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Clone Wars Season 1 Star Wars

Dooku Captured

The Clone WarsJedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are on a mission to find and capture Separatist leader Count Dooku, but the wily ex-Jedi makes good his escape. Kenobi and Skywalker follow and are able to damage Dooku’s ship, forcing it to crash land on the planet Vangor. The Jedi soon follow as their ship is also damaged. On the planet surface, Dooku and the Jedi find themselves at odds with each other and the native inhabitants of the planet. This includes a band of pirates who come upon Dooku and take him prisoner. But will their actions ultimately help the Jedi, or just throw them off their guard?

written by Julie Siege
directed by Jesse Yeh
music by Kevin Kiner / original Star Wars themes by John Williams

Cast: James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker), Matthew Wood (Battle Droids), Corey Burton (Count Dooku), Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano), Jim Cummings (Hondo Ohnaka), Ian Abercrombie (Chancellor Palpatine), Tom Kane (Yoda / Narrator), Catherine Taber (Padmé Amidala), Terrence “TC” Carson (Mace Windu), Dee Bradley Baker (Pikk Mukmuk), Greg Ellis (Turk)

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Clone Wars Season 1 Star Wars

The Gungan General

The Clone WarsAwaking to find themselves in the prison cells of the pirates, Obi-Wan and Anakin also find that they are bound by energy cords to their fellow captive, Count Dooku. While pirate chief Hondo Ohnaka plans out his next move, his underlings are making plans of their own and they don’t include Hondo. They down the ship carrying the Republic envoy and plan to ransack it for the ransom it carries. The leader of the team, Senator Kharrus, is killed in the crash, putting Representative Jar Jar Binks in command. Dooku and the Jedi must try to work together to escape, while Jar Jar and the clones do all they can to rescue them.

written by Julie Siege
directed by Justin Ridge
music by Kevin Kiner / original Star Wars themes by John Williams

Cast: Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker), James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi / Henchman), Corey Burton (Count Dooku / Senator Kharrus / Pirate Guard), Jim Cummings (Hondo Ohnaka), Greg Ellis (Turk), BJ Hughes (Jar Jar Binks), Ian Abercrombie (Chancellor Palpatine), Dee Bradley Baker (Stone / Mack / Pirate Guard), David Acord (Pilf Mukmuk), Tom Kane (Narrator)

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Clone Wars Season 1 Star Wars

Jedi Crash

The Clone WarsAnakin and Ahsoka are on a mission to aid Jedi Aayla Secura, who is under heavy attack by Separatist forces.  They board Aayla’s ship and manage to escape before it is destroyed, but Anakin is severely injured in the process.  While making their getaway, the Republic ship bearing the Jedi is accidentally set on a course into the heart of a star.  A desperate gamble leads to a crash landing on the planet Maridun, where the Jedi and their clone troops will have to survive a hostile environment if they can ever hope for aide or rescue.

written by Katie Lucas
directed by Rob Coleman
music by Kevin Kiner / original Star Wars themes by John Williams

Cast: Dee Bradley Baker (Commander Bly / Captain Rex / Cameron / Lucky / Flash), Jennifer Hale(Aayla Secura), Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker), Matthew Wood (Battle Droids), Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano), Tom Kane (Admiral Yularen / Narrator), George Coe(Tee Watt Kaa), Alec Medlock (Wag Too)

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 4

Sometimes A Great Notion

Battlestar GalacticaThe Colonial Fleet arrives at Earth – the constellations match, the planet and its sun are where Starbuck’s signal said it would be. And the planet itself is a charred cinder, a haven of life laid to waste by nuclear weapons over 2,000 years ago.

For many in the fleet, including President Roslin, all hope is lost – this is the last straw. Many shirk their duties and others, like Dualla, simply commit suicide. As morale plummets, even Admiral Adama finds his resolve, and his will to live, faltering. President Roslin stops seeking treatment for her cancer and can face neither the Quorum nor the press. Lee finds himself having to step up to the plate to address everyone’s fears in their darkest hour…but even he can’t imagine how he, or anyone else, can hold the fleet together now. On Earth, Starbuck makes a very disturbing discovery: the wreckage of her old Viper, complete with a charred skeleton in the cockpit, wearing her dogtags.

