ORBzine - Psi Factor TV Review

Nancy Anne Sakovich as Lindsay Donner

Barclay Hope as Peter Axon

Colin Fox as Prof. Anton Hendricks

Peter MacNeill as Ray Donahue [ 1-3 ]

Peter Blais as Lennox Q. Cooper [ 1-3 ]

Nigel Bennett [ Lexx ] as Frank Elsinger [ 1-3 ]

Maurice Dean Wint as Dr. Curtis Rollins [ 1 ]

Paul Miller as Prof. Connor Doyle [ 1 ]

Lisa LaCroix as Natasha Constantine [ 1 ]

Elizabeth Shepherd as Smithwick [ 1 ]

Tamara Gorski as Corliss [ 1 ]

Lindsay Collins as Miles [ 1 ]

Soo Garay as Dr. Claire Davison

Dan Aykroyd ( Ghostbusters ) as the host

Season 1

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 1] Dream House/UFO Encounter
Shown 28 Sep 96

This show is presented by Dan Ackroyd ( Ghostbusters ) in a pseudo-documentary style. The main story is straightforward drama, however.

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 2] Possession/Man Out of Time
Shown 5 Oct 96

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 3] Reptilian Revenge/Ghostly Voices
Shown 12 Oct 96

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 4] Creeping Darkness/The Power
Shown 19 Oct 96

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 5] Free Fall/The Presence
Shown 26 Oct 96

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 6] The Infestation/Human Apportation
Shown 2 Nov 96

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 7] The Underneath/Phantom Limb
Shown 9 Nov 96

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 8] The Transient/Two Lost Old Men
Shown 16 Nov 96

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 9] UFO Duplication/Clara's Friend
Shown 23 Nov 96

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 10] The Hunter/The Healer
Shown 30 Nov 96

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 11] The Curse/Angel on a Plane
Shown 18 Jan 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 12] Anasazi Cave/Devil's Triangle
Shown 25 Jan 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 13] The Undead/Stalker Moon
Shown 1 Feb 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 14] Forbidden North/Reincarnation
Shown 8 Feb 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 15] The Greenhouse Effect/The Buzz
Shown 15 Feb 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 16] The Light
Shown 22 Feb 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 17] The 13th Floor/The Believer
Shown 12 Apr 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 18] The Fog/House on Garden Street
Shown 19 Apr 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 19] Second Sight/Chocolate Soldier
Shown 26 Apr 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 20] The Fire Within/Fate
Shown 3 May 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 21] Death at Sunset/Collision
Shown 10 May 97

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 22] Perestroika
Shown 17 May 97

Season 2

Matt Frewer ( Max Headroom ) as Matt Praeger [ 2-4 ]

Michael Moriarty ( Q: The Winged Serpent ) as Michael Kelly [ 2 ]

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 1] Threads
Shown 29 Sep 97

File 26201

This episode guest-stars Michael Moriarty ( Q: The Winged Serpent ). Nigel Bennett ( Lois & Clark ) pops up as the team's medic.

Some workmen in a skyscraper disturb a strange device. Then a huge chunk of the building disappears ... Our heroes go in to rescue the missing workmen and solve the mystery.

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 2] Donor
Shown 6 Oct 97

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 3] Wish I May
Shown 13 Oct 97

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 4] Communion
Shown 20 Oct 97

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 5] Frozen in Time
Shown 27 Oct 97

This show (introduced by Dan Ackroyd) is about a group of paranormal investigators. This week they investigate a village filled with people who appear to be frozen in time.

This episode also features the immortal words sorry, I forgot about the bear trap.

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 6] Devolution
Shown 3 Nov 97

A female hospital patient dies in an extremely gruesome manner. The OSIR investigate a nurse who is a Goth when off-duty. Is this a case of vampirism? It turns out the hospital was involved in stem-cell experiments ...

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 7] The Warrior
Shown 10 Nov 97

The team must recover a relic from the Chinese terracotta army, the head of General Soo. The head is apparently decapitating humans and stealing their bodies. Kelly (Michael Moriarty - Q: The Winged Serpent ) pops up to dispense some advice.

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 8] The Grey Men
Shown 17 Nov 97

A missing plane and its rockstar passenger mysteriously reappear. Also, it seems that the balding guy's hair has turned blonde. Or is that the other way round?

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 9] Man of War
Shown 24 Nov 97

File 669207 sees the OSIR investigate a crop circle. Kelly (Michael Moriarty - Q: The Winged Serpent ) pops up as a Deep Throat type.

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 10] The Damned
Shown 1 Dec 97

File 905209 sees a man drown in his pool, with claw marks on his throat and chest.

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 11] Hell Week
Shown 26 Jan 98

A pair of twins exhibit an electro-magnetic phenomenon. Could this be greater than an MRI scanner? If so, would it not rip the fillings out of bystanders' teeth.

