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Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total.
Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.
Cast
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01DealbreakerJuly 1, 1990—In the series premiere, billionaire industrialist Alexander Addington finds out from a source at the UN that Annie Morley, an old flame of h
- S01E02Dead in the AirJuly 8, 1990—An Addington contact at the US Justice Department informs Alexander just hours before the naming of a special prosecutor, that a small time
- S01E03Now and at the Hour of Our DeathJuly 15, 1990—As the military junta of the South American republic of San Pedro prepares for their first democratic elections in decades, an aide to the P
- S01E04Art for Art's SakeJuly 22, 1990—As Lord Charles Sutcliffe of the Sutcliffe Museum readies to return a priceless artifact to its country of origin by handing it to Prime Min
- S01E05Power PlayJuly 29, 1990—After a reception with various bankers, Pres. Pauai of Mahal retires to his hotel suite with his senior staff. They confer on the best cour
- S01E06A Little PurityAugust 5, 1990—An environmental group by the name of Earth Now holds a protest rally outside a factory of a polluting chemical company, Grafton Chemicals,
- S01E07Son with a GunAugust 19, 1990—After an ugly quarrel between Count Biondino and his son, Enrico, Enrico stormed out of the house angerily. Within hours, two masked gunmen
- S01E08The Lady of the RhineAugust 26, 1990—A young ambitious journalist of horticulture fails to make a deadline for his article about tulips on the Rhine. Addington, who is a tulip
- S01E09Knights of AramSeptember 9, 1990—News reports claim that Count Antonio Debroca, Alexander's old friend and the reigning master of the kinghthood, has committed suicide withi
- S01E10Extreme MeasuresSeptember 16, 1990—On a visit to his friend's vineyard, Peter Sinclair heard shots being exchanged in the cellar. Apparently someone tried to kill his friend,
- S01E11ThanosOctober 7, 1990—In a failed attempt by Nikki's friend to leave her husband, an arms dealer, with her two daughters during the family trip to Paris, the daug
- S01E12SiegeOctober 14, 1990—While Alexander exchanged light banter with PM Haddad, a terrorist group by the name of October Justice disrupted a conference between top i
- S01E13Escape RouteOctober 28, 1990—In an attempt to divert the police from an impending jail break, the mastermind of an extinct terrorist organisation and the brother of the
- S01E14The BeginningNovember 10, 1990—A terrorist group intercepts Addington's car en route to a party and kidnaps Chantel Addington. The Toronto police quickly sets up office a
- S01E15Cry of the ChildrenNovember 17, 1990—Luke's old girlfriend, Zoe, gets involved with a child smuggling ring by the time she is in Paris. She takes the child to tell Luke that th
- S01E16MasksNovember 24, 1990—A former associate of Alexander, Amanda, plans to insert an impostor of him at a conference in order to sabotage an agreement to ban the pro
- S01E17MindbenderDecember 1, 1990—A hard line Russian Army officer reviews the profiles of several former servicemen and selects Luke Brenner for a very special operation. U
- S01E18Regal ConnectionDecember 15, 1990—After debugging the computer at the Addington townhouse in New York, a group of Africans kidnapped Professor Robert Williams outside his hom
- S01E19Cinema VeritéDecember 22, 1990—News reports claims that Marlowe, a mystery novel writer and an Olympic-class swimmer in the backstroke, accidentally drowns while fly-fishi
- S01E20VerathionJanuary 12, 1991—A very desparate Suzanne calls her father from Union Station in Toronto after her suppose date to the Award Ceremony for the Toronto Film Fe
- S01E21The Millerton PapersJanuary 19, 1991—After successfully completed a mission for Alexander, Jason Denver, Nikki's old friend, surprises her in the bathroom of her hotel suite wit
- S01E22The DilemmaFebruary 2, 1991—What started out as an assignment to assist the German authorities in cracking down the numerous bank robberies of East German banks by West
Season02
