Television | Veronica Mars (2004-2007) |
Veronica Mars is about a girl living in Neptune and her whole life got twisted up-side-down when her best friend suddently got murdered. She lost her boyfriend, her friends, her mother and the only think she got left was her father, Keith Mars. Veronica Mars goes to Neptune High School (in the first season Veronica is in her thired third year), she’s a total outsider. Everyone at Neptune High is high classed bratz (parents with a lot of money), Veronica is the total opposite.
Veronica started to walk in her fathers footsteps and got very interested in Private Investigating, it all begun with her lurking in her best friend’s murder files, something did not match. Veronica is a very bright and witty girl and she started her own investigation on the case. This is how her whole career started, she gets through collage helping her father with several cases and with small steps she gets her social life on track again.
Through the show you get to see how Veronica handles crises and difficult situations as a P.I. and as a teenage girl. If you like mysteries mixed up with high school drama this is the perfect show for you.
Kristen Bell as: Veronica Mars
Additional Cast: Percy Daggs III, Jason Dohring, Francis Capra, Enrico Colantoni, etc.
Original Airdate: September 22, 2004
Production Status: Aired 3 seasons and then cancelled.
Creator: Rob Thomas
Genre: Drama / Crime / Mystery
| 1.01 – Pilot 1.02 – Credit Where Credit’s Due 1.03 – Meet John Smith 1.04 – The Wrath of Con 1.05 – You Think You Know Somebody 1.06 – Return of the Kane 1.07 – The Girl Next Door 1.08 – Like a Virgin 1.09 – Drinking the Kool-Aid 1.10 – An Echolls Family Christmas 1.11 – Silence of the Lamb 1.12 – Clash of the Tritons 1.13 – Lord of the Bling 1.14 – Mars vs. Mars 1.15 – Ruskie Business 1.16 – Betty and Veronica 1.17 – Kanes and Abel’s 1.18 – Weapons of Class Destruction 1.19 – Hot Dogs 1.20 – M.A.D. 1.21 – A Trip to the Dentist 1.22 – Leave It to Beaver |
2.01 – Normal Is the Watchword 2.02 – Driver Ed 2.03 – Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang 2.04 – Green-Eyed Monster 2.05 – Blast from the Past 2.06 – Rat Saw God 2.07 – Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner 2.08 – Ahoy Mateys 2.09 – My Mother, the Fiend 2.10 – One Angry Veronica 2.11 – Donut Run 2.12 – Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle 2.13 – Ain’t No Magic Mountain High Enough 2.14 – Versatile Toppings 2.15 – The Quick and the Wed 2.16 – The Rapes of Graff 2.17 – Plan B 2.18 – I Am God 2.19 – Nevermind the Buttocks 2.20 – Look Who’s Stalking 2.21 – Happy Go Lucky 2.22 – Not Pictured |
| 3.01 – Welcome Wagon 3.02 – My Big Fat Greek Rush Week 3.03 – Wichita Linebacker 3.04 – Charlie Don’t Surf 3.05 – President Evil 3.06 – Hi, Infidelity 3.07 – Of Vice and Men 3.08 – Lord of the Pi’s 3.09 – Spit & Eggs 3.10 – Show Me the Monkey 3.11 – Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves 3.12 – There’s Got to Be a Morning After Pill 3.13 – Postgame Mortem 3.14 – Mars, Bars 3.15 – Papa’s Cabin 3.16 – Un-American Graffiti 3.17 – Debasement Tapes 3.18 – I Know What You’ll Do Next Summer 3.19 – Weevils Wobble But They Don’t Go Down 3.20 – The Bitch Is Back |
• The lead character was originally going to be in a novel written by show creator, Rob Thomas.
• The theme song is “We Used to be Friends” by the The Dandy Warhols.
• In the original project notes and the original pilot script for the show, there were some name changes. Lilly’s name was Samantha, Lianne Mars’s was Rebecca, then Abbie, Wallace’s last name was Collier, Logan’s last name was Hewitt and the Kanes’ last name was Cain, then Caine.
