Spartacus: Blood and Sand Season 1 (TV Series)

Spartacus: Blood and Sand (TV Series) 

Season 1

Spartacus: Blood and Sand is the Season 1 of American Spartacus (TV Series), which premiered on Starz on January 22, 2010. The Spartacus: Blood and Sand TV Series become inspired by using the historical discern of Spartacus (performed by Andy Whitfield), a Thracian gladiator who from 73 BC to 71 BC led a major slave rebellion against the Roman Republic. Government producers Robert Tapert and Steven S. DeKnight targeted on structuring the activities of Spartacus' difficult to understand early life leading as much as the start of ancient facts.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand Season 1 Starz Network produced 6 episodes in this prequel tv series to continued Spartacus: Gods of the Arena in the season 1. Starz Network had to take Spartacus Season 1 cast, Andy Whitfield, John Hannah, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah, Viva Bianca, Erin Cummings, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Jai Courtney, Nick E. Tarabay, Katrina Law, Lucy Lawless take on the role of Spartacus in the second season titled Spartacus: Vengeance. On June 4, 2012, Starz Network announced the third and final season, are titled Spartacus: War of the Damned is the last Season.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand Summary:-

The inspiration behind this Spartacus: Blood and Sand (TV Series) is the Thracian Gladiator Spartacus, who led a slave revolt against the Roman Republic. The Thracians have been persuaded by way of Claudius Glaber to function auxiliaries within the Roman legions in a marketing campaign against the Getae, who had regularly plundered Thracian lands. However after Glaber reneges on the deal and switches his attentions from the Getae to assault Mithridates in Asia Minor, the Thracians experience betrayed and mutiny. Captured by means of Glaber, Spartacus is condemned to death as a Gladiator, at the same time as his wife Sura is condemned to slavery. 

Spartacus, however, proves to be an impressive gladiator and defeats the four gladiators tasked with executing him. He turns into a favorite of the gang, main Senator Albinius to go back and forth his demise sentence to the existence of slavery. Spartacus is bought by means of Batiatus for gladiator schooling, who guarantees to assist him to find Sura if he proves himself in education.

Information:-

•  Original Network:-  Starz

•  Original Run:- January 22 – April 16, 2010

•  Number of Episodes:- 13

•  Creator:-  Steven S. DeKnight

•  Genre:-  Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Romance

Seasons:- 1 , 2 , 3 , 

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Spartacus: Blood and Sand Episodes:-

Episode 1:- The Red Serpent

In Spartacus: Blood and Sand (TV Series) ultimate, in 73 BC, a nameless Thracian warrior and his fellow combatants align themselves with legate Gaius Claudius Glaber and Rome to shield their hometown. But disenchantment with the Romans soon units in whilst their allies' strategies depart their native land unprotected from Getae marauders. The warrior leads a rebellion of the auxiliary troops against the Roman officials, then deserts to return to his village and his wife. He arrives as the Getae assault and reunites along with his spouse, who tells him that she had a vision of him "falling before a purple serpent." He and his wife manipulate to escape, most effective to be captured with the aid of Glaber day after today. The warrior's spouse, Sura, is pressured into slavery and he and the alternative deserters are shipped to the arena in Capua, to be put to death publicly via gladiators, whereupon he proves his worth with the aid of defeating all four opponents and is given a new call, Spartacus.

Aired Date:- January 22, 2010

Episode 2:- Sacramentum Gladiatorum

The newly enslaved Thracian warrior Spartacus enters the Ludus of Lentulus Batiatus to get hold of gladiator education and subject. He soon manages to make an enemy of the undefeated Gallic champion of Capua, Crixus, and the eye of whip-wielding taskmaster Doctore who uses harsh methods to check the brand new beginners. He additionally meets Varro, a Roman gladiator with the aid of financial disaster, who will become his buddy. The crafty but coins-strapped Batiatus fails to impress Glaber and so makes Spartacus, his new slave, an offer: if he cooperates and trains as a prize give us to the gladiator, he will use his electricity to assist find his wife. Therefore Spartacus trains to stand the test to be a gladiator and throws Crixus from the ground proper before being killed. Afterward, the successful Spartacus swears the Sacramentum of the gladiator brotherhood.

