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1. 1- 1 001 3 Jan 05 Pilot 2. 1- 2 002 10 Jan 05 Suspicions and Certainties
Medium [Season 1, Episode 3]
A Couple of Choices
Shown 20th September 2005 - Tuesday
In Phoenix, Arizona, a police detective is investigating a series of suicide pacts by married couples.
District Attourney Miguel Sandoval calls in help - a law student named Allison [ Patricia Arquette ] who can talk to ghosts.
Medium [Season 1, Episode 4]
Night of the Wolf
Shown 20th September 2005 - Tuesday
A babelicious murder-witness gives a description to the police sketch artist. However, Allison discovers that she deliberately described the wrong man.
The villain's name is Wolfe, so the babe disguises herself by wearing a red riding hood!
Meanwhile, home life with Jake Weber [ American Gothic ] is also busy. Their youngest daughter has a new friend that nobody can see. It seems that seeing ghosts is hereditary!
Medium [Season 1, Episode 5]
In Sickness And In Adultery
Shown 4th October 2005 - Tuesday
Alison is worried about her husband. His behaviour becomes erratic. She visits a fellow psychic, to see if he has a bad future.
Medium [Season 1, Episode 6]
Coming Soon
Shown 27th September 2005 - Tuesday
Patricia Arquette keeps getting visions of a man killing a woman. But somehow, the evidence to back up her visions is never there.
7. 1- 7 008 14 Feb 05 Jump Start
Medium [Season 1, Episode 8]
Lucky
Shown 26th October 2005- Wednesday
Allison dreams that her brother, a soldier, is dying. Then he turns up at their front door.
It's interesting to learn that a psychic must listen to a walkman while in a hospital. The reason being, there's a huge mortality rate every 24 hours in American hospitals, and all ghosts automatically sense when a Psychic is near.
Medium [Season 1, Episode 9]
Coded
Shown 8th November 2005 - Tuesday
The creepy daughter, the one who sees dead people, has strange nightmares. Are they just dreams inspired by fairytales?
Allison has to consider the possibility that her daughter has a psychic conection with a murdered child. But maybe the victim is still alive ...
Medium [Season 1, Episode 10]
The Other Side of the Tracks
Shown 8th November 2005 - Tuesday
Alison is bombarded with dreams of two young boys running to catch a train. It seems that one of the boys will die. Can she save him?
Medium [Season 1, Episode 11]
I Married A Mind-Reader
Shown 15th November 2005 - Tuesday
Alison has dreams about an old 1950s US TV show named I Married A Mind-Reader. She dreams she is one of the Production Crew, and participates in the events leading up to a real-life murder.
Unfortunately [and illogically] at the moment of the actual murder she doesn't know what her character is doing, as she is remembering what a completely different witness is doing!
Medium [Season 1, Episode 12]
A Priest, a Doctor and a Medium walk into an Execution Chamber ...
Shown 22nd November 2005 - Tuesday
Alison attends a lethal injection killing of a Latino drug kingpin. However, she can't see the man's soul after death. She dreams about other crimes, though - the kidnappings of a man and a young boy.
The man's ex-girlfriend is murdered. The main suspect calls in lawyer Conor Farrell [ Dark Skies ], and says that she was killed by the ghost of the executed man.
The answer to this riddle is so obvious, the only shock is that it takes Alison so long to work it out!
Medium [Season 1, Episode 13]
Being Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
Shown 29th November 2005 - Tuesday
Alison suspects a pilot of killing his wife. But she also thinks he's the only one who can prevent a plane crash!
Medium [Season 1, Episode 14]
In The Rough
Shown 29th November 2005 - Tuesday
Alison suspects her detective buddy guy of framing an innocent man for a murder that was actually a suicide!
Medium [Season 1, Episode 15]
Penny For Your Thoughts
Shown 6th December 2005 - Tuesday
Alison has a dream about a doctor murdering one of his patients. It's disturbing not merely because of the gore - shocking in a relatively blood-free series like this - but the performance of the doctor. The actor manages to steal at least 3 scenes.
Alison is as dim-witted as ever. She knows the doc was not guilty by means of insanity, but still wonders why he was put in an asylum rather than a prison. Also, she never even considers the possibility that an eeevil ghost might be responsible. Not unlike a time-travelling Jack the Ripper.
