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Classic Season 2 Tomorrow People

A Rift In Time – Part 3: From Little Acorns…

Tomorrow PeopleStephen’s survival instincts serve him well in ancient Rome, but the fact that he’s unable to use his powers tells him there’s more going on. John, Elizabeth and Chris make their way toward the arena cautiously, while Stephen finds that Peter is still alive. As suspected, Gaius, the slave master training fighters for the gladiatorial games, reveals that he is not of this time…and perhaps not of this world.

Download this episode via Amazonwritten by Roger Price
directed by Darrol Blake
music by Dudley Simpson

Tomorrow PeopleCast: Elizabeth Adare (Elizabeth), Nicholas Young (John), Peter Vaughan-Clarke (Stephen), Christopher Chittell (Chris), Peter Duncan (Cotus), Stanley Lebor (Gaius), Mike Lee Lane (Guthrun), Leonardo Pieroni (Lothar), Leonard Gregory (Trystan)

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Future Cop

The Mad Mad Bomber

Future CopA stink bomb goes off in the police precinct, but this means more than Cleaver not getting to enjoy Bundy’s corned beef sandwich; an anonymous note indicates that this was just a test run for something far more dangerous. Haven turns his analytical abilities toward finding hidden clues in the note, and determining the identity of the suspect. But the suspect is growing bolder with each incident, and not all of Haven’s logical deductions are correct: the department is dealing with a random, deranged mind. By the time Haven puts all the clues together, Chief Skaggs is tired of listening to him, and demands that Cleaver return the android to his manufacturer.

Order the complete series on DVDteleplay by Ken Kolb and Harold Livingston
story by Ken Kolb
directed by Ted Post
music by J.J. Johnson

Future CopCast: Ernest Borgnine (Cleaver), Michael Shannon (Haven), John Amos (Bundy), Irene Tsu (Dr. Tingley), Herbert Nelson (Chief Skaggs), Harry Guardino (Brad Bannock), Albert Salmi (Chief Ross Wheeler), Gerrit Graham (Cliff Yancey), Dennis Bowen (Red), Jack Bannon (Deputy Mayor), Bill Zuckert (Lt. Fisk), Bob Hanley (Roberts), Rick Sawaya (Zack), Mike Lally Sr. (Warehouse Clerk), Bob Golden (Sports Arena Policeman), Paul Schumacher (Desk Sergeant), John Andersonjo (Bramlett), John Kirby (Young Patrolman), Mary Moon (Cindy), Guy Remsen (Shore Patrol Guard #1), Michael Payne (Shore Patrol Guard #2), George Sawaya (Spector), Fred Draper (Lt. Commander), Sharon McGee (Wave)

Future CopNotes: Filmed as a two-part story, The Mad Mad Bomber parts one and two were joined together as an ABC Friday Night Movie. With a script co-written by future Star Trek: The Motion Picture scriptwriter (and Future Cop story editor) Harold Livingston, this is an attempt at a more dramatic, less comedic story than the series’ usual format. George Sawaya, credited with a minor part, is also the series’ stunt coordinator. This episode introduces a voice-over by Ernest Borgnine over the opening credits in an attempt to clarify the series’ premise for new viewers.

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Police Squad Season 1

Revenge and Remorse

Police SquadA district judge’s courtroom is booby-trapped with a powerful bomb, and Frank Drebin is there. But Frank suspects that someone else was there, too – Eddie, a just-paroled felon convicted of similar bombings in the past. Eddie’s ex-wife Lana seems strangely disinterested in the possibility that Eddie’s up to his old tricks again, and she also doesn’t care about Frank and Ed’s investigation, though she has no qualms about pantsing them for charity. As it turns out, Eddie has a showgirl on the side, and has been violating his parole. But is he really the mad bomber, or just a slightly agitated bomber?

written by Nancy Steen and Neil Thompson
directed by Paul Krasny
music by Ira Newborn

