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COLLECTION · Series · 1996

FX: The Series

Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?

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* 6.3 (20)Drama
Studios
CTV
Runtime
60 min/ep
Release
09/09/1996
Score
6.3 / 10 (20)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
22 episodes · 1996
The Illusion (1)
Episode 1. The Illusion (1)
1996-09-09 · 60 min

When a beautiful actress helps frame movie special effects master Rollie Tyler for a vicious crime, he finds himself on the run from the law. Rollie turns to his pal, NYPD Detective Leo McCarthy, to help catch the real culprits. They…

The Illusion (2)
Episode 2. The Illusion (2)
1996-09-09 · 60 min

When a beautiful actress helps frame movie special effects master Rollie Tyler for a vicious crime, he finds himself on the run from the law. Rollie turns to his pal, NYPD Detective Leo McCarthy, to help catch the real culprits. They…

Zero Hour
Episode 3. Zero Hour
1996-09-16 · 60 min

While a huge bomb ticks away somewhere in the city of New York, the right-wing terrorist leader, who is in police custody, refuses to divulge it's location. Leo turns to Rollie to trick the terrorist into talking by making it appear that…

High Risk
Episode 4. High Risk
1996-09-23 · 60 min

A group of desperate ex-cons attempt to rob a gold exchange on the top floor of a downtown high rise. The robbery goes sour and the crooks take a group of hostages, including Leo's friend, Coleen O'Malley. Leo calls on movie Rollie, to…

Payback
Episode 5. Payback
1996-09-30 · 60 min

Tensions are high when Rollie decides to work on a gangster flick being directed by a director whom Angie believes was responsible for the on-set accident that killed her father years earlier. When the director himself is killed in a…

The Ring
Episode 6. The Ring
1996-10-07 · 60 min

A murderous boss of a stolen car ring slips through Leo's fingers yet again. With the help of Angie and Lucinda they get into the ""hot"" car business and stage an elaborate ruse to find the kingpin's secret ""chop shop"" and shut down…

Dingo
Episode 7. Dingo
1996-10-14 · 60 min

A family reunion between Rollie and his charming con-man father, Dingo, could be their last when a ruthless bookie leans on dad to pay off a huge gambling debt. Leo joins them in a complex con game of shutting down the biggest illegal…

White Light
Episode 8. White Light
1996-10-21 · 60 min

When her friend, a UFO buff, is murdered, Angie gets Rollie to enlist Leo to find the killer. With the help of Lucinda, their search leads them to a top-secret military base rumored to contain a crashed UFO and alien bodies. The danger…

The Brotherhood
Episode 9. The Brotherhood
1996-10-28 · 60 min

Rollie and Leo discover a deadly group of Irish Terrorists hatching a plot to steal the Crown Jewels of England from a New York museum where they are on display. Rollie and Leo stage a break-in at the museum to replace the real jewels…

French Kiss
Episode 10. French Kiss
1996-11-04 · 60 min

A powerful bomb kills an investment banker scheduled to testify against a Colombian drug-money laundering operation, and Rollie's good friend, and stuntman, Rick Forsythe. Leo discovers the bombing is part of an inside plot to steal $16…

Eye of the Dragon
Episode 11. Eye of the Dragon
1996-11-11 · 60 min

Romantic sparks fly when Rollie is reunited with a beautiful Hong Kong woman while working on a martial arts action movie. But Leo suspects she's really working with foreign assassins hired by Red China to kill the movie's popular star.…

Episode 12. Target
1996-11-18 · 60 min

After a protected witness is murdered, Leo enlists Rollie to help him trap a mysterious sniper who can hit a target from more than a mile away. But the plan fails and the sniper embarks on a campaign of revenge against Leo and his friends.

Episode 13. Supernote
1996-11-25 · 60 min

When a fellow cop is killed in a drug bust by a mid-eastern dignitary who claims diplomatic immunity, Leo gets Rollie to help expose the diplomat's ties to a Russian gangster before they can launch a diabolical counterfeiting operation.