Although not Jack. And not using time-travel.
Meanwhile, her daughter Ariel gets in trouble with her maths teacher. When she gets a test right, he thinks she's cheating!
Medium [Season 1, Episode 16]
When Push Comes to Shove (1)
Shown 10th January 2006 [Tuesday]
A Biblical serial-killer is on the loose.
A Texas Ranger help the investigation. Unfortuately, he has a potentially fatal heart condiion!
Medium [Season 2, Episode 1]
When Push Comes to Shove (2)
Shown 17th January 2006 [Tuesday]
The serial-killer is still on the loose.
The Texas Ranger gives Allison clues to the killer's motive. And she gets repeated flasbacks to a sordid sexual encounter. Repeated so many times, in fact, that one suspects they put it in to pad out the ep's running time.
Medium [Season 2, Episode 2]
The Song Remains The Same
Shown 25th January 2006 [Tuesday]
Allison helps look for a missing co-ed. The local priest may know something about her disappearance, but naturally is forbidden from divulging the secrets of the confessional.
She also has visions of an impending plane crash. With a hell of a budget! Problem is, her husband wants to take the family to his sister's wedding - on the doomed flight!
Medium [Season 2, Episode 3]
Time Out of Mind
Shown 31st January 2006 [Tuesday]
Allison hallucinates about getting imprisoned in an asylum. Suddenly it's the 1950s, and everyone calls her by a different name.
This is one of the best eps of the show. Best so far, anyhow.
Medium [Season 2, Episode 4]
Light Sleeper
Shown 7th February 2006 [Tuesday]
Allison becomes a sleepwalker. She becomes obsessed with collecting 15 million dollars ...
A millionaire and is young son have gone MIA. The greedy ex-wife accuses the man, in absentia, of kidnapping his own child!
Medium [Season 2, Episode 5]
Sweet Dreams
Shown 14th February 2006 [Tuesday]
Allison has a dream about a High School friend of hers. The silly girl wanted to get out of hicksville and have a good life. How dare she!
The Senator's daughter goes MIA. Allison spends her time criticising the poor man's lifestyle. His wife died 11 years previously, and he was left to raise the girl alone. He's overwrought at losing her, but Allison doesn't care.
This is just low-brow moralising to promote home-town family values. It couldn't be crasser if Allison quit her job and decided that A woman's place is in the home.
Medium [Season 2, Episode 6]
Dead Aim
Shown 21st February 2006 [Tuesday]
The D.A. is fitting someone up for murder, even though they know the death was accidental. The problem is, Defence Attorney Conor O'Farrell [ Dark Skies ] is winning the case. Worse, it's election year. If the DA can't even convict an innocent man, his career is in trouble!
O'Farrell is using a psychic advisor. Even though the DA ignores his legal obligation to divulge all relevant facts, and the Judge is clearly taking the DA's side [and thus breaking the impartiality rule], O'Farrell gets what he needs.
Allison gets psi flashes of a first-person-shooter killing spree in the DA's offices. Can this be linked to the case?
Her hubby is designing a new microchip for beardy Harry Groener [ Buffy S3 ]. It's not for a bomb, he tells his wife We're an aerospace company!
Medium [Season 2, Episode 7]
Judge, Jury & Executioner
Shown 7th March 2006 [Tuesday]
The husband is on jury duty. It's a murder case, a man accused of killing his wife. And naturally, Allison can't interfere.
The DA doesn't make his case very well. But the suspect is secretly eeevil. Just like all suspects in this show. Even though 40% of all defendants are innocent - something this show doesn't acknowledge!
Ronny Cox [ Robocop, Total Recall ] appears as the victim's father.
Medium [Season 2, Episode 8]
Too Close to Call
Shown 14 Nov 05
Shown 20th June 2006 [Tuesday]
It's election time for the DA's office. Allison can't guarantee her boss will still be DA ...
Hubby bumps into an old GF he hasn't seen in 15 years. Allison gets psychic flashes of the 2 of them having sex, and she becomes jealous. She also considers that the ex-GF might be an obsessed stalker!
