<P> The Stand is a 1994 American television horror miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King . King also wrote the teleplay and has a minor role in the series . It was directed by Mick Garris and stars Gary Sinise, Miguel Ferrer, Rob Lowe, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo, Molly Ringwald, Corin Nemec, Adam Storke, Ray Walston, and Matt Frewer . It originally aired on ABC starting on May 8, 1994 . </P> <P> On June 13, at a top - secret government laboratory in rural California, a weaponized version of influenza is accidentally released . A guard escapes the lab and begins traveling across the country to his family home in East Texas, unintentionally spreading the virus along the way . On June 17th, he crashes his car into a gas station in the town of Arnette, where Stu Redman (Gary Sinise) and some friends have gathered . As the man lays dying, he warns Redman that he had been pursued by a "Dark Man ." The next day, the U.S. military arrives to quarantine the town . </P> <P> The townspeople are taken to a CDC facility in Vermont . All but Stu succumb to the superflu, which kills 99.4% of the world's population in two weeks . The scattered survivors include would - be rock star Larry Underwood (Adam Storke); deaf mute Nick Andros (Rob Lowe); Frannie Goldsmith (Molly Ringwald) and her unborn child from Jesse, her boyfriend prior to the plague; her teenaged neighbor Harold Lauder (Corin Nemec); imprisoned criminal Lloyd Henreid (Miguel Ferrer); and "Trashcan Man" (Matt Frewer), a mentally ill arsonist and scavenger . The survivors soon begin having visions, either from kindly Mother Abagail (Ruby Dee) or from the demonic Randall Flagg (Jamey Sheridan). The two sets of survivors are instructed in dreams to either travel to Nebraska to meet Abagail, or to Las Vegas to join Flagg . </P> <P> As their journeys begin, Lloyd is freed from prison by Flagg in exchange for becoming his second in command . Trashcan Man, a pyromaniac, destroys fuel tanks across the Midwest and is directed to Las Vegas . Larry escapes New York City with a mysterious woman named Nadine Cross (Laura San Giacomo). Despite their mutual attraction, Nadine is unable to consummate a relationship with Larry because of her visions of Flagg, who commands her to join him; she leaves Larry to travel on her own . After escaping the CDC facility, Stu gathers a group of survivors, including Frannie, Harold, and Glen Bateman (Ray Walston). They are later joined by various other immune survivors . </P>

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