Kingdom Hospital
| Television series | |
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| German title | Kingdom Hospital |
| Original title | Kingdom Hospital |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2004 |
| length | 39 minutes |
| Episodes | 15 (2 of them two-piece) |
| genre | Horror / comedy |
| First broadcast | March 3, 2004 (USA) on ABC |
| German-language first broadcast |
December 19, 2005 on kabel eins |
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Kingdom Hospital is an American television series from 2004. The series is an adaptation by Stephen King on the miniseries Hospital of the Spirits by the Danish director Lars von Trier . Many of the original story elements of the original have been retained. Sometimes the characters even have the same names. Directed by Craig R. Baxley .
Action overview
The story takes place in the fictional Kingdom Hospital in Lewiston (Maine) , which stands on the property of a burned down textile factory, in which uniforms were made during the American Civil War (an allusion to the fire of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 25, 1911, in which 146 girls and women between the ages of 13 and 25 perished). Before the current hospital was built, there was already a hospital on the same site, which also burned down and is known as the "Old Kingdom". Various cellars of the old hospital still exist under the “new kingdom”.
Mrs. Druse, a woman with the ability to communicate with ghosts, is constantly trying to be admitted to the hospital to make contact with strange ghosts in the hospital. Instead, she is repeatedly exposed as a hypochondriac and sent home. With the help of the doctor Dr. Hook finally manages to get accepted. In addition, she succeeds in convincing Hook to find out the truth about the hospital and the mysterious ghosts together with her. Particularly in the foreground are the ghosts of a little girl who was killed after the fire in the factory, and of a male teenager who was part of horrific experiments in the old kingdom, as well as a strange animal called Antibus (in the original version Antubis , derived from Anubis and Anteater , English for anteater ), which resembles a large anteater .
And then there is the gifted artist Peter Rickman. Rickman is hit by a truck while jogging and seriously injured. The driver of the accident vehicle commits a hit and miss . None of the passing road users sees the seriously injured person. Then a large, mysterious animal that resembles an anteater appears and saves its life. But only on the condition that Rickman pays a price to save him. Rickman is rescued and is now comatose with severe injuries to his head and spine in hospital room 426.
The series also contains several subplots, such as that of the arrogant head doctor Dr. Stegman, who is to be accepted into a secret organization of doctors ("The Guardians of the Kingdom") in order to avoid the consequences of malpractice . Or that of the young doctor Dr. Elmer Traff, who is constantly trying to attract the much more mature Dr. Conquer Lona Massingale.
Episode list (DVD version)
(Some of the episodes were translated differently on kabel eins)
- The Realm of Darkness (I / II) (Thy Kingdom Come)
- Little Girl (Death's Kingdom)
- The killer (goodbye kiss)
- Last Flicker (The West Side Of Midnight)
- Hook's Cemetery (Hook's Kingdom)
- Headless (The Young and the Headless)
- Black noise (Black Noise)
- Herzlos (Heartless)
- Number 11 (Butterfingers)
- On the third day (The Passion Of Reverend Jimmy)
- The day of the attacks (Seizure Day)
- Mine is vengeance (Shoulda Stood In Bed)
- Caught in the intermediate world / Antibus (Finale)
Awards
- 2006: Won the VES Award (Visual Effects Society Awards) in the category Outstanding Representation of an Animated Character in a Real TV Program.
- Nominations:
- 2004: Emmy for Outstanding Title Design.
- 2004: Emmy for Outstanding Special Effects in a Series.
- 2005: IHG Award (International Horror Guild Awards) for Best Television Production.
- 2005: Young Artist Award in the Young Actress category (10 years or younger) for Jodelle Ferland .
Trivia
- While Peter Rickman is jogging, you can see that he is wearing a sweatshirt that says “ Little Tall ”. Little Tall Island is the setting for Stephen King's “Dolores” and “ The Storm of the Century ” .
- Peter Rickman's accident at the beginning of the series is similar in many details to Stephen King's accident in 1999, in which he was hit by a car and seriously injured.
- The ambulance unit that Peter rescues is number 19, a number that plays a major role in The Dark Tower series .
- Many of the characters, locations and events are named using puns. This is the name of one of the nurses Carrie von Trier. A combination of the protagonist of Stephen King's bestseller “ Carrie ” and Lars von Trier , the name of the director of the original series.
- Many of the characters read Stephen King's books over the course of the series. For example, Peter Rickman's wife, who reads “ You ” at her husband's bedside .
- The hospital caretaker by the name of Johnny B. Goode is absent from work throughout the series and is constantly being replaced by someone else. When he finally appears at the end of the series, he is portrayed by Stephen King .
- The names of the three characters who have contact with the world of spirits (Peter Rickman, Mary Jensen, and Paul Morlock) together make up the name of the band Peter, Paul and Mary .
- The name on the vending machine that you see in some episodes is "Nozz-a-la". This is a fictional cola brand, which appears frequently in the series " The Dark Tower ".
- Blondi, the shepherd dog of security man Otto, bears the same name as Hitler's shepherd dog and "speaks" in the original English version with a German accent.
Web links
- Kingdom Hospital in the Internet Movie Database (English)