Psychic Visions
Original title
Seeing Things
Released
9/15/1981
Origin country
CA
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
6
Number of episodes
43
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Louie sends Gazette food editor Marlon Bede to work undercover at a local restaurant after the competition between the local restaurants turns deadly.
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.
Louie does his best to assist his favorite artist, Stevie Mercer, when Stevie is charged with the murder of another singing star.
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.
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.
Heather's new home creates visions of bleeding pictures, creepy neighbors, and a horrific suicide for Louie.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The disappearance of a local student and a body found at the airport draw Marge and Louie into the world of political intrigue.
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.
Louie begins a career as a television reporter, but he nearly dies when the helicopter he is in is shot out of the sky.
Louie's investigation of a triple murder exposes a cover-up involving dangerous nuclear waste.
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.
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.
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.
An elderly man arrested after an explosion keeps going back to Louie, who decides to investigate the circumstances.
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.
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.
Louie believes that Marge's new ballroom dancing partner is a murderous Lothario.
Louie comes face to face with a gorilla, the CIA, and murder when he joins the summer carnival, which is where Jason is working.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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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