The 48th Street Fellowship (Series)

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3

The Adulthood Trilogy *(non-canon)*

* Season 4
* Season 5
* Season 6

The Third Branch

* Season 7 *(pre-production)*

Also Starring:

* Catherine Baines
* Brian Tomlinson
* Joyceln Tomlinson
* David Cooper
* Brandon Alexis *(season 1)*
* Nick Mayes *(recurring season 1, starring season 2)*
* Reginald McCarthy *(recurring season 1, starring season 2)*
* Lucas Norman *(recurring season 1 and season 2, starring season 3)*
* Layla *(season 3)*
* Anna Yates *(minor season 1, recurring season 2, starring season 3)*

> *"Friendship is always stronger than fear,"*
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***The 48th Street Fellowship*** is a British-American science fiction horror series created by EDStudios. Taking place primarily in the late 80s, it follows a group of young adults, the eponymous 48th Street Fellowship, as they develop supernatural powers and discover a horrific conspiracy involving alternate dimensions, their lifelong battle to keep these evil forces at bay, and their difficult transition into adulthood. It develops from a rather light-hearted to a much darker and complex series as it progresses and deals with the themes of family, companionship, emotion, pain and the loss of childhood innocence and subsequent adulthood. The first three seasons, referred to as the "Childhood Trilogy", generally follow these themes, while the last three seasons, the "Adulthood Trilogy", deal with more experimental, complex material, including time travel and alternate realities. The entire "Adulthood Trilogy" - comprising seasons four, five and six, will be retconned and removed from canon with the release of *Season 7*.

The series takes heavy inspiration from the works of John Carpenter, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg, with a special emphises from the inspiration of Stephan King. Many aspects of the series are named after those from J.R.R Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings*, including the series' name itself.

In August 2019, EDStudios announced a spin-off franchise called *The 48th Stories*, which consists of several spin-off mini-series' following other test subjects of the St. James Institute. These mini-series' feature much darker, grounded material. The first mini-series, *The Jacket of Dreams*, was released in November 2019. The second, *Black Eye*, was released in February 2020. The third, *Threshold Freak*, was released in July 2020.

In December 2019, EDStudios announced a full-length spin-off/prequel series, *Montauk*, to be released in 2020. This series deals with time travel, alternate dimensions and the origins of many of the supernatural phenomena in the original series. The series was cancelled in 2020.

In January 2020, EDStudios confirmed that a third spin-off, *The Worlds Between*, was in development. This new series would tie both the original series and *Montauk* together, and fully quantify the supernatural events that have occurred. The series was cancelled in 2020.

In July 2020, a seventh season of the series was confirmed to be in development; described as a "soft reboot", this season will continue to follow the Fellowship after the summer of 1989, and will take place in a different timeline outside of the original, New 1989 and the New Era known as the Third Branch, retconning the three preceding seasons.

## Premise

Set in the fictional town of Dewberry, Arkansas, in October 1987, the first season focuses on the investigation into a mysterious explosion at a secret government laboratory, which gives a group of friends superpowers as supernatural events occur around the town. This also involves the appearance of a girl with psychokinetic abilities, who helps the group in their investigation to uncover the evil plaguing their home town.

The second season is set a year later in 1988, and involves the near-adult Fellowship as they fight against the source of the evil they faced in *Season 1*.

*Season 3* is set in 1989, when the Fellowship are eighteen and planning their lives once they leave Dewberry. They discover a way to restore their powers and come up against a brand new threat.

*Season 4* is set in 2012, 25 years after the events of *Season 1*, and features the now-adult Fellowship as they return to Dewberry to kill the Dark Lord once and for all.

*Season 5* was confirmed in September 2019 and takes place during Thanksgiving holiday of 1989, several months after *Season 3*, thus returning to the series' late 80s theme. This season also features time travel.

In November 2019, *Season 6* was confirmed for a late 2020 release. This season will take place in 1990, but will also take place in other times and well, including 2145. The story will concern the onset of the Apocalypse, which was first witnessed in *Montauk*. EDStudios also confirmed that this will be the final instalment in the Adulthood Trilogy, as well as be released in two parts.

In July 2020, *Season 7* was confirmed. This next season acts as a "soft reboot" of the series, taking place in a separate timeline known as the Third Branch, in which the time loop does not exist, and therefore ignoring the events of the Adulthood Trilogy *(Season 4*, *Season 5* and *Season 6*).

