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Year: 1996  |  1997  |  1998  |  1999  |  2000


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date—28 September 1996
A stockbroker recently evicted by his wife starts receiving tomorrow's edition of the Chicago Sun-Times. This offers the opportunity to win at gambling, or to use the foreknowledge to help people.

Season 1, Episode 2: The Choice

Original Air Date—5 October 1996
Gary must choose between stopping a fatal plane crash or saving the life of one girl.

Season 1, Episode 3: Baby

Original Air Date—12 October 1996
After the newspaper shows Chuck delivering a baby on the L, Gary and Marissa try to convince him to go through with it.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Paper

Original Air Date—19 October 1996
While searching for answers about the paper, Gary becomes involved with a reporter who is suspicious of his apparent knowledge of a certain story.

Season 1, Episode 5: Thief Swipes Mayor's Dog

Original Air Date—26 October 1996
Lottery fever grips Chicago with the jackpot climbing every night. Meanwhile, Gary tries to understand why someone would want to steal the Mayor's dog.

Season 1, Episode 6: Hoops

Original Air Date—2 November 1996
Gary tries to stop a popular basket-baller with a medical condition from risking his life on the court.

Season 1, Episode 7: After Midnight

Original Air Date—9 November 1996
A woman plans to abandon her baby and take her own life. Gary's attempts to reunite her with her parents fail while he runs out of time to help her.

Season 1, Episode 8: Gun

Original Air Date—16 November 1996

Season 1, Episode 9: His Girl Thursday

Original Air Date—23 November 1996

Season 1, Episode 10: The Wrong Man

Original Air Date—7 December 1996

Season 1, Episode 11: Christmas

Original Air Date—21 December 1996

Season 1, Episode 12: Frostbite

Original Air Date—11 January 1997

Season 1, Episode 13: Mob Wife

Original Air Date—25 January 1997

Season 1, Episode 14: The Wall: Part 1

Original Air Date—1 February 1997

Season 1, Episode 15: The Wall: Part 2

Original Air Date—8 February 1997

Season 1, Episode 16: Bat Masterson

Original Air Date—22 February 1997

Season 1, Episode 17: The Jury

Original Air Date—8 March 1997

Season 1, Episode 18: Psychic

Original Air Date—12 April 1997

Season 1, Episode 19: The Cat

Original Air Date—13 April 1997

Season 1, Episode 20: Phantom at the Opera

Original Air Date—19 April 1997

Season 1, Episode 21: Faith

Original Air Date—26 April 1997

Season 1, Episode 22: Dad

Original Air Date—3 May 1997

Season 1, Episode 23: Love Is Blind

Original Air Date—10 May 1997

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Home

Original Air Date—27 September 1997

Season 2, Episode 2: The Medal

Original Air Date—4 October 1997

Season 2, Episode 3: The Wedding

Original Air Date—11 October 1997

Season 2, Episode 4: Jenny Sloane

Original Air Date—18 October 1997

Season 2, Episode 5: Downsized

Original Air Date—25 October 1997

Season 2, Episode 6: Angels and Devils

Original Air Date—11 January 1997

Season 2, Episode 7: Redfellas

Original Air Date—8 November 1997

Season 2, Episode 8: March in Time

Original Air Date—15 November 1997

Season 2, Episode 9: A Regular Joe

Original Air Date—22 November 1997

Season 2, Episode 10: A Bris Is Just a Bris

Original Air Date—20 December 1997

Season 2, Episode 11: A Minor Miracle

Original Air Date—10 January 1998

Season 2, Episode 12: Romancing the Throne

Original Air Date—17 January 1998

Season 2, Episode 13: Walk, Don't Run

Original Air Date—24 January 1998

Season 2, Episode 14: Return of Crumb

Original Air Date—30 January 1998

Season 2, Episode 15: Mum's the Word

Original Air Date—4 April 1998

Season 2, Episode 16: Where or When

Original Air Date—11 April 1998

Season 2, Episode 17: The Fourth Carpathian

Original Air Date—18 April 1998

Season 2, Episode 18: The Quality of Mercy

Original Air Date—25 April 1998

Season 2, Episode 19: Show Me the Monet

Original Air Date—2 May 1998

Season 2, Episode 20: Don't Walk Away, Renee

Original Air Date—9 May 1998

Season 2, Episode 21: Hot Time in the Old Town

Original Air Date—16 May 1998

Season 2, Episode 22: Second Sight

Original Air Date—23 May 1998

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Blackout

Original Air Date—26 September 1998

Season 3, Episode 2: Collision

Original Air Date—3 October 1998
Gary must find ways to prevent a collision which originally kills 13 people but has no definitive cause. However, as the deadline approaches, he is able to eliminate some of the victims but has trouble preventing a death toll.

Season 3, Episode 3: A Horse Is a Horse

Original Air Date—10 October 1998
When Henry accidentally discovers one of Gary's newspapers from the future, he uses the information to make friends in school and provide his dad with gambling tips.

Season 3, Episode 4: Lt. Hobson, U.S.N.

Original Air Date—17 October 1998
After saving several enlistees from an explosion, Gary is mistaken for a Lieutenant and forced to serve in the Navy, which puts his future heroic acts in jeopardy.