Medium [Season 2, Episode 9]
Still Life
Shown 14th March 2006 [Tuesday]
The show's producers include Kelsey Grammer [Frasier] and Rene Echeverria [ Star Trek: VGR ]. This episode was directed by Trek Actor Robert Duncan McNeill - and he does quite a good job of it!
A woman is believed to have been murdered. The suspect is an oil-painter - whose dad is millionaire John Shea [ Lois and Clark, Mutant X ].
The husband's dad calls by - well, his ghost does. Harry Groener is setting up his own company, and wants hubby to join. But the ghost gives a warning ...
Medium [Season 2, Episode 10]
The Reckoning
Shown 28 Nov 05
Shown th March 2006 [Tuesday]
Medium [Season 2, Episode 11]
Method to his Madness
Shown 2 Jan 06
Shown 11th July 2006 [Tuesday]
A psycho is cutting up women. Worse, Allison suspects there's a copycat!
Hubby's worried about Allison's erratic behaviour, so he sends the daughters away.
Medium [Season 2, Episode 12]
Doctor's Orders
Shown 9 Jan 06
Shown 11th April 2006 [Tuesday]
This is a sequel to Medium [Season 1, Episode 15] Penny For Your Thoughts . Yes, the eeevil ghost is back.
Allison dreams about the ghost and a butcher. Unfortunately, she's in jail. The main story is told in flashback.
The eldest daughter wants to go on a date with a boy who's a couple of years older than her. The parents won't allow it, but a helpful English librarian at school gives her advice.
Allison suspects that the ghost is targeting her daughter, using the boy's father as his next proxy. It takes Alison's husband to work things out.
29. 2-13 029 23 Jan 06 Raising Cain 30. 2-14 030 6 Feb 06 A Changed Man
Medium [Season 2, Episode 15]
Sweet Child O' Mine
Shown 27 Feb 06
Shown 8th August 2006 [Tuesday]
Alison dreams that as well as the 2 annoying daughters, she has an annoying 14-year-old son ...
The boy is real - and a suspect in a murder. The DA threatens to prosecute him as an adult!
Meanwhile, the youngest girl makes an addition to the family. A mangy old stray dog!
Medium [Season 2, Episode 16]
Allison Wonderland
Shown 6 Mar 06
Shown 4th May 2006 [Thursday]
Allison has visions of an old man in a black suit. This is confusing, but comes in at the end. Still doesn't make sense, but who cares?
Rebecca Gayheart 's brother has gone MIA. He's a bit of a Beautiful Mind His spirit manifests itself in the image of David Carradine [ Kill Bill ], and claims he was murdered on behalf of his brother-in-law.
DA Miguel Sandoval, normally a fascist prick, refuses to trouble the family without much proof. First time yet!
The youngest daughter claims to have talked to her favourite dead author. Is she transcribing the dead, or just writing her own material?
Medium [Season 2, Episode 17]
Lucky in Love
Shown 10 Apr 06
Shown 16th May 2006 [Tuesday]
Allison has a dream about her brother is a bank robber. Then he drives into town ...
The robbers kidnapped a lady hostage. The cops discover a headless corpse that could be her. However, Allison's brother goes on a date with a mysterious woman ...
This is derivative of a couple of other films. Naming them will give the ending away, that's how derivative it is!
Medium [Season 2, Episode 18]
S.O.S.
Shown 17 Apr 06
Shown 23rd May 2006 [Tuesday]
Allison dreams about young women in peril. Then they wind up dead. No other connection. Did someone somehow hunt them down and murder them?
Tania Raymonde [Krelboyne Girl from Malcolm in the Middle] is stalked by an intruder. Can Allison save her?
Unfortunately, it looks like Allison's cover might be blown. She must issue a fake statement from the DA's office, explaining her apparent ability to predict the future. Also, her daughter wants to tell everyone at school how mommy earns her living.
The murderer looks a bit like the Defence Lawyer Conor Farrell [ Dark Skies ] in previous eps. Maybe he was too busy working to go on a murder spree earlier!
Medium [Season 2, Episode 19]
Knowing Her
Shown 24 Apr 06
Shown 30th May 2006 [Tuesday]
Allison dreams that the tame cop is a dope fiend.
