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Season 01 SG-1 Stargate

Cold Lazarus

Stargate SG-1Examining crystalline formations on an unexplored world, O’Neill is knocked out cold by a burst of energy – and then a duplicate of him appears to accompany SG-1 back to Earth. The duplicate goes through O’Neill’s personal effects, finding a picture of what he believes is O’Neill’s home, and then goes there, and a disturbing encounter with O’Neill’s ex-wife ensues. It quickly becomes apparent that this duplicate knows nothing of what happened to O’Neill’s son Charlie, who died after accidentally shooting himself with O’Neill’s gun. When the real O’Neill recovers and comes through the stargate, he’s treated as a duplicate until he can prove who he really is – but before the team can figure out what has happened, the ersatz O’Neill, actually a being composed of energy, has begun to lose his human form, endangering everyone around him.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxwritten by Jeff King
directed by Kenneth J. Girotti
music by Richard Band

Guest Cast: Harley Jane Kozak (Sara O’Neill), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Gary Jones (Technician), Wally Dalton (Sara’s Father), Kyle Graham (Charlie O’Neill), Marc Baur (Senior Cop), Jane Spence (Nurse), Carmen Moore (Lab Assistant), Charles Pyne (Guard NCO)

Notes: In another example of changed spellings, Jack’s wife is listed as “Sara” in the series, but as “Sarah” in the credits to the movie.

LogBook entry by Earl Green with notes by Dave Thomer

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6th Doctor Doctor Who The Audio Dramas

Recorded Time and Other Stories

Doctor WhoRecorded Time: The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Peri to the court of King Henry VIII, and the moment he lays eyes on Peri, the King begins making plans to rid himself of Anne Boleyn (and, as soon as he proves to be even slightly argumentative, the Doctor as well). But King Henry has another secret, one that could rearrange history at his whim – one which the Doctor must put to an end.

Paradoxicide: The Doctor and Peri receive a distress call in Peri’s voice; when the TARDIS takes them to the source to investigate, they are captured by an entirely female team of marauders who intend to break into one of the galaxy’s most impressive arsenals of weapons, which also happens to be one of the most impenetrable. Unless, of course, a time machine can take them back to the moment it was constructed.

A Most Excellent Match The Doctor and Peri are taking part in a total immersion interactive game based on the works of Jane Austen, but the Time Lord worries when his young companion stays “in character” so long that she can’t seem to fight her way back to reality. Worse yet, “Mr. Darcy” isn’t part of the simulation, but a noncorporeal being who lurks within the game, waiting for a mind and a body capable of giving it passage back into corporeal space, and a time traveler would suits its needs nicely.

Question Marks: The crew of what appears to be a spacecraft awakens, including a man in a rather colorful outfit (complete with question marks on his lapels) and a young woman who isn’t wearing the uniform that the rest of the crew wears. The assumptions that they’re aboard a space vessel soon prove to be unfounded: they’re inside a volcano, in a man-made structure that’s giving way quickly. If only any of them could remember how to escape… or why one of them is already dead…

Order this CDRecorded Time written by Catherine Harvey
Paradoxicide written by Richard Dinnick
A Most Excellent Match written by Matt Fitton
Question Marks written by Philip Lawrence
directed by Ken Bentley
music by Richard Fox & Lauren Yason

Recorded Time Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Paul Shearer (Henry VIII), Laura Molyneux (Anne Boleyn), Philip Bretherton (Scrivener), Rosanna Miles (Marjorie)

Paradoxicide Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Raquel Cassidy (Inquisa), Joan Walker (Centuria/Ship), James George (Barond), Laura Molyneux, Rosanna Miles (Volsci)

A Most Excellent Match Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Rosanna Miles (Tilly), Philip Bretherton (Darcy / D’Urberville / Heathcliff), Paul Shearer (Cranton)

Question Marks Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Raquel Cassidy (Destiny Gray), James George (Greg Stone), Joe Jameson (Arnie McAllister)

Timeline: after Timelash and before Revelation Of The Daleks

Notes: Due to Henry VIII’s prolific record of womanizing and marriages, his short-lived engagement to Peri does not preclude his apparent marriage to Amy Pond (The Power Of Three). In Paradoxicide, the Doctor boasts of having survived the Death Zone on Gallifrey, the Cybermen’s tombs on Telos, and the Exxilon city; these are all references to prior TV stories, respectively: The Five Doctors, Tomb Of The Cybermen and Death To The Daleks.

LogBook entry & review by Earl Green