Seeing Things
Psychic Visions
Seeing Things is a Canadian comedy-drama mystery television series which originally aired on CBC Television from 1981 to 1987. It was also seen in Europe, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Australia and the United States. In all, 43 episodes were produced. With the exception of "Seeing R.E.D." episodes were one hour long. The show starred Louis Del Grande as Louis Ciccone, a newspaper journalist who solves murders with the help of his ability to see postcognitive visions. Unfortunately, Louis cannot consciously control this sense except by investigating the clues the initial vision gives. In some episodes, however, such as "Seeing the Country", he is able to stop visions from entering his mind. Nevertheless, only when he discovers new information on the case will further visions occur, which provide increasingly more detail until they finally reveal the murderer. Del Grande was also the show's creator and writer. The show also starred Del Grande's real-life wife Martha Gibson as Ciccone's wife Marge, and Janet-Laine Green as crown attorney Heather Redfern. The supporting cast also included Frank Adamson, Lynne Gordon, Ivan Beaulieu, Murray Westgate, Louis Negin and Cec Linder.
Seasons
1. I May Be Seeing Things, But I'm Not Crazy
Air Date: 1981-09-15
Reporter Louie Ciccone is assigned to cover the courts, and he wanders into the trial of a derelict charged with a skid row murder. It seems like an open and shut case hut then Louie has a vision and becomes convinced that the tramp has been framed. Louie has a hard time persuading the Assistant Crown Attorney, Heather Redfern, that she must reconsider her prosecution of the case.
2. Sight Unseen
Air Date: 1981-09-22
Louie covers the murder of a wealthy art patron and learns that the police suspect the collector's favourite artist, a sculptor who has disappeared. Louie soon discovers other suspects as he goes on a dangerous chase for the killer.
3. A Charming Sight
Air Date: 1981-09-29
Reporter Louis Ciccone insists his wife accompany him to a high school reunion, At the reunion he meets a former classmate who has become a multi-millionaire. Moments later the wealthy man's body is discovered floating in the pool and Louie is charged with murder.
1. An Eye for An Eye
Air Date: 1982-10-20
Louie Ciccone gets a vision while watching a news report on the shocking murder of a prominent spokesman tar international Jewish causes. The intrepid reporter helps in the arrest at a flea- Nazi who quickly confesses, But Louie begins to wonder if he's caught the real killer.
2. Looking Back
Air Date: 1982-10-27
Louie and Marge head to Louie's high-school reunion. When a former classmate (turned multi-millionaire) winds up dead in a swimming pool, Louie is the main suspect.
3. Seeing Double
Air Date: 1982-11-03
After Marge is given an antique urn, people start dying. It turns out that someone will do anything to get their hands on that urn.
4. Through The Looking Glass
Air Date: 1982-11-10
A hockey player falls to his death during an old-timers benefit game, leaving Heather Redfern's hockey-playing boyfriend devastated at the loss of his friend, and Louie determined to prove it wasn't a freak accident.
5. Eyes too Big for His Stomach
Air Date: 1982-11-17
Louie sends Gazette food editor Marlon Bede to work undercover at a local restaurant after the competition between the local restaurants turns deadly.
6. Evil Eye
Air Date: 1982-11-24
Even though he's a born loser and a gold-digger, Louie is convinced that his old friend did not murder his fiancée's wealthy father, and is determined to prove that his death is connected to shadows in his past.
7. Hear No Evil, See No Evil
Air Date: 1982-12-01
Louie does his best to assist his favorite artist, Stevie Mercer, when Stevie is charged with the murder of another singing star.
8. In the Eyes of the Law
Air Date: 1982-12-08
Heather is threatened by a drug dealer she recently prosecuted, but refuses protection. When one of her friends is killed, Louie enters a local yacht race with Heather to keep her safe.
1. Seeing R.E.D.
Air Date: 1984-01-15
Louie tries to prove that Kenny Volker is innocent of murder when a barroom brawl leaves a psychiatrist dead. Turns out there's more to this mystery than meets the eye, though, when Louie gets stuck between an unscrupulous research scientist, a fanatical leader of an anti-terrorist unit, and a drugged chimpanzee.
2. Someone is Watching
Air Date: 1984-01-22
Heather's new home creates visions of bleeding pictures, creepy neighbors, and a horrific suicide for Louie.
3. I'm Looking Through You
Air Date: 1984-01-29
When a local weapons factory is bombed, Louie has a vision which tells him Marge was less than honest about her past boyfriends, as he realises one of them is the bomber. Not only does he have to dig into Marge's love life, but there's a US Marshal on the loose looking to prove Marge is guilty.
4. Now You See Him Now You Don't
Air Date: 1984-02-05
Heather Redfern is the sole eye witness to the shooting death of international financial analyst and guru James Englander and Louie is the first reporter on the scene. The next morning the Gazette scoops every other paper in town with Louie's exclusive story. The paper hits the street Just as Englander appears on local television to state that the rumours of his death are greatly exaggerated.
5. Snow Blind
Air Date: 1984-02-12
Louie and Marge's romantic weekend at a ski lodge is interrupted when a guest is killed by a falling chandelier. From a hot tub to Devil's Run, someone wants to make sure Louie can't tell anyone the truth.
6. An Eye on the Future
Air Date: 1984-02-19
Marge loves her job at the senior citizens complex, but Louie is so suspicious of the place he convinces his parents to put his aging grandfather in the home to further his investigation.
