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Oz: Season 03
Running Time: 60 min.
Produced By: / Rysher Entertainment
Release By: HBO

Idealistic, "New Age" unit manager Tim McManus (Terry Kinney) persists in trying to mold "Emerald City" (aka Cell Block 5 of Oswald State Correctional Facility -- formerly Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary) into a model "prison within a prison" as Oz begins its third season. Part of McManus' pie-in-the-sky plan includes the hiring of his old friend Sean Murphy (Robert Clohessy) as a guard. Alas, Murphy's efforts to redirect the convicts' energies and hostilities into good, clean athletics are compromised when one inmate renders another inmate brain-dead in a boxing match. No one is more delighted at Tim McManus' frustration than the state's ambitious governor James Devlin (Zeljko Ivanek), who as part of his platform to strip the cons of all perks and privileges has ruthlessly slashed the prison's budget to the bone. In addition to Sean Murphy, Officer Claire Howell (Kristin Rhode) joins the guard unit, immediately making enemies of everyone within the sound of her voice. Not only does Howell force the cons into having sex with her to lighten up punishment duty, but she also ends up suing McManus for sexual harassment. Sensing the opportunity to establish themselves as top dogs at Emerald City block leaders, convicts Adebisi (Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje) and Wangler (J.D. Williams) likewise gang up on McManus, taking their complaints to the press. Elsewhere, the death sentence of Shirley Bellinger (Kathryn Erbe) is commuted to life without parole when it turns out she is pregnant; Warden Glynn (Ernie Hudson) hires Off. Clayton Hughes (Seth Gilliam), the son of one of Oz's former guards, only to discover that Hughes is a psycho on a revenge kick; Beecher (Lee Tergesen) hatches an elaborate revenge scheme of his own; and charismatic Muslim leader Said (Eamonn Walker) is among those thrown into solitary after a bitter racial showdown. The season ends with a not-so-merry Christmas for all, and to all a bad night. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Oz: Season 03 Cast and Crew:

Ernie Hudson - (Warden Leo Glynn)

Terry Kinney - (Tim McManus)

Eamonn Walker - (Kareem Said)

Harold Perrineau, Jr. - (Augustus Hill)

Kirk Acevedo - (Miguel Alvarez)

J.K. Simmons - (Vern Schillinger)

Lee Tergesen - (Tobias Beecher)

George Morfogen - (Bob Rebadow)

muMs - (Poet)

Granville Adams - (Zahir Arif)

Dean Winters - (Ryan O'Reily)

Rita Moreno - (Sister Peter Marie Reimondo)

B.D. Wong - (Father Ray Mukada)

Lauren Vélez - (Dr. Gloria Nathan)

Zeljko Ivanek - (Governor James Devlin)

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje - (Simon Adebisi)

J.D. Williams - (Kenny Wangler)

Edie Falco - (Off. Diane Wittlesey)

Rick Fox - (Jackson Vayhue, pro basketball player)

Tom Mardirosian - (Agamemnon Busmalis, aka "The Mole")

Scott William Winters - (Cyril O'Reily)

Kathryn Erbe - (Shirley Bellinger)

Christopher Meloni - (Chris Keller)

Luis Guzman - (Raoul Hernandez)

Mark Margolis - (Antonio Nappa)

Robert Clohessy - (Off. Sean Murphy)

Kristin Rohde - (Off. Claire Howell)

Charles Busch - (Nat Ginsberg)

Seth Gilliam - (Off. Clayton Hughes)

Philip Casnoff - (Nikolai Stanislofsky)

Production Credits:
Tom Fontana (Executive Producer)
Tom Fontana (Screenwriter)


Oz: Season 03 Episodes:
Oz: The Truth and Nothing But
Oz: Napoleon's Boney Parts
Oz: Legs
Oz: Cruel and Unusual Punishments
Oz: Out of Time
Oz: Secret Identities
Oz: U.S. Male
Oz: Unnatural Disasters

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