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-->''What would you do if you received tomorrow's newspaper today?''

After his wife throws him out of his house, Gary Hobson starts receiving tomorrow's issue of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' every morning, always accompanied by an orange cat. At first he tries to use this for personal gain, but after he sees an accident that was exactly described in the newspaper, he has a change of heart. In the end, he and his friends Chuck and Marissa start to use the newspaper to save people and prevent problems.

The series ran for 90 episodes from 1996 to 2000 on Creator/{{CBS}}. It wasn't renewed for a fifth season, even with fan demand. The first season DVD came out in June 2008.
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!!The show provides examples of:

* AnAesop: One for each episode.
* ActionGirl: Renee Callahan and Gary's mom in "Don't Walk Away, Renee"
* AllJustADream: Marissa Clark run over by car in "Run, Gary, Run".
* BigNo: After a former recipient of tomorrow's edition of a different paper loses his.
* BlackBestFriend: Once Chuck Fishman (Fisher Stevens) left the show, Marissa became Gary's best friend.
* BlessedWithSuck: Gary views the newspaper as this.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Gary once tried spending the night in a cabin in the woods to avoid getting the paper, and it ''still'' found him.
** At other times, Gary was unavoidably detained and tried to get the paper sent to him, but that wasn't necessary, either.
* TheCameo: RogerEbert talks to a kid who runs crying out of a movie theater showing ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'', assuring him that it's only a movie. It's later revealed that Chuck asked Roger to talk to the kid, thus preventing the kid from getting killed by running into heavy traffic.
* CassandraDidIt: Police and others sometimes put Gary in this role when he tries to avert disasters.
* TheCatCameBack: The pilot shows Gary tried to avoid the cat, to no avail.
* ChekhovsGunman: The pilot begins with a shot of a man sitting on a train station bench. He tries to rob a bank later that episode.
* ChickMagnet: Gary, due to his heroics. Extreme examples of his in-universe fanbase include a cheerleading squad, a Russian princess, and a woman who turned down a marriage proposal from a world-famous, philanthropic doctor.
* TheChosenMany: Gary is not the only one who gets the paper.
* ChristmasEpisode: Gary and Crumb team up to find a bomber.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Gary
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: From the episode "Dad":
-->'''Gary's Dad:''' Tomorrow's newspaper . . . today. Comes in the morning with the cat. So, you read a story in the newspaper and you run out into the city and save somebody's life and just like that, the story is gone?\\
'''Gary:''' Something like that.\\
'''Gary's Dad:''' Well, how do they do that? Some kind of special ink?\\
'''Gary:''' I—I'm not sure.\\
'''Gary's Dad:''' I bet it's the ink. Disappearing ink. The army was working on something like that when I was at Fort Briggs. Top secret stuff.
* CoolCar: Chuck's.
* {{Crossover}} with Martial Law
** and ''Series/ChicagoHope''
* TheDeterminator: Gary. No matter what life throws his way (be it plane crashes or rogue federal agents or Bat Masterson), he always prevails often through sheer force of will and some quick thinking.
* EnhanceButton
* ForWantOfANail: In episode 2, "Choices," Gary has to choose between saving the life of one little girl and saving 200+ people in a plane crash. He keeps trying to prevent the plane crash but, in the end, he's only able to save the little girl. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the little girl's father was the pilot of the plane. Because she got the proper medical attention, he was pulled off of the runway at the last minute to go see her in the hospital, so the plane crash never happens.]]
* GangsterLand
* GilliganCut
* GroundhogDayLoop: "Run, Gary, Run".
* HeroicBSOD: In "Fate", when he accidentally let a homeless man he was trying to rescue fall to his death.
* HeroicSacrifice: Again in "Fate", when Gary goes into an abandoned building that's about to collapse so he can save a young couple, even though he knew his obituary was in tomorrow's paper due to the collapse. [[spoiler: He ends up surviving though.]]
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Gary was using the paper for profit until someone he knew got into an accident.
* ImpairmentShot: Gary takes a hit from a Capone-era T-Man and the shot goes out of focus from the camera's point of view rather than Gary's.
* InMysteriousWays: The group of people who gives various people (and Gary) the papers.
* JerkAss: Gary's ex steadily evolved into this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Chuck, and sometimes Gary, when having a particularly bad day.
* LiteralCliffHanger/ TakeMyHand: Happens quite a lot, actually.
* MeanBoss: Gary's ex-boss. Gary even saved him from being killed by an angry employee.
* MeaningfulName: Gary Hobson is presented with a daily [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice Hobson's choice]].
* NeverWinTheLottery: One story involved people trying to fix the drawing. Other stories establish Gary wagers just enough with the future knowlege to pay his living expenses, much to Chuck's dismay.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero
* NoodleIncident: Gary has saved people off-screen. Like in episode 2, Chuck mentions the time Gary saved a trailer park from a tornado.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: That episode about the girl with psychic powers.
* PutOnABus: Chuck.
** TheBusCameBack: Chuck occasionally returns in a few episodes.
* RearWindowWitness: Gary gets caught up in a plot while stuck in his apartment with a broken leg in one episode.
* RefusedTheCall: Attempted by Gary several times. It never worked out well for him.
* RippleEffectIndicator: The newspaper itself.
* RogueJuror: Gary in the episode "The Jury".
* SecretKeeper: Gary's parents, Marissa, Chuck, Erica, and Henry.
* SelfDefeatingProphecy: The whole show.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The show was thoroughly on the idealistic side.
* ThreeAmigos: Gary and his two best friends.
* TrainStationGoodbye
* TimeTravel: The paper apparently comes from the future. (Occasionally people time travel, too.)
* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: Gary supports himself by using the paper to bet on horse racing.
* [[TwoferTokenMinority Threefer Token Minority]]: Marissa (black, female, and blind).
* UnluckyEverydude: Gary, full stop.
* VerySpecialEpisode: A season 1 episode dealt with gun violence.
* [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld Wake Up, Save The World]]
* WhoShotJFK This was done in the episode The Wall.
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Chuck tries to pitch a TV show about a guy who gets tomorrow's newspaper. It doesn't go over very well.
* WordOfGod: Co-creator, Ian Abrams, has explained that the newspapers were being delivered by MarkTwain from [[FluffyCloudHeaven Heaven]] as part of a bet.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: In the episode where Chuck is marrying Amber/Jade, Gary confronts her in the hotel room and they fight. When Chuck walks in, Jade claims that Gary had hit on her.
* YesVirginia: Season 1's "Christmas".
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