- S02E01Tie a Yellow RibbonSeptember 21, 1991—The conclusion to season finale 'Dilemma' deals with the fallout and the resulting consequences. Senior IRA figures quickly realise that Lu
- S02E02Hidden AssetsSeptember 28, 1991—The panicky publisher of a very controversial book calls Alexander informing him that the author in question has received death threats from
- S02E03Fall from GraceOctober 5, 1991—On a visit to Washington, Senator Fisk, former chief counsel for the Addington Group, tells Alexander that new documents concerning Panama,
- S02E04It's All in the GameOctober 12, 1991—After Dr. Kistler calls Alexander about his successful discovery of the formula for cold fusion, someone abducts Kistler and steals all his
- S02E05Hide and SeekOctober 19, 1991—Dectective Larry Larwin calls Peter in the middle of the night about the murder of Mike Montog, a US police detective working on a counterfe
- S02E06Native WarriorsOctober 26, 1991—Alexander learns from various news reports that a young Native American Indian by the name of Hawk accuses Alchemicals of poisoning the land
- S02E07Breaking PointNovember 2, 1991—Stone takes off to Toronto to see Frank Percy, a long time friend and CIA operative, after receiving an urgent distress call from him. Once
- S02E08Going HomeNovember 9, 1991—Alexander decides that the first of his many NOVA project will be in Philadephia. The NOVA project will be clean of any mob involvement and
- S02E09Survival InstinctNovember 16, 1991—A US undercover agent is killed while investigating a suspected terrorist camp in New England operating under the pretense of a training fac
- S02E10Night of the Black MoonNovember 23, 1991—After signing a defence contract with Alexander and Raymond Cromwell, Canadian Minister of National Defence, Charles Hope receives a phone c
- S02E11Fire in the StreetsNovember 30, 1991—On a visit to New York to meet with city officials over his low-income house project, NOVA, the deputy mayor asks Alexander whether he would
- S02E12In the BloodDecember 7, 1991—Stasch Janic, who is Alexander's old friend, sends his daughter, Carmilla, who is a raising tennis sensation and Alexander's goddaughter, to
- S02E13Village of the DamnedDecember 14, 1991—An angry Dr. Joseph Severn, a bologist in charge of a World Food Organisation project in Ontario, transmits a message resembling that of an
- S02E14Prize PackageJanuary 4, 1992—Clark Reynolds, the US Deputy Secretary of State, calls Alexander looking for his assistance once again after a U.S. agent lost the package
- S02E15The Three TrampsJanuary 11, 1992—Gabrielle receives a package containing documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from a certain source in Pennsy
- S02E16Behind BarsMarch 14, 1992—Gabrielle goes on an archelogical trip with a few of her classmates and Dr. Hans Kline. Unfortunately, Turkish customs find a couple of his
- S02E17Cherchez la FemmeMarch 21, 1992—During a morning swim, a mysterious lady suddenly engages Peter in a 50-meter race. Afterwards, he begins seeing the lady, who stands accus
- S02E18Dead HeatApril 4, 1992—An unknown assailant murders an Arab guest of a charity event for animal rights organised by Ms. Previn at a public telephone booth at Charl
- S02E19La Belle Dame MoniqueApril 11, 1992—Monique Lamer, an Europol agent, has barely met an informant with information concerning a case involving the counterfeiting of the new sing
- S02E20Ripped from the GraveApril 18, 1992—Gabrielle meets her journalist friend, Stephane, at a reception for the new ambassador at the Romanian Embassy in Paris. Gabrielle calls A
- S02E21Trigger FingerMay 2, 1992—Alexander finds out from his old friend, Yuri Kechnof, that the attack on a French prison bus resulting in the escape of Pechnoff and five o
- S02E22The Circus RingMay 9, 1992—After a policeman on a motorcycle witnesses the dangerous driving by the driver of a blue van, he gives chase in hopes of stopping the van b
Season03
- S03E01I Remember It WellSeptember 26, 1992—Alexander's appraiser discovers the fake replicas of a priceless set of jewels because he arrived late due to the weather. Inspector Metti
- S03E02The StingOctober 3, 1992—After attending the surprise party planned by Suzanne, Ms. Previn discovers that she had left something behind at the restaurant, Henri's.
