PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

PSI是一部類似於X檔案和名偵探柯南的電視劇。講的是一群科學家對各處超自然現象的研究。是一集一集的小故事,比X檔案高明之處在於他有很多科研的成分,PSI的每一個人都是科學家。他們有一部大房車,裡面是齊全的科研設備,他們開著它遊走世界。

簡介


電視劇
地區:加拿大
語言:英語
時間:1996-2000
類型:劇情,科幻,超自然現象
集數:4季 88集
顏色:彩色
聲音:Dolby
製作公司:Alliance Atlantis Communications
Atlantis Films Limited
First Television
paranormal Productions
放映時間:葡萄牙,Portugal 16 December 1996
美國,USA 10 February 1998
英文名:PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
中文名:事實真相
其他譯名:Psi Factor Finland / France / Italy
Ïñè ôàêòîð Russia
Enquêtes mystérieuses France (new title)
PSI Factor - Es geschieht jeden Tag Germany
Psi factor: Crónicas de lo paranormal Spain
中國曾放映過的電台:中央8台(10集),澳門衛視五星台(全)

劇情介紹


These stories are inspired by the actual case files of the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.).
每一集開頭有一個象新聞播報員的人先出來講一些話。

詳細的演職員表


導演

Luc Chalifour (4 episodes, 1998-2000)
Craig Pryce (5 episodes, 1997-1998)
Clay Borris (9 episodes, 1997-1999)
Randy Bradshaw (2 episodes, 1999-2000)
Milan Cheylov (6 episodes, 1996-1997)
Ross Clyde (3 episodes, 1997-1999)
Will Dixon (1 episode, 2000)
Ken Girotti (3 episodes, 1997)
Carl Goldstein (1 episode, 1998)
Allan Kroeker (5 episodes, 1996)
Larry A. McLean (1 episode, 2000)
Ron Oliver (12 episodes, 1998-2000)
Bruce Pittman (2 episodes, 1998-1999)
Aaron Shuster (1 episode, 1997)
Jane Thompson (1 episode, 1998)
Marc F. Voizard (3 episodes, 1996-1997)
Giles Walker (8 episodes, 1996-1999)
Stephen Williams (6 episodes, 1997-1999)
John Bell (18 episodes, 1996-2000)
Christopher Chacon (unknown episodes)

演員

丹·阿克羅伊德 Himself (88 episodes, 1996-2000)
麥特·弗里沃 Matt Prager (49 episodes, 1997-1999)
科林·福克斯 Professor Anton Hendricks (70 episodes, 1996-2000)
蘇·加雷 Dr. Claire Davison (38 episodes, 1996-2000)
巴克利·霍普 Peter Axon (85 episodes, 1996-2000)
南希·安妮·薩科維奇 Lindsay Donner (87 episodes, 1996-2000)

編劇

Peter Aykroyd (1 episode, 1997)
Robert C. Cooper (4 episodes, 1996-1997)
Will Dixon (16 episodes, 1996-2000)
John Dolin (3 episodes, 1997-1999)
Rick Drew (8 episodes, 1997-2000)
Tracey Forbes (3 episodes, 1997-1998)
Damian Kindler (17 episodes, 1996-2000)
Andrea Moodie (5 episodes, 1999-2000)
邁克爾·莫拉蒂 (unknown episodes)
James Nadler (10 episodes, 1996-1999)
Richard Oleksiak (2 episodes, 1996-1997)
Sheila Prescott-Vessey (1 episode, 1999)
Alex Pugsley (2 episodes, 1997-1998)
Larry Raskin (9 episodes, 1996-2000)
Ian Weir (3 episodes, 1996-1997)
Gerald Wexler (1 episode, 1996)
Paula J. Smith (2 episodes, 1998-1999)
Mark Leiren-Young (1 episode, 2000)
Sarah Dodd (3 episodes, 1998-2000)
Peter Ventrella (unknown episodes)
Christopher Chacon (85 episodes, 1996-2000)
Tom Horn (unknown episodes)
Sherman Snukal (5 episodes, 1996-1997)
C.D. Frewer (2 episodes, 1998-1999)
F.J. Kennedy (2 episodes, 1998-1999)

