Season 1

Season 1
Distributor	AMC Fox International Channels
Showrunner	Dave Erickson
Based On	Image Comics' The Walking Dead
Channels	AMC (United States) Fox (International) Channel 5 (United Kingdom)
Episodes	Pilot

Season 1 of Fear the Walking Dead is set to premier in August of 2015 and will consist of six episodes.

Plot

Some details are starting to come out via quotes from the producers in the trade press.

There is also a series of interviews with the main cast, each talking about the character they play.

Dave Erickson, speaking in July 2015, about a month before the pilot is due to air, told Entertainment Weekly

“	“Ultimately, it’s a family drama. One of the things that Robert Kirkman and I discussed from the very beginning was, we’re starting a little earlier in the apocalypse. And what that allowed us to do in the Pilot and Season 1 is establish our core family, establish the problems and the conflicts that they have, and really let that be the initial world that we live in. And we layer in the onset of the apocalypse, we layer in our first walkers, but it’s really an effort to exacerbate the problems that already exist with Kim Dickens' and Cliff Curtis’ characters and their sort of dysfunctional blended family. It’s really filtering the apocalypse through that.”	”
	— Dave Erickson, E.W.

Perhaps coming at that point from a different direction, Kirkman characterizes them as being "a team" and "in love"

“

"At its core this is a story of Travis and Madison, who are these two schoolteachers that both have kids from previous marriages and are very much in love. One of the things that really excites me about this show is the fact that this is a show about two people who are a team, and they do back each other up. They do love and respect each other. They’re a happy couple, which is something that you don’t see a lot of on cable television these days...So having this interesting couple at the core of this show, fighting against the backdrop of civilization crumbling and the zombie apocalypse, really is the core of things. They’ve got two sets of kids. It’s an interesting situation."

”

Episodes

#	Image	Title	Airdate	Viewers/Rating
01		"Pilot"	23 Aug 2015	13.3 million
		“When her drug-addict teenage son Nick is found in shock in the middle of the street as if he has just seen a ghost, Madison tries to understand what happened to him, with the help of her daughter Alicia and her fiancé Travis. They discover it might be linked to the mysterious illness that is spreading quickly through Los Angeles”
02		"So Close, Yet So Far"	30 Aug 2015	TBA
		While Madison struggles to keep Nick from crippling withdrawal, Travis ventures out to find his son before Los Angeles falls.
03		"The Dog"	13 Sep 2015	TBA
		After they escape a riot, Travis, Liza and Chris seek refuge with the Salazars; Madison defends her home
04		"Not Fade Away"	20 Sep 2015	TBA
		Madison and Travis see different sides of the National Guard's occupation in their neighbourhood; the family tries to adapt to the new world.
05		"Cobalt"	27 Sep 2015	TBA
		The National Guard's plan for the neighbourhood is revealed; Travis and Madison make a difficult decision.
06		"The Good Man"	04 Oct 2015	TBA
		As civil unrest grows, and the dead take over, Travis and Madison try to devise ways to protect their families.

Cast

Starring

• Cliff Curtis as Travis Manawa
• Lorenzo Henrie as Chris Manawa
• Kim Dickens as Madison Clark
• Frank Dillane as Nick Clark
• Alycia Debnam Carey as Alicia Clark
• Elizabeth Rodriguez as Liza Ortiz
• Mercedes Mason as Ofelia Salazar
• Rubén Blades as Daniel Salazar
• Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Griselda Salazar

CoStarring

• Maestro Harrell as Matt Sale

Trivia

• “We [in season 1] are loosely covering the period of time that ‘The Walking Dead’s’ Rick was in his coma [in the first few minutes of the first episode]. We’re able to watch and experience the things that he missed,” series creator Robert Kirkman told the Hollywood Reporter. “It’s more of a parallel story than a prequel: Imagine the opening where Rick gets shot and goes in his coma -- that day was probably very close to our day one.”
• FEAR is being shot on digital, rather than film as TWD is, to give it different feel from TWD
• The walkers will be fresher, less decayed and rottted than TWD walkers, they may also be stronger
• "Zero Woods"... “Yeah, we’ll definitely be spending a lot less time in the woods,” says Kirkman “I can say I think we’re not in the woods at all. Yeah, I am pretty sure we are in zero woods this season.”