- S03E03Till Death Do Us PartOctober 10, 1992—Ms. Previn hands a mysterious video to Alexander, which shows Chantel, his lost wife, holding a newspaper and a mysterious voice telling Ale
- S03E04Bastille Day TerrorOctober 17, 1992—A former KGB agent, Monica Steile, and her boyfriend, Gorki, smuggled a Soviet (or Russian) nuclear missile into Paris after killing two Rus
- S03E05No Honour Among ThievesOctober 24, 1992—A renowned American mobster, Morris Lampke, and his widowed half sister, Anita Duvallier, arrive in Paris, apparently with a mob contract on
- S03E06Skin DeepOctober 31, 1992—The police informed a fashion designer that her beautiful star model was found dead. Apparently, Suzanne, an important investor in the fash
- S03E07The Curse of the Amber ChamberNovember 7, 1992—After several accidents at the excavation site of the last known place where the Amber Chamber was buried, the workers stopped working until
- S03E08Death SealNovember 14, 1992—Stone receives news that a military transport plane crashed in Newfoundland, Canada, carrying 50 soldiers and its crew including the elite U
- S03E09CyborgNovember 21, 1992—A Nobel winner genetic science researcher, Dr. Arno, and two security guards were brutally murdered at his secured lab inside the Krestline
- S03E10DOADecember 5, 1992—A woman wearing dark sunglass gunned down Peter Sinclair outside the courthouse, where a Libyan terrorist is due to be tried for the bombing
- S03E11Cat in the CradleDecember 11, 1992—Sam Percy, Frank Percy's son, went to a nightclub to collect on an old IOU from a certain John McGill, an informant for his father. Unknown
- S03E12Bosnian ConnectionDecember 20, 1992—Bridgette, the former head of the environmental group Earth Now, is in Bosnia at the height of the Bosnian civil war investigating into the
- S03E13BetrayedJanuary 9, 1993—A veteran assassin made an attempt on the life of Julia Devane, an old friend of Alexander, one evening after Julia had dinner with Alexande
- S03E14ClearcutFebruary 7, 1993—A couple of fun loving environmentalists finds a dead spotted owl crucified on a tree with a sign carrying a message to Alexander Addington
- S03E15Free to KillFebruary 14, 1993—Dr. Sharon Reynes calls Alexander to inform him that Jack Morris has been murdered. Apparently, the burglar stabbed Jack 13 times before fl
- S03E16The HitFebruary 28, 1993—Trevor Winston returns with a new scheme to revenge the defeat Peter handed him the last time round. During a getaway weekend in upper New
- S03E17French TwistMarch 21, 1993—Gabrielle attends a party in New York to celebrate the success of her friend, Quinton Jones, the artist. He tells her that his invitation i
- S03E18The ContenderMarch 28, 1993—Jack Roy, a fight promotor, tries to convince Sugar Duke, JJ's younger brother and a raising star in the boxing world, to leave his long tim
- S03E19The Raw TruthApril 11, 1993—Senator David Carmicheal dies in a car accident while on his way home after Monroe Park, a tabloid journalist and host of the television sho
- S03E20PeacemakerApril 18, 1993—After a supposed IRA bomb took the life of a Protestant revererd and prominent leader within the Northern Irish Unionist camp, Lord Eames, t
- S03E21MuerteMay 2, 1993—An assassin, suffering from a recurring nightmare involving people she had supposedly killed, and her two associates receive orders to kill
- S03E22BadguysMay 9, 1993—Jeremy Holifield, a journalist working for an Addington newspaper, tells Chelsea Little, a high-class escort, over a drink that he is about
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