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CSI Las Vegas Season 1 |
| CSI Las Vegas Season 1 : |
| The first season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered on CBS on October 6 2000 and ended on May 17 2001. It was rereleased on Blu-ray on May 12 2009. This is the only season of the CSI franchise that was broadcast in the 4:3 aspect ratio. It was however filmed in 16:9 and the widescreen versions of the episodes are present on the Blu-ray release. |
| Episode 1 - [Pilot] |
| Details : Gil Grissom is the supervisor of the graveyard shift of Las Vegas' elite crime scene investigators. Holly Gribbs fresh out of the academy joins the team. Jim Brass is head of the unit and is trying to scare Gribbs from CSI. Catherine Willows mother of a young daughter is the number two CSI on this shift. Warrick Brown and Nick Stokes are competing to solve their 100th case to earn a promotion to CSI 3. Grissom investigates a murder staged to look like a suicide with precious little evidence. Warrick and Catherine take the case of a drunk who breaks into the house where he had been staying and is shot to death. Nick talks to a man who picked up a woman who drugged and robbed him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Chandra West | John Pyper-Ferguson | Royce D. Applegate | Harrison Young | Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders | Susan Gibney | Barbara Tarbuck | Allan Rich | Matt O'Toole | Krista Allen | Madison McReynolds | Aasif Mandvi | Greg Collins | Director : Danny Cannon | Writer : Anthony Zuiker | |
| Air Date : Oct. 06, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Cool Change] |
| Details : A man is killed after winning a fortune and then dumping his girlfriend. So Grissom Nick and newcomer to the CSI team Sara Sidel investigate this one. Holly Gribbs is in the hospital and Warrick is up for suspension for leaving her at the crime scene by herself. Holly later dies in the hospital but Grissom doesn't suspend Warrick. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Chandra West | Paula Francis | Johnny Messner | Judith Scott | Gerald McCullouch | Harrison Young | Ellen Crawford | Director : Michael W. Watkins | Writer : Anthony Zuiker | |
| Air Date : Oct. 13, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Crate 'n Burial] |
| Details : Grissom Nick and Sara search for a kidnapped woman and find more than they expected. Catherine and Warrick investigate the hit and run death of a little girl. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sam Jones | John Beasley | Jolene Blalock | Judith Scott | John Livingston | Madison McReynolds | Writer : Ann Donahue | Director : Danny Cannon | |
| Air Date : Oct. 20, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [Pledging Mr Johnson] |
| Details : Grissom and Catherine investigate when a leg is found severed from a body in a lake. They suspect the husband and boyfriend. Meanwhile Sara and Nick investigate a fraternity pledging gone terribly wrong. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Grant Heslov | Chris Demetral | Mark Famiglietti | Judith Scott | Harrison Young | Writer : Anthony Zuiker | Director : Richard J. Lewis | Writer : Josh Berman | |
| Air Date : Oct. 27, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [Friends And Lovers] |
| Details : Grissom and Warrick take the case of a young man who is found naked in the desert without an obvious cause of death. Sara gets to find out why the body of a woman who was buried last week is in a dumpster. Catherine and Nick investigate the killing of a school's dean by the school's founder. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Elena Lyons | Amy Carlson | Milo Ventimiglia as Bobby Taylor | Judith Scott | Timothy Landfield | Writer : Andrew Lipsitz | Director : Lou Antonio | |
| Air Date : Nov. 03, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [Who Are You] |
| Details : Catherine violates department protocol when she takes the case of a rape accusation against her ex-husband. Warrick and Sara search for the missing bullet that will either exonerate or indict a cop for murder. Grissom and Nick investigate when a female skeleton is found under a house buried in cement. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Pamela Gidley | Michael Delano | Timothy Carhart | Gerald McCullouch | Madison McReynolds | Director : Danny Cannon | Writer : Carol Mendelsohn | Writer : Josh Berman | |
| Air Date : Nov. 10, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [Blood Drops] |
| Details : When a teenager and her sister are the sole survivors of the gruesome murder of four members of one family in a quiet suburban neighborhood Grissom and his entire team investigate the crime. What initially looks like a bizarre cult murder becomes more disturbing when they discover the motive behind the massacre. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dakota Fanning | Marc Vann | Eric Nenninger | Glenn Morshower | Timothy Carhart | Kerr Smith | Paul Raci | Madison McReynolds | Aasif Mandvi | Director : Kenneth Fink | |
