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"C.S.I." redirects here. For other uses, see
CSI.
This article is about the original TV series.
For its two spin-offs, see
CSI (franchise). For the video game,
see CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (video game). For the act of
investigating crime, see
Forensic science.
The series follows Las Vegas
criminologists as
they use physical evidence to solve grisly murders in this
unusually graphic (and hugely popular) drama, which has inspired a
host of other cop-show 'procedurals.' An immediate ratings smash
for
CBS, the series mixes deduction,
gritty subject matter and popular characters. The network quickly
capitalized on its megahit with spin-offs
CSI: Miami and
CSI: NY.
The tenth season of
CSI premiered on September 24, 2009
at 9 pm EST.
[1]Production
Overview
The series has been heavily criticized—almost since its debut—by
police and district attorneys, who feel
CSI portrays an
inaccurate image of how police solve crimes, and by the
Parents Television Council,
who note the level and gratuitousness of graphic violence, images
and sexual content seen on the show. Nevertheless,
CSI
became the most-watched show on American television by 2002. The
success of the show encouraged CBS to produce a franchise, starting
in May 2002 with the
spin-off CSI: Miami and then
again in 2004 with
CSI: NY.
The series is now in syndication and reruns are currently
broadcast in the US on the
Spike and
TV Land cable networks.
As of the fall of 2008,
CSI commands an average cost of
$262,600 for a 30-second commercial, according to an
Advertising Age survey of media-buying firms.
[3]Conception and
development
During the 1990s,
Anthony Zuiker
caught producer
Jerry Bruckheimer's attention after
writing his first movie script. Bruckheimer wanted an idea for a
television series. Zuiker did not have one,
but his wife told him about a
Discovery Channel show she liked
about forensic detectives who used
DNA and other evidence to solve
cold cases (
The New
Detectives).
[4] Zuiker
started spending time with real-life
LVMPD crime
investigators and was convinced that there was a series in the
concept. Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of
Touchstone Pictures. The studio's
head at the time liked the
spec script and presented it to
ABC,
NBC and
Fox executives, who decided to
pass. The head of drama development at
CBS saw potential in the script, and the network
had a
pay or play contract with actor
William
Petersen who said he wanted to do the
CSI pilot. The
network's executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to
include it in their
2000 schedule immediately, airing on
Fridays after
The Fugitive. Initially
it was thought that
CSI would benefit from
The
Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, but by the end of
the year 2000
CSI had a much larger audience.
[5]Filming
locations
After the eleventh episode, filming shifted to the Santa Clarita
Studios and only second unit photography, such as the shots of the
Las Vegas streets are done on location in
Las Vegas,
Nevada. Occasionally, when required, the cast will also shoot
on location in Las Vegas, although more often the locations will be
substituted by California locations. Santa Clarita was originally
chosen for its similarity to the outskirts of Las Vegas.
[7] Some of
the California locations include the
Verdugo Hills High School,
UCLA's
Royce Hall, the
Pasadena City
Hall and the
California State
University. While shooting is filmed primarily at Universal
Studios in Universal City, California, Santa Clarita's surroundings
have proven so versatile that
CSI still shoots some of its
outdoor scenes there.
[8]Style
Stylistically, the show has drawn favorable comparisons to
Quincy
and
The
X-Files.
[9] The
show's gadgets and occasional usage of yet-to-be-invented
technology have moved the show nominally into the genre of
science fiction
and garnered it a 2004
Saturn Award nomination for best network
television series. The series also occasionally steps into the
realm of
fantasy,
such as a 2006 episode, "
Toe Tags"
which is told from the point of view of several corpses in the CSI
lab who reanimate and discuss their deaths with each other.
The series is known for its unusual camera angles, percussive
editing techniques, hi-tech gadgets, detailed technical discussion,
and graphic portrayal of
bullet trajectories, blood spray
patterns, organ damage, methods of
evidence recovery (
e.g. fingerprints from the
inside of latex gloves), and
crime reconstructions. This
technique of shooting extreme
close-ups, normally with explanatory
commentary from one of the characters is referred to in the media
as the
"CSI shot".
[10]
Many episodes feature lengthy scenes in which experiments, tests,
or other technical work is portrayed in detail, usually with
minimal sounds effects and accompanying music—a technique
reminiscent of
Mission: Impossible. Often the lighting,
composition, and
mise-en-scene elements are heavily
influenced by
avant-garde film[10]Music
Throughout the series, music plays an important role; artists
like
The
Wallflowers,
John
Mayer,
Method Man,
and
Akon (with
Obie Trice) have
performed onscreen in the episodes "
The Accused is Entitled", "
Built To Kill, Part 1", and "
Poppin' Tags",
respectively. The Wallflowers' "Everybody out of the Water" can be
found on the CSI soundtrack CD.
Mogwai is often heard during scenes showing
forensic tests in progress (see Style, above) as are
Radiohead and
Cocteau Twins, but
several other artists have lent their music to
CSI
including
Rammstein—used
heavily in Lady Heather's
story arc.
Sigur Rós can be heard playing in the
background in Season 2 episode "Slaves of Las Vegas",
The Turtles in "
Grave Danger", and
Marilyn Manson in
Suckers. Industrial rock band
Nine Inch Nails
have also been featured multiple times throughout the three
series'. In the Season 9 episode "
For Warrick", The Martin Brothers'
"Stoopit" is heard from the club when Grissom discovers Warrick's
body and their "Dirtybird Records" label mate Claude Vonstroke's
"Chimps" is played from the club while Grissom, Catherine and Nick
attempt to recreate the crime scene.
Plot
Cast
Main articles: List of
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation characters, Minor characters in CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation, and
List of CSI
CharactersMain
characters
- CSI Level 2: Dr. Raymond "Ray"
Langston (Laurence Fishburne) comes into
contact with the CSI team in the course of a murder investigation
and joins the Las Vegas Crime Lab as a Level-1 CSI. Langston is a
medical doctor who used to work in a hospital. A co-worker murdered
27 patients, and all the evidence showed up before him, but he
never put the evidence together. In the episode "The Grave
Shift," his first day on the job was most troubling for him. In
the episode "No Way
Out," he was held hostage in the aftermath of a shootout in a
neighborhood. In the episode "Mascara," one
of Ray's former students was murdered, and in the end of "All In," Langston has
to shoot and kill a murderer in self defense, the first time he
takes a life in the line of duty. Ray graduated to CSI 2 in the
tenth season opener and was explained that he spent his time off
taking every class and seminar he could to really become the CSI
that Gil Grissom saw
in him. Ray also revealed in the tenth season that he was raised in
Korea and his father, a soldier and a veteran of the Korean War,
was a violent man, often getting into brawls off the battlefield
and this is something which disturbs Langston considerably. Also in
the tenth season, Ray travels to Miami and New York, involving a
case that crosses over into three CSI shows for the first
time.
