Flash Forward:
The Episode Guide:
Last updated: July 27, 1997.
The Main Cast:
Rebecca "Becca" Fisher -Jewel Staite
Tucker James -Ben Foster
Christine Harrison -Asia Vieira
Miles Vaughn -Theodore Borders
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Forward".
It's the first day of eighth grade for Becca and Tucker, and they
are looking forward to being the 'big kids' in school. But things go
wrong for Tucker when he immediately falls for new student Kerry
Rogers, and is immediately challenged by new student Jack Debbens. And
things go wrong for Becca when Christine fails to show up for a
meeting with Principal Petrowski, which causes Becca to miss the
sign-up for the "8th Grade only" school newspaper, an activity that
she's been wanting to do for years. [Copyright 1995.]
Mrs. Scott: Judith Orban. Bus Driver (who scares Tucker):
Diane Douglass. Flat voiced kid: John David Wood. Boy in class:
Aaron Bartkiw. Boy in hall: Justin Grant. Girl in hall: Carly-Anne
Fairlie.
Christine wants to wrestle for P.E., but Coach Petrowski (the
"brother" of Vice Principal Petrowski) declares that "girls dance,
boys wrestle" (i.e. girls do rhythmic gymnastics). Still, Becca is
determined to get Christine her chance to wrestle as an issue of
"freedom of choice", and for her efforts she ends up as Christine's
wrestling partner. Meanwhile, Tucker makes fun of the whole idea,
which ends up landing Tucker in rhythmic gymnastics, and eventually in
leads to a wrestling grudge match between Christine and Miles, who
stand as proxies for the competitive Becca and Tucker, respectively.
Miss Jennings: Marsha Nicols. Joey Rizzo: Daniel Petronijevic.
When Becca's (and Ellen's) and Tucker's (and Horace's) parents are
away, Tucker decides to throw an 8th Grade party at the James
residence (so that he can invite Kerry), while Ellen decides to throw
a party for her high school friends at the Fisher residence. But Becca
soon bails on her friends for Ellen's party when she develops a crush
on the best friend (named Zack Anderson) of Ellen's boyfriend (Ryan).
Zack Anderson: Fab Filippo. Ellen (7 years old): Aemilia Robinson.
Kerry (at her most sinister) has a suggestion for helping the girls
find out what the boys really think of them before the "Turnaround
Dance" (i.e. think 'Sadie Hawkins'): anonymously pass around a "Cool
Book" with everyone's name in it, so everyone can write comments about
everyone else. But the truth comes out, to the dismay of all involved,
but as they say, "If you're not ready to hear 'the truth', don't ask!"
Rob Wetzel: Slot Peachman. Stanley Zito: Amos Crawley. Girl in
Hall: Hamille Rustia. Grotesque Boys (who torture Becca): Aaron
Bartkiw, Benjamin Plener.
After 9 years of hard work, Becca has succeeded in being chosen to
do the coveted solo in ballet, but Becca risks her hard fought victory
by agreeing to try out for the socially popular Pep Squad with Kerry.
Meanwhile, Miles and Tucker are determined to beat Abbie Lee Cooper
in the school's "Candid Contest". [Copyright 1996.]
Gabrielle: Leah Somerton. Madame Lefever: Kristina
Marie Guiguet. Trish: Jessica Greco. Athlete #1: Jon Rubatscher.
Tucker and Becca both have problems with speeches, and their arch-
nemeses. First, Tucker has an opportunity to take the morning
announcer's job away from Jack, but Tucker loses the "Ad Blabs"
proposal that he was going to show to Vice Principal Petrowski, and
Jack ends up finding it (and using it) instead. Meanwhile, Becca is in
danger of not winning the speech contest in English class for the
third year in a row because to her arch-rival Vega Moran is doing the
same speech topic as Becca.
Climbing Instructor: Paul Popowich. Vega Moran: Raine Pare-Coull.
