Original title
Viper
Released
1/2/1994
Origin country
US
Genre
Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
Paramount Television, Pet Fly Productions, MEC Viper Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
4
Number of episodes
78
Viper is an action-adventure TV series about a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege from one crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is an assault vehicle that masquerades as a Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and coupe. The series takes place in "the near future". The primary brand of vehicles driven in the show were Chrysler or subsidiary companies. The Viper Defender "star car" was designed by Chrysler Corporation engineers. The exterior design of the car was produced by Chrysler stylist Steve Ferrerio.
City Commissioner Strand is desperate to get the Viper on the road. He plans on using the Viper's crime-fighting abilities to bolster support for his campaign to become mayor. After stealing a satellite, Michael Payton flips his black Dodge Stealth in a spectacular crash. Strand hears about the accident and has Payton pronounced dead at the scene. Payton is the best getaway driver the Outfit had. Commissoner Strand orders that Payton's memory be erased and his appearance altered. When Payton awakes, he is told that he is a police officer named Joesph Payne Astor.
Joe faces a terrifying choice when the doctor who performed memory-altering surgery on him offers to restore his criminal identity.
Joe's former partner in crime (Jason Carter) is sprung from prison by the Outfit in order to locate the Viper.
Nate Benedict, a Mob Boss who is about to be tried for various crimes, fakes his own death. He starts over in a small town to lay low and continue his criminal operations. The residents of Mesa Rose, the small town Benedict takes over, are powerless against Benedict's strong reach. The Viper turns out to be 'the great equalizer'.
As part of a plan to destroy the Viper, the Outfit kidnaps Julian and forces him to upgrade its own urban assault vehicle.
After Frankie is injured in a suspicious car crash, the Viper team uncovers a plot to hijack a transport loaded with highly contagious diseases.
"The Face", a famous hit man, has just been released from prison. His plans to go straight are jeopardized when his former employer kidnaps his wife to force him to do one last hit! Through the Consortium, he asks Joe Astor for help.
Joe falls for the inventor of a highly efficient car battery, but painful memories of his murdered fiancee surface when her life is threatened. Meanwhile, the discovery of a long-lost concept car shocks everyone.
The Viper team must crack a ring that abducts youths and molds them into specialized criminals. Meanwhile, Joe encounters a special someone from his past.
Joe teams with a police detective--a suspected vigilante--to find the culprit behind the murder of Outfit thugs.
An artificial heart that will save the life of a young girl is stolen.
A foreign dignitary visiting the U.S. becomes the new target of the assassin who previously killed her father.
The Viper returns to the streets of Metro City. The new prototype is given to Ex-CIA operative Thomas Cole (Jeff Kaake) and his team: Technician Frankie Waters (Joe Nipote) and systems programmer Dr. Allie Farrow (Dawn Stern). After the death of her partner, police officer Cameron Westlake (Heather Medway) joins the Viper team. The team then concentrates on taking Dekker, a rogue trucker who has been terrorizing the city.
Cameron uncovers an illegal arms-smuggling ring---but not before Allie and a visiting scientist are kidnapped and forced to develop a highly advanced fighter jet.
The massacre of four undercover cops, all of them set to share information regarding the mob, leads the team to seek help from a helicopter squad that's Viper's aerial equivalent.
A talk-show host is targeted by a killer who has a unique way of getting rid of the bodies of his victims.
A disgruntled former security officer decides to become a jewel thief.
Thieves after a new weapon have the Viper team trapped in an abandoned refinery.
A string of diamond thefts points to a notorious criminal, but she cooperates with the Viper team to catch whom she claims is the real culprit.
It's no joke when the Viper team's assigned to protect a comedienne and her son, who's witnessed the murder of an undercover FBI agent.
The Viper team and their superior are accused of treason after following a Government command to steal a lethal weapon.
A band of weapons thieves plans to take the Defender next.
A scientist fears his runaway son may be behind the theft of an extremely combustible rocket fuel, which the boy is using to power racing cars.
A scientist's invention saves his life but turns him into a killer cyborg.
The Viper team is assigned to stop a gang war between two rival factions, and a 13-year-old gets caught in the middle of the fighting.
A scientist is brainwashed into stealing nerve gas to be used in an attack on the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
An escaped con looking for revenge happens to be Cole's former mentor.
The city is terrorized by a criminal who is driving around in a clever imitation of the Viper.
Cole's investigates the death of his friend, an investigative reporter, but his only clue is a holgram of a movie star who committed suicide long ago.
The Viper team is accused of treason after their new boss tells them to steal a weapon that creates spontaneous human combustion.
A charismatic mass-murderer in cryogenic suspension manages to escape to rejoin his followers.
An autistic man is the only witness to the murder of his brother.
A murdered software designer leaves artificial intelligence to his girlfriend.
Westlake witnesses Cole's death, only to learn that he's alive and well---and working as an informant for a powerful crime family.
