Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

1996

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

7.1 | en | Drama

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction television series that surrounds a scientific team that deals with all manner of paranormal phenomena around the world; from alien abductions to possessions. The organization depicted in the series is loosely inspired by a real-life scientific organization. While locations in the series took place worldwide, the series was primarily filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP22 Stone Dream

May. 20,2000

Case File # unknown Mia Stone experiences precognitive dreams and hallucinations during an investigation.

EP21 Force Majeure

May. 13,2000

Case File # unknown Lindsay and Peter are under cover as a married couple to investigate aberrant behavior among community residents.

EP20 Elevator

May. 06,2000

Case File # unknown During an investigation, Donner, Stone and Davison are trapped in an elevator.

EP19 Wendigo

Apr. 29,2000

Case File # unknown During a search for three missing operatives, the O.S.I.R. uncovers a gruesome situation, cannibalism.

EP18 Regeneration

Apr. 22,2000

Connor Doyle, the team's case manager in the first season comes back from the dead, but this time his intentions are not all good.

EP17 Chiaroscuro

Apr. 15,2000

Case File # unknown An angry spirit torments a group of artists in an old church.

EP16 Gone Fishing

Feb. 26,2000

Case File # unknown Peter's old friend lures him into the wilderness seeking retribution for past deeds.

EP15 GeoCore

Feb. 19,2000

Case File # unknown Oil drilling in an ancient tribal burial ground unleashes a demon killer.

EP14 Persistence of Vision

Feb. 12,2000

Case File # unknown A ghost-like image in a photograph might be the link between a serial killer and a real-life angel.

EP13 Super Sargasso Sea

Feb. 05,2000

Case File # unknown Mysterious sky-falls may be the result of the Super Sargasso Sea theory.

EP12 Tyler/Tim

Jan. 29,2000

Case File # unknown An autistic boy develops psychokinetic abilities while mourning the death of his twin brother.

EP11 'Til Death Do Us Part

Jan. 22,2000

Case File # unknown A journalist's relationship with a Death Row inmate causes a rare haunting.

EP10 Nocturnal Cabal

Nov. 28,1999

Case File # unknown Donner and Stone are caught in a sinister plot when they investigate a rave club overrun by zombies.

EP9 Inertia

Nov. 21,1999

Case File # unknown Axon must race against time to save the life of an alien grounded in a meteor crash.

EP8 Temple of Light

Nov. 14,1999

Case File # unknown A spiritual entity is blamed for an outbreak of murders at a Hollywood retreat.

EP7 Body and Soul

Nov. 07,1999

Case File # unknown The team's investigation of a woman's precognition of her own death leads to a shocking discovery.

EP6 Once Upon a Time in the West

Oct. 31,1999

Case File # unknown An old man following three Old West outlaws is actually Axon 30 years in the future, warning his younger self against inventing time-travel.

EP5 883

Oct. 24,1999

Case File # unknown A doctor's mission to colonize a new world forces Matt to make a decision about his future.

EP4 Soul Survivor

Oct. 17,1999

Case File # unknown The O.S.I.R. investigates a plane crash and its survivors, who have been in a sort of limbo since their disappearance 10 years ago.

EP3 Happy Birthday, Matt Praeger

Oct. 10,1999

Case File # unknown Matt inadvertently enters an alternate dimension as a contestant on a game show where he must re-examine his life.

EP2 Sacrifices

Oct. 03,1999

Case File # unknown The O.S.I.R. investigates satanic cult activity on a college campus.

EP1 Shocking

Sep. 26,1999

Case File # unknown Struck by lightning, a woman must release the electricity through sex in order to survive.

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Released: 1996-09-28 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Matt Frewer , Barclay Hope , Colin Fox

Director

Peter Aykroyd

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Reviews

John Smith At first I thought that this one would be boring. Two cases in one 45 minute movie were too much. Everything happened too fast and their methods were repetitive - polygraph, hypnosis and various detectors all the time. After several series everything improved. They used only one case in each movie and that allowed to to bring more details. Not bad actually. First chief Doyle was kinda boring guy and I enjoyed Praeger much better. Too bad that he left movie in such dumb way.Seems like there was idea to continue with even more seasons because everything ended up so strange. It happens sometimes...Conclusion: if you get over first boring series then it might be a pleasure to watch all other series.