Episode 14. Medea
1997-01-20 · 60 min

Rollie works on a major Broadway show that is plagued by suspicious accidents, and it looks like the star, a fading Hollywood actress attempting a comeback on stage, is the target of an obsessed fan who will stop at nothing, not even…

Episode 15. Shivaree
1997-01-27 · 60 min

Five years ago, three men staged a daring armored car robbery in which a young man was crippled for life. They then hid the money in a place that requires all three men to find. Now, the statute of limitations is almost up, and Leo is…

Episode 16. Gemini
1997-02-03 · 60 min

When Leo sees disturbing similarities between the science fiction movie for which Rollie is providing the special effects, he begins to suspect the movie's director is a serial killer who terrorized Central Park four years ago and was…

Episode 17. Double Image
1997-02-10 · 60 min

Learning that a wealthy computer magnate is going to be hit, Leo calls on Rollie so he can masquerade as the intended target and thwart the assassination. The trick works so well, however, that Rollie and Angie are kidnapped by the…

Episode 18. Quicksilver
1997-02-17 · 60 min

When Rollie discovers a sinister international arms smuggler named Victor Loubar has stolen his identity, he teams up with FBI agent Elena Serrano to hunt for the impostor. Together they enter the dark, sinister world of Loubar, where…

Episode 19. Get Fast
1997-04-21 · 60 min

When a drug dealer and hopped-up movie star get Rollie fired from his movie job, he teams up with Detective Francis Gatti and an embittered Narcotics Detective in a personal war against two of the city's biggest drug gangs. Using F/X…

Episode 20. Bad Influence
1997-04-28 · 60 min

Rollie is helping students make a video for a class project when a band of armed men invades the high school and takes over. Trapped and badly wounded, Rollie joins forces with a juvenile delinquent-in-the-making as they discover the…

Episode 21. Reunion
1997-05-05 · 60 min

An innocent meeting with an old school chum becomes a race against death for Angie when she is mistaken for a woman who possesses proof of a prominent law firm's connections to organized crime. When the kidnappers realize their mistake,…

Episode 22. Script Doctor
1997-05-12 · 60 min

Weary of having his work ruined by others, Rollie jumps at the chance to direct a low-budget ""heist"" movie. But he and Leo discover the film's ""producers"" are actually crooks who are planning to pull-off the fictional robbery for real…

Season 2
Season 2
18 episodes · 1997
Requiem for a Cop
Episode 1. Requiem for a Cop
1997-09-18 · 60 min

Leo McCarthy's death in a massive explosion is just the beginning of Rollie nightmare. An internal investigation into police corruption points the finger at Leo and Francis Gatti. When Rollie is implicated in a scheme to resell weapons…

Unfinished Business
Episode 2. Unfinished Business
1997-09-25 · 60 min

A mob accountant on the run pulls Rollie back into the unfinished investigation of Leo murder. The accountant will finger his boss, Vincent Capricio, for Leo's death if Rollie helps him disappear. Acting on the information, Frank Gatti…

Siege
Episode 3. Siege
1997-09-29 · 60 min

A quick bank withdrawal turns into Dog Day Afternoon, when Angie is caught in the middle of a botched mob operation. On location for ""Vindicator II,"" Rollie has all the high-tech gear he needs to make life miserable for the…

Shooting Mickey
Episode 4. Shooting Mickey
1997-10-06 · 60 min

When Angie joined up with young, twitchy director Levi Chase and her old school friend Kit Marchado, she figured making a Gonzo film would be a gas. But the premise behind the film -- breaching a high security penthouse to get a photo of…

Episode 5. Deep Cover
1997-10-13 · 60 min

On location in London, the last person Rollie expected to see was FBI agent Elena Serrano. This time she needs Rollie's help in spiriting an undercover agent back to New York with his deadly cargo of bio-toxin. But the undercover agent is…

