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Stairway to Heaven
To avert a train spilling nuclear waste into the Colorado
River, Parker launches the sphere despite warnings that atmospheric
conditions could veer a BackStep off the time line. Suddenly, he encounters
the presence of a young woman, killed 20 years earlier and becomes involved
in her past life and the catastrophic conditions resulting from her
negative discrepancy in the universe.
Peacekeepers
Donovan puts his resignation from the BackStep team on
hold when he joins Parker in Bosnia to prevent the deaths of three U.S.
servicemen, unaware of the truth behind troop's encounter with local
refugees.
Rhino
A poisonous kiss threatens the life of a newly elected
Colombian president being honored at a White House dinner, so Parker
teams with an old friend to try to prevent the incident.
The
Dunwych Madness
Unexplained homicidal violence in a nowhere town prompts
a Back-Step and a FEMA investigation. The virus-like "madness" of the
villagers also strikes Parker and Donovan, and Isaac Mentnor recognizes
it as linked to his work in a bio-experimentation project following
WWII. New agency member Andrew (Hooter) Owsley comes aboard in time
to hack into the CDC database for information on a possible antidote
before FEMA carries out a destruct order on Dunwych.
Olga's
Excellent Vacation
When Olga melts into
Parker's arms in her torrid dreams, she knows it's time for a vacation
in a remote mountain location to regain her equilibrium. But a terrorist
bomb destroys the Alaskan pipeline wiping her off the mountainside as
well. During the Back-Step to reverse the attack, Parker realizes that
his aim is as much to save Olga as it is to stop the explosion.
Deloris Demands
Parker rebuffs several phone calls from a voice pretending to be an old girlfriend. The results, however, are catastrophic, as her threats to immobilize San Francisco's air traffic control system are realized. Parker Back-Steps to avert the tragedy, and finds himself prey in a high stakes cat and mouse game in which failure will cost thousands of lives.
The
Fire Last Time
Recurring guilty
nightmares over his own survival and the deaths of his comrades in Somalia,
weaken Parker into delusional behavior during a dangerous Back-Step.
Despite Olga's efforts to talk him through the crisis, Parker creates
the hallucination of battle, and reenacts the bloody sequence of events
while subconsciously attempting to fulfill the primary BackStep mission.
Trackers
Parker is abducted,
drugged and tortured by a Chechen zealot seeking to avenge his brother's
death at Parker's hands during a BackStep. When Parker resists the truth
serum, he is injected with a minute tracking device and unwittingly
leads the foreign agents to "Never-Never Land."
Top
Dog
Talmadge, suffering
from an undetected brain aneurysm, displays unconventional behavior
and is removed from the BackStep program. But the team suffers added
trauma when the new chief, Nathan Ramsey, takes over and rules with
an iron fist.
Adam
and Eve and Adam
Working in
a protected nuke-proof bunker 600 feet below the earth, Olga and Parker
are spared the effects of an enhanced neutron bomb explosion which evaporates
all life on the planet. But Owsley is not as lucky, developing radiation
poisoning which is quickly taking his life.
Head Case
Audio tapes of the
President's sessions with his analyst are snatched by two US Secret
Service agents operating on behalf of a dangerous Peruvian dictator.
On a BackStep to avert the theft, Parker encounters the President's
psychiatrist, Grace Weiman, who believes he is an escaped mental patient,
until they both become targets of the corrupt White House Chief of Staff.
Raven
A BackStep is initiated
when a missile test-firing backfires into a slaughter of the top military
brass observing the event. Central to the disaster is a missing computer
control device, expertly lifted by a beautiful and dangerous international
thief working her way up the ladder to the man she wants dead.
The
First Freshman
The President
faces embarrassment by the college antics of his uninhibited daughter,
and appoints Frank Parker to take over as her personal agent. But this
seductive, wild child leads them both into jeopardy when she rejects
Parker's protection and bolts with some unwholesome friends.
Revelation
The NSA team is taken
in by the arrival of one of its own from seven years into the future
who offers them a horrifying glimpse of World War III. Claiming that
the prevention of the war is only achievable through a religious assassination
in the present time, the Back-Step team must consider the risk to its
own future by accepting the messenger's premise..
Crystal
Blue Persuasion
Infected by alien properties while on a NASA space mission,
returned hero Commander William Streck keeps the information secret
while being evaluated by the Back-Step medical team, including Olga,
who falls prey to his supernatural powers of persuasion. Lured into
a romance, she becomes impregnated with his extra-terrestrial babies,
and fights bitterly against Parker who must intervene.
Empty
Quiver
Destined for a BackStep
to prevent a nuclear terrorist from destroying Washington D.C., a last
minute error sends the sphere into the past without a pilot. The surprised
NSA team now existing seven days earlier, realizes that it must discern
what the mission was, how deadly, and how to solve the puzzle. Left
without many clues, Isaac Mentnor recalls the aid of a young woman psychic
he depended upon for a mission many years before, and presses her into
service despite her emotional instability.
Kansas
A last minute
power surge aborts a sphere engagement and thrusts Parker not only into
another time, but into another reality --- one based on his deepest
intentions. Crossing the time/space continuum, he finds himself in a
world of repression and rebellion where his status and relations become
unpredictable, and his fellow agents pose a threat to his well-being.
The
Final Countdown
A nuclear
missile base in Wyoming does not receive the Presidential stand-down
order, and proceeds to launch a retaliatory missile attack against North
Korea. But when Parker BackSteps to insure the recall order is received,
he finds that protocol in the chain of command makes reasoning virtually
impossible.
The
Brink
To weed out
a prisoner who exerts mind control over newly released inmates, manipulating
them into massive criminal behavior, Parker voluntarily checks himself
into Hanson Island --- the same institution in which he spent time as
a patient. Brutally tortured by electroshock therapy in those days,
he faces a dangerous replay of his worst nightmares, when his cover
is breached.
Sugar
Mountain
Backstepping
to recover an ultra-secret weapon, the NSA is shocked to discover that
the weapon is actually a remarkable 12-year-old with formidable telekinetic
abilities. His recovery entails trust, safety and considerations for
a normal life.
Born
in the USSR
Strong feelings for
her homeland keep Olga from immediately divulging Russian secrets to
the NSA team. This indecision proves disastrous, ruining the trust and
respect she has enjoyed from her colleagues.
Live
From Death Row
Parker puts the primary
BackStep mission on hold as he uses precious time to save the life of
a good friend wrongfully accused of murder and headed for execution.
Landing in New Orleans, he teams with a voodoo priestess to prove his
pal's innocence.
Note:
These descriptions come from TV Guide and other sources. Thus, I do not
attest to their complete accuracy. If you've got better information, email
me
 Regular
Cast
Jonathan LaPaglia
Frank Parker
Don Franklin
Craig Donovan
Norman Lloyd
Isaac Mentnor
Justina Vail
Olga Vukavitch
Nick Searcy
Nate Ramsey
Alan Scarfe
Bradley Talmadge
Updated:
7.24.01
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