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COLLECTION · Series · 1990

Counterstrike

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.

Source: TMDB
* 7.0 (3)ActionAdventureDrama
Studios
CTV
Runtime
60 min/ep
Age rating
NR
Release
01/07/1990
Score
7.0 / 10 (3)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
22 episodes · 1990
Episode 1. Dealbreaker
1990-07-01 · 60 min

In the series premiere, billionaire industrialist Alexander Addington finds out from a source at the UN that Annie Morley, an old flame of his employee Peter Sinclair, has been kidnapped after her husband, Eric, reneges on a deal with a…

Episode 2. Dead in the Air
1990-07-08 · 60 min

An Addington contact at the US Justice Department informs Alexander just hours before the naming of a special prosecutor, that a small time Washington DC drug importer may have plans to take down the special prosecutor, who will go to…

Episode 3. Now and at the Hour of Our Death
1990-07-15 · 60 min

As the military junta of the South American republic of San Pedro prepares for their first democratic elections in decades, an aide to the President informs Father Vera, a Catholic priest who founded a key opposition, that the clergy was…

Episode 4. Art for Art's Sake
1990-07-22 · 60 min

As Lord Charles Sutcliffe of the Sutcliffe Museum readies to return a priceless artifact to its country of origin by handing it to Prime Minister Milos Janzan, an old friend of Alexander, masked gunmen armed with semi-automatic machine…

Episode 5. Power Play
1990-07-29 · 60 min

After a reception with various bankers, Pres. Pauai of Mahal retires to his hotel suite with his senior staff. They confer on the best course of action after examining the draft agreement submitted by Mr. Portersen and many other…

Episode 6. A Little Purity
1990-08-05 · 60 min

An environmental group by the name of Earth Now holds a protest rally outside a factory of a polluting chemical company, Grafton Chemicals, where a terrorist bomb exploded and the group's slogan was at the scene of the crime. Grafton…

Episode 7. Son with a Gun
1990-08-19 · 60 min

After an ugly quarrel between Count Biondino and his son, Enrico, Enrico stormed out of the house angerily. Within hours, two masked gunmen shot dead a couple of drug dealers in broad daylight on the streets of Rome. The police,…

Episode 8. The Lady of the Rhine
1990-08-26 · 60 min

A young ambitious journalist of horticulture fails to make a deadline for his article about tulips on the Rhine. Addington, who is a tulip connoisseur, calls his editor to complain about the missing article. After receiving the call and…

Episode 9. Knights of Aram
1990-09-09 · 60 min

News reports claim that Count Antonio Debroca, Alexander's old friend and the reigning master of the kinghthood, has committed suicide within hours of telling Alexander that he urgently needs a face-to-face discussion about the fate of…

Episode 10. Extreme Measures
1990-09-16 · 60 min

On a visit to his friend's vineyard, Peter Sinclair heard shots being exchanged in the cellar. Apparently someone tried to kill his friend, Jean-Paul Grenier. Grenier confides in Sinclair and Addington that seven other former members of…

Episode 11. Thanos
1990-10-07 · 60 min

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 daughters have been separated from their parents and are held by a colleague of her husband who is…

Episode 12. Siege
1990-10-14 · 60 min

While Alexander exchanged light banter with PM Haddad, a terrorist group by the name of October Justice disrupted a conference between top industrialists of the world and leaders of the developing world in Normandy by storming the…

Episode 13. Escape Route
1990-10-28 · 60 min

In an attempt to divert the police from an impending jail break, the mastermind of an extinct terrorist organisation and the brother of the prisoner nominally ressurrect and reinstitute the terrorist group opposed to globalisation and…

Episode 14. The Beginning
1990-11-10 · 60 min

A terrorist group intercepts Addington's car en route to a party and kidnaps Chantel Addington. The Toronto police quickly sets up office at the Addington Toronto townhouse to track and monitor any ransom demand phone calls that might…

Episode 15. Cry of the Children
1990-11-17 · 60 min

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 the infant girl, Gaby, is Luke's daughter. As a result, Luke goes to Addington to ask for some time…

Episode 16. Masks
1990-11-24 · 60 min

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 production of chemicals that can be used to manufacture chemicals weapons, which Alexander has been…