Cole's former fiancée, who says she's dying and needs a bone-marrow transplant, convinces Cole to temporarily release a prisoner whose marrow matches hers.
Westlake kills the lover of a professional assassin during a prison break, and soon finds herself targeted for revenge.
A simple background check on Westlake's friend's new husband turns up information suggesting that the groom may not be what he seems.
An arson killing rings a bell for Cole, who investigated similar cases years ago and suspects they're related. His only lead is a mysterious woman who was on the scene.
When Cole discovers an old CIA buddy living on the streets, he's again led into a world of espionage and intrigue.
A fully equipped motorcycle and rider threaten the future of the team.
Westlake's mother is captivated by a secret agent.
Cole goes under cover at a health club frequented by the beautiful wives of gangsters in order to solve the murder of one woman's husband.
Cole's niece must live with the consequences of a fatal drunken driving accident; Frankie, Catlett and Cole uncover a drug ring at a local club.
Cameron Westlake, a police officer, volunteers to spend a week helping her friend Elise Grayhawk, who run Camp Sasamat, a retreat for over worked executives. Hanley (Michael Mahonen) and his friend, Mike, plot to kidnap his former boss, Iris Bentine, and hold her for five million dollars ransom. Hanley had been a janitor at her corporation, but was fired and is very bitter about it. He plots revenge... Iris, and her assistant, Julie Stone, have come for a week long retreat in the wilderness. Here they are supposed to spend time in the woods, enjoying nature and learn team work skills as a ""get back to nature, and find your true self..."" experience; but, Iris is work driven and can not relax . She is annoyed that Julie talked her into taking time off from work. Hanley stops a pair of forest rangers, kills them and steals their uniforms. Then he and his Mike, pretending to be Rangers Crawford and Barnes, proceed to the woods to find and kidnap his former boss, Iris Bentine! Cole a
Cole and Westlake desperately search for an escaped convict who is carrying a deadly virus.
A crime lord's murder threatens to reveal government corruption.
An ex-con turned tabloid news reporter gets mixed up in Cole's investigation of an arms dealer.
Cole's girlfriend becomes a prime suspect in a million-dollar robbery.
After an attempt on Catlett's life, Cole and Frankie must find the insider responsible.
Catlett and Westlake pose as husband-and-wife burglars in order to catch an arms dealer.
Catlett and Westlake pose as husband-and-wife burglars in order to catch an arms dealer.
A computer disk becomes the key to catching a corrupt federal marshal.
Cole returns to his hometown to help his father solve a mystery when the local police chief dies.
Westlake must protect her photojournalist ex-husband from sudden attempts on his life.
After an undercover assignment goes awry, Westlake is abducted by mercenaries bent on detonating a bomb -- with her help.
Notorious criminal Giles Seton masterminds a plot to create a Cole look-alike to steal the Defender.
Joe Astor returns to drive the new Viper when Thomas Cole is reassigned after blowing up the old Viper.
A small-time con artist helps Astor and Westlake catch a money launderer in an elaborate sting operation.
Astor infiltrates a security-tight mafia conference; a labor negotiator tries to seduce Westlake.
Astor falls in love with the wife of a Colombian drug lord while investigating the Blanca Noche cartel.
Astor and Westlake encounter a ruthless bounty hunter while trying to exonerate a man accused of murder.
Frankie bares all to uncover a blackmail-murder plot at a local strip club for women.
A former Israeli spy's new life is threatened when arms dealers kidnap his wife.
An apparent terrorist bombing camouflages an elaborate plot for an heir to claim her father's million-dollar pension.
Astor and Westlake try to locate a stolen cache of diamonds before some dangerous criminals take possession of them.
While staking out robbery suspects, Westlake finds out Astor isn't the man she thought he was.
After Catlett reads his brother's latest novel, fact becomes stranger than fiction as the plot line becomes real.
One of Westlake's old enemies resurfaces to exact revenge after escaping from prison.
Astor and Westlake go under cover as a married couple to expose a ring of diamond thieves.
Astor and Westlake try to stop a man who's plotting to kill his ex-wife for her jewel necklace.
After desperate bank robbers take Astor hostage, Frankie and Catlett try to track him down.
Astor and Westlake must unravel a conspiracy after the secret formula is stolen from a soda company and its owner is murdered.
Frankie befriends a self-proclaimed psychic who becomes involved in a plot to assassinate a senator.
Astor and Westlake must protect a spiritual ruler from a fated encounter with an assassin.
A series of deaths links to an old case, but someone does not want Astor and Westlake to reopen it.
A Japanese detective, in town to extradite an assassin, goes head-to-head with an international crime boss.
An electric shock causes Astor's brain implant to malfunction, turning him back into a criminal.
Astor agrees to have the brain implant removed; a distraught Westlake must focus on saving a kidnapping victim.
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