Welcome to Paradox (1998–1998)
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Welcome to Paradox is a science fiction television series aired on the Sci Fi Channel in the U.S. and on Showcase in Canada. Despite being filmed in Canada, the series was broadcast first in the United States. It first aired on August 17, 1998, and ran for one season, ending on November 9, 1998. As this was part of a crop of new shows produced in 1998 by Sci Fi Channel and it was not successful beyond the first season, it was never placed in syndication. Betaville was the original title for the series. The series is an anthology hybrid. The stories all took place in the fictional future city of "Betaville", a nod to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville. However, the majority of the stories were adapted from short stories that originally didn't have anything to do with the fictional city. The stories were adapted from older works by famous science fiction authors which explored the impact of certain technologies on the human body and psyche, and the theme of humanity being overwhelmed by hostile technologies. Each episode had a host—originally to be named "Paradox" until the concept was dropped—that served as a narrator, adding a prologue and epilogue to the show as with The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. The Volkswagen New Beetle was chosen to be the transportation of Betaville. Any time it was called for a car to be featured in an episode, a New Beetle was used.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01Our Lady of the MachineAugust 17, 1998—A police detective with intuitive powers is assigned an unusual case: a 3-D hologram of the holy Madonna is being used in an extortion schem
- S01E02Research AlphaAugust 24, 1998—A scientist bent on accelerating human evolution makes the mistake of using himself as a test subject.
- S01E03The WinnerAugust 31, 1998—In a futuristic prison without bars, prisoners are controlled with pain-producing implants - until one prisoner fights back.
- S01E04News from D StreetSeptember 7, 1998—An inquiry agent (private detective) investigating the disappearance of an ordinary citizen discovers that both he and the man he is looking
- S01E05The Girl Who Was Plugged InSeptember 14, 1998—A homeless, suicidal woman gets a second chance when her brain is used as a remote controller of a beautiful body which has been artificiall
- S01E06The ExtraSeptember 21, 1998—A wealthy man clones himself in order to live in perpetual youth by transplanting his brain into younger versions of his own body.
- S01E07Alien JaneSeptember 28, 1998—A young woman whose body can feel no pain tries to hold on to her humanity when she becomes a human guinea pig.
- S01E08HemeacOctober 5, 1998—Hemeac is a student at a school run by machines. There the students learn to not only expand their mind with education but temper it with ma
- S01E09All Our Sins ForgottenOctober 12, 1998—A therapist develops a device to erase the troubling memories of his patients.
- S01E10Acute TriangleOctober 19, 1998—A wealthy, but lonely man seeks solace from his failing marriage in the arms of a biologically enhanced robot
- S01E11OptionsOctober 26, 1998—When new biological procedures allow men and women to change gender at will, a wife undergoes the treatment to try and understand her husban
- S01E12Blue ChampagneNovember 2, 1998—A man's fantasies come true when he begins a real life romance with a Virtual Reality megastar-until he realizes that his feelings no longer
- S01E13Into the ShopNovember 9, 1998—Lawagons, highly intelligent law enforcement automobiles, are the last line of defense against crime in Betaville. Howver, when the on-board
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