- CSI Level 3 Night Shift Supervisor:
Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) is in command of
the night shift Las Vegas CSI unit. She was promoted with the
resignation of Gil Grissom in the episode, "One
to Go." Born in Las Vegas on March 26, 1963, Catherine Willows
was raised by her single mother, a cocktail waitress and showgirl.
Catherine failed to excel to her full potential in school, despite
her intelligence and sharp mind. Catherine left school and began
work as an exotic dancer in order to support her boyfriend's
career. She became interested in crime solving when she befriended
a regular at the dance club, who encouraged her to return to
school. She attended West Las Vegas University where she graduated
with a degree in Medical Science. Catherine joined the CSI team as
a lab technician, after which she worked her way up to the role of
supervisor under Gil
Grissom. Catherine has one daughter, Lindsey Willows (Kay Panabaker), and
had a stormy relationship with ex-husband Eddie Willows (Timothy
Carhart) until his murder in episode, "Lady
Heather's Box." The relationship with her father, Sam Braun (Scott
Wilson), also occasionally created conflicts in cases. In the
episode, "Built to Kill," Braun is shot and
dies in Catherine's arms. Catherine's character is loosely based on
real life CSI Yolanda McCleary.[12]
- CSI Level 3
Night Shift Assistant Supervisor: Nicholas "Nick"
Stokes (George Eads) is second in command of the
night shift Las Vegas CSI unit. He was promoted in episode "Family
Affair," by Catherine Willows. Nicholas Stokes
was born into the family of a judge and a lawyer in Dallas, Texas
on August 18, 1971. The youngest of seven siblings, Nick stood out
through academic and athletic merit. On leaving Texas A&M
University he joined the police department, then took a job with
the Dallas Crime Lab, specializng in hair and fiber analysis. He
joined the Las Vegas Crime Lab and found he could be his own man,
and still be part of a high-achieving team. Nick has shown to be an
emotional person through the series: He nearly cried when being
held at gunpoint in the episode "Who Are You?." In the episode "Gum Drops," he got very
emotional searching for a missing little girl who was thought to be
dead. In the episode "Grave Danger," he broke down and was on
the verge of committing suicide when buried alive in a glass coffin and
broke down once again in the episode "Turn,
Turn, Turn," when discussing the death of the victim with Dr. Ray
Langston, and how he should have seen the danger signs over the
year and done something to prevent it. He was also stalked in the
episode "Stalker,"
when a repairman named Nigel Crane (Doug Hutchison) thought that Nick was
his friend. Because of being molested at a young age, his character
is portrayed as more empathic than his co-workers, which has drawn
several rebukes from others.
- CSI Level
3: Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda) was born on May 7, 1975, in
Santa Gabriel California and is Norwegian-descended. He excelled as
an Eagle Scout, and earned all his badges in record time. Greg was
educated in a private school for gifted students and graduated Phi
Beta Kappa from Stanford University a year earlier. After a stint
with the San Francisco Police Department, Gerg joined the Las Vegas
Crime Lab as a DNA technician and was soon yearning to find a place
beyond the lab conducting fieldwork with the CSI team. Greg also
wrote a book about the history of Las Vegas, and often becomes
intrigued with cases that date back to "old Las Vegas" when it was
run by the mob. Greg entered field training in the episode "Who Shot
Sherlock?," and he became a full-fledged CSI. Greg is promoted
to CSI level 3 in the episode "19 Down." In the episode "Play with
Fire" he was involved in a lab explosion, which he survived and
in the episode "Fannysmackin'," Greg is brutally beaten
by a gang of youths while rescuing a victim. Having always been the
youngest and geekiest of his peers, Greg embraced pop culture,
style, and social trends, wanting to be known as hip, as well as
brilliant.
- Chief Medical
Examiner: Dr. Albert "Al" Robbins (Robert David
Hall) is the head county coroner of the Las Vegas Police Department.
Robbins' first appearance was in the episode "Who Are You?" and
became a series regular from season three onwards. He is married
with three children. Robbins was close friends with CSI, Gil Grissom, and since
Grissom's departure, Robbins has been shown to be developing a
similar sort of friendship with new CSI, Ray Langston,
and he is also close friends with David Phillips, the assistant
coroner. He has two prosthetic legs, and it has been
implied that he lost them in an accident while trying to dig up a
floor at a crime scene; this disability is drawn from actor Robert
David Hall himself, who lost his legs in a road traffic
accident.
- Trace Technician: David
Hodges (Wallace Langham) is a lab technician
who transferred to the Las Vegas crime lab from Los Angeles.
Hodges' appearances provide some comic relief, though most of the team
finds him obnoxious and irritating. Hodges' first appearance was in
the episode "Recipe for Murder," and he became a
regular cast member starting with the episode "Dead Doll." He has a crush on fellow lab
technician Wendy Simms. He once got all the other lab techs to
collaborate and try to solve The Miniature Killer case,
discovering a key clue. It is also noted that Hodges has an uncanny
sense of smell, and is able to identify many key chemical compounds by their scent alone,
such as cyanide, which to those who possess the gene like Hodges
does, smells like bitter almonds, but Hodge's sense of smell for
this chemical, however, is more acute than that of the average
person. While at a sci-fi convention in the episode "A Space
Oddity," Hodges and Wendy had to solve the murder of one of the
stars.