製片人

麥特·弗里沃 associate producer (unknown episodes)
John Calvert producer (unknown episodes)
Will Dixon producer (unknown episodes)
Rick Drew consulting producer (unknown episodes)
Damian Kindler producer (unknown episodes)
Jan Peter Meyboom producer (unknown episodes)
James Nadler executive producer (unknown episodes)
Larry Raskin creative producer (unknown episodes, 1999)
David N. Rosen producer (unknown episodes)
Bradley Anderson executive producer (unknown episodes)
Mack Anderson executive producer (unknown episodes)
Christopher Chacon executive producer (85 episodes, 1996-2000)

曾獲獎項與提名


Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1999 Nominated Saturn Award Best Genre Cable/Syndicated Series
Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1999 Nominated CSC Award Best Cinematography in TV Series
John Holosko
For episode "Solitary Confinement".
Gemini Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1999 Nominated Gemini Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series
Peter Blais
1998 (fall) Nominated Gemini Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series
Michael Moriarty
For episode "The Grey Men".
1998 (spring) Won Gemini Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series
Brett Sullivan
For episode "The Infestation".
Nominated Gemini Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series
Robert Armes
Liam Ball
For episode "The Infestation".

分季介紹


Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Dream House/UFO Encounter
Original Air Date: 12 October 1996
Season 1, Episode 2: Possession/Man Out of Time
Original Air Date: 5 October 1996
Season 1, Episode 3: Reptilian Revenge/Ghostly Voices
Original Air Date: 12 October 1996
Season 1, Episode 4: The Creeping Darkness/Power
Original Air Date: 19 October 1996
Season 1, Episode 5: The Freefall/Presence
Original Air Date: 26 October 1996
Season 1, Episode 6: Infestation, The/Human Apportation
Original Air Date: 2 November 1996
Season 1, Episode 7: The Underneath/Phantom Limb
Original Air Date: 9 November 1996
Season 1, Episode 8: Transient, The/Two Lost Old Men
Original Air Date: 16 November 1996
Season 1, Episode 9: UFO Duplication/Clara's Friend
Original Air Date: 23 November 1996
Season 1, Episode 10: The Hunter, The/Healer
Original Air Date: 30 November 1996
Season 1, Episode 11: Curse, The/Angel on a Plane
Original Air Date: 18 January 1997
Season 1, Episode 12: Anasazi Cave/Devil's Triangle
Original Air Date: 25 January 1997
Season 1, Episode 13: The Undead, The/Stalker
Original Air Date: 1 February 1997
Season 1, Episode 14: Forbidden North, The/Reincarnation
Original Air Date: 8 February 1997
Season 1, Episode 15: The Greenhouse Effect/The Buzz
Original Air Date: 15 February 1997
Season 1, Episode 16: The Light
Original Air Date: 22 February 1997
Season 1, Episode 17: The 13th Floor/The Believer
Original Air Date: 12 April 1997
Season 1, Episode 18: The Fog/House on Garden Street
Original Air Date: 19 April 1997
Season 1, Episode 19: Second Sight/Chocolate Soldier
Original Air Date: 21 April 1997
Season 1, Episode 20: Fire Within/Fate
Original Air Date: 3 May 1997
Season 1, Episode 21: Death at Sunset/Collision
Original Air Date: 10 May 1997
Season 1, Episode 22: Perestroika
Original Air Date: 17 May 1997
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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Threads
Original Air Date: 29 September 1997
Season 2, Episode 2: Donor
Original Air Date: 6 October 1997
Season 2, Episode 3: Wish I May
Original Air Date: 6 October 1997
Season 2, Episode 4: Communion
Original Air Date: 13 October 1997
Season 2, Episode 5: Frozen in Time
Original Air Date: 27 October 1997
Season 2, Episode 6: Devolution
Original Air Date: 3 November 1997
Season 2, Episode 7: The Warrior
Original Air Date: 10 November 1997
Season 2, Episode 8: The Grey Men
Original Air Date: 17 November 1997
Season 2, Episode 9: Man of War
Original Air Date: 24 November 1997
Season 2, Episode 10: The Damned
Original Air Date: 1 December 1997
Season 2, Episode 11: Hell Week
Original Air Date: 26 January 1998
Season 2, Episode 12: The Edge
Original Air Date: 2 February 1998
Season 2, Episode 13: Bad Dreams
Original Air Date: 9 February 1998
Season 2, Episode 14: Kiss of the Tiger