| Air Date : Nov. 17, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 8 - [Anonymous] |
| Details : Royce Harmon was murdered 3 months ago in a scene staged to look like a suicide. Now another murder has taken place. Whoever the killer is he has a thorough knowledge of forensics he purposefully has left evidence and has baffled Grissom and his team. Warrick and Nick investigate the case of a man who went over a cliff in his car and is now unconscious. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sheeri Rappaport as Mandy Webster | Tom McCleister | Barbara Tarbuck | Matt O'Toole | Greg Collins | Director : Danny Cannon | Writer : Anthony Zuiker | Writer : Eli Talbert | |
| Air Date : Nov. 24, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [Unfriendly Skies] |
| Details : Grissom and his team investigate the death of a first class passenger on a flight to Las Vegas. The investigators are forced not only to examine the physical evidence but also to interview all of the first class passengers to get their personal accounts of the incident. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : James Avery | Deirdre Quinn | Christina Chambers | Kevin Cooney | Glenn Morshower | Judith Scott | Director : Michael Shapiro | |
| Air Date : Dec. 08, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [Sex Lies And Larvae] |
| Details : Grissom and Sara investigate a bug riddled body found in the desert. Warrick and Catherine look in to the theft of some valuable art. Nick gets to find out why a missing woman's car is found at the bus station. Warrick is suspected of having gambled on duty. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mark Moses | Robert David Hall | Jodi Lyn O'Keefe | Marc Vann | Glenn Morshower | John Getz | Alex Rice | Writer : Ann Donahue | Writer : Josh Berman | Director : Thomas J. Wright | |
| Air Date : Dec. 22, 2000 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 11 - [I-15 Murders] |
| Details : A woman is abducted from a supermarket. In the store Grissom finds a bathroom stall door that claims five women have been killed. Warrick is caught in a casino on duty and is paired with a reluctant Sara. Their case is the apparent murder and robbery of a man who is found be his brother. Nick gets pulled in by his prostitute friend who gets in a scuffle with hotel security. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Travis Fine | Mike Muscat | Julie Ariola | Judith Scott | Krista Allen | Director : Oz Scott | Writer : Carol Mendelsohn | |
| Air Date : Jan. 12, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 12 - [Fahrenheit 932] |
| Details : A man convicted of arson and the murder of his wife and child seeks assistance from Grissom to help prove his innocence. Meanwhile Catherine and Nick investigate the underground world of sports gambling when a teenager is murdered at close range. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robert DoQui | Jarrad Paul | Marc Vann | Fred Koehler | Meta Golding | Chaka Forman | Writer : Jacqueline Zambrano | Director : Danny Cannon | |
| Air Date : Feb. 01, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [Boom] |
| Details : A bomb goes off in an office building killing one and injuring many more. The chief suspect is a security guard who left minutes before the explosion and has knowledge in bomb making. Nick helps his prostitute friend again. After giving in to his passion she is found dead the next morning. Naturally Nick is a suspect and to make it worse Ecklie has the case. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Stephen Lee | Marc Vann | Glenn Morshower | Gregory Itzin | Mark Valley | J.D. Evermore | Timothy Redwine | Krista Allen | Greg Collins | Writer : Ann Donahue | Writer : Carol Mendelsohn | Writer : Josh Berman | Director : Kenneth Fink | |
| Air Date : Feb. 08, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 14 - [To Halve And To Hold] |
| Details : When a single human bone is discovered in the desert Grissom and Catherine must cover miles of territory to find the rest of the skeleton. And Warrick and Sarah trace the death of a male stripper to members of a wedding party who may have celebrated a little too hard the night before the nuptials. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Pamela Gidley | Jan-Michael Vincent | Eileen Ryan | Lisa Dean Ryan | Writer : Ann Donahue | Writer : Andrew Lipsitz | Director : Lou Antonio | |
| Air Date : Feb. 15, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 15 - [Table Stakes] |
| Details : At a swanky fundraiser attended by the sheriff a woman turns up dead in the pool. The owner of the house is away and a young couple is housesitting. Warrick looks into an apparent professional hit in the glass elevator of one of the hotels. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Shawn Christian | Lisa Lackey | Sheeri Rappaport as Mandy Webster | Glenn Morshower | Nichole Hiltz | Lloyd Kino | Director : Danny Cannon | |
| Air Date : Feb. 22, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 16 - [Too Tough To Die] |