- DNA
Technician: Wendy Simms (Liz Vassey) worked in San Francisco,
California for a time before moving to Las Vegas to take the DNA
tech position in "Secrets and Flies." In the episode
"Lab Rats," she helps David
Hodges investigate the case of The Miniature Killer. The two
characters have an ongoing rivalry which obscures a strong mutual
attraction. Hodges complains that Simms tries to take over
everything and thinks she's "too cool" for the lab. Simms insults
Hodges by calling him "freakboy" and "loser" but appreciates his
investigative thoroughness. Wendy is apparently something of a
klutz and has a reputation for being clumsy around work. Wendy and
Dr. Robbins have a big
disagreement over tainted blood evidence in the episode "Let It
Bleed." Wendy also had a role in an independent horror flick
playing a girl who is cut in half by a guy with a chainsaw. Hodges
feels the mutual attraction to her as well but fears the effect on
his work that a relationship would produce, since he finds her
distracting enough as it is. Actress Liz Vassey is added to main
cast in the tenth season premiere.
- Assistant Medical Examiner: David
Phillips (David Berman) (nicknamed "Super
Dave") is the assistant coroner to Chief Medical Examiner Al Robbins. He received
his self ascribed nickname after saving the life of a victim during
an autopsy. Due to his line of work, he is not fazed by much.
Though earlier in the series, the main characters tease him about
his supposed lack of social experience. David marries at some point
early in the seventh season. He reveals his wife enjoys hearing all
the grotesque details of his job in the episode "Leapin'
Lizards." During the eighth season, signs show his wife is
attempting to change his look. In the ninth season, David performs
his first solo autopsy, indicating his advancement in the lab
hierarchy. Actor David Berman is added to the main cast in the
tenth season premiere.
- LVPD Homicide
Detective: Captain James "Jim" Brass (Paul Guilfoyle)
was the head of the Las Vegas CSI, who is originally from New
Jersey. He was moved back to the police homicide division in the episode, "Cool
Change" and remains captain in the homicide division and works
with the CSI team. His daughter, Ellie (Nicki Aycox), has
problems in season two, who is a drug addict and a prostitute in
Los Angeles. It was discovered in the episode, "Ellie," that he is not
Ellie's biological father. In the episode "Bang Bang,"
Brass was shot twice by Willy Cutler (Currie Graham), after convincing him to
release his female hostage (Kandiss Edmundson). At the end of the
episode, "Built To
Kill," Brass is seen in a tattoo parlor, having the date of his
shooting (May 11, 2006) tattooed just below the bullet scar. Brass
has never been accused of being a "soft cop" and has shown regard
for the rules throughout the years. In the episode "Who and What," after
the FBI's Jack Malone slams a
suspect's head on the table, Brass rushes in and pulls him off,
saying "If you want to rendition him to Gitmo, be my guest. But in
this house, we play by the rules." In the episode "You Kill Me," after David Hodges creates a fictional story in
which Brass uses his night stick on Bobby Dawson (Gerald
McCullouch), Wendy
Simms comments "Captain Brass isn't the type of cop that smacks
suspects around."
Former
main characters
- CSI Level 2:
Riley Adams (Lauren Lee Smith) was a former St.
Louis police officer who became a CSI. She made her debut in "Art Imitates
Life and came in as a second-level CSI to the understaffed Las
Vegas unit, a few weeks after the death of Warrick Brown. In episode, "No Way Out," she and fellow CSI Ray Langston
were held hostage in the aftermath of a shootout in a neighborhood,
but Riley was successfully able to disarm the suspect. Actress
Lauren Lee Smith will not be back for the tenth season of CSI, said
executive producer Naren Shankar, on July 27, 2009 and says
the decision to let Smith and her character go was "an issue of how
we were feeling the ensemble was working."[13]
- CSI Level 3
Night Shift Supervisor: Dr. Gilbert "Gil" Grissom (William
Petersen) was the night shift team supervisor for the Las Vegas
CSI unit, and a forensic entomologist with a degree
in biology from UCLA. He is known
for being a very thorough and methodical scientist, as well as a
bit of a quirky introvert. It was revealed in the episode
"Way To Go" that he has been in a
relationship with fellow CSI Sara Sidle. He successfully proposed
marriage to her in the episode, "The Case of the
Cross-Dressing Carp." The Grissom character is loosely based on
real life criminalist Daniel Holstein.[12]
Actor William Petersen was originally reported to have renewed his
contract for the show's ninth season, but the Associated
Press reported on July 15, 2008, that Petersen was leaving the
show as a regular in the ninth season's tenth episode in order to
pursue more stage acting opportunities. He will return for guest
spots during the show's run, as needed.[14]
In his final scene as a regular in “One to Go,” he is shown meeting his fiancée,
Sara Sidle, in the rain forest of Costa Rica and they kiss. It was
revealed in, "Family
Affair," that Grissom and Sara are now married.
- CSI
Level 3: Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) was an audio-video analyst. Warrick was a Las
Vegas native and chemistry major from UNLV. A major facet of
Warrick's character portrayed in the show is that he was a
recovering gambling addict, his recovery hindered by
the fact that he worked in Las Vegas. New CSI Holly
Gribbs was killed at a scene in the episode, "Pilot," while Warrick
was out laying a bet. He almost lost his job for not being with her
at the time. Grissom's friendship and support had helped him a
great deal in overcoming his addiction, but his compulsion was one
of the reasons used by Conrad Ecklie to investigate and then
split up the team in season five. Warrick was married in season
six, but divorced by season eight. Warrick's character did not
return for the ninth season, since actor Gary Dourdan and CBS could not come to terms on a
contract. In the episode "For Gedda," Warrick Brown was shot and left
to die; it was confirmed in the season nine premiere, "For Warrick," that
Dourdan's character was killed off by the gun shot of the
Undersheriff Jeff McKeen.[15]
In the opening moments of the premiere, Warrick dies in Gil Grissom's arms and
it was also revealed that he had a son.
