TV series
The Flash
Overview
When a bolt of lightning crashes through a police crime lab, a mix of electrically charged substances bathes chemist Barry Allen, transforming him into the fastest man alive--The Flash.
Details
- First air date
- 1990-09-20
- Status
- Canceled
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 22 episodes
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Network
- CBS
- Production
- Warner Bros. Television, Pet Fly Productions
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen / Flash
- Amanda Pays as Christina 'Tina' McGee
- Alex Désert as Julio Mendez
- Biff Manard as Murphy
- Vito D'Ambrosio as Bellows
- Mike Genovese as Lt. Warren Garfield
- Richard Belzer as Joe Kline
- Dick Miller as Fosnight
- Gloria Reuben as Sabrina
- Priscilla Pointer as Nora Allen
- Joyce Hyser as Megan Lockhart
- Justin Burnette as Shawn Allen
Creators and crew
- Danny Bilson - Creator
- Paul De Meo - Creator
- Danny Bilson - Executive Producer
- Paul De Meo - Executive Producer
- Gail Morgan Hickman - Producer
- Steven Long Mitchell - Producer
Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.
Episode 2: Out of Control
Homeless people are dying and their bodies are disappearing. Tina rekindles a relationship with a former colleague who is an expert in genetic engineering.
Episode 3: Watching the Detectives
The corrupt District Attorney Thomas Castillo hires a private eye named Megan Lockhart to find out the Flash's identity. He then blackmails Barry to work for him, or he'll expose his secret.
Episode 4: Honor Among Thieves
While arranging security at the Central City Museum, Barry is reunited with an old girlfriend and a former mentor.
Episode 5: Double Vision
Someone spreads graffiti, and messages asking to meet "Flash" at a church. Barry goes to the church. Shortly after that, he begins to experience black outs and memory losses.
Episode 6: Sins of the Father
A bank robber escapes from prison. He goes back to Central City to get his money and revenge on the cop who busted him, Henry Allen, Barry's father.
Episode 7: Child's Play
An orphan boy has information that incriminates a 1960s cult figure who is trying to make a comeback.
Episode 8: Shroud of Death
Pieces of a broken medallion are the only clue to an unknown assassin who is on a deadly rampage in central city.
Episode 9: Ghost in the Machine
Barry befriends an African American who was once a super hero that defeated a terrorist called the Ghost, who blackmailed the city through television sets. When the presumed dead criminal is defrosted, the Night Shade is back in business.
Episode 10: Sight Unseen
An invisible man gets into Star Labs, and releases a neurotoxin with Tina inside the lab. Then he starts killing scientists who worked on the project. Flash must find the invisible man and save his friend.
Episode 11: Beat the Clock
A jazz musician friend of Julio's is about to be executed. An hour before the execution, a friend calls and says he has evidence that could exonerate their friend. Before Barry can contact him, he disappears. They have less than an hour to save a condemned man.
Episode 12: The Trickster
Barry must protect his old girlfriend, Megan Lockhart, from an obsessed, maniacal criminal disguised as The Trickster.
Episode 13: Tina, Is That You?
Barry is having trouble sleeping. Tina tries to use bio-feedback to help him, but it back fires on Tina. She joins a gang, and she's able to hold Flash at bay with her knowledge of his strengths and weaknesses. Barry has got to find a way to save his friend.
Episode 14: Be My Baby
Barry tries to help a young woman. She found out about her husband's criminal life, and is trying to escape from him. She takes their daughter with her, but he wants them back.
Episode 15: Fast Forward
Jay's killer, Nicholus Pike, is released from jail and blames the Flash for Jay's death. He sets the Flash up by using a heat seeking bomb on him, but something goes awry. Instead of killing the Flash, it sends him into the future where Pike is in charge and outlaws anyone from mentioning the Flash.
Episode 16: Deadly Nightshade
There's a new vigilante in town, the Deadly Nightshade, who fights crime by killing criminals. The Flash and the original Nightshade team up to take him down.
Episode 17: Captain Cold
Captain Cold, who freezes his victims to death, is contracted to kill the Flash.
Episode 18: Twin Streaks
A scientist and his business partner are trying to develop a being with super speed, their attempts fail. They manage to clone the Flash. Their creation learns quickly, but is emotional moral equivalent of a child. Barry must stop his twin.
Episode 19: Done with Mirrors
A battery is stolen by a criminal calling himself the Mirror Master. He soon steals a crystal from Star Labs. Tina will get fired if they can't recover the crystal. Tina's mother comes for a visit, and an old friend of Barry's also stirs up trouble.
Episode 20: Good Night, Central City
A small time crook gets a hold of a device that puts people to sleep. He goes on a spree while the people are unconscious. He has a plan to knock out the entire city, it's up to the Flash to stop him.
Episode 21: Alpha
An android built by the government to use an assassin refuses to obey her orders. She escapes, and is befriended by Tina and Barry.
Episode 22: The Trial of the Trickster
With the help of an insane admirer who wants to be his sidekick, the Trickster escapes from police custody and places the Flash under his mind control.
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