Tucker has a problem: his father and Becca's father have given
Tucker two tickets to see "Crab Whacker" with Becca, but he instead
offers Becca's ticket to Kerry (even though both Becca, and Miles!
want to see the concert). So Tucker must come up with a third (and
preferably even a fourth!) ticket for Becca (and Miles), so Tucker
won't be in trouble. Meanwhile, Roland Nembhard, who just happens to
have a crush on Becca, is a ticket scalper (with tickets for "Crab
Whacker"), which just may solve all of Tucker's problems!
Tucker rushes to the defense of Horace when a bully starts picking
on him. But it's Tucker who has to defend himself when Horace's bully
turns out to be Jack Debbens' cousin, and Jack challenges Tucker.
Meanwhile, Christine and Becca are determined to save a stray dog that
Vice Principal Petrowski has sentenced to the dog pound.
Mrs. Debbens: Kathleen Laskey. Animal Control Officer:
Kevin Frank. Garth Debbens: Gabe Plener.
Becca decides to make over her room. But conflict develops when
Becca's original best friend (who's been away for two years in New
York City), Maxine Morrow ("It's Max. 'Maxine' is so fifth grade!"),
and present best friend, Christine (who's only been in town since
after Max left, and has never met her), take an immediate dislike to
each other and disagree about the room makeover. Meanwhile, Tucker
wants to make his move on Kerry, so he invites her to "cosmic
bowling", but Kerry won't go unless flashy newcomer Max goes, and Max
won't come unless Tucker's arch-nemesis Jack goes, but Jack's presence
only complicates Tucker's chances with Kerry.
In a farcical outing, Tucker will do anything to avoid baby-sitting
Horace on Saturday because Tucker wants to be an extra on "Screaming
Zombies II". So he makes Becca an offer: he will baby-sit their "baby"
(a project in Miss Yansouni's "Health" class) on Friday, if she'll
baby-sit the "baby" and Horace on Saturday. But things go wrong when,
1) Tucker doesn't take the "baby" seriously, and 2) when Becca has to
help Christine find Steve the Dog who has run away on the day Steve is
to be "fixed".
Convinced by Max that she doesn't have a social life, Becca calls
up Scott, a boy that Becca thought was cute in summer camp, and asks
him (and a friend namd Zed) to come see a movie ("Alien Vortex II")
with her (and Christine). But when Tucker finds out, he is not amused,
as he thought Scott was a jerk back in summer camp. So Tucker does all
he can to try and keep an eye on Becca and Scott.
Becca's aunt makes an incredible offer: she is sending one plane
ticket (round-trip to Malta) to the Fisher residence so that one (but
not both) of the Fisher girls can go to Malta to spend time on an
archeological dig. So Becca and Ellen engage in a competition to see
who can impress Mr. and Mrs. Fisher the most, so that she (and not the
other!) might get the ticket and go on the trip. But when the ticket
finally arrives, Becca lies to Ellen about it, which ends up causing
the ticket (which is inside a "chicken-shaped" pot) to go missing
at the Fishers' garage sale, so Tucker must find it for Becca.
Mrs. Lubello: Valerie Abels. Delivery Woman: Janet Van
De Graafe. Grunge Guy: Duff MacDonald.
Mr. James and Mr. Fisher want to go on a camping trip with Tucker,
Miles, Becca and Christine and Horace, but the kids insist upon
camping "alone", without the help of the dads (who camp elsewhere, but
nearby). But things start going wrong from the start after Tucker
forgets the food, and Steve the Dog runs off.
Determined to become a prankster "legend" at Parkview, Tucker
convinces Miles to break into the school's computer system and plant a
virus (which involves cartoons of the Parkview staff). But when Miles
gets caught and is sent to detention (where Tucker later joins him,
but for different reasons), they must escape or Miles' computer virus
could wipe out the school's entire computer system. Meanwhile, Becca
convinces the editor of the school's paper (Steffi again) to
allow her to submit an article for the paper, and Becca soon stumbles
upon Tucker's and Miles' "conspiracy".
Mr. Delacey: Bruce Hunter.
