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Out Of The Unknown Season 3

The Little Black Bag

Out Of The UnknownDisgraced and discredited, Dr. Full was once a medical doctor, but is now a shambling alcoholic in possession of an oddly shaped bag of medical instruments. After a chance meeting in a bar with a woman named Angie, he is surprised to find that she has borrowed enough money for him to open a practice again, strictly for cosmetic surgical procedures…and she will be minding the till and calling the shows. Full discovers that what he has is no ordinary medical bag: it’s from the year 2160, and its instruments seem to provide their own treatment, miraculously curing any ill, not just cosmetic surgeries. The rush of resuming his calling as a healer thrills Dr. Full…but Angie sees only dollar signs, even over Full’s dead body.

written by C.M. Kornbluth
dramatized by Julian Bond
directed by Eric Hills
music by Don Harper

Out Of The UnknownCast: Emrys Jones (Dr. Roger Full), Geraldine Moffatt (Angie), Elizabeth Weaver (Edna Flannery), John Woodnutt (Kelland), Ian Frost (Johnny), Alan Downer (Mallinson), John Dunbar (Mr. Collins), Catherine Kessey (Receptionist), Honora Burke (Mrs. Coleman)

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Classic Season 2 Tomorrow People

The Blue And The Green – Part 4: Cuckoo In The Nest

Tomorrow PeopleJohn has been captured by Robert and is kept in a cell in the basement of the shop belonging to Robert’s “grandfather”. Something there prevents John from using his powers to jaunt to safety. Attempts are made by Stephen and by Chris, Ginge’s younger brother, to break John out of his cell, but none of them are successful. As Chris isn’t one of the Tomorrow People, he speeds across London in an old jeep rather than jaunting, and this has attracted unwelcome police attention, but Chris uses this to bring the police to the shop to free John…but there’s no trace of him.

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

Tomorrow PeopleCast: Elizabeth Adare (Elizabeth), Nicholas Young (John), Peter Vaughan-Clarke (Stephen), Philip Gilbert (TIM), Christopher Chittell (Chris), Nigel Pegram (Grandfather), Jason Kemp (Robert), Simon Merrick (Police Inspector), Stephen Brassett (Howard), Elvis Payne (Graham)

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Alien Worlds Season 1

The Resurrectionists Of Lethe – Part 2

Alien WorldsSimon Toddmaster has turned the mortuary satellite, Lethe, into a horrifying means of gathering classified intelligence. By using replicants to seemingly bring the dead back to life, and inviting their loved ones to come and discuss their lives and work with them, Toddmaster records information that would otherwise have died with the deceased. If he can get Dr. Nicholson’s widow to reveal the whereabouts of his research, Toddmaster will gain a recipe for potent biological weapons. Maura, Graydon and Buddy set out to stop him.

written by Ron Thompson
based on an original story by Betty Yulius
directed by Lee Hansen
music by Jim Kirk

Cast: Roger Dressler (Narrator / Commissioner), Linda Gary (Maura Cassidy), Bruce Phillip Miller (Captain Jon Graydon), Corey Burton (Jerry Lyden), Chuck Olsen (Captain Buddy Griff), Hans Conreid (Simon Toddmaster), Susan Brown (Ann Nicholson), George DiCenzo (Dr. Richard Nicholson), Cliff Norton (Burkey), Jack Lukes (Carl), Sally Smaller (Ingrid)

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Battlestar Galactica (Classic Series) Season 1

Greetings From Earth

Battlestar Galactica (original)A sleeper ship is recovered in deep space, containing six frozen human beings. Given their ship’s primitive technology and unknown origins, it becomes widely speculated that the six humans are from Earth itself, which may be closer than anyone realized. This theory, however, begins to crumble when the humans are revived – and instantly find the atmosphere aboard Galactica poisonous. Worse yet, the rumors of living Earth people are dividing the loyalties of the Colonial fleet, and Adama fears for their safety. Apollo, Cassiopea and Starbuck quietly escort the humans away from the fleet, and ferry them to the planet Paradeen, which was to have been their destination. But their arrival comes too late – all human life on Paradeen has been exterminated, courtesy of a neutron bomb launched by the Eastern Alliance from the humans’ home planet of Terra. When Eastern Alliance soldiers arrive on Paradeen to hunt down the final remaining humans, the Galactica officers get involved in the Terrans’ war – a decision which will shortly prove to be messier than they could ever imagine.

