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Counterstrike

TV·1990–1993·3 seasons, 66 episodes·CTV·Action & Adventure, Drama·1h

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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.

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Episodes by season

Season0122Episodes1990–91AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01DealbreakerJuly 1, 1990In the series premiere, billionaire industrialist Alexander Addington finds out from a source at the UN that Annie Morley, an old flame of h
  2. S01E02Dead in the AirJuly 8, 1990An Addington contact at the US Justice Department informs Alexander just hours before the naming of a special prosecutor, that a small time
  3. S01E03Now and at the Hour of Our DeathJuly 15, 1990As the military junta of the South American republic of San Pedro prepares for their first democratic elections in decades, an aide to the P
  4. S01E04Art for Art's SakeJuly 22, 1990As Lord Charles Sutcliffe of the Sutcliffe Museum readies to return a priceless artifact to its country of origin by handing it to Prime Min
  5. S01E05Power PlayJuly 29, 1990After a reception with various bankers, Pres. Pauai of Mahal retires to his hotel suite with his senior staff. They confer on the best cour
  6. S01E06A Little PurityAugust 5, 1990An environmental group by the name of Earth Now holds a protest rally outside a factory of a polluting chemical company, Grafton Chemicals,
  7. S01E07Son with a GunAugust 19, 1990After an ugly quarrel between Count Biondino and his son, Enrico, Enrico stormed out of the house angerily. Within hours, two masked gunmen
  8. S01E08The Lady of the RhineAugust 26, 1990A young ambitious journalist of horticulture fails to make a deadline for his article about tulips on the Rhine. Addington, who is a tulip
  9. S01E09Knights of AramSeptember 9, 1990News reports claim that Count Antonio Debroca, Alexander's old friend and the reigning master of the kinghthood, has committed suicide withi
  10. S01E10Extreme MeasuresSeptember 16, 1990On a visit to his friend's vineyard, Peter Sinclair heard shots being exchanged in the cellar. Apparently someone tried to kill his friend,
  11. S01E11ThanosOctober 7, 1990In 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
  12. S01E12SiegeOctober 14, 1990While Alexander exchanged light banter with PM Haddad, a terrorist group by the name of October Justice disrupted a conference between top i
  13. S01E13Escape RouteOctober 28, 1990In an attempt to divert the police from an impending jail break, the mastermind of an extinct terrorist organisation and the brother of the
  14. S01E14The BeginningNovember 10, 1990A terrorist group intercepts Addington's car en route to a party and kidnaps Chantel Addington. The Toronto police quickly sets up office a
  15. S01E15Cry of the ChildrenNovember 17, 1990Luke'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
  16. S01E16MasksNovember 24, 1990A 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
  17. S01E17MindbenderDecember 1, 1990A hard line Russian Army officer reviews the profiles of several former servicemen and selects Luke Brenner for a very special operation. U
  18. S01E18Regal ConnectionDecember 15, 1990After debugging the computer at the Addington townhouse in New York, a group of Africans kidnapped Professor Robert Williams outside his hom
  19. S01E19Cinema VeritéDecember 22, 1990News reports claims that Marlowe, a mystery novel writer and an Olympic-class swimmer in the backstroke, accidentally drowns while fly-fishi
  20. S01E20VerathionJanuary 12, 1991A very desparate Suzanne calls her father from Union Station in Toronto after her suppose date to the Award Ceremony for the Toronto Film Fe
  21. S01E21The Millerton PapersJanuary 19, 1991After successfully completed a mission for Alexander, Jason Denver, Nikki's old friend, surprises her in the bathroom of her hotel suite wit
  22. S01E22The DilemmaFebruary 2, 1991What started out as an assignment to assist the German authorities in cracking down the numerous bank robberies of East German banks by West

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0222Episodes1991–92AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Tie a Yellow RibbonSeptember 21, 1991The conclusion to season finale 'Dilemma' deals with the fallout and the resulting consequences. Senior IRA figures quickly realise that Lu
  2. S02E02Hidden AssetsSeptember 28, 1991The panicky publisher of a very controversial book calls Alexander informing him that the author in question has received death threats from
  3. S02E03Fall from GraceOctober 5, 1991On a visit to Washington, Senator Fisk, former chief counsel for the Addington Group, tells Alexander that new documents concerning Panama,
  4. S02E04It's All in the GameOctober 12, 1991After Dr. Kistler calls Alexander about his successful discovery of the formula for cold fusion, someone abducts Kistler and steals all his
  5. S02E05Hide and SeekOctober 19, 1991Dectective Larry Larwin calls Peter in the middle of the night about the murder of Mike Montog, a US police detective working on a counterfe
  6. S02E06Native WarriorsOctober 26, 1991Alexander learns from various news reports that a young Native American Indian by the name of Hawk accuses Alchemicals of poisoning the land
  7. S02E07Breaking PointNovember 2, 1991Stone takes off to Toronto to see Frank Percy, a long time friend and CIA operative, after receiving an urgent distress call from him. Once
  8. S02E08Going HomeNovember 9, 1991Alexander decides that the first of his many NOVA project will be in Philadephia. The NOVA project will be clean of any mob involvement and
  9. S02E09Survival InstinctNovember 16, 1991A US undercover agent is killed while investigating a suspected terrorist camp in New England operating under the pretense of a training fac
  10. S02E10Night of the Black MoonNovember 23, 1991After signing a defence contract with Alexander and Raymond Cromwell, Canadian Minister of National Defence, Charles Hope receives a phone c
  11. S02E11Fire in the StreetsNovember 30, 1991On 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
  12. S02E12In the BloodDecember 7, 1991Stasch Janic, who is Alexander's old friend, sends his daughter, Carmilla, who is a raising tennis sensation and Alexander's goddaughter, to
  13. S02E13Village of the DamnedDecember 14, 1991An angry Dr. Joseph Severn, a bologist in charge of a World Food Organisation project in Ontario, transmits a message resembling that of an
  14. S02E14Prize PackageJanuary 4, 1992Clark Reynolds, the US Deputy Secretary of State, calls Alexander looking for his assistance once again after a U.S. agent lost the package
  15. S02E15The Three TrampsJanuary 11, 1992Gabrielle receives a package containing documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from a certain source in Pennsy
  16. S02E16Behind BarsMarch 14, 1992Gabrielle goes on an archelogical trip with a few of her classmates and Dr. Hans Kline. Unfortunately, Turkish customs find a couple of his
  17. S02E17Cherchez la FemmeMarch 21, 1992During a morning swim, a mysterious lady suddenly engages Peter in a 50-meter race. Afterwards, he begins seeing the lady, who stands accus
  18. S02E18Dead HeatApril 4, 1992An unknown assailant murders an Arab guest of a charity event for animal rights organised by Ms. Previn at a public telephone booth at Charl
  19. S02E19La Belle Dame MoniqueApril 11, 1992Monique Lamer, an Europol agent, has barely met an informant with information concerning a case involving the counterfeiting of the new sing
  20. S02E20Ripped from the GraveApril 18, 1992Gabrielle meets her journalist friend, Stephane, at a reception for the new ambassador at the Romanian Embassy in Paris. Gabrielle calls A
  21. S02E21Trigger FingerMay 2, 1992Alexander 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
  22. S02E22The Circus RingMay 9, 1992After 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

