Down to a Sunless Sea Production Details


Production order:

17 - Season one

Airing order in the USA:
17

Original air date:
February 19, 1988

Writer:
Don Balluck

Director:
Christopher Leitch

Director of Photography:
Frank Beascoechea ASC

Production Design:
John Mansbridge

Editor:
Drake P. Silliman

Executive Story Editor – Alex Gansa

Executive Story Editor - Howard Gordon

Supervising Producer - Ron Koslow

Co-Supervising Producer - Stephen Kurzfeld

Producer - David Peckinpah

Producer - George R. R. Martin

Producer - Kenneth R. Koch

Executive Producers - Paul Junger Witt and 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

Kipper Cory Danziger

Joe Maxwell

Jay Acovone

Jenny Aronson

Terri Hanauer
Steven Bass Jim Metzler
Helen Tompson Marla Adams
Morrison Robert Cornthwaite
Marcy O'Neill Christine Jansen
Hal Raymond Garcia
Concierge Roger Nolan
Mercer Eric Poppick
Tony Thomas Trujillo

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Literary references:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) - Kubla Khan
The idea of the house in the woods for Catherine and the episode title refer to the first part of the poem, that Vincent reads to the tunnel children:

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.



Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) - Remember
Talking with Catherine about the past, Stephen quotes the last part of the poem:

Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.



Music references:
   
none

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Unit Production Manager – Tony Brown
1st Assistant Director – Richard Espinoza
2nd Assistant Director – Debra Du Val
Set Decorator – Peg Cummings
Property Master – Bill Dietz

Assistant Producer - David F. Schwartz
Special Effects Coordinator – Gary Bentley
Stunt Coordinator - Fred Lerner
Script Supervisor – Kathy Barrett
Make-up Supervisor – 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 & Created by Rick Baker

Executive in Charge of Production: Harry Waterson

Special Thanks to Patricia Livingston

A Witt-Thomas Production

In association with Ron Koslow Films