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  • SyFy
  • Jul 14, 2001
  • SyFy
  • Jul 14, 2001
The Chronicle

Summary A down-on-his-luck journalist takes a job at a disreputable tabloid newspaper, where he discovers that all of the weird, unbelievable, fantastical stories it prints are actually true. Based on Mark Sumner's "News From the Edge" novels, The Chronicle ran for one season on the Sci Fi Channel and starred Rena Sofer, Chad Willett, Reno Wilso...

Created By: Silvio Horta

  • SyFy
  • Jul 14, 2001
  • SyFy
  • Jul 14, 2001
The Chronicle
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jul 14, 2001
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
70
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Summary A down-on-his-luck journalist takes a job at a disreputable tabloid newspaper, where he discovers that all of the weird, unbelievable, fantastical stories it prints are actually true. Based on Mark Sumner's "News From the Edge" novels, The Chronicle ran for one season on the Sci Fi Channel and starred Rena Sofer, Chad Willett, Reno Wilso...

Created By: Silvio Horta

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Episode 1 • Jul 14, 2001
Pilot
Tucker Burns, a good journalist with a blemish on his record that makes him unemployable, is hired by The World Chronicle, a paranormal tabloid. Although a skeptic, Tucker agrees to investigate the case of a monster attack for the paper.
Episode 2 • Jul 14, 2001
What Gobbles Beneath
Episode 3 • Jul 21, 2001
Here There Be Dragons
Episode 4 • Jul 28, 2001
Baby Got Back
Episode 5 • Aug 4, 2001
He's Dead, She's Dead
Episode 6 • Aug 11, 2001
Bermuda Love Triangle
Episode 7 • Aug 18, 2001
Only the Young Die Good
A young man claims that his friend has somehow turned into an old man and is being held against his will in a luxury retirement home. Tucker investigates. Grace falls for the man's friend. Wes and Vera try to uncover Donald's secret.
Episode 8 • Aug 25, 2001
Bring Me the Head of Tucker Burns
Wes and Grace investigate the serial killings committed by a headless biker wearing a jack-o'-lantern helmet, who decapitates seemingly random people with his sword. Tucker and Kristen go on a date.
Episode 9 • Sep 8, 2001
Let Sleeping Dogs Fry
Episode 10 • Sep 15, 2001
Take Me Back
Grace tries to help an abductee who is having difficulty coping and is drawn into her support group at the woman's request. But several of the support group's members have gone missing and now Grace may be in trouble too.
Episode 11 • Jan 4, 2002
Touched by an Alien
Sometimes aliens like to "get it on", which may not be so great for humans if in doing so risks their own life, but can a human resist the temptation?
Episode 12 • Jan 11, 2002
Pig Boy's Big Adventure
Wes and Tucker are investigating the story of the Savage Simian, a supposed ape man who is stalking the city, but what they find is Pig Boy's origins and a whole lot more.
Episode 13 • Jan 18, 2002
The Cursed Sombrero
A cursed sombrero made of stones from an ancient society puts whoever wears it at risk of death. The team races around to try and stop any more deaths, including one of their own, on Cinco de Mayo, no less.
Episode 14 • Jan 25, 2002
Tears of a Clone
One of our team members have been cloned, and Wes, Tucker, and Grace have to figure out who it is and which one is the real one before the aliens who made the clone come back to kill it to save their secret.
Episode 15 • Feb 1, 2002
I See Dead Fat People
Episode 16 • Feb 8, 2002
Man and Superman
Episode 17 • Feb 15, 2002
Hot from the Oven
A possessed oven produces your greatest fears if you get sucked inside. Meanwhile, Donald leads the crusade to save his star reporters as they try and unravel the mystery from the inside out.
Episode 18 • Feb 22, 2002
The Stepford Cheerleaders
Tucker, Wes, and Grace pose as high school students to try and figure out mysterious and violent events that have been happening in and around school. Cyborg cheerleaders may be to blame.
Episode 19 • Mar 1, 2002
The Mists of Avalon Parkway
Episode 20 • Mar 8, 2002
The King Is Undead
Childhood memories of the King fuel the reporters as they are sent to cover a convention of Elvis Impersonators, only to find out the King is Undead.
Episode 21 • Mar 15, 2002
Hell Mall
Episode 22 • Mar 22, 2002
A Snitch in Time

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
70
57% Positive
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43% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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43% Mixed
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Aug 6, 2014
Everything is seriously tongue-in-cheek. The scares satisfy, and the laughs are earned. [8 Jul 2001]
By Mike McDaniel FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 6, 2014
Cheerfully oddball ... The Chronicle is like a big summer movie, but without the bombast.
By Hal Boedeker FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 6, 2014
Sci Fi has done once more what the networks seem very often to have forgotten how to do: make watching TV really, really fun again. ... It's fun in the way that "Ghostbusters" was fun - funny, silly, scary. [13 Jul 2001]
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 6, 2014
"The Chronicle" seems to want to have as much fun with its stories as its viewers. [12 Jul 2001]
By Mark A. Perigard FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 6, 2014
A basic-cable homage to "Men in Black."
By John Levesque FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 6, 2014
The hybrid style of comedy and drama in "The Chronicle" doesn't quite jell. There's potential, but it hasn't been realized.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 6, 2014
"The Chronicle" is more a goof than a scare. [12 Jul 2001]
By Scott D. Pierce FULL REVIEW

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