Level 9 (TV series)
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Level 9 is an American
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 television program
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 broadcast on UPN
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, first aired in 2000. The plot revolved around a secret agency within the government, staffed by government agents, tech-savvy geeks, and former criminal hackers, which is tasked with solving or preventing cyber crimes.

Thirteen episodes were produced, ten of which were aired on UPN, before the program was canceled in January 2001 due to low ratings
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. In August 2006, the Sci-Fi Channel
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 acquired rerun rights to the series which was added to their schedule in June 2007. Sci-Fi aired the episodes never shown by UPN in February 2008.

Cast

  • Fabrizio Filippo
    Fab Filippo
    -Personal life:Filippo, who also goes by the name of Fab Filippo, was born in Toronto, Canada. His parents are first generation Italian immigrants . He briefly attended York University's Film & Video Programme in 1993...

     as Roland Travis, a former criminal hacker given a choice between prison and joining Level 9.
  • Kate Hodge
    Kate Hodge
    Kate Hodge is an American actress and film producer.-Career:Born in Berkeley, California, Hodge's first starring role was as Michelle, the heroine of the 1990 horror film Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III...

     as Annie Price, the Level 9 team leader and a former FBI agent.
  • Michael Joseph Kelly
    Michael Kelly (American actor)
    Michael Joseph Kelly is an American actor.-Early life:Kelly was born in Philadelphia and raised in Lawrenceville, Georgia, the son of Maureen and Michael Kelly. He has one brother and two sisters . He graduated from Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia...

     as Wilbert "Tibbs" Thibodeaux
  • Romany Malco
    Romany Malco
    Romany Romanic Malco, Jr. is an American actor and music producer. He has been nominated for several awards, including an NAACP Image Award, MTV Movie Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. Malco portrayed Conrad Shepard on the Showtime series Weeds. He most recently played George St...

     as Jerry Hooten, formerly with the United States Postal Inspection Service
    United States Postal Inspection Service
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    .
  • Max Martini
    Max Martini
    Maximilian Carlo "Max" Martini is an American film, theater and television actor known for his roles as Corporal Fred Henderson in Saving Private Ryan, Wiley in Level 9, First Sergeant Sid Wojo in The Great Raid, and as Master Sergeant Mack Gerhardt on the military television drama, The...

     as Jack Wiley, an agent with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), a former army ranger who studied cyber-ops before joining the team in the second episode.
  • Kim Murphy
    Kim Murphy
    Kim Murphy is an American actress known for her roles in such movies as Houseguest and Burning Annie and her roles in the television series Level 9 and 24.-Biography:...

     as Margaret "Sosh" Perkins, born June 9, 1972, she was an internet model before she got into anti-cyber-crime.
  • Susie Park as Joss Nakano
  • Esteban Powell
    Esteban Powell
    Esteban Louis Powell is an American actor.He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, a magnet school of the Houston Independent School District...

     as Jargon, a few years ago he quit his high-school hacking club when they started getting into criminal hacking.
  • Tim Guinee
    Tim Guinee
    Timothy S. "Tim" Guinee is an American stage, television, and feature film actor.-Life and career:Guinee, who has two brothers and two sisters, was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Illinois and Texas....

     as Det. John Burrows, he works closely with Level 9 in first episode, but did not return. (Max Martini's character filling the same general role)
  • Willie Garson
    Willie Garson
    Willie Garson is an American character actor. He has appeared in over 50 movies, usually playing minor roles...

     as Bones, an expert on internet privacy and "big brother" who helps the team in the first two episodes.
  • Miguel Sandoval
    Miguel Sandoval
    Miguel Sandoval is an American film and television actor.Sandoval was born in Washington, D.C. He began working as a professional actor in 1975 when he joined a mime school in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He later joined the troupe full time and continued his study of mime. He began his film career in...

    as Santoro Goff, the agency director in Washington D.C. with oversight of Level 9.

Episodes

Prod.# Title Airdate
001 "Mail Call"
002 "DefCon"
005 "Through the Looking Glass"
003 "Reboot"
008 "Digital Babylon"
004 "Ten Little Hackers"
006 "A Price to Pay"
007 "Eat Flaming Death"
009 "Wetware"
010 "Avatar"
011 "It's Magic"
012 "The Programmer"
013 "Mob.com"
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