Special Guest Star: William Shatner (as himself)

Guest Cast: Ed Williams (Mr. Olson), William Duell (Johnny), Peter Lupus (Norberg), Dr. Joyce Brothers (herself), Spence Milligan (Eddie), Bonnie Campbell Britton (Lana), K.T. O’Sullivan (Mimi)

Alternate Title: The Guilty Alibi

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Season 04 Star Trek The Next Generation

Identity Crisis

Star Trek: The Next GenerationStardate 44664.5: Starfleet officers who were on an away team five years ago investigating a mysterious migration of previous explorers to the planet Tarchannen 3 are beginning to mutate into alien life forms and migrate to the planet themselves. Among them are Lt. Commander Leitjen, visiting the Enterprise, and Geordi La Forge. While Dr. Crusher keeps Leitjen in sick bay when her mutation begins, Geordi’s mutation goes unchecked and, more alien than human, he beams to the surface to join the other members of the away team, who have fully mutated.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga
based on a story by Timothy de Haas
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Maryann Plunkett (Suzanna Leitjen), Patti Yasutake (Nurse), Amick Byram (Lt. Hickman), Dennis Madalone (Transporter Technician), Mona Grudt (Ensign Graham)

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 5

A Tragedy of Telepaths

Babylon 5The telepath crisis deteriorates seriously as Byron and many of his followers go on a hunger strike in DownBelow after another attack on one of his people, but some of the telepaths have taken up arms in order to force the issue of their freedom. Lochley crawls into DownBelow, unarmed, in the futile hope of negotiating, as the Alliance worlds threaten each other as Sheridan and Delenn struggle to keep them from declaring war – and Lochley is left with no choice but to ask for Bester’s help again. On Centauri Prime, G’Kar discovers a prisoner who has spent two years rotting away in a cell under the palace.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Tony Dow
music by Christopher Franke

Guest Cast: Julie Caitlin Brown (Na’Toth), Robin Atkin Downes (Byron), Leigh J. McCloskey (Thomas), Kim Strauss (Drazi Ambassador), Walter Koenig (Bester), Caroline Ambrose (Lara), Freddy Andreiuci (Worker), Jonathan Chapman (Brakiri Ambassador), Tom Billet (Centauri Guard), Christina Gavin (Telepath)

Original title: Cat And Mouse

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Red Dwarf Season 08

Pete Part I

Red DwarfCaptain Hollister sentences Lister and Rimmer to play basketball against the prison guards to punish them for playing a practical joke on Ackerman. However, impishly improvising once again, Lister and his friends make a surprise comeback and win the game, landing them in trouble yet again. Meanwhile, on a mission with the Canaries, Kryten and Kochanski discover a time wand, capable of slowing down, speeding up, or suspending time in small pockets – and smuggle it back aboard Red Dwarf so they can speed up time for the rest of the ship and be released from their prison sentences. Lister and Rimmer escape from the grimmest part of the ship’s prison, along with a nut case who prizes his sole possession, a sparrow named Pete. But the shock of freedom kills Pete. Lister convinces Kryten to use the time wand to revert Pete to his youth, but a slight miscalculation sends Pete millions of year backward on the evolutionary scale, transforming him into a rather hungry dinosaur.

Order the DVDswritten by Doug Naylor
directed by Ed Bye
music by Howard Goodall

Guest Cast: Mac MacDonald (Captain Hollister), Graham McTavish (Ackerman), Andrew Alston (Max), Holly Earl (young Kochanski), Perri Nichael (young Cat), Ricky Glover (Baxter), Ian Masters (Birdman), Shend (Warden Knot)