Original Air Date: 9 February 1998
Season 2, Episode 15: The Haunting
Original Air Date: 23 February 1998
Season 2, Episode 16: The Night of the Setting Sun
Original Air Date: 2 March 1998
Season 2, Episode 17: Episode #2.17
Original Air Date: ????
Season 2, Episode 18: Pentimento
Original Air Date: 13 April 1998
Season 2, Episode 19: Frozen Faith
Original Air Date: 20 April 1998
Season 2, Episode 20: Map to the Stars
Original Air Date: 4 May 1998
Season 2, Episode 21: The Endangered
Original Air Date: 11 May 1998
Season 2, Episode 22: The Egress
Original Air Date: 18 May 1998
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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Jaunt
Original Air Date: 27 September 1998
Season 3, Episode 2: Comings & Goings
Original Air Date: 4 October 1998
Season 3, Episode 3: Heartland
Original Air Date: 11 October 1998
Season 3, Episode 4: Palimpsest
Original Air Date: 8 November 1998
Season 3, Episode 5: The Kiss
Original Air Date: 1998
Season 3, Episode 6: Absolution
Original Air Date: 25 October 1998
Season 3, Episode 7: Little People
Original Air Date: 29 November 1998
Season 3, Episode 8: Return
Original Air Date: 15 November 1998
Season 3, Episode 9: All Hallow's Eve
Original Air Date: 1 November 1998
Linda Blair guest stars as Rebecca Royce, a successful author with a multiple personality disorder. Her hit novel "All Hallows Horror" has inspired a copy cat killer who is murdering his victims in the same fashion as the characters in Rebecca's book. The OSI Team (Office of Scientific Investigation) must race to discover the connection between Rebecca's novel and the murders before the killer strikes again !
Season 3, Episode 10: Chango
Original Air Date: 30 January 1999
Season 3, Episode 11: The Winding Cloth
Original Air Date: 23 January 1999
Season 3, Episode 12: Harlequin
Original Air Date: 22 November 1998
Season 3, Episode 13: Old Wounds
Original Air Date: 20 February 1999
Season 3, Episode 14: Solitary Confinement
Original Air Date: 6 February 1999
Season 3, Episode 15: Valentine
Original Air Date: 15 February 1999
Season 3, Episode 16: The Observer Effect
Original Air Date: 27 February 1999
Season 3, Episode 17: School of Thought
Original Air Date: 12 April 1999
Season 3, Episode 18: Y2K
Original Air Date: 19 April 1999
Season 3, Episode 19: Tribunal
Original Air Date: 3 May 1999
Season 3, Episode 20: John Doe
Original Air Date: ????
Season 3, Episode 21: Forever and a Day: Part 1
Original Air Date: 15 May 1999
Season 3, Episode 22: Forever and a Day: Part 2
Original Air Date: 23 May 1999
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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: Shocking
Original Air Date: 26 September 1999
Season 4, Episode 2: Sacrifices
Original Air Date: 3 October 1999
Season 4, Episode 3: Happy Birthday, Matt Praeger
Original Air Date: 10 October 1999
Season 4, Episode 4: Soul Survivor
Original Air Date: 17 October 1999
Season 4, Episode 5: 883
Original Air Date: 24 October 1999
Season 4, Episode 6: Once Upon a Time in the West
Original Air Date: 31 October 1999
Season 4, Episode 7: Body and Soul
Original Air Date: 7 November 1999
Season 4, Episode 8: Temple of Light
Original Air Date: 14 November 1999
Season 4, Episode 9: Inertia
Original Air Date: 21 November 1999
Season 4, Episode 10: Nocturnal Cabal
Original Air Date: 28 November 1999
Season 4, Episode 11: 'Til Death Do Us Part
Original Air Date: 22 January 2000
Season 4, Episode 12: Tyler/Tim
Original Air Date: 30 January 2000
Season 4, Episode 13: Super Sargasso Sea
Original Air Date: 5 February 2000
Season 4, Episode 14: Persistence of Vision
Original Air Date: 12 February 2000
Season 4, Episode 15: GeoCore
Original Air Date: 10 February 2000
Season 4, Episode 16: Gone Fishing
Original Air Date: 20 February 2000
Season 4, Episode 17: Chiaroscuro
Original Air Date: 15 March 2000
Season 4, Episode 18: Regeneration
Original Air Date: 22 March 2000
Season 4, Episode 19: Wendigo
Original Air Date: 29 March 2000
Season 4, Episode 20: Elevator
Original Air Date: 6 April 2000
Season 4, Episode 21: Force Majeure
Original Air Date: 13 April 2000
Season 4, Episode 22: Stone Dreams
Original Air Date: 20 May 2000
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Unknown Season

