Archive for the ‘On this Day’ Category


SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – The Three Tramps



Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep15 – The Three Tramps
First Aired: 11 January 1992
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: From a secret source Gabrielle gets important information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. She might be asked to publish the truth and the team tries to separate the false facts from the true ones. Eight people take an unusual interest in these old unrevealed secrets.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Prize Package



Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep14 – Prize Package
First Aired: 4 January 1992
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: On the behalf of the US Department of Internal Affair, Alexander assigns the team to escort the widow of an Iraqi military official to Washington. The woman left her country and brought along detailed plans of the next military maneuver of Iraq.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Village of the Damned



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep13 – Village of the Damned
First Aired: 14 December 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Alexander sends his team to a remote research fortress whose leader has broadcast confusing SOS radio signals. There they discover that the fortress has been taken by German hit man whose foreign workers are used as guinea pigs in order to test the effect of a new chemical weapon. The rescue of the workers will prove to be a hard task for the team.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – In the Blood



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep12 – In the Blood
First Aired: 7 December 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: The team must keep watch on Carmilla, Alexander’s 16-year-old goddaughter who is a rising tennis star and his politically important friend from Yugoslavia, Stash Janic. Carmilla’s coach has been murdered and she is now training with the successful but controversial Vladislav Adamsky. Soon it turns out that Carmilla is at the heart of a dangerous intrigue.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Fire in the Streets



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep11 – Fire in the Streets
First Aired: 30 November 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Alexander Addington and Deputy Mayor visit the homeless who live in dilapidated houses, which will be renovated with the help of Nova Addington project. The event will turn into a nightmare, as an unpredictable crack dealer takes the group as hostages and the police appear at the meeting place. This hinders Counterstrike team’s work whose goal is releasing its boss without bloodshed.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Night of the Black Moon



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep10 – Night of the Black Moon
First Aired: 23 November 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: The team goes after a Triad boss after he kidnaps the daughter of one of Alex’s business partners. In his childhood, the international businessman Charles Hope performed a blood oath ritual of the Black Moon gang. This oath resurfaces again and threatens Alexander Addington’s business partner and the military security of the Western World. Black Moon gangsters have abducted Hope’s daughter in order to guarantee his loyalty. Looking forward to solving his bloody commitments therewith, Hope resigns to an important military technological contract. Thereupon Alexander sends his team to Chinatown to solve the riddle surrounding Hope’s behavior.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Survival Instinct



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep9 – Survival Instinct
First Aired: 16 November 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: An undercover agent of the US government is murdered during a practice at a private training camp. The owner of the site is a highly bestowed, embittered and dangerous American Colonel. The team joins this military training program in order to reveal an evil mission planned by the Colonel. That compels Stone to prepare Gabrielle and Peter as recruits…

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Going Home



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep8 – Going Home
First Aired: 9 November 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: The team investigates problems related to Stone’s international Nova Project, a project that aims to rebuild the ruined cities of America and the creation of new jobs free from crime. Clues lead the team to Stone’s home city, Philadelphia, and to its Mafia members. Stone must face a long time friend in order to save his former flame.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Breaking Point



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep07 – Breaking Point
First Aired: 2 November 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Stone goes to Toronto and stumbles upon his friend’s murder. The man was Frank Percy, a former CIA agent. Police asks Stone to stay as a witness. He recalls the nightmare of his wife’s murder. The team is forced to not be involved in the case. It is presumed that business associate Jake Levy and his new partner, arms dealer Kirk Gagosian, have something to do with the crime. Gabrielle finds a call-girl and a sleazy connection between Jake, the CIA and Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Native Warriors



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep6 – Native Warriors
First Aired: 26 October 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: As a U.S. senator is taken as a hostage in a reserve, Alexander sends his team and an old childhood friend, the Indian lawyer Gilbert St. John. Even the American and the Canadian government are prepared to use their troops. The tribal leader Hawk fights for the survival of his people and his country that the toxic waste from a chemical company is threatening. In doing this, he wants to draw attention on his people’s suffering. But the team discovers that behind this incident there is another deadly maneuver …

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Hide and Seek



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep5 – Hide and Seek
First Aired: 19 October 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: The murder of a policeman from Chicago, ex-partner of Peter Sinclair’s, leads the team to Rio de Janeiro. There is the murderer, an artist named Rik Allen, who fled the American authorities. Gabrielle is trying to lure him into a trap against their will, but the psychopath’s charisma overpowers her. Thus she finds herself in over her head and it raises the question whether she is actually suited for Stone’s team.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – It’s All in the Game



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep4 – It’s All in the Game
First Aired: 12 October 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: After a scientist has succeeded in producing cold fusion, he disappears without a trace. While the Team searches for him, Alexander is forced into an emergency landing in his jet on a deserted land . Thus, he and his team fall in a deadly trap, laid out by revengeful and embittered inventor Conrad Strand. He is now rich and powerful and wants to take revenge on Alexander, who shunned him once. The scientist’s abduction is for Conrad only but the beginning. Now he wants his plan carried out to the limit: He is forcing Alexander to see his people struggling for their lives in his House of Games.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Fall from Grace



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep3 – Fall from Grace
First Aired: 5 October 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Hector Stone is an American secret agent left out to dry by people he’s been working for in Panama. Peter and Gabrielle rescue him and help him find files with incriminating information against the senator he’s been working for. The documents reveal a link between the US government and the dictator Manuel Noriega.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Hidden Assets



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep2 – Hidden Assets
First Aired: 28 September 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Peter must protect a threatened author who has uncovered the activities of some politicians pocketing public funds for themselves. While undertaking this task, Peter is disrupted by an intrusive journalist Gabrielle Germont, who learns accidentally about the team’s existence. She refuses bribes but an editor means to exploit the news putting her life in grave danger.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Tie a Yellow Ribbon



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S2Ep1 – Tie a Yellow Ribbon
First Aired: 21 September 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Nicole quits the team to get married. A recuperating Luke breaks out of the hospital and goes on the run with a troubled Vietnam veteran. Unknown to him, the IRA is hot on his trail. Peter is not far behind.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – The Dilemma



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S1Ep22 – The Dilemma
First Aired: 2 February 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: When the team, along with a unit of the British Secret Service, discover an arms ring that sells warfare to the IRA, Colonel Nathan, the BSS leader, comes in conflict with Peter. Nathan warns Peter that in his organization these criminals have been prosecuted for some time and that he would not like to see if others interfere in his work. Then Peter gets doubts about the team and its own moral standards. He goes and tries to make Alexander decline the order. But Alexander has found out that one of the terrorists, Adrian Crisp, has links to the group which kidnapped his wife and refuses to withdraw. Peter, however, cannot agree on a compromise, and retires from that job. Alexander calls Nikki and Luke to go on with the plan, but Nikki quickly recognize that Peter is the reasonable head of the team. She tries to win him back, but initially without success.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – The Millerton Papers



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S1Ep21 – The Millerton Papers
First Aired: 19 January 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Nikki accidentally meets her old flame Jason Denver, who is pursued by murderers because of a petty theft, again by chance. Nikki considers it the best returning the goods to the owner, millionaire toy manufacturer Bernard Millerton, As Nikki vanishes with Jason, Peter is highly concerned about them. Luke holds the suspicion that Peter is interested in Nikki not only on purely amicable terms and is accused of being jealous. Peter admits nothing yet but asks Luke and J.J. to pay attention to Nikki. The puzzle begins to come off, as the team discovers that Millerton buys stolen military plans in order to gain a foothold in military model market.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Verathion



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S1Ep20 – Verathion
First Aired: 12 January 1991
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: While Suzanne stays in Toronto at a film festival, she will witness the murder of her whistle-blower friend, Tom Meagher, and inadvertently comes into possession of the briefcase which he carried. As the killers pursue her, Suzanne stashes the bag along with her coat in a locker, so as to change their appearance to escape the killers. When this fails, Suzanne hides the locker key in a beggar’s cup. The killers seize Suzanne and take her into a remote cabin in order to interrogate her. Meanwhile the briefcase with the evidence against a large pharmaceutical company is in the beggar’s hands.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Cinema Verite



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S1Ep19 – Cinema Verite
First Aired: 22 December 1990
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: The world-famous mystery author Michael Malow dies in an unusual way during an accident while fishing. As a fan of this author Alexander’s interest is sparked and so he sends his team off. At Malowe’s funeral, a murderous attack is committed on his widow. The team believes that the puzzle’s solution is to be found in a film, that is filmed based upon a novel of Malowe’s. Luke applies to be a stuntman and Nikki to be a reporter , while Peter masquerades under the guise of an insurance investigator to snoop around. The team learns that Malow and his managers differed on the screenplay. During the investigation, however, Nikki’s cover is blown and she is in mortal danger …

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Regal Connection



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S1Ep18 – Regal Connection
First Aired: 15 December 1990
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Suzanne’s computer science professor Robert Williams disappears and the team tries to explain the matter. While Peter and Nikki take the professor’s wife and her five-year-old daughter Liza to Addington’s house in order to protect them, Luke returns to Williams’ house and gets abducted. Through this strange course of events, the team discovers that the professor is heir to the throne of an African tribe.. At the same time Luke is interrogated by an officer, Von Van Gelder, from an opposing force to the monarchy interested in gaining control of the tribe’s valuable mineral deposits. Luke quickly recognizes that van Gelder ignores where the professor is hidden and invents a way to get in touch with Peter, he proposes an exchange: himself for the professor. Van Gelder calls Peter to negotiate the exchange and the trap is laid.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Mindbender



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S1Ep17 – Mindbender
First Aired: 1 December 1990
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Luke is abducted by Sukova, a Soviet major, and his allies and is subjected to brainwashing. They program Luke so that he turns into a murderer for them and they can monitor him with a high frequency-sound. As he appears without explanation with the team again, Peter and Nikki suspect that something is not in order. They persuade Luke to undergo a psychological test in the hospital. However there he is caught by one of Sukova’s henchmen. When Luke turns up at an UN-summit conference, Nikki discovers that he has been given the job to murder President Gorbachov.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Masks



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S1Ep16 – Masks
First Aired: 24 November 1990
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: George Stanopolis, a member of the Greek Parliament and the ‘International Alliance of Chemical Producers’ is murdered. The only witness – a small gypsy boy named Gregory – was hidden on a ship bound for New York. While the team is looking for the boy, Alexander, who also belongs to the ‘AICP’ and wants to announce the prohibition of chemicals for biological warfare on a conference, meets Amanda DiSanto. She is responsible for the death of Stanopolis and will kidnap Alexander, in order to use his dead ringer. This will prevent the signature of the document to forbid using chemical weapons in Alexander’s name and transfer his property over to her family.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Cry of the Children



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S1Ep15 – Cry of the Children
First Aired: 17 November 1990
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Zoe MacFarlane, a former girlfriend of Luke’s, emerges unexpectedly and maintains that Luke is the father of her daughter. Shortly after Zoe is shot to death. Peter and Nikki join Luke in order to clear the murder. Soon they will discover that the baby is not Zoe’s. All the clues lead to an illegal adoption organization run by a well-known lawyer.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – The Beginning



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S1Ep14 – The Beginning
First Aired: 10 November 1990
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: Chantal Addington, a millionaire’s wife, is abducted and later killed by terrorists. Alexander Addington, the widower, forms a special unit to deal with this kind of crimes. Alexander Addington had achieved everything that you can achieve: wealth, power, a loving wife and a charming daughter. Yet a fate blow changed his entire life: His wife Chantal becomes victim of a terrorist attack, she is abducted and Alexander shot on his leg. In order to find his wife again, he hires the best man recommended for the job: Peter Sinclair of Scotland Yard. Yet in spite of all their efforts, both men cannot save Chantal’s life – hindered through the conventional procedure of the police -. Thereupon Alexander concludes he’s going to dedicate his life of the worldwide fight of crime by assembling the elite force ‘Counterstrike’ led by Sinclair.

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SMCFP On This Day: Counterstrike – Escape Route



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Series: Counterstrike
Episode: S1Ep13 – Escape Route
First Aired: 28 October 1990
Character: Peter Sinclair

Description: George, a criminal, is arrested and sent to a prison in Paris. His brother Rene tries to free his brother and demands George’s release under the cloak of the terrorist organization ‘Social Liberation Front’ – otherwise they would begin to kill some prominent business people – among them Alexander as well. In order to detain the criminal, Nikki infiltrates the organization while Luke is smuggled into the prison in order to share the cell with George…

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