GURNEYRAMPART There was a second season remote viewer episode that comes to mind that was exceptionally well made. The episode revolved around a woman with esp who used it to contact a alien life force. In series with starships it gets expensive to reach out and explore new life forms but with PSI FACTOR they got creative and didn't need a big fancy space ship to do it with (or the sets that come with it). IN the series of episodes about this character there was total suspension of disbelief.

Syl I loved this show in the second season. I awoke in the middle of a Sunday night. My first episode was about the identical twins! Unlike other shows, this show spoke to me about the paranormal in our world. While I have had paranormal experiences, it is nice to have a show of our own for a change. Thanks and I wish there was more of the second season. The first season was quite boring but I think it's best season the second season with a great cast including Nigel Bennett as Frank Elsinger, Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich as Lindsay, the wonderful Colin Fox as Dr. Anton, Barclay Hope as Peter, etc. The third season was tough because Frewer departed the show in a most unusual way and they added Joanne Vannicola as Dr. Mia Stone who never fully developed in the role. Matt's departure was hard because I think he was the glue that held the show together and made it better. The story lines became dull in the third season and Elsinger was also gone from the series as well with Anton in his role and we see less of Anton. They tried to recover but you just couldn't beat the second season. You just didn't want to miss a second of the middle season. Rare that a show would thrive in the middle rather than the beginning but PSI proved that there is a lot out there that we don't know about.

GalaxyGa It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that this series is trying hard to be a more skeptical competitor to "The X-Files." It doesn't have the political tension, the sexual tension, or the atmospheric tension, if you will, of "The X-Files," but it's got an amazingly good ensemble of actors, most of whom we've never heard of down here in the U.S.Leading the people we _have_ heard of before is Matt Frewer, who ought to be considered the Actor-Saint [God?] of Latex (well, he and Andreas Katsulis, but I digress) for having done Max Headroom (no, kids, that's NOT cgi, there's a man under all that plastic). Frewer worked full-time filming Edison Carter, and then the fx people put 4 hours' worth of Max on him to shoot in front of bluescreen and then work that over in post. IMVHO, Frewer can do no wrong, even when he gets lame "Psi-Factor" scripts, he is still amazingly good.The other person we have heard of before is Nigel Bennett, formerly "Lacroix" in "Forever Knight." His is an intermittent character, I've only seen 7 or 8 eps and he's made only one brief appearance, but it's so nice to see him without the vampire contacts and _with_ a day job (yeah, that was a vampire pun; I couldn't resist).The other actors are just treasures; these folks really ought to migrate to L.A. and take a whack at the big time. Barclay Hope is a cute late-20's, early 30's dude with a too-short haircut who reminds me of Chris O'Donnell --but it's the kind of too-short haircut that makes physics and psychology look _cool_. Colin Fox as the senior researcher Anton has the requisite mature demeanor and speaks the dialogue he's been given without messing up the psychobabble, and in fact making the psi-babble seem to make sense, which is the essence of this series.There are two actresses on the show; now, why can't I remember their names, besides their characters'? (oh--I'm watching Matt). They both have gads of talent just spilling out of each of them, other than having forgettable names. Claire the pathologist (Autopsy Queen a la' Scully) is beginning to have some kind of effect upon Frewer's character, Praeger, and I am reminded (positively) of some of the bits in "MIB" between the lady coroner and Agent Jay.A real treat is the scenes at beginning and end, where Dan Ackroyd does the Robert Stack thing and tells us that these episodes are taken from case files of the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (OSIR), a real agency that researches paranormal claims. I'm sure the case file research was never as exciting, or dramatic, as the stuff Praeger and team research every week. The essence is that the scriptwriters and actors do their very best to make the paranormal-babble make sense to the viewers, and while the writers may fall short every now and then, Frewer, Hope, Colin Fox, and the women do their best to overcome any shortcomings of the scripts.