Three young women are murdered. It looks like they were drug mules, and the cop is somehow involved.
The eldest daughter wins a competition in school. But thanks to her mind-reading, she understands what the teacher really thinks.
36. 2-20 036 1 May 06 The Darkness is Light Enough
Medium [Season 2, Episode 21]
Death Takes a Policy
Shown 8 May 06
Shown 11th July 2006 [Tuesday]
Allison sees the Angel of Death. His name is Bob, and he looks like Kelsey Gammar [Frasier]. He's an Insurance Agent.
Allison, fascist bitch that she is, wants Bob arrested. Nature is taking its course, so someone must be blamed!
Medium [Season 2, Episode 22]
Twice Upon A Time
Shown 22 May 06
Shown 18th July 2006 [Tuesday]
Allison helps the DA in a case where Peter Wingfield [ Highlander, SG1, Queen of Swords ] is accused of murder. There isn't even a body, but who cares?
Allison wishes she had never developed psychic powers. Before you can say It's a wonderful Life she's in a parallel universe whe she went to Law School and married the guy from JAG. She works for the villainous defence lawyer, Conor O'Farrell [ Dark Skies ] - we know they're villains, they believe in presumption of innocence and reasonable doubt.
Jake Weber [ American Gothic ] is her defence witness, a mathematician who will give expert testimony. But he tells her to trust her instincts ...
39. 3- 1 042 15 Nov 06 Four Dreams (1) 40. 3- 2 043 15 Nov 06 Four Dreams (2) 41. 3- 3 039 22 Nov 06 Be Kind, Rewind
Medium [Season 3, Episode 4]
Blood Relations
Shown 29 Nov 06
Shown 10th June 2007 [Sunday]
The mad Cockney doctor serial killer's ghost is back again. Allison gets dreams of his backstory, in the Wild West.
Medium [Season 3, Episode 5]
Ghost in the Machine
Shown Dec 06
Shown 17th June 2007 [Sunday]
Medium [Season 3, Episode 6]
Profiles in Terror
Shown 13 Dec 06
Shown 24th June 2007 [Sunday]
Allison teams up with an FBI Profiler [Kurtwood Smith - Robocop ]. Unfortunately, he might take his job too seriously ...
They find a suspect in a murder case. Unfortunately, all they have on him is the DNA in some dog hair. They don't admit that shed hairs don't have follicles, which is what you need to extract DNA for testing.
Medium [Season 3, Episode 7]
Mother's Little Helper
Shown
Shown 1st July 2007 [Sunday]
Allison and her eldest daughter go to a dress shop, and stumble upon a murder scene. Wow, that's a hell of a coincidence!
Mother and daughter start to dream of the murders, each from a different perspective. Allison takes the dead mother's perspective, while her daughter sees what the dead daughter saw.
There's a predictable theme: the suspects are all men. Was the killer:
Medium [Season 3, Episode 8]
The Whole Truth
Shown 3 Jan 07
Shown 8th July 2007 [Sunday]
Allison and the DA help cover up a strange death. A Politician may have been victim of autoerotic asphyxiation, although Allison [dozy vanilla bint] refers to it as suicide.
Allison's visions help her find a 12-year-old boy who fell down a hole. Of course, there's a lot more to it than that.
Allison's aim is always to punish someone, to hurt whoever she can. The more suffering she inflicts, the more she lashes out, the better she feels. Small wonder the TV show Dexter [a serial-killer who works for the cops] is also popular!
Medium [Season 3, Episode 9]
Better Off Dead
Shown
Shown 15th July 2007 [Sunday]
Two ghosts meet and strike up a friendship. One was murdered by his wife. The other is a loner who says he was killed by a mugger.
Allison investigates the deaths. One was not as straightforward as it seems.
Medium [Season 3, Episode 10]
Very Merry Molly
Shown 1 Jan 07
Shown 22nd July 2007 [Sunday]
Allison wakes up to discover that she and her family are all dolls!
The DA and his wife cope with the anniversary of their daughter's suicide.
It seems that Allison only catches murderers when she's in the mood. Her taste for justice is quite arbitrary!
