Season 3 • Episode 22
LatestParker causes the delay of an important Backstep mission to go to New Orleans to prove the innocence of an old friend scheduled for execution for a murder he didn't commit.
"Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get screwed up, I'm the guinea pig they send back to take care of it. The catch is, I can only go back 7 days."
Acting
Jonathan LaPaglia's barely-contained chaos as Frank Parker.
Writing
Clever weekly resets that actually explore consequences.
Production
Gloriously dated tech aesthetics and practical effects.
Creator
Christopher Crowe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Seven Days premiered on UPN in 1998, riding the wave of X-Files-inspired paranoid sci-fi that dominated late-90s television.
The show's 'chronosphere' time travel device was famously inconsistent—writers admitted they made up the rules as they went, which somehow fits the chaos perfectly.
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