Dissatisfied with only being in the Yearbook picture for the
"Audio/Visual Club", Tucker is determined to join the soccer team to
get into a Yearbook sports picture. And, lo and behold! it turns out
that "unathletic" Tucker is actually a good goalie, until his clowning
around in the end zone costs his team an important game and the Coach
fires him. Meanwhile, Becca and Steffi make a deal: Becca will cover
sports for the paper (an assignment she is unsuited to), and in return
Becca gets to write a "Poetry Corner".
When Tucker becomes worried that Miles is spending all of his time
at his computer and on the Internet, Tucker and Becca assume a false
identity on the Internet to try and pry him away from it. But this
leads to 2 unforeseen circumstances: 1) Becca begins to neglect
Christine which causes a rift between the two, and 2) Tucker and Becca
inadvertently become Miles' love interest. And when Miles and
Christine find out what's really going on, neither will speak to
Tucker and Becca. Meanwhile, Jack and Kerry are having problems.
Girl: Alissa Berg.
It's Tucker and Becca's birthday, which means it's time for the
annual present exchange (on the night before their birthdays). But
Tucker is in a panic, because every year he ends up getting Becca a
lame present, and this year he is determined to get her a good one, so
he enlists the help of Ellen. Meanwhile, Becca's infatuation for
Gooch, the Pizza guy, causes her to forget about the present exchange.
So Becca must to make it up to Tucker (with a present that involves
Tucker's favorite TV program, "The Mike Miller Show"), which forces
Becca to enlist the help of... Ellen!
"Late Nite" Mike Miller: Ron Oliver. Allan: Jeff Topping.
Receptionist: Sally Cahill.
On a field trip to the wilderness, Tucker and Miles plot to ditch
the field trip to attend an "Ape Fest" film festival of all 5 "Planet
of the Apes" movies ("Planet" through "Battle"!) and get their
"Apeward Bound" comic book signed. But, because Tucker and Miles have
switched their usual 'plotter's roles', their plan slowly unravels,
leading to friction between the two. Meanwhile, on the "Orienteering"
portion of the field trip, Christine and Becca get lost off the trail,
only to find Coach Petrowski who's on a 'field trip' of his own.
Trying to ditch her "goody-goody" image, Becca wants to crash the
annual 9th Grade (only) "Mud Slide" party, so she finds out the
location (and then is goaded into telling Kerry). But when the leaking
of the location of the party is traced back to Becca, the 9th Graders
cancel it. So, to make up for it, Becca offers to host the party
herself at the house of the uncle that Becca is house-sitting for.
Meanwhile, after a little "accident" with his parents' car, Tucker is
grounded; so to make up for it, he becomes "Helpful Boy" ("Help me,
to help you!").
Lisa: Renessa Blitz. Bethany: Kerry Duff. Gord: Shawn Ashmore.
Becca receives horrifying news from Max: the school rumor is that
Becca and Tucker are a "couple". So Becca distances herself from
Tucker, by convincing Christine to help Tucker get Horace ready for
baseball (as per Mr. James' orders). But Becca can barely contain her
jealousy when Tucker and Christine seem to be the ones becoming a
"couple". ("A couple?... A couple of what?" asks Miles.)
Big Kid: Brad Silberg.
Scott Stuckey, who is a rival of both Tucker and Gooch, and who
still has an unrequited crush on Becca, declares the park "off limits"
to Tucker and Miles. So Tucker gets Becca to enlist the aid of Gooch
(who is an expert skater, and who's looking to show up Scott) in a
"skate-off" to determine who controls the park. But when Becca
inadvertently takes Gooch out of the competition in an accident, both
Tucker and Becca are left to scramble for a response to Scott. The
final result is a skating competition between Tucker and Scott, mano a
mano.
A reporter from the local paper named Jim Kilroy visits Parkview
where he thinks he will be "taking the pulse of a generation" for
an article he is writing about "what today's kids are like". But on
hearing this, Tucker, concerned that "his generation" will be
generalized and represented by the likes of "Steffi, Max and Jack
Debbens", decides to fashion an elaborate hoax (with the help of most
of the school) about what today's youth are "really doing", and make
himself the "bold voice of a generation". But this conflicts with
Becca's plan to use Kilroy to get a "kid's commentary" column in the
local paper for herself.