The Cylons make startling finds of their own; the entire planet is littered with the skeletal remains of the race that once lived there – the 13th tribe of the Colonies – but the skeletons aren’t Colonials: they’re Cylon. Tyrol, Anders and Tory discover that they have memories of lives on Earth, thousands of years ago. Tigh discovers repressed memories too – and with them, he discovers the identity of the last of the final five.

written by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
directed by Michael Nankin
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Michael Trucco (Anders), Alessandro Juliani (Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh), Brad Drybrough (Hoshi), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Don Thompson (SP3 Anthony Figurski), Alexandra Thomas (Hera), Sonja Bennett (SP3 Margie Brasko)

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Clone Wars Season 1 Star Wars

Defenders of Peace

The Clone WarsWhile the Jedi and clones recuperate on the planet Maridun among the Lurmen, a Separatist ship lands.  It is commanded by General Lok Durd, who declares Maridun a Separatist colony and intends to use the planet as a testing ground for a massive new weapon.  With the pacifist Lurmen seemingly unwilling to help, the Jedi must find a way to stop General Durd’s evil plans.

written by Bill Canterbury
directed by Steward Lee
music by Kevin Kiner / original Star Wars themes by John Williams

Cast: Dee Bradley Baker (Commander Bly / Captain Rex), Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker), Alec Medlock (Wag Too), George Coe (Tee Watt Kaa), Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano), Jennifer Hale(Aayla Secura), George Takei(General Lok Durd), Matthew Wood (Battle Droids), David Acord(Aqualish technician), Tom Kane (Narrator)

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 4

A Disquiet Follows My Soul

Battlestar GalacticaThe fleet tries to recover from the blow of both the discovery of a barren Earth and the heavy emotional toll, with the hunt beginning anew for a habitable planet for both Colonials and Cylons. The rebel Cylons demand full citizenship in the fleet, offering their technology – namely much more powerful FTL drives – in exchange. But some aren’t keen on the idea of the Cylons gaining citizenship and a seat on the quorum, and Tom Zarek is among them. Since President Roslin has gone into hiding following the Earth debacle, Zarek is effectively running the government, and sees no reason to grant the Cylons’ wish. When the tyllium mining ship – which carries the fuel supply for every ship in the fleet – tries to break off from the rest of the fleet, Admiral Adama orders his crew to board the ship and force the Cylon tech upgrades, while Zarek tells the ship’s crew to run for it. Adama, unconcerned that his actions might look like a military coup of the government, has Zarek arrested; the tyllium ship is found and boarded. Even below decks, the peace is tenuous – Baltar’s sermons have become rambles, demanding that God explain what has happened, while Tyrol makes a discovery about his son that rocks him to his core.

written by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Ronald D. Moore
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Alessandro Juliani (Gaeta), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Brad Drybrough (Hoshi)

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Clone Wars Season 1 Star Wars

Trespass

The Clone WarsWhen the Republic loses contact with their troops on Orto Plutonia, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are sent with their troops to learn what has become of them. They find mass destruction of not only the clones, but also a Seperatist droid base, leading the Jedi to conclude that they are dealing with something other than Seperatist activity. Chairman Cho, leader of nearby Pantora is more concerned about maintaining Pantora’s sovereignty over the planet. The Jedi must determine the nature of the hostile force on Orto Plutonia and whether they have a claim to the planet stronger than Pantora’s.

written by Steven Melching
directed by Brian Kalin O’Connell
music by Kevin Kiner / original Star Wars themes by John Williams

Cast: James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi / Pantoran Assembly Representative), Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker), Dee Bradley Baker (Captain Rex/Thi-Sen), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Brian George (Chariman Cho), Jennifer Hale (Senator Chuchi), Matthew Wood (Battle Droids), Robin Atkin Downes (Pantoran Guard), Tom Kane (Narrator)

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 4

The Oath

Battlestar GalacticaHaving thrown his lot in with Tom Zarek, Gaeta assembles a team of Galactica crew members whose discontent with what Zarek calls the “Roslin/Adama administration” has reached a boiling point; they smuggle Zarek out of Galactica’s brig and off the ship. Gaeta’s position in CIC allows him to cover for Zarek’s departure until the vice president is once again safely ensconced aboard Colonial One. But as the hub of communications between CIC and the rest of the fleet, Gaeta is also able to squash Lee’s demands to know how Zarek returned to power, and Starbuck’s warning that the armory has been broken into. Marines loyal to Zarek and Gaeta take over CIC, escorting Adama and Tigh away and putting Gaeta in command of Galactica. Lee returns to Galactica and is promptly abducted by Gaeta’s forces, but only Starbuck – and her utter lack of remorse on the issue of putting rounds through people she has served with for years – saves him. Their first task after that is to find Roslin and rush her to safety – namely, Baltar’s religious enclave, where she hopes to use his radio in the absence of Galactica’s own communications systems. Tigh and Adama prove to be quite adept at getting themselves out of trouble, and they’re already armed and free by the time Lee and Starbuck find them. Roslin’s message to the fleet is enough to confuse the issue of who’s in charge and buy time for her escape. But a few other members of the crew stay behind to cover Roslin’s (and Baltar’s) escape, and retake the ship – and Adama and Tigh are among those who refuse to give up without a fight.

