The mid-season finale, Evolution: Part 1 first aired on 22 August, 2003. It was written by Damian Kindler from a story by Kindler and Michael Shanks. There’s a new threat in the Stargate Universe. Teal’c (Christopher Judge) and Bra’tac (Tony Amendola) are stunned when they come across a battlefield strewn with dead Jaffa. A dying…
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Stargate SG-1 (2003) – Fallen, and Homecoming
Daniel Jackson (Micheal Shanks) shows up naked on a distant planet, and Jonas Quinn (Corin Nemec) begins to figure out the tablet and its references to a Lost City. Fallen was written by Robert C. Cooper and launched season seven on 13 June, 2003. O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson), Jonas Quinn, Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Teal’c…
Stargate SG-1 (2000) – The Curse, and The Serpent’s Venom
When Daniel (Michael Shanks) learns of the death of his archaeology professor, he goes to pay his respects. Soon he begins to suspect that his research and his death may have something to do with the Goa’uld. Written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, this episode was first broadcast on 22 September, 2000. Daniel clashes…
Farscape (1999) – Durka Returns, and A Human Reaction
The Farscape universe expands again as we are introduced to the Nebari, Chiana (Gigi Edgley)! Durka Returns first aired on 13 August, 1999 and was written by Grant McAloon. When Moya starbursts and accidentally collides with a small craft, Aeryn (Claudia Black), Crichton (Ben Browder), Zhaan (Virginia Hey), D’Argo (Anthony Simcoe) and Rygel (voiced by…
Farscape (1999) PK Tech Girl, and That Old Black Magic
When I got to PK Tech Girl in my original viewing of the series, this was the point that I realized I was getting hooked on the series. Written by Nan Hagan, it was first broadcast on 16 April, 1999. Moya discovers a massive derelict Peacekeeper battleship that has been lost for a hundred cycles,…
Stargate SG-1 (1999) – The Devil You Know, and Foothold
Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) drinks the blood of Kali as Apophis (Peter Williams) tortures her with her memories in an attempt to find a way to escape Sokar’s (David Palffy) hell-planet, Netu. Picking up where the last episode left us, The Devil You Know was written by Robert C. Cooper this episode first debuted on…
Stargate SG-1 (1999) – Past and Present, and Jolinar’s Memories
Jackson (Michael Shanks) seems to be bouncing back pretty quick after the death of his wife last week. He seems to have a connection, and shared attraction between Ke’ra (Megan Leitch) when he and SG-1 arrive on an industrial age planet where there are no children, no old people, and those who live there have…
Stargate SG-1 (1999) – Holiday, and Serpent’s Song
While on a mission, Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) gets body-swapped with an ancient inventor Ma’chello (also Shanks), but that’s just the beginning of the problems . Ma’chello takes over Daniel’s body, and just uses it as an opportunity to take a reprieve from life, and travel around the city. But when Teal’c (Christopher Judge) and…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1981) – Episodes 1, 2, and 3
I feel that most of North America was introduced to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy when this version of the novel, adapted from the BBC radio broadcast, jumped the pond. I remember 1980, at Christmas the novel was under the Christmas Tree for me. I may have been a little young for it at…
Magnum P.I. (2019) – Knights Last Forever, and Dead Inside
Rick (Zachary Kingston) is anxious about the tiki bar working out, especially since T.C. (Stephen Hill) helped back him. The pair learn that one of the bar employees is a vet, but is living out of his car, which was just stolen, so the pair, along with Shammy (Christopher Thornton) decide to help out, reaching…
The Mind Reels 