short life span, it received strong sales when it was released onto DVD and had impressive fan support campaigns. This led Whedon and Universal Pictures to produce a film based on the series, titled Serenity after the fictional spaceship featured in the show. It won an Emmy in 2003 for "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series".
The series is set in a distant future, 2517 years after humans arrived at a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity , a Firefly -class spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity . Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things". The show explores the vicissitudes of people who fought on the losing side of a civil war , as well as the pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system. In addition, it is a future where the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China , fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance , resulting in a fusion of the two cultures, as well. According to Whedon, nothing has changed in the future: there are more people with more advanced technology, but they still have the same problems politically, morally and ethically.
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Firefly - Season 1:
1. The Pilot
2. The Train Job
3. Bush Wacked
4. Shindig
5. Safe
6. Our Mrs Reynolds
7. Jaynetown
8. Out of Gas
9. Arial
10. War stories
11. Trash
12. The Message
13. Heart of Gold
14. Objects in Space
15. SPECIAL FEATURES OFF THE DVD
16. FINAL - Serenity (the movie)