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Hell on Wheels
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Hell on Wheels is an American television series created by Tony Gayton and Joe Gayton. Produced for the AMC network, the show falls under the genres of action, adventure, drama, and Western. The series is presented in the English language.
The program premiered on November 6, 2011, and concluded on July 23, 2016. It ran for five seasons, comprising a total of 57 episodes. Each episode has a runtime of 60 minutes. The series has reached a status of ended.
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TV series · TMDB
★ 7.6The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.
- Aired
- 2011–2016
- Seasons
- 5 · 57 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Tony Gayton, Joe Gayton
- Network
- AMC
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Western
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TV series
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- AMC
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Western
- Runtime
- 60 min
- TVMaze rating
- 8.2/10
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television series
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- First Transcontinental Railroad
- Director
- David Von Ancken
- Cast member
- Tzi Ma
- Composer
- Gustavo Santaolalla
- Production company
- Endemol
- Duration
- 44
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- end time
- 2016-07-23
- title
- Hell on Wheels
- number of seasons
- 5
- distributed by
- Lionsgate Canada
- number of episodes
- 57
- start time
- 2011-11-06
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 16:9
- original broadcaster
- AMC
- list of episodes
- list of Hell on Wheels episodes
- characters
- Mary Fields
- set in period
- 1860s
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