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season0322Episodes1992–93AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01I Remember It WellSeptember 26, 1992Alexander's appraiser discovers the fake replicas of a priceless set of jewels because he arrived late due to the weather. Inspector Metti
  2. S03E02The StingOctober 3, 1992After attending the surprise party planned by Suzanne, Ms. Previn discovers that she had left something behind at the restaurant, Henri's.
  3. S03E03Till Death Do Us PartOctober 10, 1992Ms. Previn hands a mysterious video to Alexander, which shows Chantel, his lost wife, holding a newspaper and a mysterious voice telling Ale
  4. S03E04Bastille Day TerrorOctober 17, 1992A former KGB agent, Monica Steile, and her boyfriend, Gorki, smuggled a Soviet (or Russian) nuclear missile into Paris after killing two Rus
  5. S03E05No Honour Among ThievesOctober 24, 1992A renowned American mobster, Morris Lampke, and his widowed half sister, Anita Duvallier, arrive in Paris, apparently with a mob contract on
  6. S03E06Skin DeepOctober 31, 1992The police informed a fashion designer that her beautiful star model was found dead. Apparently, Suzanne, an important investor in the fash
  7. S03E07The Curse of the Amber ChamberNovember 7, 1992After several accidents at the excavation site of the last known place where the Amber Chamber was buried, the workers stopped working until
  8. S03E08Death SealNovember 14, 1992Stone receives news that a military transport plane crashed in Newfoundland, Canada, carrying 50 soldiers and its crew including the elite U
  9. S03E09CyborgNovember 21, 1992A Nobel winner genetic science researcher, Dr. Arno, and two security guards were brutally murdered at his secured lab inside the Krestline
  10. S03E10DOADecember 5, 1992A woman wearing dark sunglass gunned down Peter Sinclair outside the courthouse, where a Libyan terrorist is due to be tried for the bombing
  11. S03E11Cat in the CradleDecember 11, 1992Sam 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
  12. S03E12Bosnian ConnectionDecember 20, 1992Bridgette, the former head of the environmental group Earth Now, is in Bosnia at the height of the Bosnian civil war investigating into the
  13. S03E13BetrayedJanuary 9, 1993A veteran assassin made an attempt on the life of Julia Devane, an old friend of Alexander, one evening after Julia had dinner with Alexande
  14. S03E14ClearcutFebruary 7, 1993A couple of fun loving environmentalists finds a dead spotted owl crucified on a tree with a sign carrying a message to Alexander Addington
  15. S03E15Free to KillFebruary 14, 1993Dr. Sharon Reynes calls Alexander to inform him that Jack Morris has been murdered. Apparently, the burglar stabbed Jack 13 times before fl
  16. S03E16The HitFebruary 28, 1993Trevor Winston returns with a new scheme to revenge the defeat Peter handed him the last time round. During a getaway weekend in upper New
  17. S03E17French TwistMarch 21, 1993Gabrielle attends a party in New York to celebrate the success of her friend, Quinton Jones, the artist. He tells her that his invitation i
  18. S03E18The ContenderMarch 28, 1993Jack 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
  19. S03E19The Raw TruthApril 11, 1993Senator David Carmicheal dies in a car accident while on his way home after Monroe Park, a tabloid journalist and host of the television sho
  20. S03E20PeacemakerApril 18, 1993After a supposed IRA bomb took the life of a Protestant revererd and prominent leader within the Northern Irish Unionist camp, Lord Eames, t
  21. S03E21MuerteMay 2, 1993An assassin, suffering from a recurring nightmare involving people she had supposedly killed, and her two associates receive orders to kill
  22. S03E22BadguysMay 9, 1993Jeremy Holifield, a journalist working for an Addington newspaper, tells Chelsea Little, a high-class escort, over a drink that he is about

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

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