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Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

  • Air date:2004-03-03
  • User score:
    6.1
  • Number of episodes:13

List of Episodes

Thy Kingdom Come
S1E1
4.7

Air date: 2004-03-03

Runtime: 83 min

Artist Peter Rickman is run down by a stoned, two-time loser driving a minivan. He is admitted comatose to Kingdom Hospital, but not before encountering a frightening, ghostly figure whose mission is to use him to rid the hospital of malevolence, both human and inhuman, and to free its nine-year old mistress, Mary, from the hospital's haunted halls. When he awakens in an altered state with newfound but not necessarily welcome telepathic powers, Rickman finds he can communicate with the spirits, good and evil, man and beast, inhabiting the hospital.

Death's Kingdom
S1E2
6.5

Air date: 2004-03-10

Runtime: 40 min

Despite being forcibly discharged from the hospital by Dr. Stegman, Mrs. Druse recruits the semi-conscious, telepathic Peter to join her at a seance to identify the spirit whose cries continue to haunt the hospital's elevator shafts. Meanwhile, the man responsible for Peter's condition becomes acutely aware of a much stronger and frightening presence at Kingdom Hospital.

Goodbye Kiss
S1E3
6.5

Air date: 2004-03-17

Runtime: 41 min

After seeing a girl and finding a toy doll in the elevator shaft, Dr. Hook is convinced to help Druse stay in the hospital while she finds the source of the haunting. Meanwhile, a prisoner and his girlfriend plan out a suicide pact that goes wrong when he is saved by the Kingdom Hospital staff, in a not so common fashion. We also learn that Dr. Stegman killed a patient while in surgery at his last job in Boston, and is now being accused of messing up another surgery with a young girl. The mother now has plans to sue for malpractice. And finally, Peter Rickman is visited in his mind by the beast in his painting, and also comes in contact with Mary and Paul.

The West Side of Midnight
S1E4
6.0

Air date: 2004-03-24

Runtime: 43 min

The ex-wife of Dr. Traff dies from a heart attack in his care, while his son Elmer has a dream involving the anteater. Lenny passes onto the other side, and tries to help Druse find out more about Mary. After a night of anger and harrassment, Stegman goes off the deep end and starts trying to find out who defaced his car. Finally, while Druse finds out through Lenny that Rickman knows what's going on in the hospital, Paul starts to use Pedersen to make sure Druse doesn't find out.

Hook's Kingdom
S1E5
6.0

Air date: 2004-03-31

Runtime: 42 min

The psychic Mrs. Druse is called to assist when the trapped evil spirit of a tortured teenaged boy wreaks havoc on the staff, patients and innocent spirits inhabiting Kingdom Hospital. Meanwhile Dr. Hook forges a relationship of the mortal variety.

The Young and The Headless
S1E6
6.7

Air date: 2004-04-08

Runtime: 42 min

Using Peter Rickman's drawings as a guide, Mrs. Druse and Hook make contact with Mary and her nemesis, Paul, and begin to navigate through the trenches of Kingdom Hospital's horrifying past. Meanwhile, Dr. Traff's attempt at a love prank on sleep psychologist Dr. Lona Massingale goes terrifyingly wrong!

Black Noise
S1E7
6.0

Air date: 2004-04-15

Runtime: 41 min

Still unable to speak, Peter gets a message to Dr. Hook and Mrs. Druse that a very dark presence within Kingdom Hospital is channeling his evil through a hallucinating alcoholic and pyromaniac to harm patients, staff and their most powerful spiritual allies, Mary and Antibus. And Dr. Stegman's unethical medical practices and questionable past begin to haunt him at every turn.

Heartless
S1E8
6.0

Air date: 2004-04-22

Runtime: 42 min

An attorney in need of a heart transplant rues the day he checked into Kingdom Hospital. Meanwhile, Hook discovers authentic newspaper clippings inside Mary's doll that reveal the horrific details of the 1869 Gates Falls Mills fire that killed scores of children on the very ground where the hospital now stands.

Butterfingers
S1E9
6.0

Air date: 2004-04-29

Runtime: 41 min

When a retired major league baseball player attempts to take his own life and is admitted to Kingdom Hospital, he begins a chain reaction that opens up some horrific old wounds and reverses history for those -- living and dead -- who inhabit the hospital.

The Passion of Reverend Jimmy
S1E10
6.0

Air date: 2004-06-24

Runtime: 41 min

When the reverend of the Christ-Oly-Christ mission is sacrificed, new life resurges in and around Kingdom Hospital and the mystery behind Mary's death is revealed. Meanwhile, maintenance man Jack Handlemann delivers a very destructive blow to Stegman's ego and most prized possession.

Seizure Day
S1E11
6.0

Air date: 2004-07-01

Runtime: 42 min

When two different patients have seizures, they awaken to frightening visions of the living dead haunting Kingdom Hospital's halls, and the reverberations from Mona Klingerman's seizure brings Dr. Stegman's worst nightmares to the surface.

Shoulda Stood in Bed
S1E12
6.5

Air date: 2004-07-08

Runtime: 42 min

When Peter Rickman has yet another seizure, he witnesses the eventual fate of Kingdom Hospital and makes a tangible connection with its frightening past. When Peter awakes, his drawings help Mrs. Druse make a direct connection to Mary, and serve as the key to correcting evil deeds done by the Kingdom's forefathers. Meanwhile, Brenda and Dr. Hook finally make public Stegman's guilt in the Mona Klingerman medical malpractice incident -- and send him on a crazed and violent tear for vengeance.

Finale
S1E13
6.5

Air date: 2004-07-15

Runtime: 85 min

The future of Kingdom Hospital is changed forever when Dr. Hook and Peter are sent back to the Old Kingdom, where they find the answers to the secrets of the Gates Falls Mills fire.

Top Cast

Allison Hossack

Allison Hossack

Dr. Christine Draper

Bruce Davison

Bruce Davison

Dr. Stegman

Janet Wright

Janet Wright

Liz Hinton

Andrew McCarthy

Andrew McCarthy

Dr. Hook

Julian Richings

Julian Richings

Otto

Sherry Miller

Sherry Miller

Dr. Lona Massingale

Ed Begley Jr.

Ed Begley Jr.

Dr. Jesse James

Diane Ladd

Diane Ladd

Sally Druse

Jack Coleman

Jack Coleman

Peter Rickman

Jodelle Ferland

Jodelle Ferland

Mary Jensen

Birkett Turton

Birkett Turton

Antubis

Jamie Harrold

Jamie Harrold

Dr. Elmer Traff

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