Order the DVDsDownload this episodewritten by Glen A. Larson
directed by Rod Holcomb
music by Stu Phillips

Guest Cast: Ray Bolger (Vector), Randolph Mantooth (Michael), Kelly Harmon (Sarah), Murray Matheson (Statesman Geller), Lesley Woods (Aggie Moreland), Frank Marth (Josh Moreland), Curt Lowens (Krebbs), Lloyd Bochner (Commandant Leiter), Bobby Van (Hector), Gary Vinson (Doyle), Alex Rodine (Lanceman), Lester Fletcher (Donner), Michelle Larson (Charity), Gillian Greene (Melanie), Eric Larson (Todd), Kimberly Woodward (Loma), David Larson (Walker), Donald Mantooth (Med tech), Ron Kelly (Security Officer Reese)

Notes: This two-hour episode is the beginning of a series of attempts to reformat the series for a lower budget (stock Nazi costumes being cheaper than Cylon armor), which eventually culminated in the show being recast and rebooted as Galactica: 1980.

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Blake's 7 Season 3

Rumours Of Death

Blake's 7Avon sets out to avenge the death of his lover, Anna Grant. He kidnaps a Federation “prison psychologist” (torturer) whom he believes is responsible for her execution, but information gained from that encounter leads Avon and the crew back to Earth in a raid on Servalan’s mansion – which has been taken by a rebel group already – where Avon discovers that Anna was never killed…nor was she ever, in fact, alive.

written by Chris Boucher
directed by Fiona Cumming
music by Dudley Simpson

Cast: Paul Darrow (Avon), Jan Chappell (Cally), Michael Keating (Vila), Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan), Steven Pacey (Tarrant), Josette Simon (Dayna), Peter Tuddenham (Zen, Orac), John Bryans (Shrinker), Peter Clay (Chesku), Lorna Heilbron (Sula, Anna), Donald Douglas (Grenlee), David Haig (Forres), Philip Bloomfield (Balon), David Gillies (Hob)

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 5

Strange Relations

Babylon 5When Bester arrives to arrest the rogue telepaths, Lochley is caught between orders from Earthdome to cooperate and orders from Sheridan to keep them away from the Psi Cop, while fending off Garibaldi’s attempts to hurl his tormentor through a bulkhead. Lyta draws closer to Byron and the telepaths, but even her powers may not be enough to stop Psi Cop bloodhound units working with B5 security. Franklin begins a new project for the Alliance, and G’Kar and Delenn devise an unusual arrangement to protect Londo from his enemies.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by John C. Flinn III
music by Christopher Franke

Guest Cast: Walter Koenig (Bester), Robin Atkin Downes (Byron), Joshua Cox (Lt. Corwin), Clynell Jackson III (Security Guard), James Lew (Bloodhound Teep #1), Clarke Coleman (Telepath), Steven Hal Lambert (Bloodhound Teep #2)

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Season 04 Star Trek Voyager

Retrospect

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 51658.2: Janeway strikes a deal with Kovin, a weapons dealer, to arm Voyager with a powerful isokinetic cannon, and assigns Seven of Nine to assist him with the installation. Seven, however, continues to prove difficult to work with, reacting violently when Kovin tries to correct her during an installation procedure. The Doctor is able to patch Kobin up qucikly, but his examination of Seven is derailed when she displays fear of the Doctor’s medical instruments and biobed enclosure. The Doctor helps her find a hidden memory – which turns out to involve Kovin restraining her, forcing regrowth of her Borg implants, and extracting them from her body. Janeway launches an investigation of Kovin, and he is anything but cooperative, even when evidence is found that supports his story. Is he an innocent man running from an accusation that could ruin him, or does he have something to hide?