- CSI Level 3:
Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) was a materials and element
analyst. She was physics major at Harvard University, and previously
worked for the San Francisco coroner and crime lab. She replaced Holly
Gribbs after helping investigate her death. She is devoted to
her job and will go to almost any lengths to make sure that justice
is served. She is often socially awkward, but brilliant at her
work. Sara also has emotional difficulties when dealing with abuse
cases in her job. Sara accepted a marriage proposal from co-worker
Gil Grissom in "The Case of the
Cross-Dressing Carp." A few episodes later, in, "Goodbye and Good Luck," Sara leaves the
team following a difficult case. She leaves Grissom a note, stating
that she had to go face the ghosts of her past, something that she
could not do in Las Vegas. She made guest appearances in season
nine episodes 901,
902, and 905, and she meets Gil Grissom in episode
910 in the Costa Rican
jungle. Actress Jorja Fox returned as Sara for the tenth season
premiere and was scheduled to return for five more episodes;
executive producer Carol Mendolsohn has since reported that the
length of Fox's stay remains unknown, but it will definitely be
more than the five episodes she was originally scheduled for.[1] It was revealed
in "Family
Affair" that Grissom and Sara are now married.
- LVPD
Homicide Detective: Sofia Curtis (Louise Lombard)
was a CSI who became part of Grissom's team after the mid–season
five split, decided by the Assistant Director of the crime lab, Conrad Ecklie. She
soon considered resignation, upset at the fact that she had been
demoted from acting day shift supervisor. In the sixth season,
Sofia makes a career shift from CSI to detective. Sofia was a
recurring character in the fifth season, and became a main
character in the seventh season. Actress Louise Lombard made her
final appearance to date in the episode "Dead Doll," as a special guest star.
Notable
guest stars
- Chad
Michael Murray, in The Accused Is Entitled, Season 3 Episode
2
- Dakota
Fanning, in one of her earliest roles, played an abuse victim
in Season 1's episode "Blood Drops."
- Misha
Collins appeared in Season 5's episode "Nesting Dolls", as Vlad.
- Marcia Cross,
most notable for portraying Bree Hodge on Desperate
Housewives, appeared in the episode "Organ Grinder" from
Season 2.
- Grey's
Anatomy and Private Practice star
Kate
Walsh appeared in the 100th episode as a transsexual, in "Ch-Ch-Changes".
- Clueless star Stacey Dash played a
"newbie" lab tech who flirted with Warrick in "Slaves of
Las Vegas" from Season 2.
- Kelly Rowan
(Melinda Clarke's co-star on The O.C.) also appeared in "Slaves of
Las Vegas" as Eileen Nelson, the wife of a man who hated her.
He made a girl from an underground fetish club act like her, and
his violence resulted in him killing her. Coincidentally, Clarke
and Rowan appeared in the same episode prior to working together in
'The O.C.', though they
did not appear in scenes together.
- Tippi Hedren,
most notable for her roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films The
Birds and Marnie, appared in the episode "Young Man with a Horn" from
Season 9.
- The Usual Suspects star Stephen Baldwin
appeared as Jesse Acheson, who was investigated in Season 5's "Compulsion."
- The Who
frontman Roger
Daltrey guest starred as a missing mob boss who comes back to
Las Vegas to pay back his would-be killers in Season 7's episode
"Living
Legend."
- Ugly
Betty and Disney Channel star America Ferrera
had a guest starring role in the Season 5 episode "Harvest."
- Frank
Gorshin made his last ever TV appearance in "Grave Danger", the
season 5 finale.
- Faye Dunaway
played a prominent ex-showgirl and mob mogul's former flame in the
episode "Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye" in Season
6.
- Danny
Bonaduce appeared as Izzy Delancy, the Miniature Killer's first
victim, in the two-part Season 7 opener "Built
to Kill" as well as "Loco Motives".
- Kevin
Federline made his guest appearance in the Season 7 episode "Fannysmackin'",
starring as a street hoodlum 'Pig.'
- Ned Beatty made a
guest appearance in the episode "Sweet Jane" in Season 7, playing a
serial killing dentist.
- Lost stars Ian
Somerhalder, Josh Holloway, Emilie De Ravin, Elizabeth
Mitchell, M.C. Gainey, Harold Perrineau and William
Mapother have all guest starred. Somerhalder portrayed a murder
suspect name Tony Del Nagro in Season 3's "Revenge Is Best Served
Cold." In Season 4, Holloway played Kenny Richmond in "Assume Nothing,"
a casino valet who was Nick's college baseball teammate. Both
episodes were the third and fourth season premieres respectively.
Mitchell appeared as Melissa Winters, a wheelchair-using prosecutor
and friend of Sara's with a deadly secret in Season 3's "One Hit
Wonder." M.C. Gainey was a deceased bounty hunter in
the 4th season episode Homebodies. Perrineau played a reverend with
a sordid past and an exorcism patient who is missing in "Go To Hell"
in Season 8. Mapother played a snuff film maker in the aptly named
Season 3 episode "Snuff."
- Before becoming a regular on CSI: NY, Carmine
Giovinazzo made a guest appearance in "Revenge Is Best Served
Cold", making him one of the several actors to be in all three
CSI shows.
- Summer Glau of
Firefly & Terminator:
The Sarah Connor Chronicles played Mandy Cooper in the Season
5 episode "What's Eating Gilbert
Grissom?".
- Juliette
Goglia played Hannah West in two episodes, a child prodigy who
muddied the waters in two murder cases her half-brother was
involved in. Her cold, calculating actions made Sara Sidle rethink her
career choice and she left at the end of the Season 8 episode "Goodbye and Good Luck."
Sara left her duty vest for new CSI Ronnie Lake, after removing her
name tag and throwing it into the garbage. The first appearance was
in the episode "The Unusual Suspect" from Season
6.
- Constance
Marie played detective Carolina Flores in "Two and a
Half Deaths" from Season 8.
- Guest appearances have been made by no less than four of The Shield cast
members, namely: Catherine Dent (Danny) in "Who Shot
Sherlock?" in Season 5 as Kay Marquette. Kenny Johnson (Lem) in
"Time of
Your Death" in Season 6 as Randy Bolen. Walton Goggins (Shane)
in "Empty Eyes" in
Season 7 as Marlon Frost. Jay Karnes (Dutch) in "For Gedda" in Season 8 as
IA Detective Dutch
Wagenbach.
- Jamie
Hyneman and Adam
Savage of MythBusters appeared as
scientists-observers in the Season 8 episode "The Theory of
Everything."
- Pauley
Perrette acts as an aspiring singer who befriends Catherine
Willows' husband in "Lady Heather's Box."
- Ally Sheedy as
Sharon Turner in Season 7 episode "Leapin' Lizards".