Jim Kilroy: Jonathan Wilson. Robert Dinsdale: John
Bayliss. Brenda Bennett: Deanne Degruijter.
Determined to prove that she's as good a schemer as Tucker, Becca
plots with Christine to be this year's saboteurs in the annual
sabotage of the school's float (which is a big, blue "Wildcat") for
the "Parade of All District Schools". And Becca's chances of pulling
the sabotage off are further enhanced when she brings new girl Darby
(who is Tucker's female kindred spirit!) into her plan. Meanwhile,
Tucker's and Miles' hopes of pulling off this year's sabotage are
derailed by two important factors: 1) Vice Principal Petrowski is
watching them like a hawk ("I've got my eye on you, James. You can
hide, but you can't hide."), and 2) Tucker is totally distracted by
his infatuation for Darby and can't come up with a plan.
Male Movie Idol: Matt Trueman. Female Movie Idol: Laura Catalano.
It's the annual school talent show, and everybody has their act:
Becca plans to do a tap dancing routine with Christine and Maxine,
Miles plans to be "The Great Milesini" (Magician), and Tucker plans to
do stand-up comedy. But problems develop with the partners of all
three: Christine and Max (who are good tap dancers) kick Becca
(who's not) out of their act, forcing Becca to be a talent judge;
Miles is forced to have Abbie Lee Cooper in his act (which is then
changed to a musical duet); and Tucker is having major problems with
Roland, who is turning into Tucker's "Mirror Image"! ("What are the
odds?!")
Prodded (once again) by Max, Becca tries to have a "Night to
Remember" with Max and Christine at the Fisher house, while Becca's
parents (who are having dinner with the James) and Ellen (who's at the
Prom with Ryan) are out. But it ends up being one disappointment after
another. Meanwhile, Tucker and Miles, who find that they are no longer
scared by watching videos of 'scary movies', decide to try and scare
the wits out of (first) Horace, and (then) Becca, Christine and
Maxine; but the results of their pranks are unintended (just ask
Ellen!).
Mrs. Morrow: Debbi Johnson (Gee, do you think it's
Melody's real-life Mom?! - ed.).
In thinking back to the version of "Robin Hood" that she and Tucker
threw when they were five years old, Becca decides to stage a version
of her script of "Robin Hood". But things go wrong on several fronts:
Becca gets cast as Maid Marion (but she didn't want to be in the
play!), Tucker gets cast as Friar Tuck instead of Robin Hood (a role
that goes to his archenemies, Jack Debbens), Maxine gets the role of
the Sheriff (which causes problems for Jack, as Max has the "hots" for
him) and Christine is made co-Stage Manager with Miles (but no one
will listen to her!).
Further problems ensue when the play's faculty sponsor, Miss
Yansouni, decides to rewrite Becca's play so that 1) Friar Tuck and
Maid Marion have the romance in the play (which now involves a kissing
scene betwen Marion and "Frier" Tuck), 2) Robin is no longer a
"thief", 3) the Sheriff is now "good" instead of evil, and 4) the
"Merry Men" are depressed half the time! Miss Yansouni's rewrite and
the "kissing scene" for "Frier" Tuck (Tucker) and Maid Marion (Becca)
soon causes Becca and Tucker to have a falling out, and disrupts the
rest of the play.
Eventually, Christine takes back control of the play from Miss
Yansouni, and takes everyone back to Becca's original script, now with
Tucker as Robin Hood (and Jack as Friar Tuck). But, after a talking to
from Miles and Christine, respectively, the kissing scene eventually
forces Tucker and Becca to face their true feelings for each other, in
a very satisfying resolution to the series (and a memorable final
line, as Becca is the one who exclaims, "What are the odds?!").
Merry Man: Jeff Davis.
THE END.
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