Halt and Catch Fire

Halt and Catch Fire

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AMC Ended Drama

4 Seasons · 40 Episodes · Premiered June 1, 2014 · Ended October 14, 2017

Halt and Catch Fire is set roughly one year after IBM all but corners the market with the release of its first major product – the IBM PC. In this fictional drama, a former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark, a great engineer whose unrealized dreams of creating a revolutionary product have created tension in his marriage to Donna, and Cameron Howe, a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan's rogue PC project. Halt and Catch Fire thrives on the spirit of innovation and explores what it's like to stand at the forefront of something world-changing and work towards it, no matter the risk.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

10 episodes
E01
I/O
Mon, Jun 2 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
The Texan company Cardiff Electronics gets a new employee from New York. He's apparently working for IBM, but after the he gets the new job it gets clear that he has a hidden agenda, and is not exactly what he claims to be.
E02
FUD
Mon, Jun 9 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Joe's team must overcome internal differences and start building the new machine.
E03
High Plains Hardware
Mon, Jun 16 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Despite IBM's raid on Cardiff Electric's clients, Joe has convinced those concerned, most specifically Gordon and Cameron, to continue with the PC project. The company is in a much weakened state because of the raid leading to staff layoffs, which an ill-equipped Gordon is responsible for issuing to the affected engineering staff, and the search for investors for the PC project. Joe and Bosworth have differing views on where those moneys can potentially come from.
E04
Close to the Metal
Mon, Jun 23 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
With a mid-project success with the BIOS code, Joe makes two bold moves within the office. First, he destroys the book that contains the IBM proprietary code, and second, he invites Wall Street Quarterly to do a story about their PC clone project. The story Joe wants written may not happen first because the reporter, Ron Kane, doesn't see what's happening as being newsworthy, and second as a crisis occurs in the office during Kane's visit, that crisis issue which may in turn be the story.
E05
Adventure
Mon, Jun 30 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
The Wall Street Quarterly article and Cameron being able to complete the BIOS code have created renewed public interest in the PC project, upon which Joe wants to capitalize, not only for the project but also for himself. Cameron is dismayed however to learn that Joe's suggested vacation for her was so that he could hire a software engineering team behind her back.
E06
Landfall
Mon, Jul 7 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Cameron and Gordon clash over their differing plans for the computer's operating system while Joe struggles to connect with his colleagues.
E07
Giant
Mon, Jul 14 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
The next phase of the PC project is design. Believing it could be aesthetically beautiful and not just another beige box, Joe is able to call in an old friend, top industrial designer Simon Church, to come up with a concept. Simon's arrival onto the scene has the possibility to alienate both Gordon and Cameron, but for different reasons.
E08
The 214s
Mon, Jul 21 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Scandal rocks Cardiff Electric as the team finalizes preparations for COMDEX. Bosworth makes a sacrifice for the good of the PC program.
E09
Up Helly Aa
Mon, Jul 28 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Unforeseen adversaries and new complications threaten to derail all that the Cardiff Electric team has worked for at COMDEX.
E10
1984
Mon, Aug 4 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
As Gordon and Joe prepare to ship the Giant, a suspicious defect calls their partnership into question. Cameron takes her future into her own hands.

Season 2

10 episodes

Season 3

10 episodes

Season 4

10 episodes

Cast

Lee Pace
Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan
Scoot McNairy
Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark
Mackenzie Davis
Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe
Kerry Bishé
Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark
Toby Huss
Toby Huss as John Bosworth
Aleksa Palladino
Aleksa Palladino as Sara Wheeler
David Wilson Barnes
David Wilson Barnes as Dale Butler

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