Day: February 9, 1997

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Total Recall 2070: Allure

  • February 9, 1999

Total Recall 2070Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the fifth episode of Art Monterastelli’s sci-fi series Total Recall 2070, starring Michael Easton and Cynthia Preston, very loosely based on the 1990 film Total Recall. The series will air on the American pay cable channel Showtime later in the year. Monika Schnarre (Beastmaster) guest stars.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Bad Girls

  • February 9, 1999

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 48th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse) and Alexis Denisof (Angel) guest star.

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Phil Brown, Star Wars actor, dies

  • February 9, 2006

Phil BrownActor Phil Brown, who secured a permanent place in SF lore with the role of Uncle Owen in Star Wars, dies at the age of 89. After spending the early years of his career working in stage productions in New York, he moved to Hollywood and co-founded the Actors’ Laboratory. He was only one film into a directing career when he was blacklisted during the McCarthy hearings, and left America to work in London in 1952 as both an actor and director, not to move back to the US until 1993. He found that his Star Wars role, even as brief as it was, won him a place of honor at many SF conventions, and he spent recent years making the rounds and meeting his fans. He also appeared in Superman, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, the TV miniseries The Martian Chronicles, and played a brief part in a trailer assembled by Richard Hatch to pitch a revival of the original Battlestar Galactica series.

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Winter Dragon

  • February 9, 2015

The Winter DragonCable network FXX airs Winter Dragon, a half-hour, low-budget proof-of-concept pilot for a potential TV series based on the late Robert Jordan’s Locus-nominated, best-selling Wheel Of Time books. Red Eagle Productions, which has held the option to adapt the Wheel Of Time novels to film or TV since 2004, rushed the pilot presentation into production and onto the air in order to beat a February 11th deadline, at which time the rights would – if nothing had been produced – revert to Jordan’s estate; Red Eagle bought paid programming time (normally reserved for infomercials) to ensure the pilot aired in time. (Jordan’s series is considered hot property in the wake of the success of HBO’s TV adaptation of another series of fantasy novels, A Game Of Thrones.) Jordan’s widow, Harriet McDougal, expresses surprise and disappointment in the pilot, drawing a lawsuit from Red Eagle Productions, which claims she was fully aware of the production and its distribution method. The lawsuit is later withdrawn, and in any case, the broadcast of Winter Dragon does indeed win Red Eagle an extension on the rights to adapt Wheel Of Time, rights which Red Eagle later brokers to Sony Pictures and then to Amazon. Though all parties prefer to leave Winter Dragon buried in its one-off, 1:30 A.M. time slot, a series proper will be announced in 2018, and will premiere in 2021, with Red Eagle Productions listed in the show’s credits.

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