- Method Man, as
Drops, appeared in the episodes "Poppin' Tags", "Big Shots" & "Drops Out".
- Travis
Barker played a rapper also in the Season 6 episode "Poppin'
Tags."
- Shanna
Moakler, Former Miss USA, appeared in the same episode as now
ex-husband Travis Barker.
- Taylor Swift
as Haley Jones in the Season 9 episode "Turn,
Turn, Turn."
- Holt
McCallany was in the Season 9 episode "Young Man with a Horn." He previously
played Det. John Hagen on CSI: Miami.
- Heroes star Milo
Ventimiglia played Bobby in the Season 1 episode "Friends & Lovers." Star
Zachary
Quinto, the villain Sylar, appears in the second season episode
"Anatomy of a
Lye" as Mitchell Sullivan, a greasy chop-shop attendant. Stephen
Tobolowsky, Heroes' Bob Bishop, appears in the episode Two and
a Half Deaths.
- The Office co-stars John Krasinski,
Rainn Wilson,and
Melora Hardin
have all made guest appearances. Krasinski in the Season 5 episode
"Who Shot Sherlock." Wilson appeared as a
purse snatching thief in the Season 1 finale "Strip Strangler." And Hardin appeared as
the sports book manager in season 5's "Big Middle."
- Carlos
Alazraqui as a Reno cop in Season 9's "Let it
Bleed" (a nod to his role in Reno 911!).
- Allison
Scagliotti-Smith, known for her role in Drake &
Josh, played fast food restaurant employee Mindy Crenshaw
in the Season 9 episode "Deep Fried and Minty
Fresh."
- Wil Wheaton
guest-starred as homeless murder suspect Walter in Season 5 episode
"Compulsion."
- Battlestar
Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore along with
Galactica actors Grace Park and Rekha Sharma, make
cameo appearances in the 2009 episode "A Space Oddity". (The three
appear in a science fiction convention scene, with Moore shouting
angrily at a man while Park and Sharma play audience members).
Another Galactica alumnus, Kate Vernon, is a major guest star in the
same episode. Tricia
Helfer also appears as dead model "Ashleigh James" in the final
episode of Season 2 "The Hunger Artist."
- Kellan Lutz
played Chris Mullins in "Empty
Eyes".
- Willie
Garson plays the "sexy kitty" in season 4's "Fur and
Loathing."
- D.B. Woodside from Buffy and the
second President Palmer from 24 plays a convicted sex offender
in the season 5 episode "Harvest."
- Nana Visitor
who plays Kira Nerys
from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine appears as a wrongly
convicted murderers' ex-wife in the fifth season episode "Mea Culpa"
- Robia
LaMorte, Buffy's Jenny Calendar played murder victim Joan
Marks in season 2's "You've Got Male"
- Courtney
Jines from Spy Kids 3-D guest starred as Jessica
Rachel Trent, the sister of Jennette McCurdy, who killed an
elderly woman for a cat. The episode was "Cat's Cradle", from
season 2.
- Jennette
McCurdy from Nickelodeon's show iCarly guest starred as Jackie Trent, the sister
of Courtney
Jines who killed an elderly woman for a cat. The episode was
"Cat's Cradle", from season 2.
- Cory
Hardrict guest starred as Ross Davis, a character in whose bike
is stolen. The episode was "Early Rollout" from season 4.
- Dawson's
Creek actress Meredith Monroe appears as a nun in the
seventh season episode "Double-Cross." Sean
Patrick Flanery from Boondock Saints also appears
in this episode as a used car salesman.
- Alan Tudyk, (Wash) from Firefly plays Carl Fisher a
convicted sex offender in the seventh season episode "Burn Out."
- Peter
Stormare, the Cosmonaut from Armageddon, John
Abruzzi from Prison Break, etc. Appears as "Binky"
the brothel owner in the seventh season episode "Ending Happy."
- Megan Hilty,
Broadway actress most notably recognized for her portrayal of
Glinda the Good in the Broadway musical "Wicked" and Doralee Rhodes in the new musical
"9to5" appears as Kiwi Long, fast food manager at Choozy's Chicken
in the Season 9 episode "Deep Fried and Minty
Fresh."
- D.B. Sweeney guest starred as Kyle Goode in
the Season 4 episode "Early Rollout."
- Former Married...with
Children and Futurama
actress Katey Sagal
guest starred as Annabelle Bundt in the season 8 episode "Two and
a Half Deaths."
- Tim Blake
Nelson of Oh Brother,
Where Art Thou plays a mild mannered employee who kills one of
his co-workers in Season 10's "Working Stiffs."
- Wayne Knight
of the same episode plays Tim Blake Nelson's not-so-friendly
boss.
- Liev
Schreiber, portrays Michael Keppler from Trenton, who replaces
Grissom during his sabbatical leave in Episodes 12, 13, 14 and 15
of season 7.
- Evan
Rachel Wood of True Blood guest starred as Nora Easton in the
episode "Got Murder?"
Episodes
Main article: List of
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episodes
There were twenty-three episodes in the first season, including
the two part pilot episode written by Anthony Zuiker, the series'
creator. There were twenty-three episodes each of the three
following (Seasons two to four). There were twenty-five episodes in
Season five and twenty-four in Seasons six and seven. There were
only 17 episodes in Season 8, due to the WGA strike. The total
number of aired episodes to date is 206. There have also been
crossover episodes with its CSI sister shows, CSI:
Miami and CSI: NY.
The 200th episode of CSI aired on April 2, 2009.
Crossovers
- "Cross Jurisdictions", an episode of
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and the pilot of CSI:
Miami.
- A two-part crossover episode with Without a
Trace aired on November 8, 2007. The first episode was on
CSI with the second part on Without a Trace.
- On May 8, 2008, the episode "Two And a Half
Deaths", written by Two and a Half Men writers Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn, was
aired. The episode focused on the death of a sitcom star of a show
based on Roseanne, which Lorre wrote
some of the episodes. A number of writers of CSI wrote an
episode for Two and a Half Men, "Fish In A Drawer", where Charlie's house is
investigated following the death of Charlie's stepfather. George Eads (Nick
Stokes) was the only actor to appear on both CSI and
Two and a Half Men, but portraying different characters.
