The Alchemist Production Details


Production order:

14 - Season one

Airing order in the USA:
14

Original air date:
January 22, 1988

Story by:
Richard Setlowe

Teleplay by:
Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon

Director:
Thomas J. Wright

Director of Photography:
Frank Beascoechea ASC

Production Design:
John Mansbridge

Editor:
Drake P. Silliman

Supervising Producer - Ron Koslow

Co-Supervising Producer - Stephen Kurzfeld

Producer - David Peckinpah

Producer - George R. R. Martin

Producer - Kenneth R. Koch

Executive Producer - Paul Junger Witt & Tony Thomas

Executive Story Editors - Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon

Associate Producer – Christopher Toyne

Associate Producer – Anthony Mazzei

Music:
Don Davis - Theme by Lee Holdridge

Cast:

Vincent

Ron Perlman

Catherine Chandler

Linda Hamilton

Father

Roy Dotrice

Mary Ellen Geer
Winslow James Avery
Paracelsus (John Pater) Tony Jay
Joe Maxwell Jay Acovone
Jimmy Morero Joey Aresco
Claude Schneider Dana Gladstone
Farell John Amos
Tyler Buckman Jeffrey Nordling
Mary Katherine Heard
Carmen Laura Martinez Herring
Zeke Albie Selznick

 

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Literary references:
William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part I: "The better part of valour is discretion"
    quoted by Paracelsus to Vincent

Paracelsus: John Pater chose for himself the name of Paracelsus after the alchemist, physician, astrologer, occultist Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), a Renaissance genius, arrogant and rootless, whose pseudonym means 'above or beyond Celsus', implying that he was greater physician than the then-revered 1st century Roman medical writer Aulus Cornelius Celsus. A rebellious thinker, Paracelsus developed his own system of medicine and philosophy, and established the role of chemistry in medicine.

 

 

 

Music references:
   
none

 

Unit Production Manager – Tony Brown
1st Assistant Director – Mary Ellen Canniff
2nd Assistant Director – Bruce Alan Solow
Set Decorator – Peg Cummings
Property Master – Wally Wall
Assistant Producer – David Schwartz
Special effects Coordinator - Gary Bentley

Stunt Coordinator - Fred Lerner
Script Supervisor – Kathy Barrett
Make-up Artist – Fred Blau Jr
Hair Stylist – Josephine McCarthy
Beast Make-up – Margaret Beserra
Costumer – Mary Taylor
Costumer - Ron Hodge
Sound Mixer – Pat Mitchell
Sound Mixer – Rick Ash
Sound Editing – David Hankins
Music Editor – Don Sanders
Main Titles – Robert Farina
Main Titles – Chris Arnold

 

Costume Designer - Judy Evans
Casting – Joyce Robinson & Penny Ellers

Beast designed & creatd by Rick Baker


Executive in Charge of Production – Harry Waterson

Special thanks to Patricia Livingston