Order the DVDsteleplay by Bryan Fuller & Lisa Klink
story by Andrew Shepard Price & Mark Gaberman
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Michael Horton (Kovin), Adrian Sparks (Magistrate), Michelle Agnew (Scharn)

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Red Dwarf Season 08

Back In The Red Part II

Red DwarfThings are not going well for Lister and his friends. Kryten has been sentenced to be completely rebooted back to his original personality parameters, and the others are due to stand before a board of inquiry for crashing a Starbug into the ship. Worse yet, Lister has entrusted Rimmer with helping them escape or bringing evidence of the nanobots to the captain’s attention. However, Rimmer has no time to do either since he’s spending all of his time enjoying the sexual magnetism virus. Cat, Kochanski and Lister barely escape being recaptured (thanks to Lister’s use of the luck virus), and are soon on their way to freedom…so long as nothing goes wrong with their plan. But they haven’t counted on Rimmer’s need to keep the source of his secrets…well, secret.

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

Guest Cast: Mac McDonald (Captain Hollister), Kira Mirylles (Doc Newton), Jemma Churchill (First woman officer), Andy Taylor (Dr. MacLaren), Sue Keeryn (Second woman officer), Karl Glenn Stimpson (MP Thornton), Guenevere Swallow (Third woman officer), Geoffrey Beevers (Doctor)

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Season 03 SG-1 Stargate

Maternal Instinct

Stargate SG-1Bra’tac emerges through the SGC’s stargate with a wounded Jaffa, and bearing news that Apophis is still alive and fighting. An entire Jaffa world has been razed to the ground as Apophis searches for his child by Sha’re, a child which Daniel has pledged to find for much more benevolent reasons. Bra’tac admits that he may be growing too tired to single-handedly lead the Jaffa’s fight for freedom from the Goa’uld, and urges Teal’c to take over for him. But first, their immediate mission involves finding the child before Apophis does, and Bra’tac has a clue that leads them to a world whose name the Goa’uld dare not even speak. The child is there, but Daniel is the first to realize that something else is too – a higher life form that won’t let either side take the baby. But as immensely powerful as it seems to be, is this being enough to stop Apophis’ advancing army?

Order the DVDswritten by Robert C. Cooper
directed by Peter F. Woeste
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Tony Amendola (Bra’tac), Terry Chen (Monk), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Aaron Douglas (Moac), Steve Bacic (Coburn), D. Harlan Cutshall (Jaffa Commander), Carla Boudreau (Oma Desala)

Notes: This is the first episode to feature Oma Desala (though played by a different actress), and marks the first hint of the plotline that will eventually result in Daniel’s ascension in season five.

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Enterprise Season 03 Star Trek

The Hatchery

Star Trek: EnterpriseWhen the wreckage of a Xindi-insectoid ship is detected on a nearby planet, Captain Archer diverts the Enterprise from its larger mission to investigate. The entire crew is dead, but what’s left behind, largely intact, is a hatchery with the crew’s offspring – and Archer, despite misgivings from T’Pol and the rest of his crew, becomes obsessed with preserving the Xindi-insectoid hatchlings, if only to prove that he and his crew value life more than the Xindi do. But when T’Pol and Reed protest his actions, Archer relieves them of their duties, to the surprise of the rest of the crew – and Trip and Phlox begin contemplating relieving Archer of command by whatever means are necessary.

Order DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxwritten by Andrè Bormanis and Michael Sussman
directed by Michael Grossman
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Steven Culp (Major Hayes), Daniel Dae Kim (Corporal Chang), Sean McGowan (Corporal Hawkins)

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Season 08 SG-1 Stargate

Reckoning Part 1

Stargate SG-1In deep space, Baal makes a power play for dominion of the entire Goa’uld race, offering the other System Lords their continued survival in exchange for their capitulation. Baal’s representative attempts to demonstrate his power by presenting the other System Lords with a prisoner – Captain Samantha Carter – but what they don’t know is that this is the Replicators’ clone of Carter, though she makes her true nature known quickly enough.