The stars of Two and a Half Men also appeared in part of
the CSI episode. They can be seen outside of the dressing
trailer, dressed in tuxedos; all three appear to be smoking,
but they do not talk.
- During the tenth season, CSI crossed over with
CSI: Miami (for the second time) and CSI: NY (for
the first time) in a three part story. The CSI: Trilogy starred Laurence
Fishburne as Dr. Raymond Langston as he starts off
on CSI: Miami in episode "Bone Voyage," continues his journey on
CSI: NY in episode "Hammer Down," and ends with CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation in episode "The Lost Girls." These episodes aired
November 7, 11, and 12, 2009.
Reception
For the
2001 season CBS decided to move
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, along with the hit
franchise
Survivor, to Thursday night, ending
NBC's long dominance of these
television hours, because even though they had a long-standing and
popular
Must See TV lineup (such as
Friends and
Will &
Grace) they could not compete with
CSI's numbers
per week. CBS became the most-watched network on American
television, with
CSI being the most-watched program on
television for the 2002–2003 TV season,
[16]
and the most-watched scripted show for five consecutive seasons,
from the 2002–2003 season through the 2006–2007 season.
The 2004–2005 season finale, directed by
Quentin
Tarantino and entitled "
Grave Danger", was watched by over
35 million viewers on May 19, 2005, twice that of the nearest
competition.
[17]Reception of the show is good with ratings making it the number
one show on the
CBS network several
times in its history, although it has been criticized for its
inaccurate portrayal of how police investigations are performed and
for its often extremely violent depictions of the crime.
CSI has been nominated numerous times for industry awards
and has won nine awards during its history. The program has spawned
several media projects including an exhibit at
Chicago's
Museum of Science
and Industry, a series of books, several video games, and two
additional TV shows. It has reached milestone episodes, such as the
100th, "
Ch-Ch-Changes", the 150th, "
Living
Legend", which starred
Roger Daltrey from
The Who and the 200th, "
Mascara", airing on April 2, 2009.
Public
reaction
CSI's popularity has led to the creation of websites,
online discussion forums and a large amount of fan-made art.
On September 27, 2007, after
CSI's season eight
premiered, a miniature model of character
Gil Grissom's office (which he was seen
building during season seven) was put up on
eBay. The auction ended October 7, with the prop
being sold for $15,600; CBS donated the proceeds to the National
CASA Association.
[18]A
grassroots
campaign started on August 2007, upon rumors of
Jorja Fox leaving the
show,
[19]
organized by the online forum Your Tax Dollars At Work. Many of its
nineteen thousand members donated to the cause, collecting over
$8,000 for gifts and stunts targeted at CBS executives and
CSI's producers and writers. Some of the stunts included a
wedding cake delivery to
Carol Mendelsohn, 192
chocolate-covered insects with the message "CSI Without Sara Bugs
Us." to
Naren
Shankar and a plane flying several times over the
Universal
Studios of
Los Angeles
with a "Follow the evidence keep Jorja Fox on CSI" banner.
[20][21] Other
protests included mailing the show's producers a dollar, so as to
save Fox's contract "one dollar at a time". By October 16, 2007
according to the site's tally, more than 20,000 letters with money
or flyers had been mailed to the Universal Studios and to CBS
headquarters in
New York
from forty-nine different countries since the campaign started on
September 29, 2007.
[22][23][24] Fox
and Mendelsohn chose to donate the money to
CASA, a national
association that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates
for abused or neglected children.
[25]Criticism for violent
and sexual themes
CSI has often been criticized for the level and
explicitness of
graphic violence, images, and sexual
content. The
CSI series and its spin-off shows have been
accused of pushing the boundary of what is considered acceptable
viewing for primetime network television.
[26] The
series had numerous episodes on
sexual fetishism and other forms of
sexual pleasure (see especially the recurring character of
Lady Heather, a
professional dominatrix).
CSI has been ranked as among the worst prime-time shows
for family viewing by the
Parents Television Council
nearly every season since its second,
[27][28][29][30] being
ranked the worst show for family prime-time viewing after the
2002–2003
[31] and
2005–2006
[32]
seasons. The PTC has also targeted certain
CSI episodes
for its weekly "Worst TV Show of the Week" feature.
[33][34][35][36][37][38]
In addition, the episode "
King Baby" aired in February 2005, which the
PTC named the most offensive TV show of the week,
[38]
also led the PTC to start a campaign to file complaints with the
FCC with the episode;
[39] to
date, nearly 13,000 PTC members complained to the
Federal Communications
Commission about the episode.
[40] The
PTC has also asked
Clorox to
pull their advertisements from
CSI and
CSI: Miami
because of the graphically violent content on those programs.
[41]
Law
enforcement reaction
Another criticism of the show is the depiction of police
procedure, which some consider to be decidedly lacking in
realism.
[42] For
instance, the show's characters not only investigate crime scenes
("process", as their real-world counterparts do), but they also
conduct raids, engage in suspect pursuit and arrest, interrogate
suspects, and solve cases, which falls under the responsibility of
uniformed officers and detectives, not CSI personnel. Although
some detectives are also registered CSIs, this is
exceedingly rare in actual life. It is considered an inappropriate
and improbable practice to let CSI personnel to be involved in
detective work as it would compromise the impartiality of
scientific evidence and would be impracticably time-consuming.
CSI shares this characteristic with similar
British drama
series,
Silent
Witness.
The cities of North Las Vegas and Henderson, and other
surrounding townships and counties, will not allow Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department or companies contracted for work
under them to come into their jurisdictions, unless the crime
occurred on a border of the cities and/or townships. Furthermore,
CSIs contracted to LVMPD don't travel to other counties, such as
Nye County, or Pahrump, or any other places in Nevada, due to each
county having different laws in regards to what is considered law
enforcement within that particular county.
Some police and district attorneys have criticized the show for
giving members of the public an inaccurate perception of how police
solve crimes. Victims and their families are coming to expect
instant answers from showcased techniques such as DNA analysis and
fingerprinting, when in real life processing such evidence can take
days or even weeks. District attorneys state that the conviction
rate in cases with little physical evidence has decreased, largely
due to the influence of
CSI on jury members.
