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Title: A Special Edition (25 Jul 1997)
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| Alan Thicke | ... |
Donald Rivers
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| Bruce Harwood | ... |
Dr. Avery Strong
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Stevie Vallance | ... |
Sandra
(as Louise Vallance)
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| Michael St. John Smith | ... |
Dr. Richard Morgan
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| Colin Lawrence | ... |
Technician
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Harrison Coe | ... |
Man
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| Colleen Winton | ... |
Spokeswoman Adrian Wheeler
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| Gerry Rousseau | ... |
Bum
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| Peter Onorati | ... |
Frank Martin
(archive footage)
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| Sandrine Holt | ... |
Jade /
Laura
(archive footage)
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| Michael Hogan | ... |
Dr. Lawrence Sinclair
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Ron Halder | ... |
Lab Assistant
(archive footage)
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| Stephen Lang | ... |
Dr. James Houghton
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| Terence Kelly | ... |
Oscar Reynolds
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| Michael Ontkean | ... |
Dr. Charles McCamber
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Television journalist Donald Rivers, host of The Whole Truth, has the story of a lifetime: the government has been conducting secret experiments and have perfected cloning. Using video re-enactments and an eye-witness report, Rivers' expose includes Dr. Avery Strong who claims his brother was killed to silence him. When his broadcast is interrupted it appears the powers that be have every intention to stop him. Written by garykmcd
Another lame attempt to reuse scenes from the previous three seasons. In this one, a reporter played by Alan Thicke is doing a broadcast, attempting to expose the federal government's efforts at genetic engineering, including the use of cloning. The broadcast isn't bad and is handled nicely by Thicke, but to take unrelated episodes and try to fuse them just doesn't work. People who care about this stuff must have been so angry to see how the original plots were ignored so a bit of footage could be taken out of context. It is exciting, certainly, but we are given a dose of what will happen early on. Like so much of the science fiction/fantasy anthology stuff, we know that the characters are constantly swimming uphill. I haven't seen future episodes, but I sincerely hope they can come up with a budget that would allow them to do a new episode, even an exciting one, to conclude the season.