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"This already happened." - Frank B. Parker, Come Again?

Season 1

Pilot - 10/7/98
Story: Christopher and Zachary Crowe
Teleplay: Christopher Crowe
Director: John McPherson
Chechen terrorists bomb the White House, killing the Russian president, and the U.S. president and vice president, and incidentally, children attending a nearby school. In the aftermath of this calamity, a secret government operation is called on to use a dangerous and highly experimental time-travel device to prevent the bombing. That's the good news. The bad news is, the best man to pilot the device is a nut case named Frank B. Parker. Using the Sphere to go back in time seven days, Parker must try to "undo that event"--if he can survive the jump through another dimension.

The Gettysburg Virus - 10/14/98
Story by: Harry Cason and Stephen Beck
Teleplay: Harry Cason
Director: Vern Gillum
A religious fanatic unleashes a genetically engineered strain of the ebola virus, killing 98 percent of the world's population--and most of the Back Step team. Near death herself, Olga manages to send Parker back in time in a desperate attempt to prevent global catastrophe. The question is, can he avoid taking the disease back with him, thus defeating the purpose of the Back Step?

Come Again? - 10/21/98
Written by: Evan Katz
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Parker is sent back one day to prevent the death of a scientist who may have discovered the secret to cold fusion. But the Sphere goes haywire, forcing Parker to repeat his mission over and over again in a five-hour time loop with the world's most annoying man, and in which his efforts to impress Olga are repeatedly foiled--one way or another.

Vows - 10/28/98
Written by: Thomas Ropelewski
Director: John McPherson
Parker's mission to head off a robbery that causes an international incident has tragic consequences for his ex-wife's fiance, Mike Clary. Believing he could've done something to save Mike, Parker clashes with Talmadge about whether to Back Step again to prevent Mike's death and make things right.

Doppelganger (2 parts) - 11/11/98
Written by: James Crocker
Director: John McPherson
A renegade American general uses a Chinese invasion of Taiwan as an opportunity to stage a coup by setting off a nuclear bomb in Death Valley and blaming the Chinese for the blast. When Parker Back Steps to warn U.S. authorities of the disaster, changes Ballard has made to the Sphere split Parker into good and evil components of himself. The evil "twin" thinks the new regime is a good idea, and buys his way into the general's good graces by revealing the secrets of Operation Back Step, leaving Parker battling himself in an effort to save the country and the project.

Shadow Play - 11/18/98
Written by: B.B. Smickers
Director: David Livingston
Parker's sent back to capture a woman suspected of conspiring to bomb an NSA facility. But when he finds her, he's not so sure she's guilty, and, to Talmadge's dismay, goes on the run with her to find the real culprit.

As Time Goes By - 11/25/98
Written by: Tim Finch and Tamara Shaw
Director: John McPherson
Olga's husband, Josef, who was lost and presumed dead on a Russian time-travel mission, suddenly reappears in a Russian-built counterpart to the Sphere. He claims to have come back from thirty-some years in the future out of love for his wife, but Parker and Ramsey are immediately suspicious of his motives--and for good reason.

Sleepers - 12/16/98
Written by: Gannon Kenney
Director: Charles Picerni, Sr.
An old navy buddy of Parker's and Donovan's kills a research scientist and then himself. The mystery deepens when Donovan does the same. When Parker Back Steps in an effort to save his friend, he uncovers long-lost memories revealing that both he and Donovan were brainwashed years ago in Bangladesh--but soon Parker finds he, too, has been conditioned to kill at the command of the mysterious, evil Dr. Lee.
Note: The character of Ann Golden is played by Nick Searcy's wife, actress Leslie Riley

HAARP Attack - 1/27/99
Written by: Paulette Polinski
Director: John McPherson
Islamic rebels attack a communications center and fool U.S. aircraft into bombing an American base. Parker's effort to prevent the tragedy goes awry when the Sphere malfunctions. When he lands, he's 10 years old psychologically and has no memory of his mission--or anything else, except his "field-trip buddy" Olga, who must try to unlock his adult mind before it's too late.