written by Mark Verheiden
directed by John Dahl
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Michael Trucco (Anders), Alessandro Juliani (Gaeta), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), Sebastian Spence (Narcho), Brad Drybrough (Hoshi), Jennifer Halley (Seelix)

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Key 2 Time: The Judgement Of Isskar

Doctor Who: The Judgement Of IsskarThe Doctor is whisked away from his adventures with Peri, deposited on a world where time itself has been brought to a halt. Here he meets a young woman who claims to have been brought into existence mere seconds ago. Her mission is simple (to her): find and reassemble the segments of the Key to Time. The Doctor, in his previous incarnation, carried this mission out and inadvertently set this new quest for the Key in motion. The woman, who he names Amy for lack of any other name, is a tracer in humanoid form, capable of “smelling” nearby segmets of the Key. She has picked the Doctor to be her assistant. Their first stop is Mars, at an earlier stage of the planet’s development, when its native life forms are about to meet a destiny that will reshape their peaceful society into the form in which the Doctor knows them better: the Ice Warriors. And the Doctor – and the Key to Time – may be responsible for that drastic change.

Order this CDwritten by Simon Guerrier
directed by Jason Haigh-Ellery
music by Jamie Robertson

Cast: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Ciara Janson (Amy), Laura Doddington (Zara), Nicholas Briggs (Isskar), Andrew Jones (Harmonious 14 Zink), Raquel Cassidy (Mesca), Jeremy James (Thetris), Heather Wright (Wembik)

Timeline: between The Bride Of Peladon and Mission Of The Viyrans

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Clone Wars Season 1 Star Wars

The Hidden Enemy

The Clone WarsThe planet of Christophsis has found itself under attack from Separatist forces and Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker have been sent with their clone troops to defend it. But they soon realize that their security has been breached and they reason that there must be a spy in their midst. While the Jedi infiltrate the enemy’s position, it is up to Commander Cody and Captain Rex to ferret out the traitor before the entire mission is compromised.

written by Drew Z. Greenberg
directed by Steward Lee
music by Kevin Kiner / original Star Wars themes by John Williams

Cast: James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker), Dee Bradley Baker (Commander Cody / Captain Rex / Sergeant Slick / Hawk / Sketch / Chopper / Gus / Jester / Punch), Matthew Wood (Battle Droids / General Grievous), Nika Futterman (Asajj Ventress), Tom Kane (Narrator)

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 4

Blood On The Scales

Battlestar GalacticaWith Tigh and Adama captured, Zarek arrives on Galactica and finds himself at odds with Gaeta, who insists on a token trial for Adama before putting the admiral in front of a firing squad. Zarek just wants Adama executed, and when he sees the quorum squabbling over the trial, he has his loyalists walk into their chambers on Colonial One and kill them all. Lee and Starbuck, having remained on Galactica, break into the brig and release the Cylon prisoners, but Lee is alarmed to find that his father isn’t among them. During the escape, Anders is shot in the back of the head, but barely survives. Roslin broadcasts to the fleet again from aboard the Cylon baseship, trying to reassure everyone that Galactica’s new “commander” has seized control illegally – just as Tom Zarek has done with the presidency. It’s enough to sow more confusion – and disagreement with the new order. But in response, Zarek lies that Tigh and Adama have already been executed, and that’s enough for Roslin to declare all-out war on Galactica.

written by Michael Angeli
directed by Wayne Rose
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Michael Trucco (Anders), Alessandro Juliani (Gaeta), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben), Mark Sheppard (Romo Lampkin), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Sebastian Spence (Narcho), Brad Drybrough (Hoshi)

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Clone Wars Season 1 Star Wars

Blue Shadow Virus

The Clone WarsLearning that battle droids have been located on Naboo, Padmé Amidala and Jar Jar Binks return to investigate. They discover that the deadly Blue Shadow Virus has been recreated by Dr. Nuvo Vindi, who intends to unleash it on Naboo, but are captured before they can return with the information. Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka arrive on the planet and must balance the immediate danger of the captives with the greater danger of the virus.

written by Craig Titley
directed by Giancarlo Volpe
original Star Wars themes by John Williams

Cast: Catherine Taber (Padmé Amidala), Jameelah McMillan (Queen Neeyutnee), James Mathis III (Captain Typho), BJ Hughes (Jar Jar Binks), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Phil LaMarr (Tactical Droid), Tom Kane (Yoda / Narrator), Gwendoline Yeo (Peppi Bow), Michael York (Dr. Nuvo Vindi), Matthew Wood (Battle Droids), David Acord (Rabbit Droid), Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker), James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano), Dee Bradley Baker (Captain Rex)