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Season 08 SG-1 Stargate

Moebius Part 2

Stargate SG-1O’Neill commands the first flight of the timeship through a stargate located in Antarctica thanks to runes deciphered by Daniel. Despite General Hammond’s grave misgivings, Daniel and Carter accompany O’Neill’s team on a mission to find and recruit the alien called Teal’c. But on the planet where they find Teal’c, Daniel is interrogated and then released. Teal’c does find appeal in the idea of freeing the Jaffa from Goa’uld “gods” like Ra, and helps O’Neill’s team escape. But as the now-completed team returns to the timeship, Teal’c suddenly shoots Daniel, claiming that he’s been infested with a Goa’uld – and that with the knowledge extracted from Daniel’s mind, the Goa’uld will now be targeting Earth for an attack that, in this timeline, it can’t repel. O’Neill decides to risk it all to go back 5,000 years and complete SG-1’s original mission – even though he barely knows how to pilot the timeship, let alone change the course of history.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Robert C. Cooper
story by Jospeh Mallozzi & Paul Mullie & Brad Wright & Robert C. Cooper
directed by Peter Deluise
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: David Hewlett (Dr. Rodney McKay), Don S. Davis (General Hammond), Peter Williams (Apophis), Alessandro Juliani (Katep), Jay Acovone (Major Kawalsky), Benjamin Easterday (Ra’s Jaffa Commander), Sina Najafi (Egyptian Boy), Christopher Pearce (Bosworth), Rob Fournier (Airman Mansfield)

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Season 1 Stargate Stargate Atlantis

The Siege Part II

Stargate AtlantisThe stargate activates, bringing much-needed help from Earth in the form of a heavily-armed Marine unit hand-picked by General O’Neill. Colonel Everett is assigned to take over from Dr. Weir, a move that surprises both Weir and Sheppard. But Everett’s plan – to defend Atlantis at all costs until further backup can arrive in the form of the SGC’s starship Daedalus – is just audacious enough to work, if he can overcome the Atlantis team’s reluctance to obey his orders. Even after Everett’s first line of new defenses falls to the Wraith advance, a fierce battle ensues and the added weapons help to turn the tide, but the fight isn’t over yet. The hive ships are still approaching, the city’s sensors have been damaged, and worse yet, Teyla senses Wraith inside the city. With Everett’s supply of nukes destroyed in the advance attack, Dr. Weir takes a chance on trying to open talks with the Genii to use some of their nuclear weapons. But the Genii take Weir hostage when she comes to negotiate; they decide to use her life as a bargaining chip to extort more weapons technology from the Atlantis expedition…and if Atlantis falls before Weir can agree, so much the better.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxwritten by Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Clayton Landey (Colonel Everett), Paul McGillion (Dr. Beckett), David Nykl (Dr. Zelenka), Chris Britton (Prenum), David Orth (Radner), James Lafaznos (Wraith), Chuck Campbell (Technician)

Notes: This episode was dedicated to Bob Scarabelli, the founder, president and CEO of Rainmaker Entertainment Group, the digital effects house that handles the special effects workload of both Atlantis and SG-1.

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Clone Wars Star Wars Tartakovsky Series, Vol. 2

Chapter 25

  • By Dave
  • March 25, 2005

Star Wars: Clone WarsThe Jedi fight an all out battle to protect Palpatine – but Grievous and his droid bodyguards are too powerful and too numerous. Anakin frees the captured Nelvaanian warriors and exacts vengeance against the Techno-Guild scientists. After their mission is completed, Mace summons them back to Coruscant, as the battle continues . . .

Order the DVDsstory by Bryan Andrew, Darrick Bachman, Paul Rudish and Genndy Tartakovsky
directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
original music by John Williams
new music by James L. Venable and Paul Dinletir

Notes: The events of Clone Wars: Volume II are meant to lead directly into Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Anakin’s knighting, the beginning of the Battle of Coruscant and Palpatine’s kidnapping are also recounted in the prose novel “Labyrinth Of Evil.” Those attempting to reconcile these two accounts are advised to stock up on the headache medication of their choice.