Last Card Up - 2/3/99
Written by: Lyn Freeman
Director: Charles Picerni, Sr.
A government standoff at a religious cult's compound ends catastrophically, and so does the Back Step team's investigation of the disaster--a reporter goes public with damaging details about the project after spending a night talking and drinking with Parker. He denies having told her anything, but Talmadge is furious and orders a Back Step to seal the security breach, save the cult members and preserve an important human rights conference. Once in the past, Parker and Olga pose as a married couple inside the compound in an effort to save the cult members, and the real story of how Back Step wound up on the nightly news unfolds.

Last Breath - 2/10/99
Story: John McPherson and Howard Salus
Teleplay: Peter Farriday
Director: John McPherson
Parker tries to learn Russian to impress Olga. Meanwhile, a Russian submarine's damaged nuclear reactor spreads radioactive contamination over a wide area. To avert the disaster, Parker must learn to use a fluid breathing system, land the Sphere deep underwater and try to prevent a fanatical Russian political officer from surfacing the boat and releasing the radiation. Worried that Parker won't be able to overcome his claustrophobia while breathing liquid, Olga fears he won't come back from this one, and her tender feelings for him momentarily surface.

Parkergeist - 2/24/99
Written by: Peter Farriday
Director: David Livingston
Parker's killed (sort of) when the Sphere is sabotaged. With the help of a blind man who is the only one who can hear him, Parker's "ghost" must try to prevent the further sabotage of a satellite designed to spy on drug traffickers...and get back into his corporeal body, if he can.

Daddy's Girl - 3/3/99
Written by: Harry Cason
Director: Don Kurt
The vice president's unacknowledged, illegitimate daughter is shot down over Yugoslavia, and the team of soldiers sent in to rescue her are killed. Guilt- and grief-stricken, the VP shoots himself. Parker Back Steps to try to prevent the tragedy.

There's Something About Olga - 3/31/99
Written by: Tim Finch and Tamara Shaw
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
A Russian scientist, trying to get hold of Back Step's secrets, kidnaps Olga and replaces her with an impostor he has created. But the impostor, Galina, is even more mentally unstable than Parker. Hallucinating that Parker is her ex-husband, Galina demonstrates to him all too clearly that "love hurts." By the time it becomes known that she's a fake, Parker, Ramsey, the real Olga and the project all are in mortal danger.

A Dish Best Served Cold - 4/21/99
Written by: Stephen Beck
Director: John McPherson
A former chrononaut, James Rance, lost in the Amazon rainforest back when a ride in the Sphere was pretty much a death sentence, returns to exact revenge for his lost years and make sure the Sphere is never used again. He gives Mentnor's granddaughter a slow poison to force his way into the compound so he can destroy the Sphere. To save the little girl and restore the program, Parker must Back Step using an older (and considerably the worse for wear) version of the Sphere--the one that didn't work and left Rance wandering out in the jungle with the mind of a child.

Vegas Heist - 5/5/99
Written by: Dan York
Director: Kenneth Johnson
An African-American freedom fighter who once saved Parker's life stages a robbery to get money for his people's independence. But the crime results in a terrible explosion. Parker has to try to help his friend get the money to save his countrymen while preventing the blast and its massive loss of life--all the while dodging Ramsey and the other members of the team, whose vacation in Vegas puts them in his way.

EBEs - 5/12/99
Written by: Michael Cassutt
Director: John McPherson
A spill of radioactive "Element 115" that fuels the Sphere draws unwelcome attention to legends about aliens visiting Never Never Land. But are they really only legends? Mentnor and Talmadge act suspiciously like they're covering something up, and it's up to Parker and Olga to find out what.

Walter - 5/19/99
Written by: Harry Cason and Stephen Beck
Director: Charles Correll
Somebody's killing CIA agents right and left after their names are revealed when an allegedly impenetrable code is broken. Parker launches the Sphere to capture the code-breaker, but he balks at his orders to terminate the culprit when he learns the code-breaker is a savant who had no way of knowing the damage he was doing. To save Walter's life, Parker finds himself battling evil Chinese agents, NSA agents following the orders he rejected, and Walter's tendency to get distracted by pigeons, buses and a comic-book superhero named the Blue Avenger.

