Amish episode
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Many American and Canadian sci-fi/fantasy/horror television series have one episode (and usually only one episode) that centers on the Amish, or another group of religious believers who similarly disdain modern technology (see Luddite). Although the use of the Amish can also occur in medical or technological involved series as there's a clear tension between their values and modern technology.
Presumably, this is because the Amish represent an "exotic" culture, and their settlements are easier and cheaper to recreate than taking a television crew to any other "exotic" locale.
By extension, with its late-19th-century isolationist setting, The Village can be considered M. Night Shyamalan's Amish episode, since all of his movies fall into the same supernatural vein as many of the television series with Amish episodes.
[edit] List of Amish episodes
- Babylon 5: "Believers"
- Crusade: "Patterns of The Soul"
- Earth: Final Conflict: "Float Like a Butterfly"
- ER: "Missing" (A subplot with Neela treating Amish kids)
- Firefly: "Safe"
- Friday the 13th: The Series: "The Quilt of Hathor (2-part)"
- Grey's Anatomy: "Great Expectations"
- MacGyver: "The Outsiders"
- Miracles: "Mother's Daughter"
- Murder, She Wrote: "Murder, Plain & Simple" (not sci-fi, supernatural, or even medical; but included anyway)
- Pinky and the Brain: "Funny, You Don't Look Rhennish"
- Sledge Hammer!: "Witless" (A parody of the movie Witness; also not a "supernatural" or "scientific" show)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Paradise"
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Up the Long Ladder"
- The X-Files: "Gender Bender"
- Star Trek: "This Side of Paradise"
- Judging Amy:"Rumspringa"
