After a long wait, Joss Whedon's Dollhouse premieres this week with episode 1 of what promises to be another great series from the brains behind "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and "Angel". Eliza Dushku, who also worked with Whedon in the two aforementioned series, stars as Echo, one of a group of individuals known as "Actives" or "Dolls". In this American science fiction television program, these Actives are programmable persons whose memories can wiped out clean and reprogrammed according to the task that is assigned to them. They are hired for every particular job imaginable - good deeds, crimes and even fantasies. These Dolls are then monitored carefully until an

assigned job is done after which they are again cleaned out ready for another undertaking. In between jobs, they are kept in a futuristic "dormitory" called a Dollhouse.

Echo (Eliza Dushku) is one of these Dolls. The story will also follow the lives of several other Dolls as well as their handlers. Dollhouse premieres this Friday. Posted below is a description of the show courtesy of Wikipedia, followed by a short summary of the premiere episode entitled "Ghost". Several sneak peek videos are also posted for a glimpse of the the new Joss Whedon masterpiece, Dollhouse.

In Dollhouse, Eliza Dushku plays a young woman called Echo, a member of a group of people known as "Actives" or "Dolls." The Dolls have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas, including memory, muscle memory, skills, and language, for different assignments. They're then hired out for particular jobs, crimes, fantasies, and occasional good deeds. On missions, Actives are monitored internally (and remotely) by Handlers. In between tasks, they are mind-wiped into a child-like state and live in a futuristic dormitory/laboratory, a hidden facility nicknamed "The Dollhouse". The story follows Echo, who begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.

Beyond Dushku's character, the show will also revolve around the people who run the mysterious "Dollhouse" and two other "Dolls", Victor and Sierra, who are friendly with Echo (the names are simply letters in the phonetic alphabet). Although the Actives are ostensibly volunteers, the operation is highly illegal and under constant threat on one end from Paul Ballard, a determined federal agent who has heard a rumor about the Dolls, and an insane rogue Active on the other.

Ghost, Dollhouse premiere / Dollhouse episode 1 synopsis

Echo is one of the "Actives" in the elite and illegal Dollhouse. Through different personality downloads, she plays the role of a lovestruck girl on a romantic weekend, and then a ruthlessly efficient kidnapping negotiator. Meanwhile, FBI Agent Paul Ballard is struggling with his assignment to uncover information on the Dollhouse. The chase has destroyed his marriage and is wrecking his career, and it doesn't seem that he'll stop until he uncovers the truth.