History Series / TheStand

-->-- '''Creator/TSEliot''

->''"There was a man with us some of the time; he was a dark man. I was looking through the rear-view mirror and I'd see him just sitting there, grinning at me. I thought I could outrun him... you can't outrun the dark man."''
-->--'''Campion'''

* RealMenEatMeat: In the miniseries version, when Larry asks Nadine how she wants her steak cooked, she says "just run it through a warm room" in a tomboyish moment.

** Rae Flowers' death at the hands of the military is only heard by Fran and her father over the radio.

* {{Squick}}: Trash's skin is melting off from radiation poisoning when he arrives back in Vegas with a leaking nuke. It even sticks to his goggles.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Stu's frustration with the military and government doctors makes since, given how they callously push the residents of Arnette Texas and himself around, and how they ultimately were responsible for the whole thing. Still, when you put that in perspective to the existential threat to humanity the government scientists were trying to solve, it's hard to see his refusal to go along with their testing as anything other than petty obstinance.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Stu's frustration with the military and government doctors makes since, given how they callously push the residents of Arnette Texas and himself around, and how they ultimately were responsible for the whole thing. Still, when you put that in perspective to the {{existential threat to humanity}} the government scientists were trying to solve, it's hard to see his refusal to go along with their testing as anything other than petty obstinance.

A 1994 four-part MiniSeries version of Stephen King's book ''Literature/TheStand'', starring Creator/MollyRingwald, Gary Sinise and Creator/RobLowe, among many other character actors.

** Creator/StephenKing's character encompasses a couple of minor characters. Also, Dayna Jurgens is merged with another character who was traveling with a man whose appendix Stu tried to remove.

* {{Fanservice}}: Several [[PantyShot panty shots]] over the course of the series.

** AStormIsComing. ...'''''[[HeWhoMustNotBeNamed His]]''''' storm!" And "the rats are his."

* CaliforniaDoubling: Closing the Lincoln Tunnel in New York for filming would have been insane, so instead they used the Armstrong Tunnels in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}.

* {{Cameo}}: Several in the miniseries, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (as the "monster shouter"), Joe Bob Briggs, Creator/SamRaimi, and Creator/JohnLandis. Also included uncredited appearances by Ed Harris and Creator/KathyBates.

A 1994 four-part MiniSeries version of Stephen King's book ''Literature/TheStand'', Starring Creator/MollyRingwald, and Gary Sinese.

* AnimalMotifs: One of the forms [[BigBad Randall Flagg]] assumes is a [[CreepyCrows Creepy Crow]].

* CreatorCameo: King appears in the last two episodes as Teddy Weizak, one of the Boulder residents who [[spoiler:discovers Stu]] in the final chapter.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the book Major Len Creighton's eventual fate is [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse deliberately left vague]] [[UncertainDoom raising the possibility he survived]]. In the series it is heavily implied he will die from the superflu, as one of his subordinates is shown to be infected while a disconsolate Creighton is cradling Starkey's corpse.

* EmpathyDollShot: In the opening credits, as the doll dropped by Campion's daughter lays on the ground... and is being pecked at by a crow.

* FanService: Several [[PantyShot panty shots]] over the course of the series.

* JumpScare: One pops up near the end of Stuart's dream in the first episode.

* TheMountainsOfIllinois: Trashcan Man's arson incidents in Gary, Indiana and Des Moines, Iowa, are both shown with rugged mountains in the background, because they were filmed in New Mexico.

* PragmaticAdaptation: In order to get the mini-series greenlighted, King had to cull the darker aspects of the novel for network TV, which in turn led to some decent revisions of the story: removing the "female zoo" sequence and expanding upon Nadine and Larry's relationship as far as the two hooking up in the city rather than once Larry's former companion died.

* ThePowerOfRock: At the end of the third episode, Larry is shown taking his guitar (and nothing else) to Las Vegas. A [[BonJovi loaded six-string]] may not help with the forces of darkness...

* SoundOnlyDeath: Rae Flowers is killed offscreen when a group of soldiers break into her studio and gun her down, while Fran and her dying Father listen to the broadcast in horror.

* SoundOnlyDeath: Rae Flowers is killed offscreen when a group of soldiers break into her studio and gun her down, while Fran is listening to the broadcast.

** Particularly amusing are the shots of ''huge'' mountains in the background as Arnette, TX is quarantined and evacuated. These scenes were shot in Salt Lake City, UT.

** CompressedAdaptation: To a point. The Boulder section is truncated, as well as [[spoiler:Stu and Tom's return home]]. Stu and the other townspeople are flown straight to Stovington, Vermont, rather than the CDC in Atlanta, as happened in the book. On the other hand, the miniseries depicts the military occupying Arnette and rounding up Stu and all the other people who came into contact with Campion, as well as their friends and relatives, which only got a flashback mention in the book.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After he's pulled out of his car, Campion provides the quote on the top of this page, which is the first foreshadowing of the presence of Randall Flagg as the "dark man." The news broadcast that Larry hears over the radio in New York, which states that the army has massacred at least 60 people and wounded hundreds who tried to flee the city through the Lincoln Tunnel, foreshadows his and Nadine's later journey through that same tunnel, and all the bodies they encounter there.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After he's pulled out of his car, Campion provides the quote on the top of this page, which is the first foreshadowing of the presence of Randall Flagg. The news broadcast that Larry hears over the radio in New York, which states that the army has massacred at least 60 people and wounded hundreds who tried to flee the city through the Lincoln Tunnel, foreshadows his and Nadine's later journey through that same tunnel, and all the bodies they encounter there.

* Foreshadowing: After he's pulled out of his car, Campion provides the quote on the top of this page, which is the first foreshadowing of the presence of Randall Flagg. The news broadcast that Larry hears over the radio in New York, which states that the army has massacred at least 60 people and wounded hundreds who tried to flee the city through the Lincoln Tunnel, foreshadows his and Nadine's later journey through that same tunnel, and all the bodies they encounter there.

** CompressedAdaptation: To a point. The Boulder section is truncated, as well as [[spoiler:Stu and Tom's return home]]. On the other hand, the miniseries depicts the military occupying Arnette and rounding up Stu and all the other people who came into contact with Campion, as well as their friends and relatives, which only got a flashback mention in the book.

** CompressedAdaptation: To a point. The Boulder section is truncated, as well as [[spoiler:Stu and Tom's return home]]. On the other hand, the miniseries depicts the military occupying Arnette and rounding up Stu and all the other people who came into contact with Campion, as well as their friends and relatives, which is something that wasn't shown in the book.