## Cast

### Starring:

* Max Hamilton
* Ellie
* James DeLare
* MJ Baines
* Brooklyn Yates
* Michael Tomlinson
* Rose McCarthy (recurring season 1, starring season 2)
* Jacob Hamilton (season 4)

### Also Starring:

* Catherine Baines
* Brian Tomlinson
* Joyceln Tomlinson
* David Cooper
* Brandon Alexis  (season 1)
* Nick Mayes (recurring season 1, starring season 2)
* Reginald McCarthy (recurring season 1, starring season 2)
* Lucas Norman (recurring season 1 and season 2, starring season 3)
* Layla Domino
* Anna Yates
* Argyle
* Arthur MacNamera (season 5)
* The Speaker (season 6)

## Seasons

### Season 1

#### Plot

*In the quiet town of Dewberry, Arkansas - a southern American town famous for nothing ever happening - a small group of friends uncover a mystery involving incredible superpowers, a secret government agency, a dark force that could destroy them all and one strange young girl.*

### Season 2

#### Plot

*It's 1988 and the citizens of Dewberry, Arkansas are still reeling from the horrors of the Shadow Goblin and the secrets of the St. James Institute. Michael has been rescued from the Dark Dimension but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived. The superpowered Fellowship returns to the frontlines to protect their home from a threat they do not understand, and will come to a startling revelation that will leave them forever changed.*

### Season 3

#### Plot

*It’s 1989 in Dewberry, Arkansas, and summer's heating up. School's out, there’s a brand new mall in town, and the Fellowship have entered adulthood and planning their lives beyond Dewberry. Romance blossoms and complicates the group’s dynamic, and they'll have to figure out how to grow up without growing apart.*

*Meanwhile, danger looms. When the town’s threatened by enemies old and new, Ellie, Max and their friends are reminded that evil never ends, it evolves. Now they’ll have to band together to survive and remember that their friendship is always stronger than fear.*

### Season 4

#### Plot

*25 years ago, a wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time situation not only changed the lives of our group, but the fate of the world. For three years, our group overcame shifting dynamics and new, impossible threats in order to keep the forces of evil at bay. In doing so they became no longer friends, but their own little family.*

*However, it has now been 23 years since the climatic Battle of Neverland. The Fellowship have moved on, with each of them forging their own future. Nonetheless, they are all bound by a sacred blood oath, an oath that duty bounds them to the protection of their dimension. And with the Enemy showing signs of returning, the Fellowship are called back to their home town to honour their sacred oath and put an end to the darkness once and for all. But despite years of no contact, they will have to pool their strength and determination as they relive their childhoods, and remember that their friendship is the key to their survival.*

*Welcome home to Dewberry, Arkansas.*

### Season 5

#### Plot

*In Summer '89, the Fellowship of Dewberry fought at the Battle of Neverland and swore a blood oath to return to their home to finish what they had started. Twenty-three years later, in 2012, the Fellowship reunited to stop their foe once and for all, discovering the remarkable powers of the young Jacob Hamilton. In the process, the Fellowship reconnected and could finally live their lives in peace.*

*However, time has changed.*

*During the Thanksgiving holiday of 1989, the Fellowship came back together. While this reunion ended peacefully, this time its different: a face from the future has turned up in 1980s Dewberry, bringing words of impending doom. With their future lives ripped away from them, the Fellowship, joined by some new faces, are once again forced to face old and new threats, all for the sake of the future they deserve. In the process, new bonds will be formed and old ones renewed, in a holiday season that will change the Fellowship, and their friendship, forever.*

*Old faces, old times, new threats. Welcome back to 1989.*

### Season 6

#### Plot

*Nick is alive. A long-lost face is far away from home. Meanwhile, back in the states, a new horror is beginning to surface, something long buried, something that connects everything…*

*Something worse.*

## Spin-Offs

The series is accompanied by three spin-offs: *The 48th Stories*, *Montauk* and *The Worlds Between*.

*The 48th Stories* are a collection of mini-series that showcase new characters with immense powers and also shows the origins of several key characters, including David Cooper and Jane Harrington.

*Montauk* is a full-length spin-off set in the summer of 1975, and follows a group of young documentary makers who investigate the Montauk Project.

*The Worlds Between* is an upcoming sequel series set in the New Era, the timeline created in "*Endings and Beginnings*".

## Retcon

In July 2020, it was decided that a seventh season of *The 48th Street Fellowship* would be made and subsequently retcon the entirety of the "Adulthood Trilogy" - *Season 4*, *Season 5* and *Season 6*. This was caused by EDStudios being unhappy with what the series had become, stating that "it had lost its identity". *Season 7* will follow on from *Season 3* and take place in an alternate timeline known as the Third Branch that ignores the events of the "Adulthood Trilogy".

## Trivia

* The series was originally going to be set in upstate New York state but was switched to Arkansas due to the lure of the Ozark setting.

 ***Black Eye*** | "TBA"