Seven Days
Tags: alternate history

Plot synopsis:
The plot follows a secret branch of the United States' National Security Agency which has developed a time travelling device based upon alien technology found at Roswell. As the opening of the show says, the Chronosphere, or Backstep Sphere, sends "one human being back in time seven days" to avert disasters. The show's name refers to the fact that the Backstep Project can only backstep seven days because of limitations imposed by the fuel source and its reactor. As the fuel source is limited, there is a strict mandate that they only Backstep for events relating to "National Security". The backstep team and the equipment are stationed in a base called Never Never Land, which is in a secret location somewhere in the desert of Nevada.
=== Project Backstep ===
Project Backstep was initiated by the National Security Agency (NSA) after the Roswell incident of 1947. The crashed alien saucer was taken to a secret base called "Never Never Land" (inspired by Groom Lake in Area 51, nicknamed in real-life as "Dreamland") in the Nevada Desert where it was reverse-engineered.
By reverse-engineering the alien technology, they were able to create a time machine. The "time machine" consists of the Chronosphere, including the Chronosphere's hangar and its supporting equipment.
The time machine uses Element-115 salvaged from the Roswell crash. This transuranic element allowed them to generate a time distortion field around the Chronosphere. The sphere is teleported away from the hangar and into space, after which the chrononaut, Frank Parker, steers the sphere towards the required space and time coordinates (referred to as "flying the needles").

Review: To make a series with a story based on time travel is quite tricky.
It certainly has it flaws and errors, but if you don't take it all to serious and don't think too much about it this show will be quite entertaining and enjoyable.Frank Parker is pulled out of a secret mental institution and trained to be the chrononaut in a secret government project called Backstep.
From the remains of the Roswell crash they have managed to build a device that can send one man seven days back in time.
Under NSA control a Backstep is issued to correct events concerning national security.If you take this series all too serious you will get disappointed cause this show don't take it self all that serious.
This series is a nice mix of action, sci-fi and comedy.
It could've been a lot better, but the nice punchlines and great characters make up for a occasional less good story.
Jonathan LaPaglia does a good job in portraying Frank Parker.
The general performance is good, but there are a little miss here and there.Scott Gilman has done a very nice job scoring this series.
The sphere and time travel effects are good, but the for instance the CGI explosions are rather obvious fake and less good, but they do the job and it could have looked a lot worse.Over all Seven Days is an entertaining and enjoyable show.
"7 Days" was an awesome mix of sci-fi, action, drama, suspense, and dark comedy.
Parker, the Chrononaut (aka time traveler), was a mischief-maker and had a lot of emotional and mental problems.
But deep inside he was a good guy -- he did the right thing by saving the country (sometimes even the world) because it was his job and honor to do it.I wish UPN had given this show a better chance, rather than shuffling it around and taking it for granted.
I absolutely LOVE time travel, and anything to do with that be it books, movies, or TV shows.
And guess what this show came along and wow I loved it...I watched most of the episodes when they were on TV here and I really got to like the show.
From the never ending come ons Frank did to Olga to try and woo her to the various missions he did.
Some of the show did at times get a bit repititious but I glossed over that and just enjoyed the show for whatit was, which was entertaining....It's a pity our local TV station gave it a bad run but I live in hope this will come to DVD and then I'll probably buy the whole set.....
Every week there's a interesting mission or twist on the concept of time travel.
Anthony LaPaglia's brother, Jon, starred in this short-lived sci-fi series about a government agent who can travel a short distance back in time and does so on behalf of a secret agency that tries to right some recent wrongs.
LaPaglia is the usually cool, calm and collected type who occasionally gets a bit frantic trying to make things right.
One memorable episode, the plot of which has turned up in virtually every time travel show or movie ever made, has the agent returning to an altered present where no one believes or knows him.
You can see their lookalikes/soundalikes on current shows like EUREKA and any CSI series.
I myself along with others have wondered why Frank doesn't run into himself 7 days in the past but I think this show is really good.
Oh yea, and for the females that don't like the action stuff, Johnathan LaPaglia is hot so that should make you tune in....I personally love the action & a hot lead star helps make it even better, but that's not the only reason I like the show!!!!
I haven't seen an episode that I don't like....they have great story-lines!!!.
It has a lot of character development and great plots.
I always crack a smile when Frank is trying to flirt with Olga, the bickering between Frank and Ramsey, or when we get a peek into Dr. Ballard's amazingly good love life.
A great watch when trying to unwind after a long day.As for the reason why Frank doesn't run into himself:  Because when Frank goes back in time, he "jumps" into himself minus a week.
I LOVE time travel shows!!!.
I love time travel shows and Seven Days was one of the best series out there...I especially enjoyed "Empty Quiver" (episode # 3.16) 3/21/2001.