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Clone Wars Season 1 Star Wars

Mystery Of A Thousand Moons

The Clone WarsAnakin and Obi-Wan have taken into custody the evil Dr. Nuvo Vindi, creator of the deadly Blue Shadow Virus. But as Padmé, Jar Jar and Ahsoka oversee cleanup, they realize that a vial of the deadly substance has gone missing. An explosion releases the virus inside Vindi’s compound, infecting some inside, including Ahsoka. The Republic forces must prevent the remaining battle droids from releasing the virus onto the planet. Anakin and Obi-Wan, meanwhile, undertake a mission to obtain the antidote from the planet Iago before the virus takes its toll.

written by Brian Larsen
directed by Jesse Yeh
music by Kevin Kiner / original Star Wars themes by John Williams

Cast: Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker), James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Dee Bradley Baker (Commander Cody / Captain Rex), Catherine Taber (Padmé Amidala / Angel), Michael York (Dr. Nuvo Vindi), Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano), James Mathis III (Captain Typho), Matthew Wood (Battle Droids), David Kaufman (Jaybo Hood), BJ Hughes (Jar Jar Binks), Phil LaMarr (Amit Noloff), Tom Kane (Narrator)

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 4

No Exit

Battlestar GalacticaIn the wake of the Zarek/Gaeta mutiny, the first priority aboard Galactica is trying to patch up the scores of wounded – and preparing to bury the scores of the dead. Among the wounded is Sam Anders, shot in the back of the head during his own jailbreak; when he recovers from his surgery, he asks Starbuck to summon his fellow members of the final five: he has had a vision and remembers everything. President Roslin has pieces of her own to pick up, as she appoints Lee the new vice president, charging him with the formation of a new Quorum and advising him that he’ll have to do much of the work in keeping the government together now. Sam’s visions, as he relates them to the other Cylons, involve life on Earth (and the end of it), and even further back: ancient Cylon history, a power struggle between the Cylons’ creator (the woman that Tigh knew as his wife, Ellen) and a dissident who wanted to return the Cylons to their mechanical nature (Brother Cavel). When she resurrected aboard a Cylon ship after her execution on New Caprica, Ellen was virtually held prisoner by Cavel, until he needed her knowledge of resurrection after the Colonial destruction of the Cylons’ resurrection hub…at which point, Cavel decided to skip any kind of negotiation or interrogation, opting instead to kill Ellen and retrieve the knowledge from her brain. Before Sam can remember much more, though, Doc Cottle insists that the bullet should be removed from his brain, and over the objections of the other Cylons, Starbuck readily agrees. Sam is given until the moment the anesthesia takes hold in the operating room to continue relating his visions. And at the same time, Tyrol has bad news for Admiral Adama: after the years of fighting, rushed repair jobs, and corners that were cut back when the keel was first laid for the ship, Galactica is nearing the end of her time as a spaceworthy vessel.

written by Ryan Mottesheard
directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Michael Trucco (Anders), Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Dean Stockwell (Cavel), John Hodgman (Dr. Gerard), Kerry Norton (Nurse Layne Ishay), Darcy Laurie (Deklind)

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 4

Deadlock

Battlestar GalacticaRepairs begin on Galactica, using the Cylon material to shore up the weakening superstructure. When Baltar returns to his followers, he finds that his position among his own cult has weakened; a woman named Paula has seized control in his absence and is advocating using more violent means to ensure their survival. The chaos that followed in the wake of the discovery of Earth and the subsequent mutiny has left Baltar’s faction in a delicate position, and while he advocates using their food supplies to help others, he finds that the use of force may not be such a bad idea.

Boomer returns to Galactica after a long absence, bringing the resurrected Ellen Tigh with her; for her trouble, Boomer is thrown into the brig, while Ellen is reunited with her husband…only to be enraged when she discovers that he’s expecting a child by one of the Sixes, the first biological child born to Cylon parents. Ellen begins to sow dissent among the final five and the other Cylons: with Six’s child, Hera is no longer the only remaining hope for the Cylons’ future without resurrection. Ellen believes that the Cylons should leave the fleet – despite Sam’s prophetic warning not to – to move Six’s child to a safe environment. The lone holdout is Tigh himself; Ellen uses the moment of dissent to convince Six that Tigh’s love for serving alongside Adama is greater than his love for any woman, and Six collapses. Doc Cottle confirms that Six will miscarry…leaving Ellen and the rest of the Cylons no choice but to remain with the humans, counting on Hera for their very survival.

No one realizes it yet, but the other faction of Cylons is counting on the very same thing.

written by Jane Espenson
directed by Robert Young
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Tyrol), Michael Trucco (Sam Anders), Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Roark Crichtlow (Pianist)

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