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The Tommyknockers

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  The Tommyknockers "Late last night, and the night before Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers knocking on my door I want to go out, don't know if I can 'Cause I'm so afraid of the Tommyknocker man" The Tommyknockers is a television miniseries, aired on ABC, in May of 1993, and is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.  The film and the book are set in the small town of Haven Maine, though due to the fact that the film had to be filmed in the winter for its release date, and the book is set in the summer, they were forced to find a location that looked somewhat similar to Maine in the southern hemisphere, and chose to film in New Zealand, which because filming in New Zealand was still kind of a new thing, unlike today, there were a lot of expensive difficulties involved in the filming of the show.  The miniseries was directed by John Power, with a screenplay written by Lawrence D Cohen, and was approved by Stephen King.  The film starred Jimmy Smits as Jim Gar