Medium [Season 3, Episode 11]
Apocalypse, Push
Shown
Shown 8th July 2007 [Sunday]
Texas Ranger Captain Push has dreams. He thinks he is becoming psychic, and goes to Allison for help.
Normally there is an unfair bias in this show - supernatural vs mortal. However, there's slightly more balance in this ep.
Medium [Season 3, Episode 12]
The One Behind the Wheel
Shown 14 Feb 07
Shown 5th August 2007 [Sunday]
Allison wakes up and thinks that she's someone else. She's possessed by a really annoying, selfish, arrogant rich bitch. Poor Joe wants his wife back, but she doesn't even know him! And when she looks in the mirror, she thinks she sees herself.
It turns out that the dead woman's husband is better off now. Will Allison interfere? After all, she didn't get involved a couple of episodes previously.
Medium [Season 3, Episode 13]
Second Opinion
Shown 21 Feb 07
Shown 12th August 2007 [Sunday]
Allison has a vision that in 20 years time, one of the daughters will have Leukemia. She wakes up and demands that the family move house. Her hubby brings her down to reality, pointing out that it's just not practical to save everyone from everything, ever. Allison visits Estate Agent Alan Ruck [ Star Trek: Generations ] to get a new house.
Detective Scanlon attends Alcoholics Anonymous. However, his sponsoree - a Junkie Medical Student - has a relapse. What are the chances these events are related?
Medium [Season 3, Episode 14]
We Had A Dream
Shown 28 Feb 07
Shown 19th August 2007 [Sunday]
The psychic serial-killer that Allison caught by accident offers to show the cops where the body is. Of course, he has a plan ...
The killer gets away, due to being in the right place at the right time. And of course, he comes after Allison.
The Detective and his men have a shoot-on-sight policy. No damn technicalities will get in his way. But a sexy new female Deputy Mayor debriefs him - about the nature of Allison's help in his cases!
This is one of the few eps where the cops actually think for themselves.
53. 3-15 7 Mar 07 The Boy Next Door
Medium [Season 3, Episode 16]
Whatever Possessed You
Shown 28 Mar 07
Shown 2nd September 2007 [Sunday]
Priest Robert Beltran [ Star Trek: Vgr ] visits a bedbound parishioner, Gina Philips . Then he experiences a moment out of The Exorcist , and ends up at the bottom of the stairs with a broken neck. Naturally, Allison must investigate.
Joe goes to his boss and asks to be promoted to the secret Mars project. The boss denies such a project exists, but has Jope take a lie detector test anyway. When it comes to the question if his wife and kids can find out about his secret work ... he fails!
55. 3-17 4 Apr 07 Joe Day Afternoon
Medium [Season 3, Episode 18]
1-900-LUCKY
Shown 11 Apr 07
Shown 15th September 2007 [Sunday]
A woman discovers her husband has been murdered, so she phones her favourite phone psychic and brings him in to help the cops. Luckily he's Allison's slacker brother, so he's easy for her to control.
The murdered man's ghost appears to the Brother. He solves the case eaily. Too easily, of course. This is a test of the Brother's moral fibre ... can he destroy the lives of good people, just because of an unfortunate mistake that sent a man - as the Brother puts it - to hotter weather?
Medium [Season 3, Episode 19]
No One to Watch Over Me
Shown 25 Apr 07
Shown 21st August 2007 [Tuesday]
Alison uses her visions to round up people who thought they had committed The Perfect Crime. Never mind that these people had each suffered so much in their lives that they had nothing to lose.
Joe is suffering PTSD after the events a couple of episodes back.
Medium [Season 3, Episode 20]
Head Games
Shown 2 May 07
Shown 29th September 2007 [Sunday]
Alison has recurring dreams about Jason Priestly [ Jeremiah ] killing his nagging wife. She then barks at her boss until he rejects a plea-bargain. Unfortunately, she forgets that the dead wife never saw the killer's face ... And thus, she never knows the real killer's identity!
Meanwhile, Alison makes friends with Neve Campbell . Yes, the workaholic neo-nazi mother-of-three actually attempts to get a social life. But of course, this will naturally tie n with the rest of the plot ...
Continued in the next episode!
