Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008)

7.52 seasonsSci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure

The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.

📺 Seasons & Episodes

Specials26 episodes
Terminated Scenes from Season 1, Episodes 1 and 3

1. Terminated Scenes from Season 1, Episodes 1 and 3

11 min

Five terminated scenes from Season 1, Episode 1 ("Pilot") and one terminated scene from Season 1, Episode 3 ("The Turk").

Creating the Chronicles

2. Creating the Chronicles

39 min

A 3-Part Look at the Series' Production Process.

Gag Reel (Season 1)

3. Gag Reel (Season 1)

4 min

Bloopers and outtakes from Season 1.

Cast Audition Tapes

4. Cast Audition Tapes

11 min

Audition tapes for Lena Headey (4:19), Thomas Dekker (2:29) and Richard T. Jones (4:30).

Terminated Scene from Season 1, Episode 6

5. Terminated Scene from Season 1, Episode 6

2 min

One terminated scene from Season 1, Episode 6 ("Dungeons & Dragons").

Summer Glau Dance Rehearsal Video Footage

6. Summer Glau Dance Rehearsal Video Footage

2 min

Video footage of a dance rehearsal performed by actress Summer Glau.

Storyboard Animatic of the School Attack Sequence

7. Storyboard Animatic of the School Attack Sequence

3 min

A storyboard animatic of the school attack sequence that took place during Season 1, Episode 1 ("Pilot").

Terminated Scene from Season 1, Episode 7

8. Terminated Scene from Season 1, Episode 7

5 min

One terminated scene from Season 1, Episode 7 ("The Demon Hand").

Second Terminated Scene from Season 1, Episode 7

9. Second Terminated Scene from Season 1, Episode 7

2 min

Another terminated scene from Season 1, Episode 7 ("The Demon Hand")

Extended edition of Season 1, Episode 7 ("The Demon Hand")

10. Extended edition of Season 1, Episode 7 ("The Demon Hand")

52 min

An extended version (Producers' Cut) of Season 1, Episode 7 ("The Demon Hand")

The Storyboard Process: Cameron Goes Bad

11. The Storyboard Process: Cameron Goes Bad

3 min

Illustrating how key sequences are mapped from storyboard to product.

Terminated Scenes from Season 2, Episodes 6 and 9

12. Terminated Scenes from Season 2, Episodes 6 and 9

2 min

Two terminated scenes, the first from Season 2, Episode 6 ("The Tower is Tall, But the Fall is Short"), and the second from Season 2, Episode 9 ("Complications").

Cameron vs. Rosie: Fight Rehearsal

13. Cameron vs. Rosie: Fight Rehearsal

5 min

This featurette demonstrates how a complex fight routine is planned and rehearsed, and then show a comparison between the rehearsal and the scene that was included in the show.

Terminated Scenes from Season 2, Episodes 10 and 13

14. Terminated Scenes from Season 2, Episodes 10 and 13

2 min

Two terminated scenes, the first from Season 2, Episode 10 ("Strange Things Happen at the One-Two Point"), and the second from Season 2, Episode 13 ("Earthlings Welcome Here").

Terminated Scenes from Season 2, Episodes 18 and 19

15. Terminated Scenes from Season 2, Episodes 18 and 19

4 min

Five terminated scenes from the two-part episode that spanned Episodes 18 ("Today is the Day, Part I", one terminated scene) and 19 ("Today is the Day, Part II", four terminated scenes).

Terminated Scenes from Season 2, Episodes 20 and 22

16. Terminated Scenes from Season 2, Episodes 20 and 22

3 min

Three terminated scenes, the first two from Season 2, Episode 20 ("To the Lighthouse"), and the last one from the final episode, Season 2, Episode 22 ("Born to Run").

Write the Future: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

17. Write the Future: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

13 min

Part one of an 8-part featurette gallery. In this part, they discuss the writing process.

Conceptualization: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

18. Conceptualization: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

8 min

Part two in an 8-part featurette gallery. In this part, visual effects challenges are discussed.

Blood and Metal: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

19. Blood and Metal: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

8 min

Part three in an 8-part featurette gallery. In this part, visit Almost Human Inc., where realistic lacerations for cybernetic organisms are created.

Designing Destruction: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

20. Designing Destruction: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

8 min

Part four in an 8-part featurette gallery. In this part, they demonstrate combining real-world locations and futuristic sets.

Choreographing Chaos: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

21. Choreographing Chaos: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

7 min

Part five in an 8-part featurette gallery. In this part, witness the teamwork among the stunt coordinator, the second unit director, and the special effects supervisor.