Aired Date:- January 29, 2010

Episode 3:- Legends

The unbeaten champion of Capua, within the primus or very last warfare. No matter his wife Lucretia's objections, Batiatus reminds her that Spartacus' bravery and former exploits have "struck a chord with the public's interest". Meanwhile, Lucretia schemes to win want with the wife of Gaius Claudius Glaber, the cunning and devious Ilithyia. At a pre-fight dinner party, she interests her inside the desirous Crixus, even though he's secretly enamored of Naevia, one of the domestic slaves. At the Vulcanalia, Spartacus embarrasses his proprietors publicly, each through starting to combat too early, and by way of surrendering instead of loss of life.

Aired Date:- February 5, 2010

Episode 4:- The Thing in the Pit

Spartacus' shame at surrendering to Crixus inside the ground area leads Batiatus to punish him by using relegating the Thracian to combat within the "pits of the underworld," a hellish, vicious subterranean warfare area in which the crowds are frenzied and something is going. While Naevia apparently rejects Crixus' necklace present, he initially misunderstands the cause for her refusal and continues his secretive sexual dating with Batiatus' spouse. In the meantime, the drought and Batiatus' cash issues preserve, and Lucretia ends up selling her new emerald necklace at a loss within the markets. Spartacus someway survives the pits, and no matter dropping Batiatus' winnings, he regains the favor of his dominus after assisting to foil an assassination try by slaves and is restored again to gladiator reputation.

Aired Date:- February 12, 2010

Episode 5:- Shadow Games

Because the summertime warmness keeps, enemies Spartacus and Crixus are commanded to tackle an unbeaten champion named Theokoles, the "shadow of death". Doctore, being the only warrior to have fought Theokoles and lived, is charged with getting ready the 2 men for the drought-breaking primus, however, he receives little pleasure from both men. Spartacus attempts to locate not unusual floor with his arch-enemy however Crixus stays stalwartly opposed to sharing any of the respect. In the meantime, after the go-to of a fertility priestess, Lucretia is denied a chance to conceive as Crixus, distracted by Naevia, declines her advances. In the meantime, the wounded Batiatus keeps his own investigations into the strive on his life and exacts blood vengeance on Ovidius, the cousin of Justice of the Peace Calavius, and his own family. Within the arena, Theokoles is subsequently bested via Spartacus, and the drought breaks once Theokoles dies, earning Spartacus the title of "bringer of rain". But, Crixus is seriously wounded in the come across and is taken away to recover.

Aired Date:- February 19, 2010

Episode 6:- Delicate Things

As the rains fall, each Barca and Spartacus envision a destiny faraway from the Ludus. Barca expects to buy his and Pietros' freedom, even as Spartacus dreams of escaping along with his enslaved wife, Sura. Crixus, barely alive after the near-deadly fight with Theokoles, is now in a drugged sleep. As a part of his promoting to the new Capuan champion, Spartacus tries on new armor, and at some point in a personal lesson with the magistrate's son, Numerius, he steals a dagger for the getaway. Spartacus additionally makes use of a number of his winnings to buy wine and girls for the gladiators, to similarly aid the breakout plan. Meanwhile, Batiatus is stricken by using false news that Ovidius' son nevertheless lives, and Ashur uses the danger to have Barca killed to keep away from repaying the winnings owed to him. In the end, Batiatus maintains his word of retrieving Sura, but her reunion with Spartacus is brief lived as she fast dies from wounds sustained in a "bandit attack".

