Dead Man Dating
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| “Dead Man Dating” | |
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| Charmed episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 4 |
| Guest stars | John Cho (Mark) Patricia Harty (Mrs. Correy) Elizabeth Sung (Mrs. Chao) William Francis McGuire (Nick Correy) Joe Hoe (Yama) Todd Newton (Tony Wong) |
| Written by | Javier Grillo-Marxuach |
| Directed by | Richard Compton |
| Production no. | 4398005 |
| Original airdate | October 28, 1998 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "Thank You for Not Morphing" | "Dream Sorcerer" |
Dead Man Dating is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed.
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[edit] Synopsis
Eager to show Prue that she's changed from recent years, Phoebe finally gets a job. Unfortunately she also gets in trouble, when the other sisters find out that she's used her magical powers to get work as a psychic. And things only get worse for her when she gets a vision of one of her clients dying, and he doesn't believe her. She becomes obsessed with trying to save his life, and in the end is finally successful. Meanwhile, Piper meets and falls in love with the perfect man... except that he's a ghost. She has to help him to make sure his body is properly buried before he's taken by Yama, the Chinese spirit of the underworld. But when the police find his body, they think it belongs to the Chinese mobster that killed him. Piper and Prue manage to sort things out, and the mobster is killed after trying to escape from the police.
[edit] Book of Shadows
[edit] Enemies
- Yama: According to Chinese mythology, Yama is the gatekeeper of the underworld. If a body isn't given a proper burial within a certain period of time after their death, da hoi occurs, the gates of hell open, and the gatekeeper, Yama, rides out to capture the person's soul. If he manages to capture it before the body is properly buried, he takes the person in question to hell forever.
[edit] Artifacts
- Protection Totem: An amulet that you hang from your doorframe, it protects the house against ghosts.
[edit] Episode Stars
- Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell
- Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell
- Alyssa Milano as Phoebe Halliwell
- T.W. King as Andy Trudeau
[edit] Co-Stars
- Sherrie Rose as Susan Trudeau
- Randelle Grenachia as Frankie
[edit] Trivia
- This episode marks the first time that the main foe facing the sisters (Tony Wong) is entirely non-magical. The only magical foe (Yama) appears only twice, and very briefly each time.
- The title of the episode is in reference to the term Dead Man Walking, a phrase said by prison guards once an inmate is on his way to be executed. It is also in reference to the 1995 film Dead Man Walking.
- Phoebe has her eighth and ninth premonition in this episode about a man getting hit by a car and about the location of Tony Wong, respectively.
- Actor John Cho who in this episode plays Mark, would later be in other popular television shows like House m.d.
[edit] International titles
- French: Histoire de fantôme chinois
- German: Rendezvous mit einem Geist (Date with a ghost)
- Italian: Un amore ultraterreno
- Spanish: Cita con el hombre muerto
| Preceded by: Thank You For Not Morphing |
Charmed episodes | Followed by: Dream Sorcerer |
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