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Heroes Season 1

Six Months Ago

HeroesHiro teleports himself six months into the past, where he immediately introduces himself to the waitress at the diner in Odessa and tells her he intends to prevent her death. But while Hiro is doing that, other events that happened six months ago, each of them shaping the various heroes’ destinies, are unfolding as before. Dr. Suresh, Mohinder’s father, contacts several people who he’d like to run tests on to check for extraordinary abilities, including Claire’s father and a timid watchmaker named Gabriel. Attorney Nathan Petrelli, about to prosecute an organized crime figure connected to a powerful man named Linderman, is chased down by the mob and flies out of the driver’s seat of his car – leaving his wife to become crippled when the car slams into a bridge. Claire experiences the first major accident that leads her to realize she’s invulnerable. Niki Sanders is stunned when her father tracks her down, trying to be a part of her life again after he abandoned his family when Niki’s sister Jessica died. When Dr. Suresh’s tests reveal no obvious signs of any kind of power in Gabriel Gray, he bolts from Suresh’s apartment in a rage – after grabbing the name of another person Suresh planned to contact. When Gabriel sees that Suresh’s next test subject does indeed have telekinetic ability, he flies into a jealous rage again and murders the man in cold blood – and ends up with his power…as well as a new name: Sylar.

Order the DVDswritten by Aron Eli Coleite
directed by Allan Arkush
music by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman / vocals by Shenkar

Guest Cast: Nora Zehetner (Eden McCain), James Kyson Lee (Ando Masahashi), Graham Beckel (Hal Sanders), Zachary Quinto (Sylar), Erick Avari (Chandra Suresh), Cristine Rose (Angela Petrelli), Jayma Mays (Charlie Andrews), Ashley Crow (Sandra Bennet), Lisa Lackey (Janice Parkman), Deirdre Quinn (Tina), Rick Peters (Tom McHenry), Jimmy Jean-Louis (The Haitian), Rena Sofer (Heidi Petrelli)

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5th Doctor Doctor Who The Audio Dramas

The Mind’s Eye / Mission Of The Viryans

Doctor Who: The Mind's Eye / Mission Of The ViryansThe Mind’s Eye: The Doctor finds himself alone in the jungle of a distant world, discovered by security officers from a human expedition which has arrived to examine the planet’s plant life. One particular specimen is of great interest to the expedition’s leaders: a plant which can infiltrate the dreams of animal victims before it consumes them. One side effect of even the most fleeting exposure is memory loss, and only now does the Doctor remember that Peri and Erimem were with him. Erimem is discovered in the jungle, and the Doctor has to use an experimental technique to enter her dreams and lead her back to reality. When Peri is found, however, she is in a more advanced state of the process – the plant has enveloped her body and begun to feed. The Doctor is ready to go into Peri’s dreams to save her, but he discovers that some members of the expedition have a vested interest in studying Peri as she dies.

Mission Of The Viryans: In an attempt to bring Peri to a destination free of strife and tragedy for once, the Doctor takes her to a planet renowned for its relaxed social gatherings. But even there she can’t escape trouble – and if she can’t figure out what the Viryans are up to, she may not escape at all.

Order this CDwritten by Colin Brake
directed by Barnaby Edwards
music by Steve Foxon

The Mind’s Eye Cast: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Caroline Morris (Erimem), Owen Teale (Hayton), Rebecca Front (Major Takol), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Kyle), Richard Laing (Ukarme), Nicola Weeks (Andree)

Mission Of The Viryans Cast: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Peter Sowerbutts (Lawrence), Philip Childs (Chris)

Timeline: between Son Of The Dragon and The Bride Of Peladon

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Season 1 Wizards vs. Aliens

Fall Of The Nekross – Part 2

Wizards vs. AliensWith the Zarantulus mere hours away from falling apart in deep space, Benny is wracked with guilt over what he has done, and is shocked to find that the entire Crow family seems to be all in favor of killing the Nekross. But Tom, feeling equally guilty, rushes to help Benny find a way to deliver help to the Nekross, in the form of Benny himself. Tom plans to use a stone circle to magically “remember” how the Nekross’ teleport works, so Benny can eliminate the virus from their ship, but for the use of such powerful magic, the stones exact a punishing price on whoever uses them.

