50 Fun Facts About Eureka (TV Series)

Although the pilot said otherwise, the hidden town in TV's Eureka sits in which U.S. state?

Oregon is home to the hidden town of geniuses, although the pilot episode located it in Washington. A later episode even traced a diamond to the real Eureka, California.

Before reluctantly becoming sheriff of Eureka, Jack Carter held which federal law enforcement job?

U.S. Marshal Carter found the hidden town by accident while driving a teenage runaway, his own daughter, back to her mother in Los Angeles.

Which cable channel aired Eureka after its pilot became the network's highest-rated series launch?

Syfy was still spelled Sci-Fi Channel when 4.1 million people watched the 2006 pilot. The network adopted its new name in 2009, midway through the run.

Which Montreal-born actor played Sheriff Jack Carter in all five seasons of the TV series Eureka?

Colin Ferguson also stepped behind the camera, directing the Eureka episodes 'Your Face or Mine?' and 'The Story of O2'.

Which Star Trek: The Next Generation actor played Fargo's arrogant rival Isaac Parrish on Eureka?

Wil Wheaton, once boy genius Wesley Crusher, played a scientist who sneers at Fargo as a legacy kid who had everything handed to him.

Which Big Bang Theory star voiced Carl, the talking Jeep in an animated Eureka Christmas episode?

Jim Parsons gave the sheriff's vehicle a voice in 'Do You See What I See', in which a holographic mishap turns the whole town into a cartoon.

In Eureka's season 4 premiere, a device co-built by which physicist sends five residents to 1947?

Albert Einstein and an assistant built the bridge device when the town was a secret military base, and the travelers return to find their present rewritten.

Although set in the United States, Eureka was filmed mainly in and around which Canadian city?

Vancouver Film Studios housed the interiors of Global Dynamics and Café Diem, while the outdoor café set stood on a downtown street in Chilliwack.

Eureka's Douglas Fargo visits South Dakota to upgrade a secret facility in which other series?

Warehouse 13 returned the favour when its young tech expert Claudia Donovan toured Global Dynamics in the Eureka episode 'Crossing Over'.

Which Marvel Comics legend guest-starred on Eureka in 2011 as a scientist nicknamed Generalissimo?

Stan Lee kept his own surname for the cameo, appearing as Dr. Lee in the season 4 episode 'Glimpse'.

Felicia Day joined Eureka in season 4 as which brilliant but socially awkward scientist?

Holly Marten arrives under suspicion of hunting for an excuse to shut the town down, but she has really come to fund a deep-space voyage.

Felicia Day's Eureka character arrives to help plan the Astraeus mission to which moon?

Titan is the target, but the Astraeus is hijacked at launch and its crew ends up captured instead of exploring space.

Which actor played eccentric animal expert Jim Taggart on Eureka?

Matt Frewer's Taggart spends the series finale trying to catch his own unusually clever dog.

Which actor played jack-of-all-trades Henry Deacon on Eureka?

Joe Morton's Henry, who shuns Global Dynamics on ethical grounds, ends the series as its director once Fargo steps down.

Which actress played a scheming senator in Eureka's final seasons?

Ming-Na Wen's character shares her surname: Senator Michaela Wen chairs the Technology Appropriations Committee that Fargo must face.

Neil Grayston, Fargo on Eureka, also voices which AI that runs Sheriff Carter's house?

SARAH, short for Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat, is a smart house built in a bunker, and she once locked her guests inside to stop them quarrelling.

Psychiatrist Beverly Barlowe secretly serves which shadowy group that covets Eureka's inventions?

The Consortium's agent turns out to have a family tie to the town's past: her father worked there back in 1947.

Which mysterious object studied at Global Dynamics drives a story arc in Eureka's first two seasons?

The Artifact gives one scientist wondrous powers at a terrible price, and an explosion during a test of it kills Henry Deacon's love, Kim.

On the day Allison Blake is due to remarry in Eureka's third season, what traps Sheriff Carter?

A time loop keeps replaying the wedding day until the groom repairs it and dematerializes, ending the marriage before it begins.

Zoe Carter leaves Eureka after winning early acceptance to which university's medical school?

Harvard accepted Zoe early with help from a recommendation letter written by Henry Deacon, and by the finale she is about to graduate with top honours.

Which Eureka Nobel laureate, Allison Blake's ex-husband, takes over Global Dynamics in season 1?

Nathan Stark clashes with Jack Carter from the moment he takes charge, though the two rivals come to respect each other.

Which Eureka character owns Café Diem and prides himself on cooking anything his customers ask for?

Vincent can fill any order thanks to a pantry with extra-dimensional storage, and he holds a doctorate in molecular gastronomy.

After Jack Carter is fired in Eureka's third season, which robot lawman is tested as sheriff?

Andy concludes that Carter is the better sheriff and finds a gap in the town charter that restores him to the job.

Before becoming a deputy in Eureka, firearms-loving Jo Lupo served in which elite military unit?

Army Rangers training shows in Jo's no-nonsense policing, and in the altered timeline she trades her deputy's badge for running security at Global Dynamics.

Henry Deacon shuns Global Dynamics on ethical grounds and instead works as Eureka's what?