War Stories: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

22. War Stories: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

9 min

Part 6 in an 8-part featurette gallery, demonstrating season 2's more exciting moments.

Setting the Tempo: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

23. Setting the Tempo: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

13 min

Part 7 in an 8-part featurette gallery. In this part, learn about composer Bear McCreary's musicmaking process.

Motivations: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

24. Motivations: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

10 min

Part 8 in an 8-part featurette gallery. In this final part, the cast and producers analyze their approaches to playing and writing the characters.

Gag Reel (Season 2)

25. Gag Reel (Season 2)

6 min

Bloopers and outtakes from Season 2.

Collision with the Future: Deconstructing the Hunter Killer Attack

26. Collision with the Future: Deconstructing the Hunter Killer Attack

58 min

A four-part multiple viewpoint experience on the season finale action sequence.

Season 19 episodes
Pilot

1. Pilot

47 min

After two years in one spot Sarah Connor feels the need to move on before they get too comfortable. They move to a new city where John starts school and meets a mysterious girl. However, danger strikes, and Sarah and John are caught in another struggle for their survival.

Gnothi Seauton

2. Gnothi Seauton

45 min

Sarah makes contact with an old friend to ask a favor, while John decides to pay a visit to Sarah's ex and Cameron makes a new friend. Together they infiltrate a resistance safe house and discover they are not alone. Meanwhile, Agent Ellison realizes that Sarah is still alive and a dangerous person from Sarah's past is reawakened.

The Turk

3. The Turk

44 min

Sarah visits Miles Dyson's widow to find the creator of Skynet. She leads her to a man named Andy Goode who used to work with Dyson and is building a chess-playing computer named "The Turk." John and Cameron try their best to fit in on their first day at a new high school.

Heavy Metal

4. Heavy Metal

44 min

While searching for some stolen cargo, John becomes separated from Sarah and Cameron. Meanwhile, Agent Ellison's murder investigation leads him to a surprising suspect.

Queen's Gambit

5. Queen's Gambit

42 min

Sarah reevaluates the capabilities of her friend Andy's computer after he enters it in a chess competition. During the competition Sarah meets a stranger with a history similar to hers. Meanwhile, Agent Ellison finds remnants from a past terminator battle.

Dungeons & Dragons

6. Dungeons & Dragons

44 min

Flashing in and out of consciousness, fighting for his life Derek Reese recalls his future life battling the machines in 2027. Meanwhile, Sarah tries to explain the past to Charley.

The Demon Hand

7. The Demon Hand

43 min

Sarah breaks into Agent Ellison's apartment and discovers a file on her from her time at the mental hospital, leading her to Dr. Silberman, now a doomsday convert. Meanwhile Cameron signs up for a ballet class and John finds out how his mom escaped the mental hospital.

Vick's Chip (1)

8. Vick's Chip (1)

44 min

Derek finds the brain chip from Vick that Cameron had kept. John builds an interface for it and they discover a computerized traffic system is important to Skynet. Sarah decides it must be sabotaged. Meanwhile, Cromartie is checking through school records in search of John.

What He Beheld (2)

9. What He Beheld (2)

44 min

Sarah finds herself in a business transaction with a mysterious business man named Sarkissian, who claims to be in possession of the stolen Turk computer system and wants an exorbitant amount of money for it. Derek recalls his childhood before the so-called Judgement Day in 2011, when a nuclear war triggered by Skynet will destroy the world. Agent Ellison finally discovers that the terminator Cromartie is impersonating an FBI agent, and makes arrangements to apprehend him.

Season 222 episodes
Samson and Delilah

1. Samson and Delilah

45 min

After the Jeep explosion, John's 16th birthday makes him confront the fact that he's destined to be alone. Meanwhile, after Cromartie's massacre, Agent Ellison must face off against both the Feds and his faith.

Automatic for the People

2. Automatic for the People

45 min

Sarah and Cameron investigate a nuclear power plant; John grows less enthusiastic about academics but flourishes socially with the help of a new friend; Catherine Weaver gets another piece of the puzzle for her pet project.

The Mousetrap

3. The Mousetrap

45 min

Derek and Sarah must outwit Cromartie after he kidnaps Charley's wife, and they must weigh the consequences in rescuing her. Meanwhile, John finds himself unable to choose between Cameron and Riley.

Allison from Palmdale

4. Allison from Palmdale

45 min

A software glitch causes Cameron to forget who she is. She goes missing from the Connors and is taken in by a street kid named Jody. Cameron and Jody end up at a halfway house where Cameron meets with a social worker who uncovers some of Cameron’s distant memories. Meanwhile, Catherine Weaver meets with Agent Ellison to discuss his future at Zeira Corp, and Ellison does some digging into Weaver’s past.

