The Middleman
A struggling artist is recruited by a secret agency to fight against evil forces. Based on the graphic novels by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine.
- Metascore73
- 2008-2008
- 1 season
- ABC Family
- Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
- TV-14
A struggling artist is recruited by a secret agency to fight against evil forces. Based on the graphic novels by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine.
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2008
Episode 1
The Pilot Episode Sanction
Mon, Jun 16, 2008 43 mins
" You know how it is in comic books, how there's always lots of mad scientists, androids and robots, all trying to either destroy the world or take it over? Well, it really does happen like that." So says Wendy's new boss. Wendy gets recruited by a secretive agency after they see her threatened by a body parts monster and still remains cool. Her first assignment with the Middleman is getting to the bottom of Genetically Enhanced Gorillas who first are going to take out the mob and then take over the world.
Episode 2
The Accidental Occidental Conception
Mon, Jun 23, 2008 43 mins
A Terra Cotta Warrior is brought back to life, sending The Middleman and Wendy on a mission into the underworld to stop him before he can kidnap the last living heir of the Qin dynasty. Should they fail, fire will rain down on the Earth for a thousand years.
Episode 3
The Sino-Mexican Revelation
Mon, Jun 30, 2008 43 mins
Wendy is tasked with picking up martial arts master, Sensei Ping from the airport but inadvertently causes both he and The Middleman to be captured, the fate of the world put in danger, and her would-be boyfriend beaten up by masked Mexican wrestlers, causing him 2 day amnesia. It's up to Wendy now to figure out how to rescue her boss and Sensei Ping from a temple hidden deep in a volcano, in the middle of a forest and guarded by more than a hundred masked wrestlers, itching for a fight!
Episode 4
The Manicoid Teleportation Conundrum
Mon, Jul 7, 2008 43 mins
The Middleman & Wendy are faced with the disappearances of rich people with too much plastic surgery. In fact, they are aliens whose appearance only allows them to live in places like Beverly Hills, where everybody looks like them. People disappearing, bodies returning with no heads, Wendy's dealings with her poser ex-boyfriend , and a famous talk show psychiatrist with a morbid secret.
Episode 5
The Flying Fish Zombification
Mon, Jul 14, 2008 43 mins
Once again, a mad man is trying to take over the world, this time, using Peruvian flying fish that create a zombie army that craves trout. The first wave of the zombie attack is by trout craving model types with great bodies.
Episode 6
The Boy-Band Superfan Interrogation
Mon, Jul 21, 2008 43 mins
Everyone suspects that there's something subversive about boy bands. In this case, this boy band is not only capable of creating warp holes, but are willing to sacrifice the Earth to pull off their nefarious intergalactic crime.
Episode 7
The Cursed Tuba Contingency
Mon, Jul 28, 2008 43 mins
A cursed tuba that survived the sinking of the Titanic now becomes a dangerous tool capable of causing a whole shipload full of innocent people to "Drown in the icy waters of the North Atlantic" unless the Middleman & Wendy figure out a way to stop an immortal man intent on carrying out his nefarious plot.
Episode 8
The Ectoplasmic Panhellenic Investigation
Mon, Aug 4, 2008 43 mins
The Middleman and Wendy have to deal with disembodied Sorority Girl ghosts who have only a drag-wearing fraternity boy as their interpreter to find out who is waging war on the Greek system with world domination next on the agenda!
Episode 9
The Obsolescent Cryogenic Meltdown
Mon, Aug 11, 2008 43 mins
Due to the apparent resurfacing of "The Candle", an arch villain from 1969, Ida unfreezes the '69 version of the middleman (Kevin Sorbo), supposedly to thwart the threat. But, unbeknownst to the Middleman, Wendy, and Ida, their biggest threat isn't the Candle, but something much closer to home that endangers their partnership and even their very lives!
Episode 10
The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation
Mon, Aug 18, 2008 43 mins
The Middleman and Lacey have inadvertently brought vampire puppets Vlad and his bride, Lizzie, to life and with the Middleman under Vlad's control, it's now up to Wendy alone to prevent the vampires from unleashing "the eternal night of blood".
Episode 11
The Clotharian Contamination Protocol
Mon, Aug 25, 2008 43 mins
Once again the Clotharians threaten our world by using Ida as a bomb that will disperse Nanobots that can destroy all technology from the inside out. The Middleman and Wendy must find a way to bypass the damage in Ida to keep her from exploding and destroying Life as We Know It.
Episode 12
The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome
Mon, Sep 1, 2008 43 mins
Every bad thing Wendy has ever heard about parallel universes suddenly becomes true when she is yanked into a dark dystopic version of her own reality. Every face is a familiar but a horrible opposite to those she left behind. For her to be returned to her own world will depend on her ability to touch the very souls of these beings that don't seem to have any.