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 1

Kobol’s Last Gleaming – Part 1

Battlestar GalacticaOn Caprica, Helo has discovered that Boomer is a Cylon clone and shoots her, but doesn’t kill her, instead taking her prisoner. On Galactica, Boomer is called up to go on a survey mission – moments before she was about to commit suicide. The mission takes her to a planet that, though it appears to have suffered some form of disaster, is still habitable by human life – and according to President Roslin’s spiritual advisor, the planet can only be Kobol, the birthplace of humanity. While Commander Adama focuses on a survey to determine if Kobol is suitable for colonization, the President is more concerned with exploring prophecy, and with the predicition that Kobol would lead the Colonial fleet to Earth. As Starbuck tries to adapt weapons from a Viper for her captured Cylon raider, Apollo confronts her about her burgeoning relationship with Baltar, and the two come to blows. After a warning from Number Six that he isn’t safe on Galactica – and an attempt to manipulate Boomer into carrying out her death wish – Baltar volunteers for the next survey mission to Kobol, but when a small group of Raptors arrives there, they’re ambushed by a massive Cylon fleet; a base ship lies in wait in orbit of Kobol. One Raptor manages to return to Galactica to sound the alarm, while the ship carrying Baltar is forced into a crash landing on Kobol. Starbuck devises a plan to take out the base ship by turning her Cylon ship into a remote-controlled bomb, but she and Adama are stunned when Roslin instead wants to use the raider to leap back to Caprica to recover an artifact that could help the fleet locate Earth. Roslin plays on Starbuck’s loyalties, and during a pre-mission flight test of the raider, Starbuck makes the jump back to Caprica, throwing the entire plan into uncertainty.

Order the DVDsDownload this episodeteleplay by Ronald D. Moore
story by David Eick
directed by Michael Rymer
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Paul Campbell (Billy Keikeya), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Sam Witwer (Lt. Crashdown), Lorena Gale (Priest Elosha), Donnelly Rhodes (Dr. Cottle), Alonso Oyarzun (Socinus), Bodie Olmos (Costanza / Hot Dog), Stephen Spender (Pilot), James Bell (Eco)

Original UK Airdate: January 17, 2005

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 3

Crossroads – Part 2

Battlestar GalacticaAs Baltar’s trial continues, it quickly becomes apparent that some will say anything to convict him for betraying everyone on New Caprica, forcing a hasty reassessment of Lampkin’s defense strategy. Tigh, Tyrol, Sam Anders and presidential aide Tory Foster continue to hear mysterious music, though they each gradually become aware that they’re not alone. Lampkin puts Apollo on the stand, where he makes an impassioned plea that while Baltar may be guilty of something, it’s neither treason nor genocide. Baltar is acquitted of the charges and Admiral Adama orders the fleet to jump to the Ionian Nebula…where the entire fleet suddenly loses power. During the confusion, Baltar is whisked away, and the four people who have been hearing the maddening music are drawn together – and drawn to the inescapable conclusion that they are four of the missing Cylon models. Power is restored as this realization sets in, and a large fleet of Cylon ships is detected…but the four return to their duties. Despite having resigned his commission to join Baltar’s defense team, Apollo suits up and launches in a Viper, but when he peels away from the rest of his formation to investigate an unidentified blip on his screen, he finds that he’s not the only unexpected Viper pilot in the sky.

written by Mark Verheiden
directed by Michael Rymer
music by Bear McCreary (except “All Along The Watchtower”
written by Bob Dylan / arranged & adapted by Bear McCreary / vocals by BT4)

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Alessandro Juliani (Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Michael Trucco (Sam Anders), Mark Sheppard (Romo Lampkin), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Chelah Horsdal (Didi Cassidy), Ryan Robbins, Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Colin Lawrence (Skulls), Alison Matthews (Falbrook)

Notes: As with part one, this episode dispenses with the customary opening titles, instead running the names of the main cast and principal guest actors and crew over part of the story. The song “All Along The Watchtower” originally appeared on Bob Dylan’s 1967 John Wesley Harding album, and has since been covered by numerous artists, from Jimi Hendrix to U2. Why a song from Earth would seem to be a Cylon “trigger command” is a mystery left unsolved.

