Harper's Island Trivia Facts

Harper's Island

- Trivia Facts

None of the main cast (other than Harry Hamlin who had signed on for only one episode) knew if their character was going to survive to the end of any episode until the day before they got the script. Rather than letting them read about it in the script the job of telling an actor that his or her character was going to be killed in the next episode fell to the Executive Producer Karim Zreik, a job that earned him the nick name "The Assassin".
All TV ads and previews for Harper's Island indicated that it would be only a 13-episode series, meaning only one season of the show, with the mystery antagonist revealed in the final episode.
The titles for each episode are an onomatopoeia alluding to the method of murder used by the killer in that particular episode.
When Jimmy pulls his boat up to the gas pump, you can see the name of the boat is "The Sea-Jay." Jimmy is played by C.J. Thomason.
The bottle of scotch has a label bearing the name of the director of photography, Robert McLachlan (I).
Jimmy's boat, the Sea Jay, is named for actor C.J. Thomason, who plays the character.
By the series finale, Shea, Madison, Abby, and Jimmy are the only survivors.