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===[[1998 in television|1998]]===

* '''''[[Due South]]''''' - With the help of the Canadian mounties, Fraser and Kowalski save the world fromfro Cyrus Bolt's militia and Muldoon's nuclear submarine. In a final confrontation, the ghost of Fraser's father actually takes physical form to help Fraser defeat Muldoon. As a result, Fraser's father is finally put to rest after father and son team up to arrest Muldoon, the man who betrayed the mounties and killed Fraser's mother.

* '''''[[Family Matters]]''''' – Steve Urkel, finally engaged to Laura Winslow (they became boyfriend and girlfriend after a years-long unrequited relationship), is invited by [[NASA]] to participate in a space mission to demonstrate his latest invention: an artificial gravity device. However, the spacecraft is damaged in a collision with a wayward satellite, and Urkel is pressed into the hero's role. In the subplot, Eddie ssems to be doing well as a trainee police officer, but Harriet becomes very worried for her son's safety. So, behind Carl's back and without Eddie's knowledge, she pulls a few strings and has Eddie reassigned to meter maid. Both of them become very angry when they learn about what happened, but Harriet's fear still comes true. Eddie, while trying to foil an armed robber, is shot, although he turns out to be OK (the bulletproof vest protected him); Eddie proves his worth by capturing the criminal.

* '''''[[Highlander]]''''' - When an Irish terrorist endangers the lives of his friends, Duncan starts to question whether any of his efforts over the years have had any effect at all. He is then treated to an [[It's a Wonderful Life]] vision by the ghost of Hugh Fitzcairn, showing Duncan what the world would be like if he had never existed. In this dystopian alternate reality, Duncan's arch-foes Horton (the extremist Watcher) and Kronos (the evil Immortal horseman of the apocalypse) are alive and well and have plunged the world into havok and suffering. Horton has taken over the Watchers and Kronos has seized control of the Immortals, and the two are waging a destructive war against each other. Without Duncan's positive influence, his friends have taken a turn for the worse: Amanda seduces and kills men for profit, Methos reunits with Kronos and returns to being the horseman of Death, Joe Dawson has left the Watchers and become a drunk, Richie joins Methos and Kronos and is killed by them when he refuses to kill Joe. As the vision ends, Duncan realizes that he has made a difference. He vows "never again" to give in to despair, kills the terrorist, and saves his friends.