Lifeboat - 5/26/99
Written by: Thomas Ropelewski
Director: John McPherson
An alien survivor from the Roswell crash, in a coma since 1947, suddenly wakes up and breaks free of the Back Step compound in a small craft left behind in the debris of the crashed UFO. Attaching the craft to a nuclear power plant, he appears to be siphoning power off so that he can get back to his own people. Dubbed "Adam," the alien seems to be communicating with Parker, Olga and Ballard, pleading with them to let him return home to die. But is "Adam" telling the truth about his intentions?

NOTE: One episode planned for Season 1 was postponed to Season 2 (See For the Children below): Originally it was thought there were two missing episodes in Season 1. As it turns out, however, there was only one, for which the setting and title had changed a time or two, thus causing some confusion. The episode was listed as Act of God on the official 7 Days Web site and has been referred to as Save the Children in a couple of other sources, with the show ultimately airing as For the Children. On top of that, Cinescape magazine had quoted executive producer Christopher Crowe describing the episode has having to do with an airliner that blew up--the final version was set on a subway train, instead of a jet (with hindsight, Crowe may actually have been referring to Backstepper's Apprentice). Originally scheduled for late April 1999, shortly after the Littleton, Colorado, school shootings, this episode was pulled because Crowe felt it would've been in poor taste to air it so soon after a similar real-life tragedy.

Season 2

The Football - 9/29/99
Story by: Thomas Ropelewski
Teleplay by: Julie Ann Park
Director: John McPherson
The President's mobile nuclear command center, a metal briefcase called "the football," is lost and by some mysterious means is triggered, resulting in worldwide nuclear holocaust. By the time Parker can Back Step, it's almost too late to prevent inconceivable destruction...and Olga's death. On the other side of the timeline, he and Olga must desperately search for the missing case through the urban jungle of Washington, D.C., as the clock to the end of the world ticks down.

Pinball Wizard - 10/6/99
Written by: Dan York
Director: Charles Correll
Using disaffected young video game aces to fly a sophisticated missile system, a disgruntled defense contractor turns his weapons technology against the government that refused to buy it. The attack reduces the Pentagon to a quadrangle and kills dozens of federal employees. After the Back Step, Parker's investigation leads him to one of the gamers: Nancy, an angry young woman with a past of abuse and abandonment. He must try to help her overcome her feelings of guilt and inadequacy in hopes she can beat the weapons system and its hotshot pilot at their own game.

Parker.com - 10/13/99
Written by: Peter Farriday
Director: Mike Vejar
An artificial intelligence resolves the Y2K computer bug, then transforms itself into the persona of a young girl named Claire. Then she meets Parker. Instantly lovestruck, she interprets his musings on worldwide nuclear stalemate as a moral imperative to solve all the world's problems overnight--no matter how many people it kills. Unable to Back Step because of Claire's interference with the Sphere's systems, Parker agrees to join Claire in her virtual environment, hoping to distract her while Olga, Ballard and Claire's creator try to shut down the system.

For the Children - 10/20/99
Written by: Ann Lewis Hamilton
Director: Don Kurt
Veterans suffering from Gulf War Syndrome take 33 people--12 of them children--hostage in a subway train in an effort to force the government to apologize and pay restitution to other victims of the ailment. When the terrorists' demands are not met, they blow up the train, killing the hostages. At first it's thought that an important diplomat was on board, and a Back Step is authorized. But it turns out the official wasn't among the hostages, and the time jump is called off. Unable to sleep nights knowing the children won't be saved, Parker quits the program.

Two Weddings and a Funeral - 11/3/99
Written by: Tim Finch and Tamara Shaw
Director: David Livingston
After sitting up for three days with a comatose Parker, Olga has a weak moment and confesses that she has feelings for him. Parker's angry when she tries to explain she didn't mean it quite the way he took it, and he proposes marriage to prove his own feelings are serious. Equally annoyed, she agrees, sure he won't go through with it. But after much hemming, hawing and horsing around, the deed is done. Only afterward does Parker discover that Galina Komanov, Olga's evil double (There's Something About Olga), has escaped from the maximum-security mental hospital. Is his bizarre wedding a dream come true? Or is it a living nightmare?

