Counterstrike
Counterstrike
TV ShowEnded

Counterstrike

7.0 / 10
1990
3 seasons
66 episodes
Action & AdventureDrama

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.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Dealbreaker

    01-07-199060m

    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 kid...

  • Ep 2

    2.Dead in the Air

    08-07-199060m

    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 pla...

  • Ep 3

    3.Now and at the Hour of Our Death

    15-07-199060m

    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...

  • Ep 4

    4.Art for Art's Sake

    22-07-199060m

    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 Ale...

  • Ep 5

    5.Power Play

    29-07-199060m

    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 a...

  • Ep 6

    6.A Little Purity

    05-08-199060m

    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...

  • Ep 7

    7.Son with a Gun

    19-08-199060m

    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 b...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Lady of the Rhine

    26-08-199060m

    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 complai...

  • Ep 9

    9.Knights of Aram

    09-09-199060m

    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 urg...

  • Ep 10

    10.Extreme Measures

    16-09-199060m

    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...

  • Ep 11

    11.Thanos

    07-10-199060m

    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 par...

  • Ep 12

    12.Siege

    14-10-199060m

    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 o...

  • Ep 13

    13.Escape Route

    28-10-199060m

    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 reinst...

  • Ep 14

    14.The Beginning

    10-11-199060m

    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 tra...

  • Ep 15

    15.Cry of the Children

    17-11-199060m

    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....

  • Ep 16

    16.Masks

    24-11-199060m

    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...

  • Ep 17

    17.Mindbender

    01-12-199060m

    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...

  • Ep 18

    18.Regal Connection

    15-12-199060m

    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...

  • Ep 19

    19.Cinema Verité

    22-12-199060m

    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 wint...

  • Ep 20

    20.Verathion

    12-01-199160m

    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...

  • Ep 21

    21.The Millerton Papers

    19-01-199160m

    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 fath...

  • Ep 22

    22.The Dilemma

    02-02-199160m

    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 reunific...

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