Twin Peaks Production History

Network, authors, crew, cast, fans, plot/airing

1971-07-22 08:44:40

Laura Palmer's birth

Diary dates are off by one additional year.

1975-12-17 04:06:49

Dale recruited by Windom Earle

the F.B.I. at a job fair

1977-07-10 04:06:49

Dale accepted into the F.B.I.

1977-12-11 08:49:41

Special Agent Dale Cooper

Graduates from Quantico

1978-08-01 08:49:41

Windom Earle abducted

1979-01-26 08:49:41

Caroline Earle kidnapped

1979-05-01 16:14:31

Caroline Earle murdered

1979-05-24 08:49:41

Cooper is dead for two minutes

internal bleeding, from previous stabbing wound

1983-07-22 08:44:40

Laura Palmer begins the Secret Diary

Diary dates are off by one year.

1986-08-04 23:00:00

Blue Velvet shooting

Wilmington, North Carolina

1986-09-19 23:00:00

Blue Velvet U.S. premiere

1987-05-20 00:11:58

One Saliva Bubble first draft

David Lynch & Mark Frost

1987-12-30 04:31:49

Special Agent Tony Krantz

Tony called us up one day and asked us if we wanted to do a TV show,” recalled Frost. “And we said heck no!”

1988-02-09 23:00:00

Teresa Banks killed

1988-02-29 19:37:41

The Lemurians pitch

David & Mark pitch to Brandon Tartikoff of NBC

1988-03-07 01:20:32

Writer's Guild strike

1988-08-01 19:37:41

Writers Strike ends

1988-08-08 19:37:41

Twin Peaks pitch to ABC

David & Mark pitch to Chad Hoffman

1988-08-29 19:37:41

ABC breakfast meeting at the Westin Century Plaza

Chad Hoffman, Gary Levine, Tony Krantz, Mark and David.

1988-08-29 23:00:00

ABC commissions the Pilot

1988-08-29 23:00:00

David's charcoal map

“David drew a charcoal map of the town of Twin Peaks that we unfurled with Chad when we sold the show and gave it to me for my birthday one year. I have it framed in my office. It is television history.” Tony Krantz

1988-12-05 23:00:00

final draft pilot: Northwest Passage

1988-12-06 23:00:00

The Twin Peaks Gazette

“Chad Hoffman: I talked to them and within a few days they sent me a document that I now have framed called the “Twin Peaks Gazette,” and it essentially was the town newspaper laying out the whole arc of the series. It was just funny and dramatic and mysterious and I thought, “Anyone that goes to these lengths to show you what they’re doing really deserves a chance.” I showed it to Brandon and he had a great laugh and said, “Absolutely, let’s make the pilot.”

1988-12-16 23:00:00

final name changes

Isabella Rossellini drops out, replaced by Joan Chen. "Giovanna Pasqualini Packard" becomes Josie Packard; "Sheriff Dan Steadman" becomes "Harry Truman".

1989-02-28 07:38:36

Discovery of Laura

1989-03-03 23:00:00

Pilot shooting

1989-03-04 07:38:36

Lucy takes the Viewer's 1-900 call

Mystery caller, Season 2 Episode 2, plot and reality cross-over.

1989-03-09 21:38:36

Death

1989-03-11 18:38:36

Death

1989-03-27 18:38:36

Final events of Season 2

1989-06-01 23:00:00

Directors Guild screening of the Pilot

wrong

1989-06-01 23:00:00

Museum of Television Arts and Sciences, Pilot screening

wrong

1989-07-31 16:03:23

Set construction begins

Richard Hoover

1989-08-09 00:11:58

Wild at Heart shooting begins

Grace Zabriske, Sherilyn Fenn, David Patrick Kelly, Jack Nance, Sheryl Lee

1989-09-01 22:21:05

Floating Into the Night

1989-09-01 23:00:00

Pilot @ Telluride Film Festival

1989-10-02 06:41:33

Shooting E01-07

Episode 3 shot before Episode 2. Episode 2 shot between 6 and 7.

1989-11-01 09:00:43

Europilot home video release

Great Britain

1989-12-27 06:41:33

Fake episode scripts to ABC

1990-02-08 23:00:00

European theatircal release

1990-02-10 21:00:00

Pilot @ Miami Film Festival

1990-04-06 01:37:41

ABC Exec Predicts Doom

Michael Saltzman "ABC called me (an executive who will remain nameless, because I frankly don’t remember) on Thursday or Friday morning before the pilot aired and basically said, “You’ve done the greatest magic trick ever in the history of television. We’re going to watch the first half hour on Sunday night with people tuning in and they’re going to say to themselves, ‘What the fuck is this thing about?’ and slowly, by the end of the show no one’s going to be watching, but I just want to congratulate you for all of your great work.”" Brad Dukes. “Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks.”

1990-04-06 23:29:06

Pilot shown @ Museum of Broadcasting, Hollywood

1990-04-08 21:00:00

Broadcast Pilot (Sunday)

34.6 million viewers = one third of the t.v. audience. 33% share in the last half hour. “The highest rated two-hour movie or pilot of the year.” 29% of viewers, 7th most watched show of the week.

1990-04-12 21:00:00

Episode 1 Thursday

14.9 million households, or 27 percent of the available audience

1990-04-19 21:00:00

Episode 2 Thursday

12.1 million households in the United States. 21 percent of the available audience. 13.1 percent of all households in the country

1990-04-26 21:00:00

Episode 3 Thursday

18 percent of the available audience in its initial airing

1990-05-03 21:00:00

Episode 4 Thursday

19 percent of the available audience during its broadcast,

1990-05-09 21:46:15

Wild at Heart completed

1990-05-10 21:00:00

Episode 5 Thursday

18 percent of the available audience during its broadcas

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