Medium [Season 3, Episode 21]
Heads Will Roll
Shown 9 May 07
Shown 7th October 2007 [Sunday]
The D.A. is being targeted by the Press (he's not a Detective, it's hardly his fault the cops can't catch a serial killer!) and will lose his job after 5 or 6 women die. Alison's friend Neve Campbell is still in danger, so Alison has Detective Square-jaw protect her. Things take a turn for the worse when Alison tries to warn Neve ...
Joe talks with the ambulance-chasing lawyer [Ayre Gross], who actually makes Joe feel better about himself. Is there a morality issue at stake here? The moral of this show is always Conform! Submit to Authority! - so is Joe meant to consider rebellion, then eventually bend over and let his boss abuse him? Well ... turns out, the employer isn't portrayed as flatteringly as you would expect!
Continued in the next episode!
Medium [Season 3, Episode 22]
Everything Comes To A Head
Shown 16 May 07
Shown 14th October 2007 [Sunday]
Alison and her family suffer the consequences of public exposure. She, the DA and the Detective all face losing their jobs. Her husband's credibility is gone as well.
Alison has a vision which explains the plot. It's incredibly predictable, but while the audience can easily guess what's going on, Alison needs the villains to explain their own plot out loud!
It turns out that Alison is responsible for a self-fulfilling prophecy. What a bitch!
Medium [Season 4, Episode 1]
And Then
Shown 7 Jan 08
Medium [Season 4, Episode 2]
But for the Grace of God
Shown 14 Jan 08
Medium [Season 4, Episode 3]
To Have and to Hold
Shown 21 Jan 08
Alison tries to find the missing daughter of a millionaire.
Medium [Season 4, Episode 4]
Do You Hear What I Hear
Shown 18 Feb 08
Just like in the previous ep, someone kidnaps a female. However, this week the victim is deaf - and Alison starts to develop sympathetic deafness!
Medium [Season 4, Episode 5]
Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble
Shown 25 Feb 08
Medium [Season 4, Episode 6]
Aftertaste
Shown 3 Mar 08
Medium [Season 4, Episode 7]
Burn Baby Burn (1)
Shown 10 Mar 08
The eldest daughter is at school when she has a vision of a classmate's mother [ Gretchen Egolf ] setting herself on fire.
Angelica Houston hires Allison for Missing persons work. She shows her a photo of a missing girl.
Medium [Season 4, Episode 8]
Burn Baby Burn (2)
Shown 17 Mar 08
Allison dreams about the missing girl. She was a prostitute who got picked up by a dentist. He performed surgery on her ...
This story seems as predictable as anything. Allison, thick bitch that she is, needs lots more dreams to clue her up. Even more unlikely is the idea of a suspect in a Capital Murder case being extradited from an E.U country!
Joe's mother is ill. She doesn't tell Joe, but she wants Allison to tell her if she'll make it through the operation.
Medium [Season 4, Episode 9]
Wicked Game (1)
Shown 24 Mar 08
Medium [Season 4, Episode 10]
Wicked Game (2)
Shown 31 Mar 08
Medium [Season 4, Episode 11]
Lady Killer
Shown 7 Apr 08
Scanlon is after a serial killer - a Cougar who is seducing and killing younger men. Rosanna Arquette is the main suspect!
Medium [Season 4, Episode 12]
Partners in Crime
Shown 14 Apr 08
FBI fascist KurtWood Smith [ Robocop ] is back in town. This time he's hunting another serial killer. Alison has to chose what's right and wrong.
Hubby finds business support from venture capitalist Meghan Doyle ( Kelly Preston ).
Medium [Season 4, Episode 13]
A Cure for What Ails You
Shown 21 Apr 08
Alison's dreams are confusing. Even more so than usual.
Joe has to help one of the daughters get glasses. The problem is, she keeps reading the optician's mind!
Medium [Season 4, Episode 14]
Car Trouble
Shown 28 Apr 08
Medium [Season 4, Episode 15]
Being Joey Carmichael
Shown 5 May 08
A Drug Kingpin is assassinated by Joey (Miguel Ferrer - Robocop ) - or is it by the ghost of Joey's dead twin?
Hubby must sort out his business relationship with Meghan Doyle ( Kelly Preston ).
Medium [Season 4, Episode 16]
Drowned World
Shown 12 May 08
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