The Tommyknockers (miniseries)

The Tommyknockers is a 1993 television miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It was directed by John Power, and starred Marg Helgenberger and Jimmy Smits in the two lead roles.

The other town inhabitants include postal worker Joe Paulson De Young, who constantly cheats on his wife, Deputy Becka Paulson Beasley, with his coworker, Nancy Voss Lords. Most people in town dislike Voss for her adulterous ways, and only Paulson seems unaware of her husbands activities. Bryant Brown Carradine and his wife, Marie Corley, run a local diner. Maries father, Ev Hillman Marshall, lives with them and helps care for the couples sons, 10yearold Hillman Hilly Woods and sevenyearold Davey McIver. Sheriff Ruth Merrill Cassidy watches over the town. She is also an avid doll collector. Trooper Butch Duggan Ashton is Merrills liaison with the state police, and shows little respect for the smalltown sheriff.As Anderson and Gardner unearth more of the object, the local townspeople begin to undergo subtle changes. Insomnia becomes common, along with rudimentary telepathy. Some individuals begin inventing wild gadgets using kitchen tools, batteries, small appliances, and other odds and ends. Some of the inventions include an automatic letter sorter, a telepathic typewriter, and a BLT sandwich maker that creates the sandwiches from the raw ingredients. These inventions have a green glow when active. Gardner is astonished when Andersons telepathic typewriter is able to create a wellwritten novel about buffalo soldiers. Anderson also begins to compulsively digging around the artifact, revealing more and more of it. Gardner, however, experiences no creative or mental effects, and is deeply worried about her behavior. Gardner has a metal plate in his head from a skiing accident, and Anderson believes that might be inhibiting whatever is improving the others. Even the children start showing changes Hilly Brown constructs a magic machine which he demonstrates at his birthday party. The device makes several inanimate objects disappear and then reappear, but when Hilly makes his brother Davey disappear, the boy does not come back. Believing Davey ran off, Sheriff Merrill le

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