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Rebels Season 3 Star Wars

Zero Hour – Part 1

Star Wars: RebelsGrand Admiral Thrawn arrives on Lothal with word that various Rebel cells are joining forces to attack and destroy the TIE Defender factory on Lothal. Using a bugged mouse droid, Agent Kallus listens in and tries to warn the Rebel fleet that Thrawn is expecting them…only to discover that Thrawn is expecting him as well. Following the direction of Kallus’ transmission, Thrawn brings a fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers to the Rebels’ meeting place, cutting off their escape. Kanan goes to the desert to demand help from the Bendu, while Ezra and Chopper alone must convince Mon Mothma to commit the rest of the Rebel fleet to reinforcing the forces gathered by Hera, Captain Sato, and General Dodonna. Mon Mothma, however, is unwilling to put all of the Rebellion’s assets on the front line, leaving Ezra to seek help elsewhere.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Steven Melching
directed by Justin Ridge
music by Kevin Kiner
additional music by David Russell, Sean Kiner, and Dean Kiner
based on original themes and music by John Williams

RebelsCast: Taylor Gray (Ezra Bridger), Vanessa Marshall (Hera Syndulla), Freddie Prinze Jr. (Kanan Jarrus), Steve Blum (Zeb / Commander Woldar / Rebel Officer), Dee Bradley Baker (Admiral Konstantine / Rebel Crewman / Rex), David Oyelowo (Agent Kallus), Tom Baker (Bendu), Keone Young (Commander Sato), Michael Bell (General Dodonna), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Governor Pryce / Rebel Pilot #1), Lars Mikkelsen (Grand Admiral Thrawn), Stephen Stanton (Grand Moff Tarkin / Imperial Officer), Dave Filoni (Green Leader), Genevieve O’Reilly (Mon Mothma), Clancy Brown (Ryder Azadi / Rebel Pilot #2), Nathan Kress (Wedge Antilles)

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Rebels Season 3 Star Wars

Zero Hour – Part 2

Star Wars: RebelsUnable to raise Rebel reinforcements, Ezra and Chopper go to Mandalore to ask Sabine for help. The Mandalorians have their own problems, namely a civil war in which the Empire is backing Sabine’s enemies, but Sabine still commits a small Mandalorian force to return with Ezra to help the Rebel fleet. Kanan’s attempts to persuade the Bendu to help have fallen on deaf ears, and Thrawn’s fleet begins bombarding the Rebel base from orbit, with a ground assault to follow. The Mandalorians take out the Imperial Interdictor Destroyer, but it will take something even more unexpected for the Rebels to escape Thrawn to fight another day.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Henry Gilroy & Matt Michnovetz
directed by Justin Ridge
music by Kevin Kiner
additional music by David Russell, Sean Kiner, and Dean Kiner
based on original themes and music by John Williams

RebelsCast: Taylor Gray (Ezra Bridger), Vanessa Marshall (Hera Syndulla), Freddie Prinze Jr. (Kanan Jarrus), Tiya Sircar (Sabine Wren), Steve Blum (Zeb / Commander Woldar), David Oyelowo (Agent Kallus), Stephen Stanton (AP-5 / Mandalorian Pilot), Tom Baker (Bendu), Matthew Wood (Death Troopers / Stormtroopers), Kevin McKidd (Fenn Rau), Michael Bell (General Dodonna), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Governor Pryce), Lars Mikkelsen (Grand Admiral Thrawn), Dee Bradley Baker (Imperial Technician / Rex), Ritesh Rajan (Tristan Wren), Sharmila Devar (Ursa Wren), Nathan Kress (Wedge Antilles)

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