Aquarius is a show coming to NBC about the Manson murders of the late 60's. The show will star David Duchovney and has no planned air date.

The shows website describes the show saying, "It's 1967 and the era of free love, drug experimentation and the Vietnam War is in full effect. When the teenage daughter of a respected lawyer goes missing, LA Police Sergeant Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny, "Californication," "The X-Files") starts asking around. He soon discovers the hippie kids he's questioning don't take kindly to cops, especially one with hair as short as his. Needing the help of someone they will trust, he partners with rebellious undercover cop Brian Shafe, a man who's more comfortable rolling a joint than patrolling a beat. It's not long before they stumble upon a small-time cult leader seeking out vulnerable women to join his cause. From there, they follow this man's trail down a rabbit hole of drugs, sex, murder and cultural revolution. Little could they know, however, the guy they're hunting will eventually become the killer we now recognize as Charles Manson. He was a lost soul who desperately wanted to get into the music scene of the '60s until something snapped. This is the show that will explore the cat-and-mouse game between him and the police that will go on for several seasons, ultimately ending with the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders. 

Writer John McNamara ("In Plain Sight") serves as executive producer with Marty Adelstein ("Prison Break"), David Duchovny and Melanie Greene. "Aquarius" is a production of ITV Studios America and Marty Adelstein Productions

Deadline reports, "I thought of this idea of an older cop during the 1960s and how a 45-year old would see hippies. Then, what if he was paired with a Narc who is 22? That (concept) was three years of thinking for me. Then one day, it came to me while I was in my garage: I need the guy who ruined the '60s to bring them together: Charles Manson." McNamara originally pitched the project as a quintet of novels to Adelstein, who convinced the writer otherwise. "I told John that he's going to miss the music - it's such a big part of the era," says Adelstein.

"One meeting," adds McNamara, who has tracked the actor's career since the kid pic Beethoven and was further blown away by Duchovny's portrayal of a TV showrunner-in-crisis in 2006's The TV Set, which McNamara says "David nailed, playing (the part) of God."

"I originally wrote the part with a (1967) Lee Marvin in mind and David knows that," adds McNamara. The duo signed Duchovny in October 2013 and the NBC deal for Aquarius closed in February.

Aquarius starts off by focusing on the early crimes of Manson - attempted murder, rape, arrested robbery; two years from the LaBianca-Tate murders. McNamara's plan is to have each season focus on six months of Manson's life. "I know that the last season in the last episode will end with Manson in 1983," hints the exec producer. 

"He's not the guy he was in 1967. He's a complete creature of his fame and it would be like trying to visit Charlie Chaplin at the end of his life and asking him what it would be like when he was poor," says McNamara. The TV creator found a significant amount of material on Manson prior to his murder spree as his desires to be a rock star were thoroughly documented. Of all the interesting tidbits that stood out for McNamara about Manson: "His favorite book was Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends & Influence People. He read it 1,000 times."

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