Post by MCDemuth on Nov 26, 2018 6:03:38 GMT
Any Other Fans Of This Show?
Seven Days (also written as 7 Days) is a science fiction television series based on the premise of time travel. It was created by Christopher and Zachary Crowe and produced by UPN from 1998 to 2001...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_(TV_series)
66 Episodes were produced and aired over THREE Seasons from October 7, 1998 to May 29, 2001...
Usually, Each Episode, features an Event that Frank has to Backstep for, and prevent...
Since Frank, is the only person that time travels, and remembers the original timeline...
The show has two running gags...
Behind the scenes, there were major tensions within the cast. Actress Justina Vail, who played Dr. Olga Vukavitch, quit the series before the end of the third season, though she agreed to film a few extra scenes to wrap-up her character's arc...
In addition...
Due to the show's low ratings at the end of the Third Season...
UPN decided not to renew the series for a fourth season.
At the time the show originally aired, I thought it was great... 8/10... I wished there had been a few more seasons!
I have been waiting for it to be released on DVD for 17 Years... And now it finally is...
I have already placed my order!
Looking forward to "Doing" It Again!
Interestingly, this show was cancelled just a few months before 9/11... I remember seeing various people on the internet, asking, how would the show have handled that event... Well...
I've heard there were similar discussions about Superhero Comics during WWII... While many comics featured interesting covers of Superheroes busting the bad guys... It was believed it would have been in poor taste to have Superman go and stop Hitler... Why? well...
1.) We would all know the story was fiction, and that after reading it... Hitler would have still been out there in the real world, still commanding his troops... So what's the point?
2.) It also wouldn't honor all the genuine soldiers putting their lives on the line fighting in the war...
And So, it was never done...
For similar reasons, I believe the show would not have tried to Stop 9/11, as well... They would have probably just come up with some plot device, that would have prevented them from being able to stop the attack within the Seven Day window of opportunity... And would have continued the show from there...
They might have done a story that was connected to 9/11, though... perhaps a fictional event that happened right after it...
Something LIKE: POTUS was all stressed out, and didn't listen to his Doctor, in order to deal with various aspects of 9/11 and had a heart attack, away from a Hospital, and died... Frank Backsteps to save POTUS!
Seven Days (also written as 7 Days) is a science fiction television series based on the premise of time travel. It was created by Christopher and Zachary Crowe and produced by UPN from 1998 to 2001...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_(TV_series)
Jonathan LaPaglia (“Love Child”) stars as U.S. Navy Lieutenant Francis "Frank" Bartholomew Parker, a former Navy SEAL and ex-CIA operative. Frank is also divorced and has a son whom he doesn't see often...
At the beginning of the series, Frank is in a secret government mental institution, recovering from a mental breakdown he had suffered as a result of being tortured while being a prisoner in Somalia...
Frank Parker is then recruited to be a Chrononaut (Time Traveler) for Project BACKSTEP...
BACKSTEP is an highly classified NSA (USA National Security Agency) project... located in a secret location somewhere in the desert of Nevada called "Never Never Land" (NNL) — a play on Area 51, or Groom Lake Flight Test Facilities, also known as Dreamland.... That involves a Chrononaut (Frank), piloting a Time Traveling Sphere (based upon alien technology found at the famous 1947 Roswell UFO Crash) which is capable of sending “One human, being back in time, Seven Days” to avert major man-made crimes/disasters...
(The show's name refers to the fact that the Backstep Project can only backstep seven days due to limitations imposed by the fuel source and its reactor. As the fuel source is limited, there is a strict mandate that the backstep is confined to events relating directly to national security.)
Technically, Frank is an NSA agent... but, outside of a Backstep mission, he isn't supposed to leave the Project's headquarters, which chafes him. He always tries to get around the rules in an ongoing battle of wills with security chief Nathan Ramsey.
Frank's codename is "Conundrum", which he uses to identify himself to the Backstep Team, upon traveling back in time...
It is generally believed by the people that Frank works with, that his mental problems are what allows him to be such a good Chrononaut... But, Security chief Nathan Ramsey doesn't always agree...
At the beginning of the series, Frank is in a secret government mental institution, recovering from a mental breakdown he had suffered as a result of being tortured while being a prisoner in Somalia...
