Queer as Folk (U.S.)
The King of Babylon
TV Flash files “The King of Babylon” as a desk essential hour — Queer as Folk (U.S.) (2000–2005) on Showtime, season 1, episode 20, aired 2001-06-10, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E20: listed hour 20 of 83 in the Queer as Folk (U.S.) guide, hour 20 of 22 in season 1. It aired 2001-06-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Good Grief!” (S01E19). Next is “Running to Stand Still” (S01E21).
Essential hour: “The King of Babylon”. The King of Babylon is a season-one title with biblical swagger — the U.S. adaptation claiming epic scale for a weekly queer soap.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Who will be crowned King of Babylon? An innocent trip to the mall lands Vic in jail; Brian is beaten at his own game.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The King of Babylon sit in the Queer as Folk (U.S.) guide?
S01E20 is listed hour 20 of 83 — hour 20 of 22 in season 1, season 1 episode 20.
When did Queer as Folk (U.S.) S01E20 air?
The King of Babylon aired 2001-06-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need the U.K. Queer as Folk first?
Helpful, not required. The Showtime series Americanizes Russell T Davies's dare into a Pittsburgh community epic with its own five-season life.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Showtime Americanized Russell T Davies's dare into a Pittsburgh community epic: club nights, activism, parenting, and sex basic cable still wouldn't air. Queer as Folk is early-2000s identity television that refused to whisper — still a landmark whenever LGBTQ series get a history lesson.
The first useful permission is volume: friends and lovers in a Pittsburgh gay community dealing with sex, politics, parenting, and the club scene — unapologetic for its time on U.S. television. Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman's Showtime series (2000–2005) Americanized Russell T Davies's U.K. dare into a multi-season community epic. Gale Harold, Hal Sparks, Randy Harrison, Peter Paige, Scott Lowell, and Michelle Clunie hold a circle that basic cable still would not have aired. Club nights, activism, explicit firsts as…
Filed against
- Gale Harold as Brian Kinney
Gale Harold played Brian Kinney on Queer as Folk (U.S.) — Showtime's Pittsburgh community epic, club nights, activism, parenting, sex basic cable still would not air. Russell T Davies's dare Americanized, identity television that refused…
- Hal Sparks as Michael Novotny
Hal Sparks played Michael Novotny on Queer as Folk (U.S.) — Showtime's Pittsburgh community epic, club nights, activism, parenting, sex basic cable still would not air. Early-2000s identity television that refused to whisper. TV Flash…
- Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor
Randy Harrison played Justin Taylor on Queer as Folk (U.S.), Showtime’s 2000s Pittsburgh community epic — club nights, activism, parenting, sex basic cable still wouldn’t air. Russell T Davies’s dare Americanized into identity television…
- Peter Paige as Emmett Honeycutt
Peter Paige played Emmett Honeycutt on Queer as Folk (U.S.), Showtime’s 2000s Americanization of Russell T Davies’s dare — Pittsburgh community epic of club nights, activism, parenting, and sex basic cable still wouldn’t air. Identity…
- Scott Lowell as Ted Schmidt
Scott Lowell's Ted Schmidt kept Queer as Folk (U.S.) looking like Pittsburgh community epic instead of a whisper — Showtime Americanizing Russell T Davies's dare, club nights, activism, parenting, sex basic cable still wouldn't air.…
- Michelle Clunie as Melanie Marcus
Michelle Clunie’s Melanie Marcus walked Queer as Folk’s Pittsburgh like Showtime would not whisper — early-2000s identity television, club nights, activism, parenting, sex basic cable still would not air. Russell T Davies’s dare,…