Aboard the flagship of the rebel Jaffa fleet, Daniel and Carter are acting as observers as Teal’c and Bra’tac prepare to launch their strike on the System Lords, but another Goa’uld ship emerges from hyperspace and fires on them. Replicators board the ship, and just as they prepare to abandon it to the boarding party, Daniel disappears in a flash of light, taken prisoner by the Replicators. Back on Earth, Carter begins working on a new way to disrupt the Replicators, with Thor’s help. Carter’s father reappears, with news from the Tok’ra: the Replicators have launched an all-out, galaxy-wide assault on the Goa’uld, and in the face of the overwhelming odds, rebel Jaffa are renouncing their quest for freedom and seeking the safety of the System Lords again.

Teal’c and Bra’tac convince O’Neill to give his blessing to a new strategy. With Baal’s forces spread thin, battling a Replicator-controlled fleet, the remaining rebel Jaffa will launch a new strike to take the Temple of Dakara, the symbolic seat of Goa’uld power. As Baal struggles to regain control of the situation, Anubis abandons his damaged body and takes on a new host, assuming control of the Goa’uld forces personally. And aboard a Replicator ship, the clone Carter begins her interrogation of Daniel Jackson, uncovering faint memories of an Ancient weapon that could still destroy the Replicators. And this weapon is buried on the Goa’uld world of Dakara.

Order the DVDswritten by Damian Kindler
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Tony Amendola (Bra’tac), Carmen Argenziano (Jacob Carter / Selmak), Cliff Simon (Baal), Gary Jones (Chief Sgt. Walter Harriman), Samantha Banton (Goa’ud Lieutenant), Mel Harris (Oma Desala), Isaac Hayes (Tolok), Jeff Judge (Aron), Dean Aylesworth (Old Anubis), Rik Kiviaho (New Anubis), Vince Crestejo (Yu), Kevan Ohtsji (Yu’s First Prime), Emy Aneke (Baal’s Jaffa)

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Season 1 Stargate Stargate Atlantis

The Brotherhood

Stargate AtlantisIn the pages of an ancient library visited by Sheppard’s team, McKay finds historical evidence of a zero point module. Historical documents on the planet Dagan indicate that the ZPM was kept as an object of worship and guarded by an order of monks, and they left a map to uncover the ZPM in several buried pieces. McKay and Sheppard’s team receive valuable assistance from the local population, though not all of them think they should be helping their new visitors so readily. Their combined efforts uncover an underground bunker, and Sheppard’s team goes to explore it with some of the locals, leaving Ford on guard. Another party on Dagan quickly makes its presence known: Kolya, the Genii commander whose forces Sheppard drove off of Atlantis during the storm. In the meantime, on Atlantis, a deep space sensor system is accidentally activated, and after a Wraith dart ship strafes the city, Dr. Weir orders a maximum-range sweep with those sensors – and discovers three massive Wraith hive ships are on a course for Atlantis.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxwritten by Martin Gero
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Robert Davi (Kolya), Jana Mitsoula (Allina), Paul McGillion (Dr. Beckett), Adrian Hough (Genii Lieutenant), Laura Mennell (Sanir), David Nykl (Dr. Zelenka), Chuck Campbell (Technician), Dean Marshall (Sgt. Bates), Boyan Vukelic (Sgt. Stackhouse)

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Enterprise Season 04 Star Trek

Divergence

Star Trek: EnterpriseColumbia pulls alongside Enterprise so Trip can transfer to his old ship to sort out the engine damage. On the Klingon colony, Phlox has discovered that an attempt by the Klingon military to splice their own DNA with that of human Augments has created a highly contagious plague. Worse yet, the Empire’s response to that plague has been to begin a widespread program of “sterilization” – destroying any infected colonies, ships or outposts – and the colony where Phlox is fighting the odds to find a cure is next. Captain Archer gives Lt. Reed one last chance to help, and Reed leads the Enterprise and Columbia to the colony where Phlox is being held. Phlox has narrowed his research down to four possible antiviral strains, but even if he finds one, he won’t have enough time to create the cure. Captain Archer beams down to the colony to rescue Phlox, but he may be forced to take on a new role as a human incubator for the cure.