Frank Parker is then recruited to be a Chrononaut (Time Traveler) for Project BACKSTEP...
BACKSTEP is an highly classified NSA (USA National Security Agency) project... located in a secret location somewhere in the desert of Nevada called "Never Never Land" (NNL) — a play on Area 51, or Groom Lake Flight Test Facilities, also known as Dreamland.... That involves a Chrononaut (Frank), piloting a Time Traveling Sphere (based upon alien technology found at the famous 1947 Roswell UFO Crash) which is capable of sending “One human, being back in time, Seven Days” to avert major man-made crimes/disasters...
(The show's name refers to the fact that the Backstep Project can only backstep seven days due to limitations imposed by the fuel source and its reactor. As the fuel source is limited, there is a strict mandate that the backstep is confined to events relating directly to national security.)
Technically, Frank is an NSA agent... but, outside of a Backstep mission, he isn't supposed to leave the Project's headquarters, which chafes him. He always tries to get around the rules in an ongoing battle of wills with security chief Nathan Ramsey.
Frank's codename is "Conundrum", which he uses to identify himself to the Backstep Team, upon traveling back in time...
It is generally believed by the people that Frank works with, that his mental problems are what allows him to be such a good Chrononaut... But, Security chief Nathan Ramsey doesn't always agree...
66 Episodes were produced and aired over THREE Seasons from October 7, 1998 to May 29, 2001...
Usually, Each Episode, features an Event that Frank has to Backstep for, and prevent...
Since Frank, is the only person that time travels, and remembers the original timeline...
The show has two running gags...
The first: every time he actually hooks up with Olga (including the very first episode), he is forced to Backstep to before it happened, and is unable to duplicate the events that led to them getting together...
Frank has a gambling problem, which leads to the second gag: every time Frank tries to profit from gambling on events he recalls from the future, he picks the losing side (the lone exception to this is when he gambles to get a bankroll for a charitable purpose).
Frank has a gambling problem, which leads to the second gag: every time Frank tries to profit from gambling on events he recalls from the future, he picks the losing side (the lone exception to this is when he gambles to get a bankroll for a charitable purpose).
Behind the scenes, there were major tensions within the cast. Actress Justina Vail, who played Dr. Olga Vukavitch, quit the series before the end of the third season, though she agreed to film a few extra scenes to wrap-up her character's arc...
In addition...
Due to the show's low ratings at the end of the Third Season...
UPN decided not to renew the series for a fourth season.
On November 28, 2018, "Visual Entertainment" is releasing the Complete series of Seven Days, for the very first time on DVD, for Region 1.
It is available for Pre-Order!
www.visualentertainment.tv/products/7-days-the-complete-collection-7108
It is available for Pre-Order!
www.visualentertainment.tv/products/7-days-the-complete-collection-7108
At the time the show originally aired, I thought it was great... 8/10... I wished there had been a few more seasons!
I have been waiting for it to be released on DVD for 17 Years... And now it finally is...
I have already placed my order!
Looking forward to "Doing" It Again!
Interestingly, this show was cancelled just a few months before 9/11... I remember seeing various people on the internet, asking, how would the show have handled that event... Well...
I've heard there were similar discussions about Superhero Comics during WWII... While many comics featured interesting covers of Superheroes busting the bad guys... It was believed it would have been in poor taste to have Superman go and stop Hitler... Why? well...
1.) We would all know the story was fiction, and that after reading it... Hitler would have still been out there in the real world, still commanding his troops... So what's the point?
2.) It also wouldn't honor all the genuine soldiers putting their lives on the line fighting in the war...
And So, it was never done...
For similar reasons, I believe the show would not have tried to Stop 9/11, as well... They would have probably just come up with some plot device, that would have prevented them from being able to stop the attack within the Seven Day window of opportunity... And would have continued the show from there...
They might have done a story that was connected to 9/11, though... perhaps a fictional event that happened right after it...
Something LIKE: POTUS was all stressed out, and didn't listen to his Doctor, in order to deal with various aspects of 9/11 and had a heart attack, away from a Hospital, and died... Frank Backsteps to save POTUS!
