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Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction was a television series that presented stories of unexplainable incidents. The hour-long anthology series featured three to five stories of people experiencing paranormal phenomena as dramatically depicted by actors. The viewers were challenged to guess which stories were created by the writers and which stories were based on real events. At the end of each episode, the stories were revealed to be either "fact" or "fiction". Most episodes dealt with ghosts, psychic phenomena, and strange coincidences.

The show aired mainly as a summer series on the Fox network for four seasons. In the first season (1997), James Brolin was the host. Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Paranormal Borderline) took over as the host beginning with the second season. Don LaFontaine was the unseen announcer for the opening and commercial breaks in seasons one through three (1997-2000). Campbell Lane was the announcer for season four. Various actors and characters were used for the stories, with some stories being narrated by the host and some narrated by one of the actors. The show was off the air for two years between the second and third seasons and two more years between the third and fourth seasons. The fourth season was originally scheduled to air in the summer of 2001, but the already-filmed episodes were saved for a potential fall timeslot as a strike in Hollywood was looming. As it turned out, the strike never happened and the episodes were shelved until the summer of 2002. The series was only marginally successful and never had a full 22-episode season. There were only six episodes for season one and thirteen episodes each for seasons two through four, for an overall total of 45 episodes. Repeats of the series aired for a few years on The Sci Fi Channel.

The original air dates are as follows:

May - June 1997; August - September 1997; January - July 1998; June - August 2000; June - September 2002