Episode 6. House of Horrors
1997-10-20 · 60 min

Supermodel Danielle Vandenglas is the star of ""House of Horrors"" but death is her stand-in -- and Rollie Tyler is her only hope for survival. Car wrecks, fires, and fatally misfired F/X make it clear someone wants the film shut down.…

Episode 7. High Roller
1997-10-27 · 60 min

When the body of a Scotland Yard Inspector plummets from the sky and lands in the middle of New York City, a messy case lands on Mira's desk. The suspect, Justin Telemark, lives on board his private 747 -- the most exclusive casino in the…

Episode 8. Ritual
1997-11-03 · 60 min

Mangela, an Australian aborigine, tracks a stolen artifact to New York, but needs Rollie's strength and expertise to recover it from a renegade tribesman. Rollie undertakes the quest of a lifetime, to save his friend and face down his own…

Episode 9. Spanish Harlem
1997-11-10 · 60 min

A frantic phone call from Mira's ex-husband sends Rollie and Mira on a rescue mission into the old 'hood. But things go bad when the van is ripped off and a squad of high-tech killers joins the pursuit.

Episode 10. Flashback
1997-11-17 · 60 min

With Rollie's help, the assassination of a US Senator is recreated in a movie, and then in real life -- with the original assassin! When it's discovered that Orrin Hill, the assassin, has a brain tumor erasing his memory, a plot is…

Episode 11. Standoff
1998-02-02 · 60 min

Rollie and Angie do Mira a favor by providing cover for a young federal witness. The situation explodes in their faces when a high-tech motorcycle gang tracks them down and beseighes them in an abandoned farm. Result: Total War!

Episode 12. Vigilantes
1998-02-09 · 60 min

It's revenge twice over when Ricky Delacruz escapes justice and goes after the man who almost put him away: Rollie Tyler. But his victim ends up being Angie, and Rollie sets out to even the score...no matter what it takes!

Episode 13. Reaper
1998-02-16 · 60 min

Random deaths in Kansas...the cold-blooded murder of a militia cell in Pennsylvania...the apparent suicide of a government scientist in New York -- threads that lead Rollie and Mira into a shadowy world where nothing is as it seems. When…

Episode 14. Inferno
1998-02-23 · 60 min

To clear his name when he is blamed for a flashover fire on set, Rollie probes the twisted psyche of a high-tech arsonist and, with the help of one of his victims, enters a dark world of betrayal and deceit culminating in a showdown in a…

Episode 15. Evil Eye
1998-04-07 · 60 min

When a young girl is kidnapped from Rollie's set and sealed into an airtight chamber, Rollie and Mira must race the clock to rescue her. The young victim of an extortion plot has twenty-four hours to live, unless Rollie can use his F/X…

Episode 16. Chiller
1998-05-11 · 60 min

Rollie, Angie, and Mira enter the world of life after death to solve the murder of a hapless drifter. The frozen body of a nameless drifter is discovered on the set of Rollie's latest flick and leads Rollie, Angie and Mira to Bio-Dorm, a…

Episode 17. Thief
1998-05-18 · 60 min

Rollie and Angie get to put on the Ritz as they become cat burglars to the rich and famous to lure the reclusive super-thief Sebastian from his high-tech lair. In the process, they move from simulated robberies to the real things, putting…

Episode 18. Red Storm
1998-05-25 · 60 min

Loubar is back-with a vengeance! His assignment: to kill the Chinese Trade Minister. Using Rollie's identity, and three days stolen from his life, Loubar constructs a perfect frame. Unless Rollie stops the assassination, his life as a…

Cast by season
Cameron Daddo
Cameron Daddo
Roland 'Rollie' Tyler
Christina Cox
Christina Cox
Angela 'Angie' Ramirez
Richard Waugh
Richard Waugh
Captain Marvin Van Duran
Jason Blicker
Jason Blicker
Detective Francis Gatti
Kevin Dobson
Kevin Dobson
Detective Leo McCarthy
Sherry Miller
Sherry Miller
Colleen O'Malley
Carrie-Anne Moss
Carrie-Anne Moss
Lucinda Scott
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