Red Shoe Diaries

Here’s your delicious A-list of Red Shoe Diaries. It is an erotic and drama series that aired on the American cable television network Showtime from 1992 to 1997 and distributed by Playboy Entertainment overseas.

Most episodes were directed by either Zalman King, Rafael Eisenman or both. There are a total of 6 seasons in this drama series including Safe Sex, Talk to Me Baby, Naked in the Moonlight, Girl on a Bike, Love at First Sight and Swimming Naked, etc.

The series led to several movies, including one television movie released in 1992. Nineteen other direct to video Red Shoe movies were also released throughout and after the series run. From time to time, episodes can also be viewed on Showtime, on hulu.com, or for sale on DVD.

Red Shoe Diaries

The Red Shoe episodes were as of May 2008, running on the Canadian television channel Bravo!, early Saturday morning.

• Drama description. “Red Shoe Diaries” is one of Showtime’s most successful and longest running original series. Created by Zalman King, the world’s most successful creator of sensual/romantic drama (“9 ½ Weeks, “Wild Orchid,” “Two Moon Junction”), the 66 episodes have appealed to a woman’s audience as much as they have to men. Each episode stars David Duchovny who is stunned when his beloved fiancé inexplicably commits suicide just before their marriage. He discovers her secret diary that exposes parts of her life that he never knew existed. In an effort to try and understand what could have driven her to this desperate act, he places an ad in the newspaper asking women to send him their own diaries, to reveal their own most intimate secrets. Each episode tells one of those stories and features young actors at the beginnings of their careers who have gone on to become recognizable stars in both movies and television. The tested episodes always open with a quick montage of a newspaper personals section ad under “Red shoes” seeking women to mail in their personal diaries with stories of love, passion and/or betrayal.
• Synopsis of Red Shoe. The presenter and host Jake Winters (David Duchovny) is then shown walking on desolate train tracks with his dog Stella. He begins reading a letter from his post office box out loud that begins with “Dear Red Shoes…” He first took out the ad after the suicide of his fiancée, and his subsequent confrontation of the man with whom she was having an affair, a construction worker who gave her a pair of red high heels, inspiring both the ad and the show’s title. He placed the ad in the newspaper in an effort to understand why it happened and learn his fiancée’s reasons for killing herself through the stories of women in similar situations. The storylines usually have a thin plot revolving around some intrigue and the sexual awakening of a girl or woman who often also narrates. Well photographed, artful, sensuous love scenes with nudity as well as sultry, moody music are characteristic for most episodes. There is no story arc or characters connecting the different stories other than Jake Winters introducing each episode.
• A total of 6 seasons. Season 1: Safe Sex, Double Dare, You Have the Right to Remain Silent, Talk to Me Baby, The Doctor Is In. Season 2: Auto Erotica, Just Like That, Accidents Happen aka The Fling, Another Woman’s Lipstick, The Bounty Hunter, Night of Abandon, Weekend Pass, Double or Nothing, Naked in the Moonlight, Midnight Bells, How I Met My Husband, Hotline, Jake’s Story, The Gardner. Season 3: Runway, Borders of Salt, Truth or Dare, Burning Up, Liar’s Tale, In the Blink of an Eye, The Psychiatrist, Four on the Floor, The Game, Some Things Never Chang, Like Father Like Son, Gina, Girl on a Bike, You Make Me Want to Wear Dresses. Season 4: The Cake, Written Word, The Last Motel, Juarez, Alphabet Girl, Jump, Tears, The Art of Loneliness, Luscious Lola, Love at First Sight, Billy Bar, Hard Labor, Caged Bird, Mercy, The Ex, Slow Train. Season 5: Divorce, Divorce, The Forbidden Zone, Emily’s Dance, Carried Away, Kidnap, Jealousy, The Boxer, Farmer’s Daughter, Strip Poker, Dime a Dance, Cowboy, Cowboy, Details, Banished. Season 6: As She Wishes, Swimming Naked, Weightless, All Of Me, The Teacher, Temple of Flesh, The Picnic, Laundrymat.

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Red Shoe Diaries executive producers are Zalman King, Patricia Louisianna Knop, David Saunders, and producers are Yoram Barzilai, Lori Bridwell, Gaspard de Chavagnac, David Dwiggins, Anatoly Fradis, Avram “Butch” Kaplan, Chloe King, Jordan Leibert, Aladdin Pojhan and Jeff Young.

Starring David Duchovny, Anthony Addabbo, Audie England, Arnold Vosloo, Michael Woods, Matt LeBlanc, Ely Pouget, Nick Chinlund, Alexandra Tydings, Sheryl Lee, Jennifer Burton, Claire Stansfield, Kate Jackson and Richard Tyson.

Broadcast on original channel, Showtime and original run on June 27, 1992 to June 1, 1997 with a running time of 30 minutes.

It was written by Joëlle Bentolila, Henry Cobbold, Zalman King, Elise D’Haene, Melanie Finn, Chloe King, Patricia Louisianna Knop, Kathy MacQuarrie, Ed Silverstein and Shane Stanley.

It was directed by Philippe Angers, Peter Care, Daniel Duchovny, Rafael Eisenman, Stephen Halbert, Michael Karbelnikoff, Zalman King, Dominique Othenin-Girard, Tibor Takács and David Womark.

Red Shoe Diaries