Mechanic is the day job, but Henry's garage know-how and scientific range make him the person Sheriff Carter turns to when experiments go wrong.

In Eureka's first season, Allison Blake is the town's liaison to which arm of the government?

Defense Department oversight never goes away: Allison later runs Global Dynamics herself, and in the finale the government shuts the town down.

Zane Donovan joins Eureka's Global Dynamics to avoid prison after allegedly causing what?

A stock market crash, said to have hit the New York Stock Exchange, got Zane arrested for fraud before the town recruited him.

In season 3 of Eureka, Henry Deacon wins which town office on election day as a write-in candidate?

Mayor Henry wins without even being on the ballot, on the same election day a student's artificial sun threatens to go supernova.

Whose name is on the Eureka high school that Henry Deacon runs in an alternate 2010?

Tesla High School is also where Zoe Carter graduates as valedictorian in that alternate timeline, glimpsed in the season 1 finale.

Ever Carradine joined Eureka in season 3 as free-spirited Lexi; what is Lexi to Jack Carter?

His sister Lexi moves in with Jack and Zoe after learning she is pregnant, and later leaves town with her husband-to-be.

Which Battlestar Galactica actor joined Eureka in season 4 as a scientist transplanted from 1947?

James Callis, best known as Gaius Baltar, played a man out of his own era who hides under an alias and takes work as a scientific historian.

Which Unforgiven actress played Eva Thorne, the corporate fixer sent to make Eureka profitable?

Frances Fisher's fixer hides a secret: an accident at an underground military base made her extraordinarily long-lived, and she is really 107.

Which composer, later known for the music of Outlander, scored Eureka from its second season onward?

Bear McCreary replaced the first season's composers, and an album of his season two cues came out in 2008 on La La Land Records.

Which new wave frontman turned composer co-wrote the main theme of the TV series Eureka?

Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo wrote the theme with John Enroth, and it also closed season 1 episodes before a different end theme took over.

Eureka co-creator Andrew Cosby also co-founded which publisher of the show's 2009 comic books?

Boom! Studios based its first Eureka series on storylines supplied by Cosby, then followed it with a four-issue run called Dormant Gene.

A Eureka producer blamed the show's 2011 cancellation on which new corporate parent of the network?

Comcast inherited a show that was a creative favourite at the network but, the producer explained, too expensive to turn a profit.

Eureka lost a 2007 Primetime Emmy to Battlestar Galactica after a nomination in which category?

Visual effects earned the series its Emmy nod in a field that also included Heroes, Rome and Grey's Anatomy, and the same work won a Leo Award.

In Eureka's final season, where are Jack Carter and Allison Blake trapped when Henry marries them?

A leaky submarine at the bottom of a lake becomes their wedding venue in 'In Too Deep', moments before they are teleported to safety.

In the Eureka finale, which returning character buys the town under the alias Trent Rockwell?

Trevor Grant spends a fortune he has amassed to rescue the town, on condition that Henry Deacon becomes director of Global Dynamics.

The final scene of Eureka mirrors the pilot when Jack and Zoe Carter drive past whom?

Their younger selves from five years earlier are just arriving, the same strange roadside encounter the pilot showed from the other car.

As Eureka's final season opens, the Astraeus crew believe years have passed; where are they really?

A computer simulation of the town, built by their kidnappers, convinces the crew they were lost in space when they never left Earth.

In the Eureka pilot, which young savant solves the equation that stops a tachyon accelerator?

Kevin, Allison Blake's autistic son, cracks the equation after Jack Carter realises the boy can do what the town's top scientists cannot.

In the Eureka pilot, Jack Carter becomes sheriff after predecessor William Cobb suffers what injury?

He loses a leg in an accident caused by a rogue scientist's experiment, the same crisis that first shows Carter what the town really is.

In the TV series Eureka, what camouflages the secret town of scientists from the outside world?

An electromagnetic shield hides the town, and in season 3 the residents lower it as a peace offering to a flock of runaway drones.

In Eureka's 'Purple Haze', what does Carter find is making residents act on subconscious impulses?

Pollen from a batch of plants is the culprit, and Carter stays immune because his smart house is hermetically sealed.

In the Eureka episode 'Blink', a drug developed at Global Dynamics gives its users which ability?

Super speed comes at a cost: one scientist dies, and Fargo suffers bad withdrawal after trying the drug.

In Eureka's season 3 opener, a rogue drone has a teenage girl's personality and which name?

Martha only stands down when Zoe Carter talks to her by radio, persuading the drone to come home before fighter jets engage.

In the Eureka episode 'Reprise', a virus in the town's music system makes residents do what?

Residents act out song lyrics with chaotic results: one teenager steals the sheriff's car and a newly built house is burned down.

In Eureka's 'Up in the Air', Sheriff Carter investigates a robbery in which thieves take what?

The whole bank is taken, building and all, leaving only the foundation behind for the sheriff to puzzle over.

Jack Carter's love interest Tess Fontana ends Eureka's season 3 by taking a job in which country?

Australia wins out despite her budding romance with Carter, and when the timeline shifts in season 4 he ends the relationship himself.