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Eureka · S1 · E12

Once in a Lifetime

  • TV-14
  • Oct 3, 2006
  • 44 min
  • 8.8

Ambition trumps common sense when Stark is given a chance to try out the Top-secret artifact. Once it's tested, Eureka warps into the future and ends up in 2010, where the town is different.

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Ambition trumps common sense when Stark is given a chance to try out the Top-secret artifact. Once it's tested, Eureka warps into the future and ends up in 2010, where the town is different.

Season 1

12 episodes
  1. 1Pilot

    85 minJul 18, 20068.1

    An accident leads a U.S. Marshal and a teenage girl to a peculiar town populated by scientists and their families where 10-year-old boys are in 11th grade, the local diner doesn't believe in menus, and E=MC² was just the beginning. Just as the Marshal starts to get settled into the swing of things, a local scientist develops a bomb that seems to appear anywhere and eats all the matter around it.

  2. 2Many Happy Returns

    43 minJul 25, 20068.0

    The citizens of Eureka attend the funeral of Susan Perkins, only to find out that she is in fact alive. Meanwhile the Sheriff moves into an underground bunker that is actually a 'smart house' controlled by a computer dubbed 'S.A.R.A.H., and begins to investigate a 'ghost' that has been appearing in town.

  3. 3Before I Forget

    44 minAug 1, 20068.2

    Something starts to steal the townspeople's memory...

  4. 4Alienated

    42 minAug 8, 20068.0

    After hosting a movie party, Spencer is found the next day in the middle of a crop circle, claiming he was abducted by aliens; and then other people who attended the party start to go missing as well. Elsewhere, the legislator responsible for Eureka's funding visits the town, and gets dragged into a Sector 5 experiment...

  5. 5Invincible

    44 minAug 15, 20068.2

    An unpredictable researcher accidentally unleashes a dangerous artifact which was previously hidden by Nathan Stark.

  6. 6Dr. Nobel

    43 minAug 22, 20068.0

    A sleeping weapons system is accidentally awakened by Fargo and Spencer. Henry tries to avert the pending catastrophe with the help of a retired, nonsensical scientist.

  7. 7Blink

    42 minAug 29, 20067.8

    Carter investigates an unusual car accident. Meanwhile, Stark, under the stress of completing a project on time, pressures two research teams to produce results.

  8. 8Right as Raynes

    44 minSep 5, 20067.7

    A former resident returns to Eureka and creates mayhem which threatens Global Dynamics, prompting Stark to take action.

  9. 9Primal

    41 minSep 12, 20067.8

    Taggart achieves a medical breakthrough while Fargo invents a device that bridges the divide between computers and human brains.

  10. 10Purple Haze

    44 minSep 19, 20068.2

    Strange behavior exhibited by the townspeople is investigated by Carter,who has to solve the mystery before Stark makes a decision that could affect the world.

  11. 11H.O.U.S.E. Rules

    44 minSep 26, 20068.8

    A bad day in the lab forces Carter to rethink his decision to live in Eureka, prompting an intervention from S.A.R.A.H. (the self Activated Residential Automated Habitat.

  12. 12Once in a Lifetime

    44 minOct 3, 20068.8Now viewing

    Ambition trumps common sense when Stark is given a chance to try out the Top-secret artifact. Once it's tested, Eureka warps into the future and ends up in 2010, where the town is different.

Guest stars

Matt FrewerJim Taggart
Chris GauthierVincent
Keith WilsonRoy Baker
Bryan WilsonRay Baker
Tamlyn TomitaKim Anderson
Aaron IsaacsWalter Perkins
J.R. MessadoKevin Blake