• The character of Meg was created specifically for Alona Tal. She auditioned for Veronica, and was Rob Thomas’s second choice for the role. He liked her so much he made a recurring role for her.
• Amanda Seyfried initially auditioned for the role of Veronica Mars.
• UPN, the network that airs Veronica Mars, were concerned during early episodes that viewers would confuse Teddy Dunn and Jason Dohring, who play Duncan and Logan, respectively. A color code was created where Dunn wore blues, and Dohring wore earth tones (greens, browns, etc). The color code still stands today.
• The only two actresses considered for the role of Kendall Casablancas were Heather Graham and Charisma Carpenter. Graham was working on “Emily’s Reasons Why Not” (2006), and Carpenter was an actual fan of “Veronica Mars”, so she ended up being cast in the role.
• Jason Dohring initially auditioned for the role of Duncan while ‘Teddy Dunn’ initially auditioned for the role of Logan.
• The car that Veronica drives for seasons one and two is a convertible Chrysler LeBaron. In season three, she drives a silver Saturn VUE.
• Concepts included in the original project notes for the show that were later dropped include Veronica being 13 when Lilly was murdered, Keith being fired because of evidence disappearing from the police station, with hints that Don Lamb was behind it, Strom Jenkins, a character who called in the Abel Koontz tip, and Veronica finding that Strom Jenkins, Don Lamb, and Jake Kane were part of a larger conspiracy to cover up Lilly’s death.
• Logan drives a yellow Nissan XTerra S for seasons one and two. He drives a black Range Rover for season three.
• After the second season, the show was picked up by The CW because UPN merged with The WB to form The CW.
• In an attempt to keep the struggling show on the air after its third season, creator Rob Thomas filmed an extended pitch for the fourth season that advances the show’s timeline considerably. Instead of being a college undergraduate, as she was at the end of season three, in the spec season four, Veronica has graduated from college and the FBI Academy and is starting her first day as a FBI agent. The pitch contained a whole new cast of heretofore unseen characters, and, except for Veronica herself, none of the characters from the show’s previous seasons. The CW failed to pick up this new version of “Veronica Mars,” and the show was canceled.
• The character Piz in season three is named after the director of the pilot episode of Veronica Mars, Mark Piznarski.
• Amanda Noret, the actress who plays Madison Sinclair, has a real-life cousin named Shelly Pomroy, which is also the name of the character at whose party Veronica is drugged.
• Both Sam Huntington (Luke) and Aaron Ashmore (Troy) went on to play the character “Jimmy Olsen” in different adaptations of the Superman comics. Huntington portrayed Olsen in the feature film Superman Returns (2006) while Ashmore took over the role of Olsen on the small screen in “Smallville” (2001).
• Rob Thomas, the creator of “Veronica Mars,” says on the season 3 DVD extras that Ryan Hansen’s character Dick Casablancas was not originally meant to be a series regular. He was first cast for the second episode, as a nameless, rich Neptune resident with one line (“Logan!”). Thomas said that they read many young actors for the line, and when it came down to a choice between Hansen or another actor, they cast Hansen purely because he had “good hair.”
• The only characters that appear in all of the episodes of Veronica Mars are Veronica and Keith Mars.
• Many participants in “Veronica Mars” (2004) went on to help make “Party Down” (2009). “Party Down” creator Rob Thomas was the creator of “Mars;” “Party Down” creators John Enbom and ‘Dan Etheridge’ were producers on “Mars;” and “Party Down” creator ‘Paul Rudd’ was a “Mars” guest star. “Party Down” regulars Ken Marino and ‘Ryan Hansen’ were also “Veronica Mars” regulars. “Party” regulars Jane Lynch and ‘Adam Scott’ were “Mars” guest stars. “Party” guest stars Enrico Colantoni, Jason Dohring, Alona Tal, Ed Begley Jr., Daran Norris, Ryan Devlin, and (Veronica herself) ‘Kristen Bell’ were all “Mars” regulars. And “Party” guest star Joey Lauren Adams was a “Mars” guest star.