Walk Away - 11/10/99
Story by: Brad Markowitz and Thomas Ropelewski
Written by: Tim Finch and Tamara Shaw
Director: David Livingston
An autopsy of Adam, the alien with bad teeth who came to life briefly in Lifeboat, reveals that the evil survivor of the Roswell crash was a paraplegic who used a high-tech microchip to enable the use of his legs. The chip is removed from Adam and implanted in Dr. Ballard, who soon is able to walk, dance and play basketball again, for the first time since he was 15 and lost the use of his legs in a diving accident. But there's more of Adam in the chip than just his prancing gait, and the psychopathic alien still wants to take out the Earth...with Ballard's unwitting help.

Sister's Keeper - 11/17/99
Written by: Brad Markowitz
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Olga's younger sister Svetlana is murdered after stealing half a million dollars from her former boss, Ivan, a member of the Chechen mafia. Parker's scheduled to Back Step to undo a plane crash, so Olga gives him a note warning of Svetlana's death and asks him to give it to her on the other side of the timeline. Parker, of course, can't resist opening the envelope and reading the note. After the Back Step, he and Olga hit the Vegas strip to find Svetlana before Ivan catches up to her. But Svetlana turns out to be nearly as treacherous, in her own way, as the Chechens.

The Collector - 11/24/99
Written by: Alfonse Ruggiero Jr.
Director: John McPherson
Parker makes a big score on a horse race and celebrates by indulging in too much champagne, not knowing he's about to be called on to Back Step. Giving a whole new meaning to "DWI," he loses control of the Sphere on re-entry and crashes into a prison, inadvertently allowing a psychotic serial killer to escape the electric chair. When the freed murderer promptly goes on another killing spree, Parker feels responsible for the mayhem. With Olga's help, he goes after the killer himself.

Love and Other Disasters - 12/15/99
Written by: Paulette Polinski
Director: David Livingston
The attention of the world is fixed on the apparently storybook wedding of Princess Lisette and Prince Hamal--even Ramsey's a little teary-eyed at how "colorful" the story is. Dignitaries and celebrities, including Ballard and Olga, gather for the occasion. The first hint that things are not quite as warm and fuzzy as they seem is Lisette's death shortly before the nuptials in an "accidental" propane explosion. Ballard and Olga are pulled from the rubble by the ever-so-gallant Kassim, Hamal's best man, with whom Olga is slightly smitten. Parker Back Steps to save the princess, then decides to hang around for the wedding and see if he can attract Olga away from Kassim. But then Parker discovers Kassim has a different ending in mind for Lisette's fairy tale...which turns out not to have been such a happy yarn anyway.

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - 1/5/00
Written by: Harry Cason
Director: Charles Picerni, Sr.
A high-ranking admiral goes to sea aboard a sophisticated stealth warship, only to have the ship sunk in a mysterious encounter with a Chinese submarine near Taiwan. When Parker Back Steps to ease the international tensions that have resulted from the incident, he learns that the commander of the vessel is an old flame, Captain Helen Keagle, a gung-ho officer determined to prove herself in the man's world of the navy. Parker's history with Keagle has left her persuaded he's a flake, so when the admiral increasingly appears bent on provoking a hot war with the Chinese on his own authority, Parker must struggle to regain Keagle's confidence in him before things get out of control.

Time Gremlin - 1/12/00
Written by: Thomas Ropelewski
Director: Kenneth Johnson
A geological experiment goes horribly awry, creating an earthquake that devastates California. Likewise, Parker's Back Step to undo the experiment gets fouled up when the Sphere's flight takes it close to a strange space-borne anomaly -- the Sphere doesn't move back in time as it should, and Parker sees a strange, troll-like creature clinging to the hatch. Then things really start to go wrong. It turns out the creature came back with Parker, and it just loves trashing the Sphere and messing with everyone's time sense. Can the NNL crew get rid of the troublesome gremlin before seven days pass and California's history?

Buried Alive - 2/9/00
Written by: Stephen Beck
Director: Mike Vejar
A Back Step to undo a catastrophic mine collapse results in the Sphere landing a little too close to its target--buried underground in the unstable mine tunnels. The Back Step team frantically works to locate it while Parker tries to dig his way out before the cave-in he was supposed to prevent kills him. With his air and his strength rapidly ebbing, he remembers the Catholic priest who inspired him to keep fighting against the odds in tight spots like Honduras and Somalia.

