This article uses these two adaptations of The Stand to examine the similarities and differences between two eras of US ‘quality’ television. The Stand was adapted to television once again in 2020, this time as a limited series (nine episodes) for subscription video on demand (SVOD) service Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access). It was first adapted into a four-part broadcast television miniseries event for broadcast network ABC in 1994. Like so much of King’s writing, it has been adapted to screen. Two camps of survivors emerge, one under the benevolent direction of an old woman named Mother Abigail, and the other lorded over by a devilish Tyrant named Randall Flagg. The Stand tells a quasi-religious story of good and evil after the USA is devastated by a potent strain of influenza known as ‘Captain Trips’. Released in 1978 and updated in 1990, the post-apocalyptic epic fantasy novel The Stand remains one of author Stephen King’s most significant works.
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