VR.5

Original title : Pilot
First Aired : 10.03.1995 (USA)
Director : Michael Katleman
Writing credits : Thania St. John
Cast : Robert Picardo (VR Engineer), Stephen Mills (The Committee's Agent), Adam Baldwin (Scott Cooper), Penn Jillette (Orwell Kravitz), Chris Owen (III) (Harrassing boy), Noah Verduzco (Unknown), Gammy Singer (Nurse Jackie), Kaci Williams (Young Sydney Bloom), Kimberly Cullum (Young Samantha , Bloom), Louise Fletcher (Nora Bloom), David McCallum (Dr. Joseph Bloom)

The Story : "Welcome to the game, ...."Sydney Bloom, a loner VR hobbyist, stumbles on a whole new dimension of VR when she inadvertently discovers that she can "pull" anyone into VR with her via the phone lines. When she innocently uses it on a man she is dating, she learns, to her horror, that he's a serial rapist/killer. To complicate matters, her inquiries into VR have brought her to the attention of a super-secret intelligence operation called "the Committee". Her life is changed forever by the words "Welcome to the game, Sydney Bloom ...."

Original title : Dr. Strangechild
First Aired : 17.03.1995 (USA)
Director : Michael Katleman
Writing credits : Eric Blakeney
Cast : Danny Goldring (Traxell), Cully Fredrickson (Unknown), Kate Zentall (Mrs. Fischer), Aaron Michael Metchik (Stuart Fischer), Erick Avari (Boise), Nicholas Cascone (Unknown), Tom Towles (Shepard), Elya Baskin (Dr. Zoloft), Dan Riley (Orderly), Jason Azikiwe (Unknown), David McCallum (Dr. Joseph Bloom), Louise Fletcher (Nora Bloom)

The Story : On her first VR assignment for The Committee, Sydney must find an unhappy and spiteful teenage genius - who after making a momentous discovery has run away from the top secret weapons research establishment where he worked - before he can do any harm. During her search, Sydney must try to deal with her own sense of solitude.

Original title : Sisters
First Aired :
Director : John Sacret Young
Writing credits : John Sacret Young
Cast : Willie Garson (Pervert), Colleen Flynn (Janine Messersmith), Kimberly Cullum (Young Samantha , Bloom), David McCallum (Dr. Joseph Bloom), Kaci Williams (Young Sydney Bloom)

The Story : Sydney investigates the mind of Janine, a cashier at her workplace whom she discovers is stealing. Sydney herself gets pulled into the excitements and thrills of these criminal activities.

Original title : Love and Death
First Aired : 24.03.1995 (USA)
Director : Rob Bowman
Writing credits : Thania St. John
Cast : Wendi Westbrook (Unknown), Bethany Clifton (Unknown), Shane Sweet (Albert Fellows, Sr), Peter Spellos (Albert Fellows, Jr), Jessica Hendra (Megan Fellows), Louis Turenne (Larry Oldman), Carl Strano (Mr. Spire), George DelHoyo (Jackson Boothe), Sandra Robinson (Monique Fellows), Kimberly Cullum (Young Samantha , Bloom), David McCallum (Dr. Joseph Bloom), Louise Fletcher (Nora Bloom)

The Story : Sydney is assigned to to subconsciously prod Jackson Boothe, a troubled employee of the Committee, into returning to work. In doing so, Sydney discovers that Booth is an assassin, and he murders Sydney's Committee contact, Dr. Frank Morgan.

Original title : 5D
First Aired : 31.03.1995 (USA)
Director : D.J. Caruso
Writing credits : Thania St. John, John Sacret Young
Cast : Jim Holmes (Unknown), George DelHoyo (Jackson Boothe), Dan O'Herlihy (Dr. Alloysius Hunnicut), Keith Mills (Unknown), Kaci Williams (Young Sydney Bloom), Kimberly Cullum (Young Samantha , Bloom), David McCallum (Dr. Joseph Bloom), Louise Fletcher (Nora Bloom)

The Story : Oliver Sampson becomes Sydney's new contact for the Committee, and he pushes her into trying to trace who hired Boothe. Sydney discovers that Dr. Morgan's corpse has been cryogenically preserved.

Original title : Escape
First Aired : 07.04.1995 (USA)
Director : Jim Charleston
Writing credits : Thania St. John, Thania St. John, John Sacret Young
Cast : Dayton Callie (Unknown), Aileen Fitzpatrick (Nurse), David Selburg (Guest Star), Robert Kempf (Unknown)

The Story : Sydney is kidnapped by a faction of the Committee who brutally question her to discover her secret. She manages to contact Duncan for help, and he enters into VR in search of her. Oliver is somehow in possession of the journal of Sydney's father, but is he on Sydney's side?