Episode 17. Mindbender
1990-12-01 · 60 min

A hard line Russian Army officer reviews the profiles of several former servicemen and selects Luke Brenner for a very special operation. Unknown to Luke, the lady he is flirting with drugs his drink before Luke is flown out to the…

Episode 18. Regal Connection
1990-12-15 · 60 min

After debugging the computer at the Addington townhouse in New York, a group of Africans kidnapped Professor Robert Williams outside his home. Suzanne sends Peter Sinclair to see Mrs. Yvonne Williams after she called twice, telling…

Episode 19. Cinema Verité
1990-12-22 · 60 min

News reports claims that Marlowe, a mystery novel writer and an Olympic-class swimmer in the backstroke, accidentally drowns while fly-fishing in Lake Ontario in the middle of winter. A man known to write dangerously and live just as…

Episode 20. Verathion
1991-01-12 · 60 min

A very desparate Suzanne calls her father from Union Station in Toronto after her suppose date to the Award Ceremony for the Toronto Film Festival, Tommy, who changed her plans at the last minute is killed just moments after the…

Episode 21. The Millerton Papers
1991-01-19 · 60 min

After successfully completed a mission for Alexander, Jason Denver, Nikki's old friend, surprises her in the bathroom of her hotel suite with the loot of a heist, that Nikki's father is suppose to fence. She tells him that the loot must…

Episode 22. The Dilemma
1991-02-02 · 60 min

What started out as an assignment to assist the German authorities in cracking down the numerous bank robberies of East German banks by Western professionals following the reunification of the country turned out to be an attempt to bring…

Season 2
22 episodes · 1991
Episode 1. Tie a Yellow Ribbon
1991-09-21 · 60 min

The conclusion to season finale 'Dilemma' deals with the fallout and the resulting consequences. Senior IRA figures quickly realise that Luke Brenner and all his known associate, namely Peter Sinclair, are involved in the death of one of…

Episode 2. Hidden Assets
1991-09-28 · 60 min

The panicky publisher of a very controversial book calls Alexander informing him that the author in question has received death threats from various corners. He also mentions that he cannot afford to have anything go wrong now as the…

Episode 3. Fall from Grace
1991-10-05 · 60 min

On a visit to Washington, Senator Fisk, former chief counsel for the Addington Group, tells Alexander that new documents concerning Panama, namely the private files of General Manuel Noriega, former Panamanian dictator; that can bring…

Episode 4. It's All in the Game
1991-10-12 · 60 min

After Dr. Kistler calls Alexander about his successful discovery of the formula for cold fusion, someone abducts Kistler and steals all his papers. Alexander finds out in a phone call from the Dean Lawrence Cartwright at City University…

Episode 5. Hide and Seek
1991-10-19 · 60 min

Dectective Larry Larwin calls Peter in the middle of the night about the murder of Mike Montog, a US police detective working on a counterfeiting and murder operation, and his entire family in their car by a bomb. At Montog's funeral,…

Episode 6. Native Warriors
1991-10-26 · 60 min

Alexander learns from various news reports that a young Native American Indian by the name of Hawk accuses Alchemicals of poisoning the land and water of the reservation in an attempt to kill the Native Indians. To make matters worse,…

Episode 7. Breaking Point
1991-11-02 · 60 min

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 in Toronto, Stone goes straight to Frank's office only to find him dead from a gunshot. The…

Episode 8. Going Home
1991-11-09 · 60 min

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, more importantly, provide affordable housing for low income families. The NOVA project in…

Episode 9. Survival Instinct
1991-11-16 · 60 min

A US undercover agent is killed while investigating a suspected terrorist camp in New England operating under the pretense of a training facility for security personel. Clark suspects that the agent's cover was blown by a leak from the…

Episode 10. Night of the Black Moon
1991-11-23 · 60 min

After signing a defence contract with Alexander and Raymond Cromwell, Canadian Minister of National Defence, Charles Hope receives a phone call informing him that his only child has been kidnapped by Lok, someone Hope has formed a…

Episode 11. Fire in the Streets
1991-11-30 · 60 min

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 be gracious enough to be photographed at the site of this project with him. While at the site,…

Episode 12. In the Blood
1991-12-07 · 60 min

Stasch Janic, who is Alexander's old friend, sends his daughter, Carmilla, who is a raising tennis sensation and Alexander's goddaughter, to a excellent tennis coach and a family friend after her old coach, Trevin, is stabbed after a…