Order the serieswritten by Gareth Roberts
directed by Joss Agnew
music by Sam Watts

Wizards vs. AliensCast: Scott Haran (Tom Clarke), Percelle Ascott (Benny Sherwood), Annette Badland (Ursula Crowe), Michael Higgs (Michael Clarke), Jefferson Hall (Varg), Gwendoline Christie (Lexi), Brian Blessed (voice of the Nekross King), Tim Rose (Nekross King puppeteer), Dan Starkey (Randal Moon), Tom Bell (Jathro), Gabriel Woolf (voice of the Stones)

Notes: Gabriel Woolf provided the voice of Sutekh in the classic 1976 Doctor Who story The Pyramids Of Mars, a role he has also reprised for Big Finish Productions.

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Mars Season 1

Pressure Drop

Mars2033: Ben Sawyer has died from his injuries, leaving Hana Seung in charge. As the mission’s ground controllers scramble to devise alternatives and solutions for the astronauts on Mars, they also find themselves struggling to justify continuing the mission to the international consortium funding the exploration of Mars. The workshop dome providing the crew’s shelter is not meant to serve as a long-term habitat, and its overworked electrical system catches on fire, leaving it partially uninhabitable. The only chance the mission has to succeed – and the only chance humanity has to colonize another planet – is to find an underground chamber with abundant ice.

Download this episode via Amazonteleplay by Mickey Fisher and Paul Solet
story by Mickey Fisher
based on the book “How We’ll Live On Mars” by Stephen Petranek
directed by Everardo Gout
music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

MarsCast: Jihae (Hana Seung / Joon Seung), Alberto Ammann (Javier Delgado), Clementine Poidatz (Amelie Durand), Anamaria Marinca (Marta Kamen), Sammi Rotibi (Robert Foucalt), Olivier Martinez (Ed Grann), Nick Wittman (Oliver), Antoinette Fekete (Sam), Kata Sarbo (Ava Macon), Mimi Tyler (young Hana), Mila Tyler (young Joon), Karen Gagnon (ORB Solutions Senior Board Member), Miklos Banyai (ORB Solutions Board Member), Mate Haumann (IMSF Member USA),

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Mandalorian, The Season 2

Chapter 13: The Jedi

Star Wars: The MandalorianFinally following Bo-Katan’s lead on the whereabouts of a Jedi named Ahsoka Tano, the Mandalorian lands the Razor Crest and begins searching for Ahsoka. When he visits a fortified city, the Mandalorian is asked to help with a problem – namely, killing a Jedi who seems to have a grudge against the local magistrate. With the Child in tow, the Mandalorian sets out and finds Ahsoka, who reveals the Child’s name to him as well as his origins. But Ahsoka senses that a strong attachment has developed between the two, and that attachment makes the Child ill-suited for training in the Force, according to the Jedi code. Ahsoka does want the Mandalorian’s help, though – she has a question to ask of the local magistrate, who has enlisted an entire army to prevent Ahsoka from getting close enough to demand an answer.

The Mandalorianwritten by Dave Filoni
directed by Dave Filoni
music by Ludwig Goransson

Cast: Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Michael Biehn (Lang), Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka Tano), Diana Lee Inosanto (Morgan Elsbeth), James Croak (Prisoner), Dylan Alvarado (Village Boy), Mai Brunelle (Village Girl), Wing Tao Chao (Governor Wing), Clark Schierle (Villager)

The MandalorianNotes: Grogu – the Child – was a youngling during the waning days of the Old Republic, trained in the ways of the Force, but was taken from the Jedi Temple by an unknown party prior to Anakin Skywalker’s slaughter of the younglings. Grogu is the only other member of Yoda’s species to have been encountered by Ahsoka, which would imply that Jedi Master Yaddle (Star Wars Episode I, 1999) died before Ahsoka joined the Jedi order as Anakin’s padawan (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 2008). The fact that Ahsoka is still looking for Thrawn may be related to the search for Ezra Bridger (upon which she was seen embarking in the series finale of Star Wars: Rebels). This is the first appearance of Ahsoka in live action, but not the last, as a live action spinoff was announced near the end of The Mandalorian’s second season.

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