Aired Date:- February 26, 2010

Episode 7:- Great and Unfortunate Things

Spartacus' international is modified with the aid of the demise of his spouse and he unearths himself at a crossroads. In the absence of Barca, Pietros struggles without a protector and is not able to cope with the brutal attentions of Gnaeus. Meanwhile, Varro is visited by using his spouse and son and gets unwelcome news that she too, without her protector, has additionally been raped. Amidst the deceit of the household, Doctore seeks the truth at the back of Barca's unexpected departure from the Ludus. Pietros, now without hope, hang himself – and Spartacus receives even by means of throwing Gnaeus off the cliff. Spartacus, once more at odds together with his dominus, is pressured to pay off the loss from his winnings. After returning the stolen dagger, he makes a decision to awareness of his new gladiatorial existence. In the area at the same time as dressed as a Roman consul, he fights six criminals dressed as Thracians, and trusting himself to his wife's gods, he starts to purge his past.

Aired Date:- March 12, 2010

Episode 8:- Mark of the Brotherhood

Spartacus keeps his reign because the champion of Capua at rival Solonius' rate, at the same time as Crixus struggles to recover and to go back to education. After comments made through Ashur, Batiatus begins to explore the opportunity of promoting the Gaul to a rival Ludus in Damascus. In the meantime, Batiatus acquires six new recruits for 100 denarii, and Ilithyia chooses to sponsor one, a Gaul named Segovax, with a purpose to both defy her husband and galvanize her socialite pals. After a mild to her husband's honor by using Spartacus at a private birthday celebration, she implies guarantees of freedom to the recruit in alternate for his assist. Crixus, after operating to regain Lucretia's sexual favor, interrupts Segovax's attempt to strangle Spartacus. Crixus and Spartacus, both wounded in the fight, start to renew a feeling of brotherhood with every other. Ilithyia, on a return, goes to, arrives in time to each witness her sponsored slave's crucifixion and denies any knowledge of the motives behind the assault.

Aired Date:- March 19, 2010

Episode 9:- Whore

Licinia, a rich noblewoman and cousin of senator Marcus Crassus, visits from Rome and asks Lucretia to "taste the wares of Ludus" with Spartacus. Lucretia, mindful that Spartacus had now not been with a female due to the fact that his seize, instructs a girl slave named Mira to prepare him for his come across, however, Spartacus rejects her. Ilithyia, suspecting her rich pal's dreams, also comes to a decision on a masked sexual encounter. Jealously enraged by her preference of Crixus (who has currently resumed schooling), Lucretia units up to trap Ilithyia in bed with Spartacus. Ilithyia, taken aback after it is found out that each supposed to use the scandal against her, all of sudden kills Licinia. In the meantime, somewhere else within the Ludus, Batiatus' plan to kill Solonius is undermined by means of a slighted Ashur, Crixus makes enemies of new German brothers, Varro's wife and son have gone missing, and Naevia steals a shield's key for a bootleg tryst.

Aired Date:- March 26, 2010

Episode 10:- Party Favors

Spartacus and Crixus are set up to fight in an exhibition suit for Numerius' coming off an age birthday party, and Crixus sees a hazard to renew his function. Batiatus, realizing Spartacus' significance to his aims, invitations him to play a board recreation referred to as Latrunculi, but Lucretia jealously disapproves of the 2 guys sharing wine. In the meantime, Naevia has problems with the shield she stole the key from, and dangers all to percentage time with Crixus. On the celebration, a now revived Ilithyia, nonetheless haunted via recollections of the murder, seduces Numerius and has him transfer Spartacus's opponent to Varro. No matter it is an exhibition in shape, Numerius similarly surprises by using now not granting mercy to Varro, forcing Spartacus to reluctantly kill his handiest friend. Later that night, after Batiatus' interest in politics is disregarded by way of Calavius, he vows blood revenge for his fighter's death. Distraught with grief, Spartacus returns to his mobile and vents his rage till Mira is available into consolation him.