Episode 13. Village of the Damned
1991-12-14 · 60 min

An angry Dr. Joseph Severn, a bologist in charge of a World Food Organisation project in Ontario, transmits a message resembling that of an insane man after he discovers a crate of liquid pesticide in a warehouse on his experimental farm,…

Episode 14. Prize Package
1992-01-04 · 60 min

Clark Reynolds, the US Deputy Secretary of State, calls Alexander looking for his assistance once again after a U.S. agent lost the package he was guarding to an Iraqi hit squad in Toronto. After securing Alexander's assistance, a team…

Episode 15. The Three Tramps
1992-01-11 · 60 min

Gabrielle receives a package containing documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from a certain source in Pennsylvania, who was killed within the hour of sending the package. She brings the entire package to…

Episode 16. Behind Bars
1992-03-14 · 60 min

Gabrielle goes on an archelogical trip with a few of her classmates and Dr. Hans Kline. Unfortunately, Turkish customs find a couple of historic coins in her purse as she clears customs and passport control to leave Turkey. As a result,…

Episode 17. Cherchez la Femme
1992-03-21 · 60 min

During a morning swim, a mysterious lady suddenly engages Peter in a 50-meter race. Afterwards, he begins seeing the lady, who stands accused of murdering her husband and stealing the jewels. Unknown to Peter, an American insurance…

Episode 18. Dead Heat
1992-04-04 · 60 min

An unknown assailant murders an Arab guest of a charity event for animal rights organised by Ms. Previn at a public telephone booth at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The assailant successfully penetrates the tight security at the charity…

Episode 19. La Belle Dame Monique
1992-04-11 · 60 min

Monique Lamer, an Europol agent, has barely met an informant with information concerning a case involving the counterfeiting of the new single European currency, the Euro, before someone guns him down. Monique goes to see Stone after she…

Episode 20. Ripped from the Grave
1992-04-18 · 60 min

Gabrielle meets her journalist friend, Stephane, at a reception for the new ambassador at the Romanian Embassy in Paris. Gabrielle calls Alexander from the police station the following morning after she learns that her date, Stephane,…

Episode 21. Trigger Finger
1992-05-02 · 60 min

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 other convicts has direct implications on the life of President Burbullis on the eve of her visit…

Episode 22. The Circus Ring
1992-05-09 · 60 min

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 before greater mishap occurred. Unfortunately, the driver drives the van off the road and into a…

Season 3
22 episodes · 1992
Episode 1. I Remember It Well
1992-09-26 · 60 min

Alexander's appraiser discovers the fake replicas of a priceless set of jewels because he arrived late due to the weather. Inspector Metti tells Alexander and Peter that he suspects that the burglar is none other than Nikki Beaumont…

Episode 2. The Sting
1992-10-03 · 60 min

After attending the surprise party planned by Suzanne, Ms. Previn discovers that she had left something behind at the restaurant, Henri's. Upon arriving at the restaurant, Alexander discovers a few gangsters harassing his friend Henri.…

Episode 3. Till Death Do Us Part
1992-10-10 · 60 min

Ms. Previn hands a mysterious video to Alexander, which shows Chantel, his lost wife, holding a newspaper and a mysterious voice telling Alexander to await further instructions. Peter recongises the voice belonging to one Trevor Winston,…

Episode 4. Bastille Day Terror
1992-10-17 · 60 min

A former KGB agent, Monica Steile, and her boyfriend, Gorki, smuggled a Soviet (or Russian) nuclear missile into Paris after killing two Russian border guards. Clark from the US State Department flies to Paris to tell Alexander and the…

Episode 5. No Honour Among Thieves
1992-10-24 · 60 min

A renowned American mobster, Morris Lampke, and his widowed half sister, Anita Duvallier, arrive in Paris, apparently with a mob contract on his head before he can testify in front of the US Senate Committee on Organised Crime. James…

Episode 6. Skin Deep
1992-10-31 · 60 min

The police informed a fashion designer that her beautiful star model was found dead. Apparently, Suzanne, an important investor in the fashion house ran by the designer, went off to her Paris office to help with the numerous media…