I thought it was way cool to go back in time and see Molly as a young girl...the girl who played Young Molly (Jenny-Lynn Hutcheson) was really good...one scene she was crying and explaining what she sees and my heart just went out to her...soooooo emotionally convincing...I will never tire of time travel shows, especially good ones like Seven Days...anyways I was very sad when it was canceled!!.
When are they going to bring out 'Seven Days' on DVD.
The majority of TV shows have DVD's released normally start a couple of months after the final episode of the first season goes to air and yet, 5 Years after the final episode of 'Seven Days', it is still not available on DVD.
I believe that writers should always get paid for their work, so I think the writers of 'Seven Days' would still like to collect royalties for 'Seven Days' by people going out and buying the series on DVD..
He gets to travel back in time 7 days to fix anything like the killing of a great leader or the White House being blown up etc.
I love the whole premise of the series, going back in time only 7 days, and not being able to go back 7 days, then 7 days again, because the reactor needed 7 days to recharge!
Every now and than some tv show comes along on one of our commercial Tv stations, we have 4 in Holland, that is worth your time and is not going to persuade you to bang your head against the wall in utter terror mumbling "how bad can it be, it can't be this bad" The Outer limits was one of them, the first seasons of X files was one of them and now there is 7 days in the re- run.
The first look will have you search your favorite wall again, bulky muscle guy in the lead role, mindless explosions, the cast made up of an atractive female lead( is there a spark between her and the muscle guy , duuuhhh), a smart guy in a wheelchair, a not so good guy, you know the drill.
But leave the wall alone, the stories are quite good, there is budget that is well used( not he sphere that is used for the time-travel, it's a big blue screen tennisball) and everything falls in place,the actors are believable and the whole thing is fun to watch.
So if you can get past that, you'll find Seven Days to be one of the most entertaining shows to hit primetime TV in a long time.
Johnathan LaPaglia plays Frank Parker, a former soldier who spent the latter part of his life in the looney bin, until the NSA recruited him for a top secret government project.
They've developed a device that can take one man back in time 7 days.
As you can probably guess, every week something horrible happens, and Frank must travel back in time to prevent it.
What makes Seven Days so good is the characters and their interaction with each other.
Watching these two flirt back and forth makes us long for the day they actually hook it up and stop kidding themselves.
The production values tend to run high in each episode, especially in the first season.
I would advise anyone who would like to get into this series to look for the two-hour pilot to be re-run.
It's always hard to jump into the middle of a sci-fi series storyline without knowing the facts leading into it.
Just remember, it's still relatively new to television, and like any show will take time to grow.
Why do all the good shows get cancelled?.
I don't get it - it seems like all the good TV shows get cancelled into the fifth or sixth season.
Seven Days was no different - UPN obviously thought the show was "expendable" and decided to start changing the time slot it was on, so nobody could watch it, cause nobody knew when it was on.
You ruined a perfectly good TV show, that was a great compliment to Star Trek: Voyager..
There's action, sexual tension with Olga, and some alternate history thrown in.If you're looking for "reality" in any way, on the other hand, you should probably look elsewhere.Here's the problem with the premise: It's not really possible to "fix" anything when traveling backwards in time.
If you travel backwards in time and fix anything, you just erased the reason for your trip in the first place, along with your memory of why you did it.
The way that standard time-travel stories work is to create alternate universes, but if you do that, then it defeats the purpose: The problem you set out to fix remains a problem in the universe you just left.
The general premise of the series makes possible an endless number of intriguing and thought-provoking stories.
Unfortunately, the writers generally fail to achieve anything close to its full potential.The actors (Nick Searcy in particular) must be frustrated with their often one-dimensional characters, who never show any character development or long-term growth, and who are frequently forced, by the requirements of ill-developed plots, to act entirely unlike the scientists and military personnel they are supposed to be.(Would a paranoid security chief really overlook major personality shifts and gaps in basic knowledge every time a protagonist is replaced by a doppelganger or impostor?
I tend to doubt it, especially given the regularity with which it seems to occur.)The show is also plagued by gross scientific implausibilities and continuity errors, all of which could easily be remedied (or at least be given better explanations) -- but that would require the writers to put forth a great deal more effort.This show COULD be good, perhaps even excellent -- but only if the actors are given better material to work with.
The Pilot is a real perfect product for a TV Series of that time and comes close to a cine film like "Stargate (1994)" and is pretty sure worth the rumored 10 MioThe first season is really interesting, catches up with most time traveling ideas and and is really entertaining.
Emotional, well scripted, no overflow of bad CGI and the best I've ever seen in a Sci-Fi Series.
The third and last Season is solid work, except some lost knowledge of their own history and more goofs.In short words: Good Start, getting low (of budget) in the middle and than solid to the end line.
Scifi Time Travel TV Series.
Seven Days is one of my favorite TV Series of all time and I wish they would put it on DVD.
When I watched this TV series almost every day that it was on TV, a few weeks later I had a dream where I was the main character..
