The Premiere:
The Powell family are about to go from ordinary to extraordinary. After 16 years of marriage, Jim (Michael Chiklis, “The Shield,” “Fantastic Four”) feels disconnected from his workaholic wife, Stephanie (Julie Benz, “Dexter”), and two teenage children, Daphne (Kay Panabaker, “Summerland”) and JJ (Jimmy Bennett, “Star Trek”). To encourage family bonding time, Jim decides the family will join Stephanie on her business trip to South America. When their plane crashes into the Amazon River, they barely enjoy a moment to celebrate their survival before returning to the grind of everyday life. But they will soon realize that their lives have been forever changed. Each member of the family starts to show signs of new, unique and distinct super powers. Will their newfound abilities finally bring them together or push them further apart?
Premieres Tuesday September 28 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on of course the ABC Television Network.
“No Ordinary Family” stars Michael Chiklis as Jim Powell, Julie Benz as Stephanie Powell, Romany Malco as George St. Cloud, Autumn Reeser as Katie Andrews, Kay Panabaker as Daphne Powell, Jimmy Bennett as JJ Powell and Stephen Collins as Dr. Dayton King.
Guest starring are Tate Donovan as Mitch McCutcheon, Christina Chang as Detective Yvonne Cho, Reggie Lee as Dr. Francis Chiles, Tom Amandes as Dr. Robert Allen, Nathan Keyes as Lucas Fisher, Nadine Nicole Crocker as Lindsay Silver, Jamie Harris as Reed Koblenz, Gilland Jones as Emily, Tom Deweir as Detective Mario Hixon, Karen Eileen Gordon as crime victim, Melanie Chartoff as Iris Mitchell, Wiley Pickett as precinct cop, Sean Andrew as batting cage clerk, Ingrid Sanai Buron as guidance counselor, Loren Lazerine as security guard, Larry Omaha as supply clerk, Rey Herrara as referee, Renee Faia as Sally Downs, Oliver Alvarez as JJ’s classmate, Nate Reese as Global Tech chairman, Lacklan Buchanan as Chad Claremont and Josh Stewart as The Watcher.
The story for “Pilot” was by Greg Berlanti & Jon Harmon Feldman, with the teleplay by Feldman. Directed by David Semel.
“No Ordinary Family” was co-created by Greg Berlanti and Jon Harmon Feldman. Berlanti, Feldman, David Semel and Morgan Wandell serve as executive producers. The series is from ABC Studios.
The show will be broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC’s selected HDTV format with a 5.1 channel surround sound. This program carries a TV-PG,L,V parental guideline.
No Ordinary Marriage (episode two)
“No Ordinary Marriage” – Jim attempts to track down some elusive bank robbers, Stephanie looks into discovering the source of the family’s newly acquired powers, and Daphne, trying to find a way keep the voices in her head from drowning out her ability to read minds, discovers that JJ has become a super genius but is hiding it from the family. Meanwhile Jim and Stephanie not only keep their powers a secret from the world but from each other too, as Stephanie discovers Jim has become a crime fighter and Jim finds out that Stephanie has used her new power of speed — after promising not to — on “No Ordinary Family,”
Will air Tuesday, October 5, same time same network.
No Ordinary Ring (episode three)
After Stephanie’s ring is stolen during a robbery at a high-end wedding, Jim and George become wedding crashers in an attempt to catch the thugs. Meanwhile, after learning that assistant Katie misguidedly used her own blood to cover for Stephanie’s company physical exam – fearing that the results would reveal her powers – Stephanie is forced to use her powers in order to retrieve the blood sample from a secure lab; against her parents’ wishes, Daphne wants to tell her friend Megan about her telepathic abilities after she inadvertently reads her mind and blurts out what she heard; and JJ asks Daphne to scan the mind of a cute girl to find out if she has feelings for him, on “No Ordinary Family,”
Airs Tuesday on October 12.
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Bonus:
Michael Chiklis tweeted the photo below of his in-laws on the show who are Cybill Shepherd and Bruce McGill that play Stephanie’s parents. They will make their first appearance in the 6th episode titled “Ordinary Visitors.”
LEEE777 - Well I for one will be watching this, hows about you?
Comments and thoughts below, even yours Grif.
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