Children of Dune

Original title : Episode 1
First Aired : 16.03.2003 (USA)
Director : Greg Yaitanes
Writing credits : John Harrison, Frank Herbert
Cast : Marek Vasut (Tyekanik), Mariano Titanti (Young Farad'd), Terrence Stone (Edric (voice)), Klára Issová (Lichna), Jakob Schwarz (Otheym), David Backovsky (Young Javid), Gee Williams (Bijaz), Ivo Novák (Farok), Karel Dobrý (Korba), Zuzana Geislerová (Reverend Mother , Gaius Helen Mohiam), Martin McDougall (Scytale)

The Story : This episode starts 12 years after the end of the first Dune miniseries. Duke Paul Atreides has become the emperor of the known universe. However, after an attack he is blinded but he manages to use his visions of the future to 'see'.His concubine, Chani, has given him twins, Leto II and Ghanima. When his children are attacked, Paul is able to use Leto's eyes to see and avert the attack, but in the process loses his visions and is actually blind now. In accordance with Fremen custom, he walks into the desert and leaves his children in the care of his sister, Alia.

Original title : Episode 2
First Aired : 17.03.2003 (USA)
Director : Greg Yaitanes
Writing credits : Frank Herbert, John Harrison
Cast : Rik Young (Javid), Marek Vasut (Tyekanik)

The Story : The Lady Jessica returns to Arrakis, otherwise known as Dune, to visit her grandchildren Leto II and Ghanima. Alia, Paul's younger sister, was born aware of her ancestral memories and because of this the Bene Gesserit order, considers her an abomination.Lady Jessica, Alia's mother, has to take refuge when one particular ancestor begins to control Alia.Despite the fact that Paul wed Irulan Corrino, the Corrino family intends to reclaim the imperial throne and plans an attack on Leto and Ghanima. Leto fakes his own death and Ghanima uses a deep trance to forget about her and Leto's plan.

Original title : Episode 3
First Aired : 18.03.2003 (USA)
Director : Greg Yaitanes
Writing credits : Frank Herbert, John Harrison
Cast :

The Story : As Alia becomes totally posessed she also has to deal with rebel Fremen.Ghanima, who survived the attack on her planned by House Corrino, is engaged to Farad'n Corrino and a marriage is planned for the near future.Then, unexpectedly, Leto II returns out of the desert. Everyone believed he was dead, but it was just a staged death. While in the desert his body has absorbed a few sandtrout, which means that, in time, he could turn into a sandworm and live for hundreds of years.Alia resists posession by the baron while Irulan declines Jessica's offer to return with her to Caladan, saying that she will be needed by the children.