Original title : Facing the Fire
First Aired : 14.04.1995 (USA)
Director : Lorraine Senna Ferrara
Writing credits : Jeannine Renshaw
Cast : Richie Fenner (Young Lance), Blair Renshaw (Aircraft Mechanic), Neal McDonough (Lance Jackson), Frank Converse (General Jackson), Shirley Knight (Dr. Margo Hirsch), Kevin Carr (Unknown)

The Story : Oliver instructs Sydney to make a VR link to a test pilot in a psychiatric hospital. The pilot keeps seeing fire and hates his father. Sydney enters the hospital disguised as a patient, and plants false memories of child abuse into the pilot's sub-conscious mind. These memories, however, may or may not be Sydney's own. Also, Sydney franatically tries to decipher her father's journal and discovers that he was a member of the Committee.

Original title : Simon's Choice
First Aired : 21.04.1995 (USA)
Director : Steve Dubin
Writing credits : Toni Graphia
Cast : Yuan Gee Wong (Unknown), Benjamin Jurand (Unknown), Westin Blakeney (Unknown), Edmund L. Shaff (Unknown), Endre Hules (Spy Chief), Robert Phelan (Unknown), Jack Rader (Unknown), David Brisbin (Unknown), Dustin Nguyen (Ky Buchanan), Robert Davi (Simon Buchanan), Kaci Williams (Young Sydney Bloom)

The Story : Sydney enters VR to probe the mind of a self-confessed traitor scheduled for execution, to find out why he did it. She discovers he was being blackmailed by people who held his son hostage, and in the process, Syndey must come to terms with her anger towards her own father.The bank is foreclosing on Sydney's childhood home and she asks the Committee for money to save it.

Original title : Send Me An Angel
First Aired :
Director : Jim Charleston
Writing credits : Jeannine Renshaw, Naomi Janzen
Cast : Kenneth Robert Shippy (Unknown), Stephen Mills (The Committee's Agent), Jamie Renee Smith (Rebecca), William Forward (Unknown), Barbara K. Whinnery (Unknown), Armelia McQueen (Unknown), Tracey Needham (Samantha Bloom), Gammy Singer (Nurse Jackie), Louise Fletcher (Nora Bloom)

The Story : Sydney decides to take a holiday from her work at the Committee and returns to her childhood home in Pasadena. The previous inhabitants claims the house is possessed by demons, while his daughter insists an angel saved her life during a fire. As Sydney explores the house, she gradually remembers bits and pieces from her past, and also discovers a secret room where her father conducted his early VR experiments.

Original title : Control Freak
First Aired : 28.04.1995 (USA)
Director : Michael Katleman
Writing credits : Naomi Janzen
Cast : Johnny Moran (Unknown), Frank Whiteman (Unknown), Carol Kiernan (Unknown), Richard Penn (Unknown), Stephen Root (F.A.A. Negotiator), Tom Mardirosian (Ed Paterson), Markus Flanagan (Kyle Jarvis), Cynthia Avila (Matilda)

The Story : When an armed man takes hostages in an air traffic control tower, Sydney is ordered to establish a VR link. In the process, she discovers a cover-up over the reason for a crash several years earlier: the crash was actually caused by a bomb planted by the Committee in an attempt to assassinate Oliver.

Original title : The Many Faces of Alex
First Aired : 05.05.1995 (USA)
Director : John Sacret Young
Writing credits : Jacquelyn Blain
Cast : Markie Post (Alex Miller), Jeannine Renshaw (Guest Star), Kathleen Misko (Guest Star), Mark Phelan (Guest Star), Tracey Needham (Samantha Bloom)

The Story : An increasingly careless and disillusioned Oliver assigns Sydney to an unknown contact. This contact turns out to be Oliver's former lover, Alex, who may know the whereabouts of Sydney's father.

Original title : Parallel Lives
First Aired :
Director : Michael Katleman
Writing credits : John Sacret Young, John Shirley, Thania St. John, Jeannine Renshaw
Cast : Penn Jillette (Orwell Kravitz), Tracey Needham (Samantha Bloom), Will Patton (Dr. Frank Morgan), Billy Burke (Marco), David McCallum (Dr. Joseph Bloom)

The Story : Duncan wakes up one morning to discover that he is a wealthy and successful artist, and that it was Samantha - not Sydney - who survived the car crash as a child. Everything is turned upside down and the lives of all the characters are quite different. It all turns out to be VR scenario orchestrated by the very much alive Dr. Bloom to test Duncan's loyalty.

Original title : Reunion
First Aired : 12.05.1995 (USA)
Director : Deborah Reinisch
Writing credits : Thania St. John
Cast : Gammy Singer (Nurse Jackie), Stephen Mills (The Committee's Agent), Turhan Bey (Abernathy), Tracey Needham (Samantha Bloom), Kimberly Cullum (Young Samantha , Bloom), David McCallum (Dr. Joseph Bloom), Louise Fletcher (Nora Bloom), Kaci Williams (Young Sydney Bloom)

The Story : Sydney and her sister Samantha are reunited and, along with Duncan, they into VR5 to discover what really happened the night of the car crash. It turns out there was no car crash: Sydney's memories were altered by her father to protect her from the Committee. A faction of the Committee is after Sydney; Oliver is assigned to murder Sydney but rebels. Sydney goes into VR7 to rescue her mother from her coma.