Aired Date:- April 2, 2010

Episode 11:- Old Wounds

Spartacus is usually haunted by using the death of his pal and admits to Varro's wife, Aurelia, that he died by way of his sword. On the identical time, Batiatus fakes any other bandit raid and kidnaps Justice of the Peace Calavius, retaining him captive inside the city sewers. In the meantime, a festering wound from the fight with Varro weakens Spartacus, and whilst he recuperates with the assist of the Medicus and Mira, greater visions of the useless hang-out his feverish dreams. Inside the arena, Crixus reclaims a number of his lost glory whilst he is needed inside the primus towards Pompeius' unbeaten champion, Pericles – a fight he narrowly wins. Later, inside the infirmary, Spartacus throttles Aulus, Sura's killer (having observed he had no actual wound as suffered in her attack), and learns that Batiatus ordered her death. Batiatus' scheming involves fruition as he, with the foxy assist of Ashur, is able to correctly entrap Solonius for Calavius' homicide.

Aired Date:- April 9, 2010

Episode 12:- Revelations

In the area, Crixus continues his winning streak, and Spartacus kills the condemned Solonius. Spartacus additionally plots vengeance but is warned through Mira that any assault on the master risks the life of all slaves. While in the end granted an audience with Batiatus, he stays his hand while he notices Varro's widow, Aurelia, now working as a debt-slave. The Ludus later awaits the arrival of Ilithyia and her husband Claudius Glaber, and Batiatus finally ends up being irked by using Glaber's bluntness, however additionally amazed by his wife's being pregnant. Meanwhile, Spartacus fights against Glaber's soldiers, and Ashur's vengeful scheming subsequently exposes the relationship between Crixus and Naevia, main to a scene. Whilst Glaber refuses to sponsor Batiatus, he and Lucretia desperately monitor Ilithyia's hand in Licinia's murder, and Glaber is compelled to acquiesce. Ultimately, Crixus is flogged while Naevia is bought – however earlier than leaving, she tells Doctore the fact behind Barca's "freedom".

Aired Date:- April 16, 2010

Episode 13:- Kill Them All

In front of the Capuan elite assembled on the balcony of the Ludus, Crixus and Spartacus combat to the demise, about organized with the aid of Batiatus for their game. But,  days in advance, Spartacus endeavors to enlist the assist of the relaxation of the gladiators to steer a rise up to smash the house of Batiatus as soon as and for all. Spartacus gains assist from Mira, who is tasked with establishing the gate, but Crixus resists in hopes of reuniting with Naevia. In the meantime, Doctore (whose real name is found out to be Oenomaus) confronts Batiatus about Barca's death and Ashur's hand in it. Later, in the course of the duel, after studying he turned into a given poison to make sure Spartacus' victory, Crixus finally joins the rebellion. Within the melee, Doctore to start with stops Spartacus from killing Batiatus, however, Crixus persuades him to join them simply as Ilithyia escapes by having her husband's squaddies seal the villa doors. Doctore attempts to kill Ashur however he escapes, and Crixus stabs Lucretia, killing their unborn infant. Aurelia knifes Numerius in revenge for Varro, and Spartacus confronts and kills Batiatus. After the bloodbath, he vows to rid Rome of slavery, and all of the slaves break out the Ludus.

Aired Date:- April 23, 2010

Spartacus: Blood and Sand Cast & Crew

Slave

• Andy Whitfield   –   Spartacus 
• Manu Bennett   –   Crixus
• Peter Mensah   –   Oenomaus/Doctore 
• Nick E. Tarabay   –   Ashur
• Jai Courtney   –   Varro 
• Antonio Te Maioha   –   Barca
• Eka Darville   –   Pietros
• Lesley-Ann Brandt   –   Naevia 
• Jessica Grace Smith   –   Diona 
• Erin Cummings   –   Sura 
• Katrina Law   –   Mira
• Dan Feuerriegel   –   Agron 

Roman

• John Hannah   –   Quintus Lentulus Batiatus
• Lucy Lawless   –   Lucretia 
• Viva Bianca   –   Ilithyia
• Craig Parker   –   Gaius Claudius Glaber
• Craig Walsh Wrightson   –   Solonius
• Aaron Jakubenko   –   Sabinus
• Brooke Williams   –   Aurelia