
The Chronicle
Tucker Burns is a qualified reporter who can't get a job. He applies for a job at the World Chronicle, where they are delighted to have an over-qualified (by their standards!) reporter on staff. It turns out that all the stories the Chronicle reports are true, but written as tabloid articles so that the public can slowly get acclimated to such things. Aided by photographer Wes and alien abductee/reporter Grace, and backed by his mysterious boss Donald Stern, Tucker investigates, ghosts, aliens, and other supernatural phenomena.
- Metascore70
- 2001-2002
- 1 season
- The Sci-Fi Channel
- Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
Tucker Burns is a qualified reporter who can't get a job. He applies for a job at the World Chronicle, where they are delighted to have an over-qualified (by their standards!) reporter on staff. It turns out that all the stories the Chronicle reports are true, but written as tabloid articles so that the public can slowly get acclimated to such things. Aided by photographer Wes and alien abductee/reporter Grace, and backed by his mysterious boss Donald Stern, Tucker investigates, ghosts, aliens, and other supernatural phenomena.
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2001 - 2002
Episode 1
Pilot
Sat, Jul 14, 2001 48 mins
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
What Gobbles Beneath
Sat, Jul 14, 2001 48 mins
Episode 3
Here There Be Dragons
Sat, Jul 21, 2001 48 mins
Episode 4
Baby Got Back
Sat, Jul 28, 2001 48 mins
Episode 5
He's Dead, She's Dead
Sat, Aug 4, 2001 48 mins
The team explores reports of the dead coming back to life and find the daughter of a man obsessed with experimenting with reanimating corpses. As more people are being brought back from the dead, will the team be able to stop the mad scientist in time?
Episode 6
Bermuda Love Triangle
Sat, Aug 11, 2001 48 mins
Grace follows a story about a missing man from the Navy, while Tucker and Wes follow a lead about a sea creature attacking people at the docks. Turns out they are following the same story and the missing man has been trying to escape his life under the sea but has been followed ashore by the sea creature who saved him all those years ago.
Episode 7
Only the Young Die Good
Sat, Aug 18, 2001 48 mins
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
Bring Me the Head of Tucker Burns
Sat, Aug 25, 2001 48 mins
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
Let Sleeping Dogs Fry
Sat, Sep 8, 2001 48 mins
The team visits an elite small town to investigate why there have been so many accidental deaths recently at the hands of their electronic appliances. They discover the town has a lot of secrets that seem to revolve around a recently missing pool boy.
Episode 10
Take Me Back
Sat, Sep 15, 2001 48 mins
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
Touched by an Alien
Fri, Jan 4, 2002 48 mins
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
Pig Boy's Big Adventure
Fri, Jan 11, 2002 48 mins
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
The Cursed Sombrero
Fri, Jan 18, 2002 48 mins
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
Tears of a Clone
Fri, Jan 25, 2002 48 mins
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
I See Dead Fat People
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 48 mins
While Grace holds down the fort at the paper, Tucker and Wes investigate a poltergeist. One of the ghosts from a tragedy on site years before has been following Wes. What do they have in common and will Wes be able to help solve a murder mystery to boot?
Episode 16
Man and Superman
Fri, Feb 8, 2002 48 mins
Wes knows his superheroes and discovers that someone is reenacting some old comic book hero, but to what end? It appears as though our newly found superhero is re-enacting rescues by first putting our unsuspecting rescue victims at risk to save them. Will The Chronicle be able to save the next group of unsuspecting victims from our superhero before it's too late?
Episode 17
Hot from the Oven
Fri, Feb 15, 2002 48 mins
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
The Stepford Cheerleaders
Fri, Feb 22, 2002 48 mins
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
The Mists of Avalon Parkway
Fri, Mar 1, 2002 48 mins
Killer fog is starting to take people from a small town against their wishes. After some competitive investigative work between Grace and Tucker, they discover the sentient fog monster may have imprinted on a boy and goes after anyone the child may not like.
Episode 20
The King Is Undead
Fri, Mar 8, 2002 48 mins
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
Hell Mall
Fri, Mar 15, 2002 48 mins
Too many violent attacks have happened recently at the mall to be considered a mere coincidence. The team discovers there may be a connection to ghosts from the sanitarium for the criminally insane that may be affecting mall employees and anyone else who may cross their path, including one of their own.
Episode 22
A Snitch in Time
Fri, Mar 22, 2002 48 mins
People are spontaneously combusting or so it seems. Grace's boyfriend, Lewis, has just dumped her and may know more than it seems. Meanwhile, Tucker's girlfriend, Kristin, is working with police to set Donald up, to apparently save her boyfriend. Swedes from the future are involved and it looks like The Chronicle may come to an end. A great cliff hanger for the next season that never comes.