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 12] The Edge
Shown 2 Feb 98

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 13] Bad Dreams
Shown 9 Feb 98

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 14] Kiss of the Tiger
Shown 16 Feb 98

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 15] The Haunting
Shown 23 Feb 98

This is about a haunted hotel room. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) sees his wife and daughter.

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 16] The Night of the Setting Sun
Shown 2 Mar 98

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 17] The Labyrinth
Shown 13 Apr 98

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 18] Pentimento
Shown 20 Apr 98

An artist is murdered - by a werewolf? There is a babe who looks like Nancy Travis .

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 19] Frozen Faith
Shown 27 Apr 98

Case File 400218.

A fellow is found frozen. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) is possessed. In all fairness, this is still more subtle than Fallen .

The local Red Light district looks like a row of supermodels.

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 20] Map to the Stars
Shown 4 May 98

Praeger (Matt Frewer - Max Headroom ) bails Kelly (Michael Moriarty - Q: The Winged Serpent ) out of jail and walks him home. While at Kelly's place, he uncovers a file on a UFO abductee called Juan Mendoza. The OSI investigates his case.

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 21] The Endangered
Shown 11 May 98

A hiker is savagely attacked in the woods, and it seems a Yeti is responsible.

Kelly (Michael Moriarty - Q: The Winged Serpent ) pops up, and his arc comes to a shocking conclusion.

Psi Factor [Season 2, Episode 22] The Egress (1)
Shown 18 May 98

The team investigate a strange stone archway. It sucks things into it (like a Stargate), and the original scientific team are either dead or murdered.

Kelly (Michael Moriarty - Q: The Winged Serpent ) left a video for Praeger (Matt Frewer - Max Headroom ) and co.

Psi Factor

Psi Factor [Season 1, Episode 2 ]
Shown th June 2006 [Wednesday]

Season 3

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 1] Jaunt (2)
Shown 27 Sep 98

This is the second part that concludes the story. Since most of the team have resigned or gone missing, the skeptic guy is now teamed up with the black guy who was team-manager on the other case. They investigate the reappearance of a living scientist and a pair of severed human legs that passed through the archway.

We finally get a bit of action in the show, as our heroes face off against some well-armed survivalist types.

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 2] Comings and Goings (3)
Shown 4 Oct 98

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 3] Heartland
Shown 11 Oct 98

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 4] The Kiss
Shown 18 Oct 98

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 5] Absolution
Shown 25 Oct 98

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 6] All Hallows Eve
Shown 1 Nov 98

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 7] Palimpsest
Shown 8 Nov 98

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 8] Return
Shown 15 Nov 98

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 9] Harlequin
Shown 22 Nov 98

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 10] Little People
Shown 29 Nov 98

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 11] The Winding Cloth
Shown 24 Jan 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 12] Chango
Shown 31 Jan 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 13] Solitary Confinement
Shown 7 Feb 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 14] Valentine
Shown 14 Feb 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 15] Old Wounds
Shown 21 Feb 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 16] The Observer Effect
Shown 28 Feb 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 17] School of Thought
Shown 18 Apr 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 18] Y2K
Shown 25 Apr 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 19] The Tribunal
Shown 2 May 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 20] John Doe
Shown 9 May 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 21] Forever and a Day (1)
Shown 16 May 99

Psi Factor [Season 3, Episode 22] Forever and a Day (2)
Shown 23 May 99

Season 4

Joanne Vannicola as Dr. Mia Stone [ 4 ]

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 1] Shocking
Shown 26 Sep 99

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 2] Sacrifices
Shown 3 Oct 99

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 3] Happy Birthday, Matt Praeger
Shown 10 Oct 99

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 4] Soul Survivor
Shown 17 Oct 99

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 5] 883
Shown 24 Oct 99

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 6] Once Upon a Time in the West
Shown 31 Oct 99

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 7] Body and Soul
Shown 7 Nov 99

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 8] Temple of Light
Shown 14 Nov 99

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 9] Inertia
Shown 21 Nov 99

US Army secretly transports a prisoner who may be of extra-terrestrial origin. A Militia ambush the truck, and the prisoner goes on the run with one of the OSIR team.

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 10] Nocturnal Cabal
Shown 28 Nov 99

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 11] 'Til Death Do Us Part
Shown 22 Jan 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 12] Tyler/Tim
Shown 29 Jan 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 13] Super Sargasso Sea
Shown 5 Feb 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 14] Persistence of Vision
Shown 12 Feb 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 15] GeoCore
Shown 19 Feb 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 16] Gone Fishing
Shown 26 Feb 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 17] Chiaroscuro
Shown 15 Apr 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 18] Regeneration
Shown 22 Apr 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 19] Wendigo
Shown 29 Apr 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 20] Elevator
Shown 6 May 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 21] Force Majeure
Shown 13 May 00

Psi Factor [Season 4, Episode 22] Stone Dream
Shown 20 May 00