Army Wives

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Army Wives
Format	Drama
Created by	Katherine Fugate
Starring	Kim Delaney Sally Pressman Brigid Brannagh Catherine Bell Brian McNamara Sterling K. Brown Wendy Davis Drew Fuller
Theme music composer	Marc Fantini Steffan Fantini
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	Lifetime Television
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 720p (HDTV)
Original run	June 3, 2007 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Army Wives is a US television drama series about a woman who marries a soldier and moves her family onto a US Army post, where she becomes friends with other women and men whose spouses are in the Army. The series premiered on Lifetime Television on June 3, 2007. The show had the largest series premiere in Lifetime's 23 year history, and the largest viewership in the 10:00PM to 11:00PM time slot since December for Lifetime.^[1]

The show is based on the non-fiction book—originally titled Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage by Tanya Biank. Army Wives has been picked up for a second season. The second season, premiering on Lifetime in the United States on Sunday, June 8, 2008, will have 19 episodes.^[2] The series began airing in Ireland on Monday, October 15, 2007 on TG4 (in English).

On March 14, 2008, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment announced a DVD release. Army Wives: The Complete First Season — a three-disc set including all 13 original episodes and exclusive bonus features including an un-aired storyline, deleted scenes, outtakes, cast interviews and more. — is scheduled for release June 10, 2008.[1]

1 Cast and Crew
2 Episodes
3 Soundtrack
- 3.1 Pilot
4 DVD release
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Cast and Crew

[edit] Starring

Catherine Bell as Denise Sherwood
Wendy Davis as Lieutenant Colonel Joan Burton
Kim Delaney as Claudia Joy Holden
Sally Pressman as Roxy LeBlanc
Brigid Brannagh as Pamela Moran
Drew Fuller as Private First Class Trevor LeBlanc
Brian McNamara as Brigadier General Michael Holden
Sterling K. Brown as Dr. Roland Burton

[edit] Guest starring

Melissa Ponzio as Angie
Kim Allen as Amanda Holden
Richard Bryant as Jeremy Sherwood
Jeremy Davidson as Chase Moran, Delta Force
Caroline Pires as Emmalin Holden
Patricia French as Betty
Rhoda Griffis as Lenore Baker
Terry Serpico as Major Frank Sherwood
Kate Kneeland as Marilyn Polarski
John White, Jr. as Finn
Chloe J. Taylor as Katie Moran

[edit] Crew

Ben Younger - director
Katherine Fugate - executive producer, creator and writer
Mark Gordon - executive producer
Deborah Spera - executive producer
Jeff Melvoin - executive producer
Harry Bring - co-executive producer

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Army Wives episodes

[edit] Soundtrack

Main article: Songs heard on Army wives

[edit] Pilot

In the pilot episode of Army Wives, "A Tribe is Born," Roxy impetuously decides to marry Pfc. Trevor LeBlanc and moves with her two kids to his Army post, fictitious Fort Marshall in Charleston, South Carolina. Floundering in her new life as an Army wife, she takes a job bartending at a local joint known for being a Jody bar (where civilian men go to hit on enlisted men's wives). While on the post, Roxy meets Claudia Joy Holden, who believes that her husband Col. Michael Holden's promotion didn't come through because of base politics. Another Army wife, Pamela Moran, is heavily pregnant with twins - she's secretly acting as a surrogate to get her family out of debt. Meanwhile, psychiatrist Roland Burton is trying to reconnect with his wife, Lt. Col. Joan Burton, who has just returned from Afghanistan. Then there's Denise Sherwood, who is dealing with her son Jeremy's anger-management issues as her strict husband, Maj. Frank Sherwood, is about to be deployed. The unlikely group bonds when Pamela unexpectedly goes into labor at Claudia Joy's wives' tea party and subsequently gives birth on the pool table in the bar where Roxy works. Not wanting everyone to know her family's dire financial situation, Pamela relies on these new friends to keep her surrogacy from being exposed.

As the season progresses, the women and man all become great friends. They go on to face things such as deployments, abuse, hostage situations, adultery and the vicious rumors that surround them. One character leaves her husband for another man; meeting him at the "Hump Bar" where a group of friends have also gathered. The woman's husband enters the bar with bombs strapped to his chest. The season finale concludes as Claudia Joy's daughter follows behind the man.

[edit] DVD release

Army Wives: The Complete First Season will be released on Region 1 DVD on June 10, 2008. The three-disc collection will include all 13 episodes from the First Season.^[3]