I believe you're remembering one of my favorite shows, "VR.5,"
starring Lori Singer as a young telephone technician, Sydney Bloom,
and David McCallum as her father, Dr. Joseph Bloom. The show had a
13-episode lifespan on Fox in 1995.
Here are some plot synopses:
"Sydney Bloom is a beautiful young woman who works by day as a
telephone lineswoman and spends her nights tinkering with her
home-brew computer... Sydney's father, Dr. Joseph Bloom, a
neurobiologist, had been on the cutting edge of research into virtual
reality, a computer technology that, in its familiar form,
artificially creates sensations that the brain reads as reality.
Sydney has been tinkering with the basic technology now for some time.
One night, after an angry confrontation on the phone with an
irritating neighbor, Sydney accidentally slams the receiver into her
computer modem. Instantly she transports her neighbor and herself into
the world on her computer screen. Although it is a world she has
created, she discovers it is not a world completely under her
conscious control, since both her subconscious thoughts and those of
the person she has brought with her influence events in unpredictable
ways. Back in the real world, while only Sydney can remember the
events, the experience changes the behavior of the people she brings
into VR with her.
This awesome power to create alternate realities and control others
both fascinates and terrifies Sydney. She has catapulted into a level
of virtual reality, VR.5, that is so far beyond state-of-the-art to be
almost unimaginable. She has found a way to escape her passivity and
helplessness. But it is an experience for which she is emotionally and
intellectually unprepared. When she looks for help to understand what
she has discovered, she attracts the attention of a mysterious
organization known as "The Committee," whose members recruit her to
use her power in pursuit of their secret, perhaps duplicitous,
agenda."
Michael Easton Corner: VR.5 Viewer's Guide
http://www.michaeleastoncorner.de/articles/press/vr5viewersguide.html
"Sydney Bloom works as a telephone engineer, but she's also a computer
whizz playing with Virtual Reality (VR). One day she accidentally
discovers that she can take other people into VR5 (full immersion VR)
with her, just by calling them up on the telephone. Once inside, she
can find out about them, but afterwards, they have little or no memory
of the incident. For some reason Sydney seems to be the only one who
can take people into VR5. The shadowy 'Committee' discover her talent,
and co-opt her to do investigations for them."
Personal Pages of Sugan Stepney: VR5
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/tv/vr5/1r.htm
"Sydney was a lineperson for the Tel-Cal Telephone Company in San
Francisco. She had no social life, instead opting for her crammed
apartment filled with personal computer equipment and the latest
virtual reality (VR) 'toys'. By putting on the special goggles and
gloves attached to her PC, she could escape into a vivid,
computer-created fantasy world.
While doing this, she stumbled into the fabled 'fifth level' of
virtual reality, a fantasy world that affected events in the real
world and she wasn't always in control of the outcome. When she called
someone and connected the phone into her computer's modem, they too
were pulled into her VR world...
In the last original episode in May 1995, Sydney found out that her
father and sister were still alive, prisoners of an evil faction of
The Committee that was trying to use Dr. Bloom's discoveries to take
over the world."
NETWORK & CABLE TV GUIDE: VR.5
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/9348/vr5.htm
My Google search strategy:
Google Web Search: "vr.5" OR vr5
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vr.5%22+OR+vr5
I hope this is the correct show. If it is not, or if anything is
unclear or incomplete, please request clarification; I'll be glad to
offer further assistance before you rate my answer.
Best regards,
pinkfreud |
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