| Details : A woman is abducted from a mall parking garage. She's raped beaten shot and left for dead. Sara collects evidence from her and grows attached to her. Nick and Grissom analyze the crime scene. Catherine and Warrick are given boxes of evidence from a shooting that goes to trial in four days. The CSI who had the case has quit and they have to prove what happened. To make Catherine's life more complicated Eddie has taken out a second mortgage without her knowledge. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Andrew Taylor | Timothy Carhart | Gerald McCullouch | Geoff Meed | Geoffrey Rivas | Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine | Madison McReynolds | Director : Richard J. Lewis | Writer : Elizabeth Devine | |
| Air Date : Mar. 01, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 17 - [Face Lift] |
| Details : A body is found in a pottery store in what's apparently a robbery that was interrupted. Fingerprints at the scene seem to match a twenty year old kidnapping case. Sara and Warrick look into a case where a woman burned to death in her home. The woman was burned to an ash but only the chair she was in was burned the rest of the house is fine. Sara believes they have a case of spontaneous combustion. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Pamela Gidley | Reginald VelJohnson | Brigid Brannagh | James Eckhouse | Brian Howe | Joan McMurtrey | Kathy Christopherson | James Wellington | Greg Collins | Director : Lou Antonio | Writer : Josh Berman | |
| Air Date : Mar. 08, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 18 - [35k O b o] |
| Details : A couple leaving a restaurant on their anniversary are killed in the street and their car is stolen. The crime scene is compromised when it rains shortly after the CSIs arrive. It gets more mysterious when the car is found and it becomes a new crime scene. Catherine looks into the collapse of a city owned residence that kills three elderly women. She runs into problems with the city engineer responsible for the building. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Reynaldo Rosales | Eric Stonestreet | Brad Johnson | Director : Roy H. Wagner | Writer : Eli Talbert | |
| Air Date : Mar. 29, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 19 - [Gentle Gentle] |
| Details : The entire team investigate the abduction of the infant child of a well to do family. Suspicion immediately falls on the child's parents. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Brian McNamara | Eric Stonestreet | Reginald VelJohnson | Paula Francis | Lisa Darr | Natalie Zea | Writer : Ann Donahue | Director : Danny Cannon | |
| Air Date : Apr. 12, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 20 - [Sounds Of Silence] |
| Details : Two women run over a deaf man but they didn't kill him- he was already dead. Grissom has to find out who did it and he's not getting help from the deaf man's school. Catherine and Nick investigate an apparent mob hit that leaves five dead in a coffee shop. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Deanne Bray | Samantha Harris | Austin Nichols | Gerald McCullouch | Greg Anderson as Brian Clemonds | Director : Peter Markle | Writer : Andrew Lipsitz | Writer : Josh Berman | |
| Air Date : Apr. 19, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 21 - [Justice Is Served] |
| Details : Grissom Nick and Warrick take the case of a jogger who was killed by a wild animal in the park. It gets complicated when they discover that the jogger had his liver removed after he was killed. Catherine and Sara investigate the death of a six year old girl at shady carnival. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : W. Earl Brown | Lee Arenberg | Albie Selznick | Brad Johnson | Steffani Brass | Kellie Waymire | Alicia Coppola | Wayne Wilderson | Director : Thomas J. Wright | Writer : Jerry Stahl | |
| Air Date : Apr. 26, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 22 - [Evaluation Day] |
| Details : On the day Grissom has to evaluate his team a head is found in the trunk of a car. While Gil and Catherine work on the head Sara and Nick investigate a body in the desert that's missing it's head. Warrick looks into a murder in juvenile detention in which his young friend James is the only witness. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sam Jones | Pamela Gidley | John Beasley | Keri Lynn Pratt | Shonda Farr | Writer : Anthony Zuiker | Director : Kenneth Fink | |
| Air Date : May. 10, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 23 - [Strip Strangler] |
| Details : The team is investigating the ongoing murders by a signature killer. The killer has some knowledge of forensics and has left little evidence behind. With the investigation somewhat stalled the sheriff invites the FBI to join the case. This makes Grissom angry and it only gets worse when Sara offers to bait the killer. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Cerveris | Paula Francis | Todd McKee | Glenn Morshower | Gregg Henry | Rainn Wilson | Randall Slavin | Writer : Ann Donahue | Director : Danny Cannon | |
| Air Date : May. 17, 2001 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |