Series: Counterstrike Episode: S2Ep22 – The Circus Ring First Aired: 9 May 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: The bodies of three teenagers are rescued from a bus in a riverbed. Alexander notes that one of the dead is his torn employee James Candor’s daughter . The trail leads to the circus owned by Gerard Bormann. Gabrielle and Peter conceal among the circus people and uncover a ring of slave traders who kidnapped the teenagers.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S2Ep21 – Trigger Finger First Aired: 2 May 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: The Crown Prince Pechkoff first candidate for the Moldavian throne, escapes with the help of some henchmen from a prison bus. Peter masquerades as a hired gun to frustrate an attempted coup. Stone and Gabrielle change into predator and prey to protect the president of Moldava.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S2Ep20 – Ripped from the Grave First Aired: 18 April 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: After a reception at the Romanian Embassy and a passionate night with Gabrielle, the journalist Stefan von Bridov is murdered in a dark alley in the style of a brutal ‘Ripper’ . Peter leads the team to delve in this mysterious case. Using a list the Team tracks down the suspects. It is the Romanian Ambassador Jerzy Arpad who calls for diplomatic immunity. Peter and the team set a complicated trap for this Jack-the-Ripper copycat.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S2Ep19 – La Belle Dame Monique First Aired: 11 April 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: A conspiracy to topple the European banking system is uncovered after an old friend shows up at Stone’s door with a suitcase full of counterfeit money.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S2Ep18 – Dead Heat First Aired: 4 April 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Helene’s debut big charity for animal rights almost turns into a disaster when a hired killer stalks the party. The assassin goes after Alexander at a benefit for animal rights, Alexander is trying to get two Middle East opponents to work together.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S2Ep17 – Cherchez La Femme First Aired: 21 March 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Addington’s bank is accused of money-laundering, so he asks the team to investigate. But Peter investigates the disappearance of a woman accused of murder, after he has had an affair with her.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S2Ep16 – Behind Bars First Aired: 14 March 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Gabrielle is caught trying to smuggle rare coins out of Turkey. She is thrown into a grim Turkish jail for women which she finds unbearable. Her partners work towards getting her out of there.
Talk about commuting: Counter-strike star Simon MacCorkindale lives in England and works in Canada and France. “Going back and forth is the toughest part of the job’ says the 39-year-old actor, who’ll make an extra trip to Toronto this week to attend the Gemini Awards ceremony, where he’s nominated for best series actor, along with costar Christopher Plummer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Simon MacCorkindale: “I’m not jealous of my wife’s past”
Translated from the original French, so readability is a little strange. Translated by SMCFP Member Nadeia
Simon MacCorkindale seems to be predestined for TV shows. Before he asserted his discrete but effective charm in Falcon Crest, where he seduced Ana-Alicia, for example, the athletic actor had already been noticed thanks to Manimal, in which he could transform into any animal to solve mysteries. Since he left Falcon Crest, Simon MacCorkindale hasn’t appeared in any TV shows. In Counterstrike, a new detective TV show, he plays a member of action team charged to solve mysteries.
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.
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.
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…
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.
SIMON MACCORKINDALE IN ‘COUNTERSTRIKE’, ELITE CRIME-BUSTERS TAKE ON INTERNATIONAL THUG
This site looks like it’s no longer online, so here is the full article.
It won’t win any awards for plausibility but Counterstrike (CTV, Saturdays) is just what the action fan ordered a combination of James Bond, Mission: Impossible and Charlie’s Angels with the accent on pyrotechnics. The plot spins on the exploits of an elite strike team of international crime-fighters.
Christopher Plummer gets star billing, but 39-year-old British actor Simon MacCorkindale is the series’ power- source. Although he has plenty of stage experience, MacCorkindale is best known to Canadian audiences for the movies Death on the Nile and The Sword and the Sorcerer, and for TV roles in I, Claudius, Falcon Crest, and Dynasty. He brings a natural credibility and depth of personality to Peter Sinclair, the dashing team leader recruited because of his savvy as Scotland Yard’s youngest-ever inspector.
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.
IN ‘COUNTERSTRIKE’, ELITE CRIME-BUSTERS TAKE ON INTERNATIONAL THUGS
It won’t win any awards for plausibility but Counterstrike (CTV, Saturdays) is just what the action fan ordered — a combination of James Bond, Mission: Impossible and Charlie’s Angels with the accent on pyrotechnics. The plot spins on the exploits of an elite strike team of international crime-fighters.
Christopher Plummer gets star billing, but 39-year-old British actor Simon MacCorkindale is the series’ power-source. Although he has plenty of stage experience, MacCorkindale is best known to Canadian audiences for the movies Death on the Nile and The Sword and the Sorcerer, and for TV roles in I, Claudius, Falcon Crest, and Dynasty. He brings a natural credibility and depth of personality to Peter Sinclair, the dashing team leader recruited because of his savvy as Scotland Yard’s youngest-ever inspector.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