Backstepper's Apprentice - 2/16/00
Written by: Dan York
Director: John McPherson
The Sphere's re-entry path intersects with a jetliner in mid-flight, and the jet bursts into flame just as the two craft interact. A young boy on his way to his grandfather's funeral falls out of the exploding plane and right into Parker's arms, passing through the outer skin of the Sphere while it's still not solid. Ballard reassures Parker that the Sphere couldn't cause a plane crash, but Parker can't resist trying to nix two catastrophes with one time-jump. He goes looking for the boy, who is his only clue to which plane is about to go down. But that involves finding the kid, who has realized he's reliving a day and set out to do his own kind of "back-step" to save his grandfather.

Deja Vu All Over Again - 2/23/00
Written by: Alfonse Ruggiero Jr.
Director: Charles Correll
Talmadge is captured by Chinese agents and takes a suicide pill rather than give up the Project's secrets. But because he's been on an enforced vacation, he isn't missed until almost too late for a Back Step to save him. By the time the Sphere lands, Parker has 12 minutes to find him and prevent his death. Along the way, a strange phenomenon (Parker calls it "time burps") both assists and bedevils him in his mission--the scenario keeps replaying itself, giving him an opportunity to keep trying until it comes out right, but he has to cope with slightly different complications each time.

Space Station Down - 3/01/00
Written by: Stephen Beck
Director: Will Graham
A meteor hurtling toward Earth glances off the side of a new NASA space station deflecting itself toward New York City and
Parker must Back-Step to convince the station crew to allow him access to their vehicle in order to avert the tragedy. The
ship's Captain, Cassie MacKenzie, promoted largely because of her late father's ultimate sacrifice to the space program, is a hard sell, but convinces Parker that although she could never reach her father's technical prowess, she has inherited the courage and heart which made him a legendary figure.

The Cuban Missile - 3/22/00
Written by: Thomas Ropelewski
Director: David Livingstone
A long awaited match in America for a talented Cuban boxer, the adopted son of Fidel Castro, turns into a potential nuclear incident when the young man is assassinated in the ring. Because it is a matter of honor, Parker must find a way to discredit the Cuban leader in the eyes of the young man who adores him in order to save the boxer's life, and prevent a nuclear attack.

X-35 Needs Changing - 4/05/00
Story: Harry Cason & Julie Ann Park
Teleplay: Harry Cason
Director: Charles Picerni, Sr.
A genetically engineered baby is kidnapped from the lab, and even Parker's Back Step cannot retrieve him in time. Olga and Parker are put on the trail in the colder regions of Chechnya, where they find their parental instincts are tapped and deeper emotions toward each other and the baby cannot be denied.

Brother, Can You Spare a Bomb? - 4/19/00
Story: Nick Searcy and Peter Farriday
Teleplay: Peter Farriday
Director: Charles Correll
Ramsey's worst nightmare comes true when he is informed by Parker that his hermit-like brother is responsible for blowing
up a naturalization office and killing a U.S. Senator. To make matters worse, Ramsey is forced to team up with his arch-enemy
Parker to chase down his brother.
Note: Nick Searcy, who co-wrote this episode, plays both Nathan Ramsey and his brother Nick.

Pope Parker - 4/26/00
Written by: Paulette Polinski
Director: John McPherson
In an inexplicable Back Step glitch, Parker assumes the outward appearance of the man he has come to save from an
assassin's bullet. Parker's mind, personality, and soul in the body of the 75-year-old Pope, Sylvester V, creates some unholy
happenings in the Vatican and on the "Pontiff's" trip to New York for a delicate diplomatic mission at the U.N.

Witch Way to the Prom - 5/03/00
Written by: Tim Finch & Tamara Shaw
Director: Don Kurt
Three boy-crazy teens try to conjure up a prom date for their lovelorn friend, and mistake Parker, on a Back Step, as their
mystical creation. Angered by Olga's appearance on the scene, the sorcerers will her an injury, which compromises Parker's
hunt for a political terrorist, until he realizes he can use the girls' power to find his man.