[43]However, not all law-enforcement agencies have been as critical;
many CSIs have responded positively to the show's influence and
enjoy their new reputation. In the UK, Scene Of Crime Officers (
SOCO) now
commonly refer to themselves as CSIs. Some constabularies, such as
Norfolk, have even gone so far as to change the name of the unit to
Crime Scene Investigation.
[44] Also,
recruitment and training programs have seen a massive increase in
applicants, with a far wider range of people now interested in
something previously regarded as a scientific backwater.
[45]LGBT
The
LGBT (Lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender) issues community has criticized the show
for its negative representation of LGBT characters.
[46]
Despite the general overall displeasure, the fifth season episode
"
Ch-Ch-Changes" was received positively by
transgenders in particular.
[47]
Furthermore, the season 5 episode "
Iced" featured one
of a very few openly gay characters on the show who were not
victims or criminals, as the victim's neighbor.
[47]Franchise
Main article:
CSI
franchiseLike
NBC's
Law & Order franchise, CBS
went on to produce their own franchise starting in September 2002
with the spin-off
CSI: Miami, set in
Miami, Florida. Another spin-off debuted
September 2004 with
CSI: NY, set in New York City. Also, a
number of
comic books,
video games and
novels based on the
series have been made. The series was found to be in the same
"universe" as fellow CBS police-drama
Without a
Trace during a crossover episodes airing in early November
2007. It is also within the same universe with
Cold
Case because of the series' crossover with
CSI:
NY.
William Petersen confirmed that a CSI
movie is in the works that will star Gil Grissom.
[48]CSI
effect
CSI: The
Experience
Main article: CSI: The
Experience
Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry opened an exhibit in
CSI's honor on May 25, 2007 called: "CSI: The
Experience".
[51]
There is also a supporting Web site designed for the benefit of
people who cannot visit the exhibit at
CSI: The Experience Web Adventure, designed
by
Rice
University's Center for Technology in Teaching &
Learning.
Ratings
American
ratings
Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode)
of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS.
- Note: U.S. network television seasons generally start in
late September and end in late May, which coincides with the
completion of the May
sweeps.
| Season |
Timeslot (EDT) |
Season Premiere |
Season Finale |
TV Season |
Rank |
Viewers
(in millions) |
| 1 |
Friday 9:00 pm/8c (from October 6, 2000 – January 12,
2001)
Thursday 9:00 pm/8c (from February 1, 2001) |
October 6, 2000 (2000-10-06) |
May 17, 2001 (2001-05-17) |
2000–2001 |
#10 |
17.80[52] |
| 2 |
Thursday 9:00 pm/8c |
September 27, 2001 (2001-09-27) |
May 16, 2002 (2002-05-16) |
2001–2002 |
#2 |
23.69[53] |
| 3 |
Thursday 9:00 pm/8c |
September 26, 2002 (2002-09-26) |
May 15, 2003 |
2002–2003 |
#1 |
26.20[54] |
| 4 |
Thursday 9:00 pm/8c |
September 25, 2003 (2003-09-25) |
May 20, 2004 |
2003–2004 |
#1 |
25.27[55] |
| 5 |
Thursday 9:00 pm/8c |
September 23, 2004 (2004-09-23) |
May 19, 2005 |
2004–2005 |
#2 |
26.26[56] |
| 6 |
Thursday 9:00 pm/8c |
September 22, 2005 (2005-09-22) |
May 18, 2006 |
2005–2006 |
#3 |
24.86[57] |
| 7 |
Thursday 9:00 pm/8c |
September 21, 2006 (2006-09-21) |
May 17, 2007 |
2006–2007 |
#5 |
20.00[58] |
| 8 |
Thursday 9:00 pm/8c |
September 27, 2007 (2007-09-27) |
May 15, 2008 |
2007–2008 |
#9 |
16.62[59] |
| 9 |
Thursday 9:00 pm/8c |
October 9, 2008 (2008-10-09) |
May 14, 2009 |
2008–2009 |
#4 |
19.03[60] |
| 10 |
Thursday 9:00 pm/8c |
September 24, 2009 (2009-09-24) |
Spring 2010 |
2009–2010 |
#7 |
15.74 (to date) |
DVR
ratings
UK
ratings
CSI airs new episodes on UK terrestrial channel
FIVE on
Tuesday nights at 21:00; viewership is usually around 3 million.
Repeats are shown on
Five
USA throughout the week, with viewing figures less than the
million mark. Episodes are also shown on the channel
Living. CSI is generally top on the network
rank. But these ratings on Five barely reach the 2 main UK
channels,
BBC
1 &
ITV
1, when their ratings of number 1 are usually around 8-13
million viewers.
Awards
and nominations
Awards
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Episodic TV Series
– 2006
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Episodic TV Series
– 2005
- Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series –
2007
- Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-camera Series –
2006
- Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series – 2003
- Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) – 2002
- Best Network Television Series – 2004
- Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series – 2004
Nominations
- Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic
Score) – 2007
- Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries Or
Special – 2007
- Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic) – 2007
- Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series –
2007
- Outstanding Single-camera Sound Mixing For A Series – 2006
- Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series – 2006
- Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series – 2005: Quentin
Tarantino
- Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic) – 2005
- Outstanding Single-camera Sound Mixing For A Series – 2005
- Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series – 2005
- Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series –
2004
- Outstanding Drama Series – 2004
- Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) – 2004
- Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series – 2004
- Outstanding Drama Series – 2003
- Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series – 2003: Marg
Helgenberger
- Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic) – 2003
- Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Prosthetic) – 2003
- Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series – 2003
- Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series –
2002
- Outstanding Drama Series – 2002
- Outstanding Makeup For A Series (Prosthetic) – 2002
- Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series – 2002
- Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series – 2002
- Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series –
2001
- Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series – 2001: Marg
Helgenberger
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Series –
2001
- Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series – 2001
DVD
releases
Region 1
DVD releases
| # |
DVD Name |
Episodes |
Release Date |
| 1 |
The Complete First Season |
23 |
March 25, 2003 (2003-03-25) |
| 2 |
The Complete Second Season |
September 2, 2003 (2003-09-02) |
| 3 |
The Complete Third Season |
March 30, 2004 (2004-03-30) |
| 4 |
The Complete Fourth Season |
October 12, 2004 (2004-10-12) |
| 5 |
The Complete Fifth Season |
25 |
November 29, 2005 (2005-11-29) |
| 6 |
The Complete Sixth Season |
24 |
November 14, 2006 (2006-11-14) |
| 7 |
The Complete Seventh Season |
November 20, 2007 (2007-11-20) |
| 8 |
The Complete Eighth Season |
17 |
October 14, 2008 (2008-10-14) |
| 9 |
The Complete Ninth Season |
24 |
September 1, 2009 (2009-09-01) |
| 10 |
The Complete Tenth Season |
25 |
Fall 2010 |
The US box sets are released by
CBS
DVD (distributed by
Paramount), while the Canadian box sets are
distributed by
Alliance Atlantis. The first season
DVD release differs from all subsequent seasons in that it is
available only in 1.33:1 or 4:3
full frame, rather than the subsequent
aspect ratio of
1.78:1 or 16:9
widescreen, which is the
HDTV standard aspect
ratio.