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House on Garden Street
Original Air Date: 14 April 1997
The Labyrinth
Original Air Date: 2 March 1998

評論


They do their best to make the paranormal-babble make sense to the viewers., 16 February 1999
Author:GalaxyGa from Massachusetts
It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that this series is trying hard to be a more skeptical competitor to "The X-Files." It doesn't have the political tension, the sexual tension, or the atmospheric tension, if you will, of "The X-Files," but it's got an amazingly good ensemble of actors, most of whom we've never heard of down here in the U.S.
Leading the people we _have_ heard of before is Matt Frewer, who ought to be considered the Actor-Saint [God?] of Latex (well, he and Andreas Katsulis, but I digress) for having done Max Headroom (no, kids, that's NOT cgi, there's a man under all that plastic). Frewer worked full-time filming Edison Carter, and then the fx people put 4 hours' worth of Max on him to shoot in front of bluescreen and then work that over in post. IMVHO, Frewer can do no wrong, even when he gets lame "Psi-Factor" scripts, he is still amazingly good.
The other person we have heard of before is Nigel Bennett, formerly "Lacroix" in "Forever Knight." His is an intermittent character, I've only seen 7 or 8 eps and he's made only one brief appearance, but it's so nice to see him without the vampire contacts and _with_ a day job (yeah, that was a vampire pun; I couldn't resist).
The other actors are just treasures; these folks really ought to migrate to L.A. and take a whack at the big time. Barclay Hope is a cute late-20's, early 30's dude with a too-short haircut who reminds me of Chris O'Donnell --but it's the kind of too-short haircut that makes physics and psychology look _cool_. Colin Fox as the senior researcher Anton has the requisite mature demeanor and speaks the dialogue he's been given without messing up the psychobabble, and in fact making the psi-babble seem to make sense, which is the essence of this series.
There are two actresses on the show; now, why can't I remember their names, besides their characters'? (oh--I'm watching Matt). They both have gads of talent just spilling out of each of them, other than having forgettable names. Claire the pathologist (Autopsy Queen a la' Scully) is beginning to have some kind of effect upon Frewer's character, Praeger, and I am reminded (positively) of some of the bits in "MIB" between the lady coroner and Agent Jay.
A real treat is the scenes at beginning and end, where Dan Ackroyd does the Robert Stack thing and tells us that these episodes are taken from case files of the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (OSIR), a real agency that researches paranormal claims. I'm sure the case file research was never as exciting, or dramatic, as the stuff Praeger and team research every week. The essence is that the scriptwriters and actors do their very best to make the paranormal-babble make sense to the viewers, and while the writers may fall short every now and then, Frewer, Hope, Colin Fox, and the women do their best to overcome any shortcomings of the scripts.