Mr Donovan's Neighborhood - 5/10/00
Written by: Brad Markowitz
Director: Kenneth Johnson
How far would you go to save a friend's life? When Donovan's sister is murdered at the hands of a neighborhood drug ring, Donovan goes home blinded with revenge, and winds up in jail for murder. The consequences, at the hands of the inmates, prove too much for Parker to accept, and he takes drastic steps in order to force the Agency into allowing him a time trip.

Playmates and Presidents - 5/17/00
Written by: Dan York
Director: Mike Vejar
Parker's quick actions to save the life of presidential candidate, Gov. Jack Stevens, result in an offer to join the campaign elite as a bodyguard. But the candidate's renegade daughter lets Parker know that there's an evil underbelly to her father's pretense of high ideals and elevated rhetoric - facts evident in Stevens's diary, which Parker deftly removes from the safe.

The Cure - 5/24/00 (Season Finale)
Written by: Richard Blade
Director: John McPherson
Krista, an emotionally unstable and volatile scientist, has discovered the cure for cancer, but in the century that follows her theories prove to be in error, unleashing a new strain of genetic disease which devastates the human population. This news is brought to the agency's attention by Jack Dawes, a time traveler operating from a base 168 years in the future, whose mission is to destroy Krista and undo the world she has created.

Season 3

Stairway to Heaven - 10/11/00
Written by: Stephen Beck
Director: John McPherson
To avert a train spilling nuclear waste into the Colorado River, Parker launches the sphere despite warnings that atmospheric
conditions could veer a Back-Step off the time line. When the sphere intersects with limbo, 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
unexpected return.

Peacekeepers - 10/18/00
Written by: Tim Finch, Reuben Leder
Director: Charlie Picerni
Three misguided American peacekeepers on a quest for illicit cash in Bosnia jolt a tense military situation into all out warfare. Parker Back-Steps to locate the soldiers, and help them with what intel believes was a refugee rescue gone awry. Donovan
takes a second look at quitting Project Backstep when he and Parker join forces in the fray and depend on each other's skills to stay alive.

Rhino - 10/25/00
Written by: David Aaron Freed and Howard Salus
Director: Kenneth Johnson
When the newly-elected Colombian President is honored at a White House dinner, deadly poison is administered through a kiss. In a Back-Step aimed at preventing the incident, Parker teams up with 'Rhino', an old friend from the SEALs. But the two men must also begin a tandem push to save Olga's life when she is abducted and wired to explosives by the elusive assassin.

The Dunwych Madness - 11/01/00
Written by: Stephen Beck
Director: John McPherson
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-warfare experimentation project following WWII. New agency member Andrew (Hooter) Owsley, a young prodigy who has worked with Ballard in the past, 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 - 11/08/00
Written by: Harry Cason
Director: John McPherson
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 when a terrorist bomb destroys the Alaskan pipeline, it wipes 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 - 11/15/00
Written by: Howard Salus and David Aaron Freed
Director: Mike Vejar
Parker rebuffs several phone calls from a voice pretending to be an old girlfriend. The results, however, are catastrophic, when 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.

Fire Last Time - 11/22/00
Written by: Tim Finch
Director: Kenneth Johnson
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. While trying to prevent the escape of a convict threatening the life of a politician, Parker hallucinates that he is in battle and reenacts a bloody sequence of events while subconsciously attempting to fulfill the primary Back-Step mission.

Tracker - 12/20/00
Writtten by: Rueben Leder
Director: Chip Scott Laughlin
A Russian criminal named Josef, seeking revenge on Parker for the death of his brother (killed in Pilot), kidnaps the chrononaut and inserts a locator chip into his neck. After Parker Backsteps to save the life of an ambassador, Josef is surprised to find one of his locator chips suddenly activated in North Carolina. After Josef kidnaps Parker and his beloved wife Petra is killed, Josef starts to believe that time travel is possible, and resolves to force the Backstep team to bring his wife back from the dead, whatever the cost...

Top Dog - 01/03/01
Written by: Peter Farriday
Director:  Kenneth Johnson
After Talmadge apparently suffers a nervous breakdown, Ramsey is appointed chief of the Back-Step program by the NSA oversight committee. When Ramsey removes Parker from active service and begins a hardline regime, the Backstep staff unite to topple him, unaware that Talmadge has been confined to Hansen Island, where his condition is rapidly worsening.