Season 3, Episode 5: Saint Nick

Original Air Date—24 October 1998
Gary becomes jealous when Erica begins to date a doctor who is beloved by everyone. He later gets the "Early Edition" and realizes that he must save his "competition" from a deadly fire.

Season 3, Episode 6: Halloween

Original Air Date—31 October 1998

Season 3, Episode 7: Up Chuck

Original Air Date—7 November 1998
Gary is suspicious when Chuck returns from California with a surprisingly new attitude. However, Gary soon learns that Chuck is paying someone to follow him and film his heroic acts in hopes of getting a movie deal.

Season 3, Episode 8: Deadline

Original Air Date—14 November 1998

Season 3, Episode 9: In Gary We Trust

Original Air Date—21 November 1998
When Gary interrupts a federal investigation by trying to save a towel boy from being shot, he is placed in the Witness Protection Program. He is assigned an attractive but surly agent to watch over him, which puts off Erica, whom he just got the courage to ask out.

Season 3, Episode 10: Nest Egg

Original Air Date—5 December 1998

Season 3, Episode 11: Teen Angels

Original Air Date—19 December 1998
Gary poses as a high school substitute teacher in order to prevent a school shooting. However, when his newspaper is torn up and lost, he is unable to pinpoint who the shooter is.

Season 3, Episode 12: Slippity-Doo-Dah

Original Air Date—9 January 1999
Gary encounters a woman who has tendency for ambulance chasing.

Season 3, Episode 13: The Last Untouchable

Original Air Date—16 January 1999
Gary gets in the middle of a feud between a former Untouchable who was just released from prison and a retired T-Man who helped put him away.

Season 3, Episode 14: Just One of Those Things

Original Air Date—6 February 1999
Gary begins to experience medical problems stemming from his frequent lying to Erica about his whereabouts. He decides to come clean and tell her about the newspaper and his heroic acts. However, she has a tough time believing him after his paper gets switched with Patrick's copy of today's paper.

Season 3, Episode 15: Funny Valentine

Original Air Date—13 February 1999

Season 3, Episode 16: Number One with a Bullet

Original Air Date—20 February 1999

Season 3, Episode 17: Two to Tangle

Original Air Date—27 February 1999

Season 3, Episode 18: Fate

Original Air Date—20 March 1999
Gary has problems dealing with being unable to save someone, which leads to The Paper predicting Gary's death.

Season 3, Episode 19: Crumb Again

Original Air Date—3 April 1999

Season 3, Episode 20: Pinch Hitters

Original Air Date—17 April 1999

Season 3, Episode 21: Home Groan

Original Air Date—1 May 1999

Season 3, Episode 22: Play It Again, Sammo

Original Air Date—8 May 1999

Season 3, Episode 23: Blowing Up Is Hard to Do

Original Air Date—15 May 1999

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: The Out-of-Towner

Original Air Date—25 September 1999

Season 4, Episode 2: Duck Day Afternoon

Original Air Date—2 October 1999

Season 4, Episode 3: Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Original Air Date—9 October 1999
Chuck comes for a visit and offers to take Gary to a Cubs wherein a promising rookie Pedro Mendoza is going to play. But Gary finds himself trying to help the owner of a restaurant who borrowed money from a loan shark who is demanding ownership in the restaurant as payment. And it seems that the owner of the restaurant and Mendoza are linked together.

Season 4, Episode 4: The Iceman Taketh

Original Air Date—16 October 1999

Season 4, Episode 5: Camera Shy

Original Air Date—23 October 1999
Feeling bad that he helped get a photo journalism fired from two jobs, Gary tries to find him another job and prevent him from being murdered.

Season 4, Episode 6: Wild Card

Original Air Date—30 October 1999

Season 4, Episode 7: Fatal Edition: Part 1

Original Air Date—6 November 1999
Gary is arrested and charged with murder after he is found standing right next to the slain body of a man who had earlier threatened to investigate his propensity to show up at crime scenes.

Season 4, Episode 8: Fatal Edition: Part 2

Original Air Date—13 November 1999
Now a fugitive from justice, Gary appeals to Detective Brigatti to help get him off the hook for murder and find the real killer.

Season 4, Episode 9: Weather Girl

Original Air Date—20 November 1999

Season 4, Episode 10: Run Gary Run

Original Air Date—18 December 1999

Season 4, Episode 11: Rose

Original Air Date—19 February 2000

Season 4, Episode 12: Snow Angels

Original Air Date—26 February 2000

Season 4, Episode 13: Gifted

Original Air Date—4 March 2000

Season 4, Episode 14: Performance Anxiety

Original Air Date—11 March 2000

Season 4, Episode 15: False Witness

Original Air Date—25 March 2000

Season 4, Episode 16: The Play's the Thing

Original Air Date—8 April 2000

Season 4, Episode 17: Blind Faith

Original Air Date—22 April 2000

Season 4, Episode 18: Occasionally Amber

Original Air Date—29 April 2000

Season 4, Episode 19: Mel Schwartz, Bounty Hunter

Original Air Date—6 May 2000

Season 4, Episode 20: Time

Original Air Date—13 May 2000
Gary learns that Lucious Snow, the previous recipient of the paper, saved his life when he was a boy. And that that act has significance to something in the present.

Unknown Season


Everybody Goes to Rick's

Original Air Date—20 May 2000

Luck o' the Irish

Original Air Date—27 May 2000

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