Jon Lapaglia (Tony's brother) is a Chrononaught, there is a secret program called Backstep, based on technology left over from the 1947 Roswell crash that allows them to send one person back in time seven days.
There's always a question of whether or not they have to send the person back exactly seven days, there was one episode where they only sent him back a day.
But usually hilarious things ensue because of Frank Parker's (Lapaglia) limited foresight.
Many of the episodes parody TV shows and movies that were popular during the time the show was on, i've located charmed, three kings, maybe even 2001 where an artificial intelligence goes haywire and has to be shut off the same way Hal was, by regressing it back to infancy.
Frank is able to "back-step" more than 7 days from the event.
But Frank returns to his own self which is 7 days younger, only his memory retains all the events of the last week, except the objects that Frank carries with him in the sphere during "back-step".I am sorry that this very series came to its end.
The acting is great, the stories are interesting and the general idea of "back-step" is fantastic.
It carries him to the next mission that I'm looking forward to.Eventually, who wouldn't like to step back in time and make this world a better place?
Parker's pretty fine for a guy, and the gal who plays Olga isn't half bad either).
I have more a question instead of a comment on the "Seven Days" series.
I mean after the first mission you will have two Parkers in the same time line?
You can only keep so many Parkers locked up in the mental ward...Or does he get to fly back secretly to his own time line when no one is watching.
It has a great story, lots of action, and is dramatic.
This show is not very popular, but i think that if people actually watched it, people would like it.
No one else seems to have quite appreciated this series for what it deserves.It's probably for the best they did not make more episode than they did.
1st series great, second entertaining.
The plots always challenged you and the fact that many of the events in the first season hit close to home on 9/11 makes them all the more special.
So those of you who enjoy general action shows will enjoy it throughout but those of you "more serious", for want of a better word, won't enjoy the second and third seasons as much.
It's the one thing about this great show that was so obvious, but never even addressed once during it's 3 year season.The question is this: What happens to the Frank B.
Parker in the present-time when the Frank B.
Granted that stories concerning themselves with time travels are logically speaking almost always tricky to pull off, this one's especially hard for me to swallow.
Not that Sci-Fi's supposed to make sense, but there is a limit to one's intellectual auto-piloting and "7 Days" pushes mine.OK, so Lt. Parker travels back one week in time to correct some injustice or another which has occured, and every single time the "Team" (his buddy Donovan, the sexy Russian scientist, that bloke in the wheelchair, et al) seems equally interested in hearing from him.
That is the Parker of that seven-days-earlier time dimension, not the one from the future?
See my problem?At least most other similarily themed shows/movies/books take the time explain inevitable paradoxes such as this - however cockneyed these explanations often are.But if none of the above should bother you, just sit back, relax and enjoy the ride..
Seven days will start again on April 3 spike TV at 8am CST.
Seven days will start again on April 3 spike TV at 8am CST.
Seven days will start again on April 3 spike TV at 8am CST.
Seven days will start again on April 3 spike TV at 8am CST.
Seven days will start again on April 3 spike TV at 8am CST.
Seven days will start again on April 3 spike TV at 8am CST.
Seven days will start again on April 3 spike TV at 8am CST.
Seven days will start again on April 3 spike TV at 8am CST.
Seven Days is awesome.
I didn't watch the show before it went into syndication, but the show is awesome, I know that it just seems like more science fiction junk but its a lot more then that.
This is a problem that has plagued other shows based in Canada, John Doe recently is a good example.
"Raven" episode with Bobbie Phillips was great!.
I only started watching the show when I heard Bobbie Phillips was going to be on.It was a Great episode!
I was able to catch earlier episodes (from Season 1, I believe)and really enjoyed them.
I've watched this show many times on nights before Voyager where I just got home and was pooped out from work.
Sometimes, there's a great episode on.
Being as it is that Seven Days is on before Voyager, I started watching it out of convenience <g> and now I've seen that it's really a pretty enjoyable show.
The premise of going back in time to prevent disasters wouldn't be so original on its own, but the seven-day time limit gives it more possibility.
Frank, Olga and the others aren't extremely 3D, but they're likable and interesting, and it works.Seven Days isn't quite Star Trek caliber, but it's a pretty engaging and well-done show, usually interesting to watch.
It should be given credit for its creative uses of the time travel premise.
Its sad that 7 days got cancelled, especially when it was doing so well.
Hopefully, the Seven Days producers will run with her character and add her to the show.
Great Work to everyone on this episode.
Going back in time seven days to correct mistakes and prevent tragedies is a good premise, but the series is in danger of becoming too set in a familiar pattern.
Still, most of the shows so far have been passably good, and the cast is better than average.
Seven Days has a good mix of drama, comedy and action, however, at times the writing just gets plain lazy.
Seven Days TV Series 1998 (3 years).
One of which was a unit or device in the flying saucer that, with proper control, could send a person back in time, but only 7 days.
He was assigned to operate the vehicle and go back in time 7 days before the attack and stop it from happening.