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Created by | Gil Grant |
Starring | Adrian Paul Amy Price-Francis Leanne Wilson Geraint Wyn Davies |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 22 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 mins. |
Production companies | Modern Entertainment Future Film Group Lions Gate Television |
Original release | |
Network | Space |
Release | 15 October 2001 – 3 June 2002 |
Tracker is a 2001 Canadian science fiction television series starring Adrian Paul and Amy Price-Francis, which aired on Space for a total of 22 episodes.
The series is based on a short story by Gil Grant and Jeannine Renshaw. The pilot episode and two other episodes were edited into the film Alien Tracker.
Tracker is the story of Daggon, an alien life form who lands on Earth from the planet Cirron on a mission to recapture 218 prisoners who had escaped from the planet SAR TOP in the Migar Solar System in the form of "life forces," which then took over various human identities. He has a device to capture the life forces and contain them in spheres, after which he is to return them to SAR TOP. He lands in an abandoned field in the outskirts of Chicago where he takes on the form of an underwear model and adopts the name "Cole" from an underwear ad he sees on a billboard. He later meets Mel Porter, a Chicago bar owner with an outgoing British bartender that she inherited along with her grandmother's police bar. Though initially wary, Mel gradually comes to accept Cole and lets him stay, offering him some of her ex-boyfriend's clothes.
A brilliant scientist named Zin engineered the jailbreak from SAR-TOP prison, located 100 million light-years away from Earth. Zin created a wormhole, which allows almost instantaneous travel from the Migar solar system to Earth. The wormhole ends in Chicago, where Zin and the escapees have taken over the bodies of human beings and blended into society, but still retain some of their alien otherworldly abilities.
With an army of escaped alien convicts, Zin creates a criminal empire, not unlike the mafia, over which he can rule as Godfather supreme. However, as Cole will discover, Zin may have a larger agenda in mind than running illegal enterprises for profit, an agenda that might carry interplanetary implications.
Cole must find the fugitives and stop them before they can carry out their plans, using Mel's help and constant guidance to do so.
As of 2024, the series is now available on Tubi.
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