In this week’s Counterstrike (Saturday on CTV), Simon MacCorkindale played coach to rocker and neophyte actress Latoya Jackson—a bit of “stunt casting” that works, says MacCorkindale, because her role was tailored to her “extraordinary look” and “natural abilities.” In the show, Jackson (left, with MacCorkindale) plays a fashion maven with deadly designs on her models for the most bloodcurdling of reasons. “It’s a weird, off-the-wall” episode, MacCorkindale admits, but Jackson “pitched right into it. She listened and watched, and she learned very quickly. I’ve seen a lot of people who’ve been in the business for years who didn’t have the relaxation and the wit to learn the technique as quickly as she did.”
With Her Husband Simon MacCorkindale At Their Berkshire Home Talks About Her Family, Her Beloved Father, And The Importance Of Her Adored Red Setters
(Mainly a Susan George article)
Running a film production company from their Berkshire home allows Susan George and her husband Simon MacCorkindale to combine their careers with their passion for red setters.
Both Susan and Simon are best known for their acting roles but their company, Amy International, is proving a powerful player in the independent film world. They made Stealing Heaven in 1987 and two years later White Roses won the Tokyo Film Festival’s Grand Prix. A TV film on the life of missing peer Lord Lucan and a mini-series, a 19th-century love story called The Liaison, are scheduled for next year.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep13 – Betrayed First Aired: 9 January 1993 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Publishing magnate Julia Devane is the target of an assassination attempt. Addington puts Peter in charge of her security, and the two fall for each other, but can Peter be sure of her intentions?
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep12 – Bosnian Connection First Aired: 20 December 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: The head of an Addington-supported charity in war-torn Bosnia disappears during the civil war. To find her, Stone becomes a dock-worker, Peter takes her place in Bosnia and Gabrielle looks at the charity’s New York office.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep10 – D.O.A. First Aired: 5 December 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Poisoned by a terrorist’s lover, Sinclair confronts his dark side as he fights for his life while his associates attempt to retrieve the antidote.
Elite anti-crime team works to uphold justice Got an international conflict that needs to be handled with a delicate – but effective – touch? The Counterstrike team is ready for action
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They’re a team with a mission. They work behind the scenes, to apprehend criminals who might otherwise be above the law. They also work with an efficiency that can only come from being the best in their respective fields.
They are the Counterstrike team, an elite anti-crime ‘strike-team’ consisting of a multi-billionaire industrialist, a world-renowned journalist, an ex-SEAL, and a former Scotland Yard inspector and hostage negotiator. Counterstrike, now well into its second season, airs 9:30 pm Saturdays on NTV.
The action-adventure series blasted onto the scene in November of 1991, with an episode featuring a brutal terriorist kidnapping. Ultra-wealthy Alexander Addington (played by Christopher Plummer) was shot and his wife kidnapped by a group of international criminals. Addington finds his efforts to save his wife stiffled by bureaucracy and vows to do everything to uphold justice.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep9 – Cyborg First Aired: 21 November 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: A genetically modified East German operative kills a scientist and goes after an official who is about to testify to Congress. Counterstrike team enlists the operative’s twin sister to track her down.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep8 – Death Seal First Aired: 14 November 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Airplane full of Stone’s Navy Seal buddies gets shot down. Stone’s lone investigation reveals a cover-up by a rogue colonel. In the ensuing shootout, Stone gets wounded, but he escapes. His pals try to find him.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep7 – The Curse of the Amber Chamber First Aired: 7 November 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Strange accidents happen to an archaeological team searching for hidden Nazi loot in Germany’s Black Forest. Then, Peter and Gabrielle get trapped in a Nazi war-room, while Stone tries to find help.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep6 – Skin Deep First Aired: 31 October 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Voodoo-related murders are claiming the lives of fashion models. The suspects are a creepy fashion designer and a photographer. The Counterstrike team try to solve this whodunit.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep5 – No Honour Among Thieves First Aired: 24 October 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: An old flame of Addington’s persuades him to protect her half-brother Lemke, a Mafiosi whose associates are trying to kill him. Stone plays bodyguard to Lemke, while Peter does the legwork.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep4 – Bastille Day Terror First Aired: 17 October 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: An ex-KGB agent and his female partner steal a Soviet nuclear missile and smuggle it into France to deliver it to the buyer. The Counterstrike team scrambles to find these arms merchants and retrieve the missile.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep3 – Til Death Do Us Part First Aired: 10 October 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Along with a ransom demand, Addington receives a video showing his wife who was kidnapped years ago and considered dead. Counterstrike team tries to catch the kidnapper, an old nemesis of Peter’s.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep2 – The Sting First Aired: 2 October 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Addington’s friend, a restaurateur is in the clutches of a protection racket run by the Purple Gang, a subsidiary of the Mafia. So the Counterstrike team takes on the mob to set things right.
Series: Counterstrike Episode: S3Ep1 – I Remember It Well First Aired: 26 September 1992 Character: Peter Sinclair
Description: Police suspect Nikki Beaumont, a Counterstrike ally and former thief, of taking a priceless jewel collection. She asks Peter and Alexander 48 hours in order to prove her innocence. But before Nikki can explain the plan to Peter she is sitting in an airplane bound for the French Riviera, where her father Jean-Jacques Beaulieu lives. During the flight, she makes friends with Gabrielle who has followed her. The two women do not suspect that they are chased by criminals.
Teacher’s Pet