Order DVDswritten by Judith Reeves-Stevens & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
directed by Dave Barrett
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Terrell Tilford (Marab), John Schuck (Antaak), James Avery (General K’Vagh), Ada Maris (Captain Erika Hernandez), Eric Pierpoint (Harris), Kristin Bauer (Laneth), Wayne Grace (Krell), Matt Jenkins (Tactical Officer)

Star Trek: EnterpriseNotes: Section 31 is, of course, the same covert intelligence organization within Starfleet that takes an active role in the 24th century Dominion War (and recruits Dr. Julian Bashir of Deep Space Nine). Given Section 31’s ambitious attempts to manipulate other governments, it’s not entirely unlikely that Admiral Cartwright (and, in added scenes for the home video and DVD releases, Colonel West) may have been working for Section 31 in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Section 31’s interest in the Augments exists in an alternate timeline as well (Star Trek: Into Darkness).

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 1

Flesh And Bone

Battlestar GalacticaThe captain of one of the Colonial ships reports that a copy of one of the known human Cylon variants has been sighted. While Commander Adama wants to desroy the Cylon immediately, President Roslin wants the man – a copy of the man who Adama encountered at the abandoned munitions depot – questioned. Adama assigns Starbuck to the task, and the Cylon tells her that he’s planted a nuclear bomb aboard one of the Colonial ships…but he won’t tell her which one, or where. Baltar gets an unexpected request from Boomer, who wants to be among the first members of the Galactica crew tested to see if she’s human or Cylon – and of course, the results on Baltar’s screen tell him that she’s Cylon. What Baltar doesn’t know is how to handle the news. As the clock counts down to the detonation of the bomb, Starbuck isn’t able to elicit any more than theological discussions from the Cylon, despite escalating her choice of coercion techniques. With mere minutes to go, President Roslin arrives with an unusual offer of amnesty, but what she gets in exchange is prehaps even more unsettling than a bomb.

Order the DVDsDownload this episodewritten by Toni Graphia
directed by Brad Turner
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Paul Campbell (Billy Keikeya), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Matthew Bennett (Doral), Christina Schild (Playa Kohn), Eric Breker (Gemenon Captain), Biski Gugushe (Hamilton)

Original UK Airdate: December 5, 2004

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 3

Dirty Hands

Battlestar GalacticaWhen a fuel impurity forces a raptor crew to ditch their ship – seconds before it slams into Colonial One – President Roslin and Admiral Adama launch an investigation, because it’s far from the only recent incident involving problems with the fleet’s fuel supply. That supply comes entirely from the fleet’s one mining ship, whose captain is tired of the working conditions and advocates an uprising against the fleet’s “ruling class” – according to the dictates of a book by Baltar, smuggled out of prison and into publication throughout the fleet. Roslin orders that captain’s arrest and Adama sends Tyrol to take over the mining ship and restore the flow of fuel. Once there, though, Tyrol finds himself more in agreement with the ship’s imprisoned captain than with Adama, and proposes a lottery system to bring fresh workers to the mining ship from elsewhere in the fleet. When that solution brings a teenage worker to the ship who is premanently maimed in the course of making an emergency repair, Tyrol brings the ship to a halt and declares a strike. There’s only one problem: what he calls a strike, Adama calls a mutiny.

written by Anne Cofell Saunders & Jane Espenson
directed by Wayne Rose
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Don Thompson (Figurski), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Colin Lawrence (Skulls), Samantha Ferris (Pollux), David Patrick Green (Xeno Fenner), Wesley Salter (Redford), Jerry Wasserman (Cabott)

Original Title: Our Enemies, Ourselves

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