The first season is also the only DVD release of the series not
to feature
Dolby
Digital 5.1 surround audio, instead offering Dolby Digital
stereo sound.
Region
2/4 DVD releases
Regions 2 and 4 DVD releases have followed a pattern whereby
each season is progressively released in two parts (each of 11 or
12 episodes [with the exception of Season 8, in which part 1
contained 8 episodes and the Without a Trace crossover and
part 2 contained the remaining 9 episodes] with special features
split up) before finally being sold as a single box set. After
having been almost 12 months behind region 2 releases after
the first four series, region 4 releases are speeding up, with
distributors simply releasing season five as a complete box
set.
Region 2
Region 2 Releases The Boxsets in 2 Halves, Starting With Season
1 up until Season 8. As Of Season 9 The UK Will Release The DVD's
In Complete Season Boxsets.
| DVD Name |
Release dates |
| Full season |
Part 1 |
Part 2 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 1 |
December 8, 2003 |
July 1, 2002 |
October 7, 2002 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 |
March 15, 2004 |
July 28, 2003 |
October 6, 2003 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 3 |
July 26, 2004 |
April 5, 2004 |
July 5, 2004 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Seasons 1–3 |
August 23, 2004 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 4 |
November 21, 2005 |
May 9, 2005 |
July 11, 2005 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Seasons 1–4 |
December 12, 2005 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 5 |
June 26, 2006 |
April 24, 2006 |
June 14, 2006 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Seasons 1–5 |
October 2, 2006 |
| CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation Grave Danger – Tarantino Episodes |
October 10, 2005 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 6 |
June 4, 2007 |
February 26, 2007 |
June 4, 2007 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 |
February 25, 2008 |
September 3, 2007 |
February 25, 2008 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 |
February 16, 2009 |
September 22, 2008 |
February 16, 2009 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9 |
March 1, 2010 |
Region 4
| DVD Name |
Release dates |
| Full season |
Part 1 |
Part 2 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 1 |
November 27, 2003 |
October 21, 2002 |
April 9, 2003 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 2 |
October 28, 2004 |
October 27, 2003 |
March 30, 2004 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 3 |
October 4, 2005 |
March 18, 2005 |
September 13, 2005 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 4 |
November 8, 2006 |
May 12, 2006 |
August 17, 2006 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 5 |
January 24, 2007 |
Not released |
Not released |
| CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation Grave Danger – Tarantino Episodes |
June 6, 2007 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 6 |
December 5, 2007 |
Not released |
Not released |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 7 |
December 3, 2008 |
Not released |
Not released |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 8 |
July 15, 2009 |
Not released |
Not released |
Blu-ray
Releases
Season 9 was released on September 1, 2009. Like the Season 1
Blu-Ray release, it features a 16:9 widescreen transfer with DTS-HD
Master Audio 7.1 surround sound. Extras include commentaries,
featurettes and BD-Live functionality.
[62]Other
Releases
The
CSI franchise has also been released as a
series of mobile games. In Fall 2007,
CBS teamed up with game developer
Gameloft to bring
CSI to mobile phones. The first of the series to be
published was
CSI: Miami. The game features actual cast
members such as
Horatio Caine,
Alexx Woods and
Calleigh
Duquesne who are trying to solve a murder in South Beach with
the player's assistance.
[63] The
game is also available for download on various
iPod devices.
[64]In spring 2008,
Gameloft and
CBS released "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - The
Mobile Game" which is based on the original series in Las Vegas,
NV. This game introduces the unique ability to receive calls during
the game to provide tips and clues about crime scenes and evidence.
As for the storyline, the game developers collaborated with
Anthony E.
Zuiker (the series creator) to ensure that the plot and
dialogue were aligned with the show's style.
[65]Books
- True Stories of CSI: The Real Crimes Behind the
Best Episodes of the Popular TV Show (published
08/09) – Katherine Ramsland follows the
evidence and revisits some of the most absorbing episodes of the
phenomenally popular C.S.I. television franchise, and explores the
real-life crimes that inspired them. She also looks into the
authenticity of the forensic investigations recreated for the
dramatizations, and the painstaking real-life forensic process
employed in every one of the actual cases—from notorious
mass-murderer Richard Speck, to the massacre of
Buddhist monks in an Arizona Temple, to a baffling case of apparent
spontaneous combustion.
- In September 2009, Tokyopop releashed a manga version of CSI
written by Sekou Hamilton and drawn by Steven Cummings. It deals
around five teenage kids working at the Las Vegas Crime Lab as
interns as they try to solve a murder case of a student at their
high school which leads to a shocking discovery. Grissom and
Cathrine are seen now and then as well as some of the other CSI
characters. In typical manga form the graphic novel is full of
classic manga icons such as sweatdrops and anger marks though does
not over-do it.
Video
Games
Online
sales
| Country |
Store |
Available Season |
Philippines |
iTunes
Store |
6, 7, 8 and 9 (after episode airs on TV) |
 United
States |
Amazon Unbox |
6, 7 and 8 |
| United
States |
Xbox Live |
6 and 7 (approximately one week after airing—no longer
offered) |
| United
States |
NetFlix |
7, 8 and 9 (streaming with Instant play for Netflix
customers) |
 United
Kingdom |
Demand Five |
6, 7, 8 and 9 (immediately after airing) |
Germany |
RTLnow |
6, 7, 8 and 9 (one week before airing) |
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