Adam & Eve & Adam - 01/10/01
Written by: Peter Farriday
Director: John McPherson
When a military test goes horribly wrong, Parker, Olga, Hooter and a surviving Army Major must trek through an apocalyptic landscape to prevent life on Earth from being vapourised. When the trip begins to be plagued by mysterious problems, it becomes apparent that someone is attempting to prevent the Backstep. But who is it, and why?

Headcase - 01/31/01
Written by: Harry Cason
Director: David Livingstone
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 Back-Step 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 - 02/07/01
Written by: Stephen Beck
Director: Kenneth Johnson
A Back-Step 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 - 02/14/01
Written by: Peter Farriday
Director: Charles Correll
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  - 02/21/01
Written by: Don Handfeild & Darren Maddern
Director: John McPherson
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. But is the future Backstepper all that he seems?
Note: Guest starring Robert Picardo from Star Trek:Voyager.

Crystal Blue Persuasion - 02/28/01
Written by: Dan York & Michael King
Director: Chip Scott Laughlin
Infected by an alien force 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 enhanced powers of persuasion. Lured into a romance, she becomes impregnated with his extra-terrestrial babies, and fights bitterly against Parker when he tries to intervene.
Note: William Streck is played by Rod Rowland, better known as Cooper Hawkes from Space: Above and Beyond.

Empty Quiver - 03/21/01
Written by: Mike Mistovich
Director: Les Butler
Destined for a Back-Step 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 - 03/28/01
Written by: Michael King
Director: Charles Correll
A last minute power surge caused by teenage intruders aborts a sphere engagement and thrusts Parker not only into another time, but into another reality - one which bizarrely mirrors his own. Crossing the time/space continuum, he finds himself in a world of repression and rebellion where his status and relations become unpredictable.
Note: Writer Michael King originally penned this story as a tribute to the classic Star Trek episode, "Mirror, Mirror".

The Final Countdown - 04/04/01
Written by: David Aaron Freed, Howard Salus
Director: Chip Scott Laughlin
After a nuclear crisis is narrowly averted, one 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 Back-Steps to insure the recall order is received, he finds that protocol in the chain of command makes reasoning virtually impossible.
Note: With the broadcast of The Final Countdown, UPN put Seven Days on hiatus, while they tried out their new Horror/Comedy series, Special Unit 2. On 16/05/01 UPN announced that Seven Days will not be renewed for a fourth season. Four episodes remained in the season (details below), which UPN decided to show on Tuesdays at 8pm.

The Brink - 08/05/01
Written By: Mike Mistovich
Directed By: Scott Chip Laughlin
When a recent patient from Hansen Island uses a blinding laser on a stadium full of teens, Parker is forced to go undercover at the hospital, facing both his own trauma and a charismatic guru whose astrological charts have given him the power of life and death over patients and staff.

Sugar Mountain - 15/05/01
Written By: Dave Freed and Howard Salus
Directed By: John McPherson
Backstepping to recover an ultra-secret weapon before it can be used to destroy a jetliner, Parker is shocked to discover that the "weapon" is actually a young boy with the power of pyrokinesis. When the CIA determine that the boy is too dangerous to live, and with foreign agents trying to use him as an assasination tool, Parker must find a way to save the boy not only from others, but from his own destructive power.
Note: This story was originally to have been "Reboot", written by Stephen Beck and directed by John McPherson. An interview with producer Thomas Ropelewski has revealed that had the episode gone ahead as planned, the character of Claire 6.0 (last seen in Parker.Com) would have returned in a two-part story.

Born in the U.S.S.R. - 22/05/01
Written by: Tim Finch
Directed by: Ken Johnson
Loyalty to her mentor, a desire to prevent a disaster in her homeland and strong feelings for an old flame drive Olga to divulge the formula for stabilising the alien fuel to the scientist leading Russia's time travel program. The decision proves disastrous, ruining the trust and respect she has enjoyed from her colleagues, unless Parker can prevent it from ever happening.

Live: From Death Row - 29/05/01
Written by: Adam Grossman
Directed by: John McPherson
Parker puts the primary Back-Step mission on hold as he uses precious time to save the life of a good friend wrongfully accused of murder and headed for execution.
Note: This was the final episode of the series.

Take me home. 

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