7. Second Sight
Air Date: 1984-02-26
There is more than meets the mind's eye when famed psychic The Great Eli tells a heckler at one of his shows to `Begone! And moments later the man drops dead. Louie is In the audience and suspects murder rather than supernatural powers, but when he tries to investigate The Great Eli he finds himself on the receiving end of the next Begone!' curse.
8. Looking Good
Air Date: 1984-03-04
Louie steps in when Sgt. Brown's daughter is accused of murdering a fellow contestant at a beauty pagaent, but it's possible she isn't quite as innocent as her father thinks she is.
1. Fortune and Ladies Eyes
Air Date: 1985-02-03
Marge witnesses a murder while in jail on contempt of court charges, and Louie has to do an indepth investigation into the world of strip-teasing to keep her safe.
2. Seeing the Country
Air Date: 1985-02-10
Louie fishes a skeleton out of a country lake, ruining his vacation with Marge. A series of fiery visions tell Louie the story of what happened.
3. You Can't Believe Your Eyes
Air Date: 1985-02-17
The disappearance of a local student and a body found at the airport draw Marge and Louie into the world of political intrigue.
4. Defective Vision
Air Date: 1985-02-24
Louie investigates when a KGB agent is murdered during a ballet performance, locking horns with not only the KGB, but also the RCMP, the CIA, and some local Russian émigrés.
5. Eye in the Sky (1)
Air Date: 1985-03-03
Louie begins a career as a television reporter, but he nearly dies when the helicopter he is in is shot out of the sky.
6. Eye in the Sky (2)
Air Date: 1985-03-10
Louie's investigation of a triple murder exposes a cover-up involving dangerous nuclear waste.
7. I'll Be Seeing You
Air Date: 1985-03-17
Al is under suspicion when two members of his social club are murdered, and while he goes into hiding, Louie assumes body guard duties to keep his father safe.
8. Blind Alley
Air Date: 1985-03-24
Sgt. Brown pushes Louie into feigning expertise with explosives and joining forces with a gang of international thieves who are attempting to steal the priceless Mask of Agamemnon from the Central Ontario Museum after Louie gets in the way of a police investigation.
1. The Walls Have Eyes
Air Date: 1986-01-26
When a lawyer stages a murder mystery weekend, Louie, Marge, and the other guests have to investigate a real murder when the bullets in the gun Heather uses to 'shoot' the host turn out to be real.
2. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Air Date: 1986-02-02
An elderly man arrested after an explosion keeps going back to Louie, who decides to investigate the circumstances.
3. If Looks Could Kill
Air Date: 1986-02-09
Heather, Louie, and Marge are kidnapped by a defendant who is trying to prove that he is innocent of murdering the owner of a local health club.
4. The Eyes of Ra
Air Date: 1986-02-16
Louie has a vision of a three-thousand-year-old murder while covering a new exhibit at the Ontario Museum of Archaeology, and later, that vision is played out in a brand new murder.
5. I'm Dancing With Stars in My Eyes
Air Date: 1986-02-23
Louie believes that Marge's new ballroom dancing partner is a murderous Lothario.
6. Optical Illusion
Air Date: 1986-03-02
Louie comes face to face with a gorilla, the CIA, and murder when he joins the summer carnival, which is where Jason is working.
7. Look at Me, Look at Me
Air Date: 1986-03-09
Louie profiles a Quixotic local Metro prankster, but things take a turn for the worse when one of the prankster's jokes appear to have caused the death of an innocent bystander.
8. That Hang Dog Look
Air Date: 1986-03-16
A chance encounter with a stray dog gives Louie a vision showing him that the dog's master was murdered, and gives him a chance to find the body...if only more bodies didn't keep cropping up.
1. Here's Looking At You
Air Date: 1987-02-24
Louie bears an amazing resemblance to Stefan of Drabvania, but just as he is about to assume the king's identity, the real king is kidnapped, and his boyguard murdered.
2. Eye of the Beholder
Air Date: 1987-03-03
Louie becomes convinced that a beautiful model is in danger from her husband, and when a fatal bullet is fired, Louie faces a life behind bars.
3. Spectacle of India
Air Date: 1987-03-10
Director Julian Bell turns up dead, which is connected with the grease paint in a local production. A bomb endangers the lives of many people nearby, and when Louie and the masked perpetrator fight it out Errol Flynn style, the audience thinks it's all part of the act.
4. Another Point of View
Air Date: 1987-03-17
Louie finds a corpse on a local park bench when he goes undercover to do a story on Toronto's homeless. The police assume it's just an accident, but Louie's visions convince him of otherwise. With the help of Long John and Bert, he uncovers a major conspiracy.
5. The Naked Eye
Air Date: 1987-03-24
When a Brazilian native shoots Marge with a poisonous dart, Louie and Heather have to find him to get the cure, especially after someone else hit with the same poison dies, and Marge winds up in a coma!
6. Bulls-Eye
Air Date: 1987-03-31
Louie is assigned to interview country singer Donna Anderson, who just happens to be doing a concert at the ranch belonging to Marge's uncle, Jack. A young ranchhand named Slick Brewster is gored by a bull, and Louie suspects his death is more than just an accident.
7. Gifted Pupils
Air Date: 1987-04-07
Louie suspects that a young man at Heather's old school, Weatherfield Hall, is being used as the patsy when the school's eccentric former headmaster is found murdered.
8. A Vision in White
Air Date: 1987-05-15
Louie realises that Redfern hasn't told him about her investigation into the mob or her upcoming marriage. He suggests that her fiancé may have a connection to the recent mob killings, infuriating both Heather and Marge.
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Rating
5.0/10
Release Date
1981-09-15
Episodes
43 (6 seasons)
Status
Ended