Episode 7. The Curse of the Amber Chamber
1992-11-07 · 60 min

After several accidents at the excavation site of the last known place where the Amber Chamber was buried, the workers stopped working until their safety can be guarranteed. Apparently, one of Alexander's company has been hired to locate…

Episode 8. Death Seal
1992-11-14 · 60 min

Stone receives news that a military transport plane crashed in Newfoundland, Canada, carrying 50 soldiers and its crew including the elite US Navy SEAL Squad 7 from a training mission in the Middle East. A certain Colonel Jack Devon…

Episode 9. Cyborg
1992-11-21 · 60 min

A Nobel winner genetic science researcher, Dr. Arno, and two security guards were brutally murdered at his secured lab inside the Krestline compound and his assistant, Moya, was gone. Alexander tells Peter that Krestline is a recent…

Episode 10. DOA
1992-12-05 · 60 min

A woman wearing dark sunglass gunned down Peter Sinclair outside the courthouse, where a Libyan terrorist is due to be tried for the bombing of an airplane over Scotland. The dart that hit Peter contained a deadly connoction that will…

Episode 11. Cat in the Cradle
1992-12-11 · 60 min

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 to Sam at the time, his late father had some bad ghosts that were never meant to dug up after his…

Episode 12. Bosnian Connection
1992-12-20 · 60 min

Bridgette, the former head of the environmental group Earth Now, is in Bosnia at the height of the Bosnian civil war investigating into the lost relief shipments of Firstline, a charity heavily supported by Alexander. At the time of her…

Episode 13. Betrayed
1993-01-09 · 60 min

A veteran assassin made an attempt on the life of Julia Devane, an old friend of Alexander, one evening after Julia had dinner with Alexander. Shortly afterwards, Alexander sends the team to protect Julia and investigate the attempt.…

Episode 14. Clearcut
1993-02-07 · 60 min

A couple of fun loving environmentalists finds a dead spotted owl crucified on a tree with a sign carrying a message to Alexander Addington as they spent a beautiful day in the great outdoors. Alexander receives an urgent call from the…

Episode 15. Free to Kill
1993-02-14 · 60 min

Dr. Sharon Reynes calls Alexander to inform him that Jack Morris has been murdered. Apparently, the burglar stabbed Jack 13 times before fleeing without taking a single item. Dr Raynes also tells Alexander that Jack was the third of the…

Episode 16. The Hit
1993-02-28 · 60 min

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 York state, Trevor hires two goons to kidnap Peter while Peter's date, Yvonne, reports that Peter…

Episode 17. French Twist
1993-03-21 · 60 min

Gabrielle attends a party in New York to celebrate the success of her friend, Quinton Jones, the artist. He tells her that his invitation is related to some information he has for her. The next day, Gabrielle wakes up in a daze to the…

Episode 18. The Contender
1993-03-28 · 60 min

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 time trainer, Vinny, for him and his big money before a big fight. While JJ stops by to see his…

Episode 19. The Raw Truth
1993-04-11 · 60 min

Senator David Carmicheal dies in a car accident while on his way home after Monroe Park, a tabloid journalist and host of the television show 'The Raw Truth', implicates the Senator in Jenette Moore's fatal car accident on election night…

Episode 20. Peacemaker
1993-04-18 · 60 min

After a supposed IRA bomb took the life of a Protestant revererd and prominent leader within the Northern Irish Unionist camp, Lord Eames, the Undersecretary for affairs in Northern Ireland, orders a team from the British Special Air…

Episode 21. Muerte
1993-05-02 · 60 min

An assassin, suffering from a recurring nightmare involving people she had supposedly killed, and her two associates receive orders to kill Bill Kaskins, an industrialist, at a large reception. Unfortunately, Peter Sinclair and the…

Episode 22. Badguys
1993-05-09 · 60 min

Jeremy Holifield, a journalist working for an Addington newspaper, tells Chelsea Little, a high-class escort, over a drink that he is about to break a story that will send shake the British establishment to the core and, in the process,…

Cast by season
Simon MacCorkindale
Simon MacCorkindale
Peter Sinclair
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer
Alexander Addington
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Tom Kneebone
Bennett
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Andre Mayers
J.J.
Stephen Shellen
Stephen Shellen
Luke Brenner
Laurence Ashley
Laurence Ashley
Suzanne Addington
Cyrielle Clair
Cyrielle Clair
Nicole Beaumont
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