Desert
List of TV shows and films in a Desert setting.
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- CreatorSteven KnightStarsConnor SwindellsJack O'ConnellAlfie AllenSAS: Rogue Heroes charts the creation of the famed Special Forces unit. Based on the book by Ben Macintyre.
- CreatorGraham RolandStarsZahn McClarnonKiowa GordonJessica MattenFollows Leaphorn and Chee, two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest that are forced to challenge their own spiritual beliefs when they search for clues in a double murder case.
- CreatorTim MinchinLeon FordKate MulvanyStarsTim MinchinMilly AlcockElla Scott LynchTwo misfits, thrown together by chance in the middle of the Australian desert, forge bonds in a quest to transport a precious piano from one side of the country to the other.
- StarsAaron PedersenTasia ZalarTasma WaltonDetective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station. Soon, Jay's investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
- StarsFrank McGrathTerry WilsonRobert HortonStories of the journeys of a wagon train as it leaves post-Civil War Missouri on its way to California through the plains, deserts, and Rocky Mountains.
- CreatorNancy FichmanKatie FordJennifer HoppeStarsPatricia ArquetteBrad GarrettWeruche OpiaPeggy, a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.
- CreatorDee LaDukeBrown JohnsonDebby BeeceStarsDavid BrisbinKelly BrownDebi KalmanA group of friends work together with their boss at a dude ranch and go through many fun moments and mishaps along the way.
- StarsVictor BrowneGladise JiminezMarcia StrassmanSmall town notices weird deaths in the desert. There are giant worms under the sand. They can hear the location of people through the vibration of their movement. Finally they blow them up with dynamite.
- StarsMax IronsJonathan ArisSam NeillThe remarkable story of the chance meeting that transformed penniless, ostracised archaeologist Howard Carter into a household name following his discovery of the tomb of the boy-king, Tutankhamun.
- CreatorDavid DortortStarsLeif EricksonCameron MitchellHenry DarrowThe Cannon family runs the High Chaparral Ranch in the Arizona Territory in 1870s.
- CreatorTom GriesStarsChristopher GeorgeGary RaymondEric BraedenThe World War II North African missions of an Allied commando patrol squad of the Long Range Desert Group.
- StarsKhosro ShakibaiMohammad FiliSadreddin HejaziStory of two groups of bandits looting merchants' caravans in the middle of Iranian deserts; one of the bosses though starts to transform throughout time.
- CreatorRuth WoodmanStarsStanley AndrewsRobert TaylorRonald ReaganWestern stories and legends based, and filmed, in and around Death Valley, California. One of the longest-running Western series, originating on radio in the 1930s. The continuing sponsor was "20 Mule Team" Borax, a product formerly mined in Death Valley.
- StarsMichael YorkBen KingsleyJames FarentinoThis mini-series production is about the quest of archaeologist Desmond Jordan to discover the location of the legendary Talking Mountain of the Sahara desert, and find the secret that it hides.
- CreatorMort LachmanSy RosenStarsWhoopi GoldbergJean StapletonJames GammonSitcom based on the 1987 indie hit "Bagdad Café" follows two women, a desert motel/diner owner and her guest whose husbands just left them, as they slowly develop a rocky friendship. Several colorful characters live there as well.
- StarsRutger HauerCarol AltOmar SharifA mother hires an ex-C.I.A. man to find and bring back her son, who has been abducted by his father and taken to Morocco, where his grandfather, the ruler of a desert tribe, wants him to become his successor.
- CreatorJustin MonjoRobyn SinclairStarsErik ThomsonJessica NapierCaitlin McDougallAlice Springs, known as The Alice; is the third largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. The show follows the lives of the locals, wrapped in the mystical veil of Aboriginal legends.