Goodbye to All That

5. Goodbye to All That

53 min

John and Derek infiltrate a military academy in order to protect an integral member of the future resistance. Meanwhile, Weaver’s first assignment for Ellison takes an interesting turn of events when he discovers a specter from his own past.

The Tower Is Tall but the Fall Is Short

6. The Tower Is Tall but the Fall Is Short

45 min

While Sarah, John and Cameron track another name from their list, they accidentally cross paths with T-1001. Meanwhile, a woman who Derek once knew in the past surprises him by appearing in the present.

Brothers of Nablus

7. Brothers of Nablus

45 min

The Connors find themselves on high alert and in odd company after their house is robbed. A Terminator terrorizes Ellison, while another gets dangerously close to John Connor. Derek and Jesse continue to get reacquainted.

Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today

8. Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today

44 min

Cromartie kidnaps Sarah and races to Mexico to find John. When Derek, Cameron and Ellison discover what has happened, they come to their defense, which leads to one final deadly confrontation with Cromartie.

Complications

9. Complications

44 min

Sarah finds that the strange dreams she's been having while she sleeps are slowly beginning to creep into her waking life, but she has no idea what the dreams mean for her and John. Derek and Jesse investigate a possible Skynet conspirator.

Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point

10. Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point

44 min

Sarah's quest to find the meaning behind the "three dots" leads to a technology firm seeking an advanced microchip. Meanwhile, Jesse comes clean to Derek about her mission and Weaver makes an important introduction.

Self Made Man

11. Self Made Man

44 min

Cameron learns that a terminator was accidentally sent back to 1920s Los Angeles, and she tries to find out what happened to him. Meanwhile, John has a run-in with a group of punks while taking Riley home from a party.

Alpine Fields

12. Alpine Fields

44 min

Terminators come after a family whose unborn daughter plays an important role in the war against the Machines, and Sarah, Cameron, and Derek try to protect them.

Earthlings Welcome Here

13. Earthlings Welcome Here

44 min

Sarah turns to a UFO convention for answers about the "three dots," more details about Riley's mission are revealed, and Ellison begins working with Catherine Weaver's AI prototype, "John Henry."

The Good Wound

14. The Good Wound

44 min

While fighting to stay alive, Sarah is guided by the image of John's father. Weaver's attempt to protect John Henry has deadly consequences.

Desert Cantos

15. Desert Cantos

44 min

The Connors visit a town connected to the destroyed factory; Weaver sends a man into town in search of a survivor.

Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep

16. Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep

44 min

Sarah suspects that something fishy is going on at the medical clinic where she is being treated for insomnia. During her stay, she has flashbacks to a run-in she had with a man from the plant whom she thought she had already killed.

Ourselves Alone

17. Ourselves Alone

44 min

While Derek does surveillance on a lawyer he suspects may be connected to Skynet, Sarah and Cameron begin to have doubts about Riley.

Today Is the Day (1)

18. Today Is the Day (1)

45 min

As the Connors prepare to move, they find out that Riley is dead, and Sarah begins to doubt Cameron's motives. Jesse flashes back to a submarine mission in the future, and John Henry plays hide and seek with Catherine Weaver's daughter.

Today Is the Day (2)

19. Today Is the Day (2)

45 min

Jesse's submarine mission in the future takes a fatal turn with unforeseen consequences. Back in the present, her plan to turn John against Cameron backfires when John discovers that Jesse--not Cameron--killed Riley and he makes a life-or-death decision.

To the Lighthouse

20. To the Lighthouse

44 min

Sarah and John hit the road without Cameron and Derek to stay with Charley Dixon, where she reveals to Charley that her cancer may have emerged. Meanwhile, a computer worm infects John Henry.

Adam Raised a Cain

21. Adam Raised a Cain

44 min

When John attempts to rescue Skynet’s latest target he finds himself closing in on Weaver, but at what cost? Game plans change, causing Sarah and Ellison to reunite. Meanwhile, Weaver learns Ellison’s secrets.

Born to Run

22. Born to Run

45 min

Fate is changed forever on the explosive season finale episode! The Connors come face-to-face with Weaver in a confrontation that shakes John to the core and changes his reality. Nothing will be the same.

Cast

Lena Headey

Lena Headey

Sarah Connor

Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker

John Connor

Summer Glau

Summer Glau

Cameron

Richard T. Jones

Richard T. Jones

James Ellison

Shirley Manson

Shirley Manson

Catherine Weaver

Brian Austin Green

Brian Austin Green

Derek Reese

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