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Classic Season 2 Tomorrow People

A Rift In Time – Part 4: Rise Of The Roman Empire

Tomorrow PeopleBy introducing the steam engine during Roman times, Gaius has caused massive disruption to history. Not only has human technology deveoped far ahead of schedule, but that rapid development has outpaced human wisdom. Humanity has become an oppressive force, subjugating and enslaving alien species as it expands through a brutal future, with Gaius in command. With humanity’s expansion threatening other worlds, John and his friends must stay alive in this alternate timeline…or sacrifice everything to ensure it never existed.

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), Stanley Lebor (Gaius), Peter Duncan (Cotus), Leonard Gregory (Trystan)

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Battlestar Galactica (Classic Series) Season 1

Take The Celestra!

Battlestar Galactica (original)Starbuck and Apollo visit the Colonial ship Celestra, where Starbuck hopes to mend fences with an old girlfriend. But the two warriors are caught off guard when Starbuck’s old flame is accused of treason – and all three are embroiled in a mutiny in progress. Aurora has, in fact, been working against Commander Kronos, whose dictatorial command has made life aboard the Celestra intolerable for its shipboard population. By the time the power struggle aboard the Celestra becomes apparent to Adama or anyone else outside the ship, Apollo and Starbuck may be declared traitors to the Colonial fleet as well.

Order the DVDsDownload this episodeteleplay by Jim Carlson & Terrence McDonnell
story by David S. Arthur, David G. Phinney, Jim Carlson and Terrence McDonnell
directed by Daniel Haller
music by Stu Phillips

Guest Cast: Paul Fix (Commander Kronos), Nick Holt (Charka), Ana Alicia (Aurora), Randy Stumpf (Damon), Richard Styles (Hermes), James R. Parkes (Mutineer), Michael Horsley (Mutineer), Ted Hamaguchi (Helmsman), Robert Murvin (Duty officer)

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Season 04 Star Trek The Next Generation

The Nth Degree

Star Trek: The Next GenerationStardate 44704.2: Shortly after very nervously performing a scene from “Cyrano de Bergerac” with Dr. Crusher, Lt. Barclay is assigned to accompany Geordi on a close examination, via shuttle, of an alien probe that has impeded the functioning of a subspace telescope array. But after being scanned, the probe somehow singles Barclay out to receive a massive mental “upgrade,” doing away with the lieutenant’s legendary reclusiveness and shyness, and replacing those traits of his personality with knowledge and learning abilities beyond human experience…and arrogance.

Order the DVDswritten by Joe Menosky
directed by Robert Legato
music by Ron Jones

Guest Cast: Dwight Schultz (Lt. Barclay), Jim Norton (Holodeck “Einstein”), Kay E. Kuter (Cytherian), Saxon Trainor (Lt. Larson), Page Leong (Ensign Anaya), David Coburn (Ensign Brower)

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 3

Severed Dreams

  • By Dave
  • April 1, 1996

Babylon 5All hell has broken loose within the Earth Alliance. Fighting between General Hague’s rebel forces and President Clark’s loyalists have spilled a great deal of blood on both sides, and when the governor of Mars refuses to implement Clark’s martial law decree, civilian colonies on Mars are bombed. Hague’s ship, the Alexander, arrives at Babylon 5, but Hague himself has died in a recent battle. Joined shortly afterward by another rebel ship, Sheridan prepares to declare Babylon 5 an independent state – a state which must brace itself for an inevitable attack from Clark’s forces. If the battle is lost, not only with many on Babylon 5 lose their freedom…they will also very likely lose their lives.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by David J. Eagle
music by Christopher Franke

Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (Captain John Sheridan), Claudia Christian (Commander Susan Ivanova), Jerry Doyle (Security Chief Michael Garibaldi), Mira Furlan (Delenn), Richard Biggs (Dr. Stephen Franklin), Bill Mumy (Lennier), Jason Carter (Marcus Cole), Stephen Furst (Vir), Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan), Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari), Andreas Katsulas (G’Kar), Kim Miyori (Captain Sandra Hiroshi), Rance Howard (David Sheridan), Phil Morris (Bill Trainor), Bruce McGill (Major Ed Ryan), James Parks (Drakhen), Jonathan Chapman (Religious Minbari), Joshua Cox (Lt. Corwin), Maggie Egan (ISN Reporter #1), Matt Gottlieb (ISN Reporter #2), Kim Strauss (Narn)

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Deep Space Nine Season 05 Star Trek

A Simple Investigation

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Shortly after Odo meets Arissa, a woman visiting the station, she is caught breaking into the computers. She was trying to find a man she was planning to meet – a man who had information on the whereabouts of her long-lost daughter. Odo soon learns the truth – Arissa is trying to leave the crime syndicate she has been working for, and which has sent hit men to kill her and obtain a data crystal containing vital information. With Arissa under his protective custody, Odo discovers something unexpected happening…he is falling in love with her.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Renè Echavarria
directed by John Kretchmer
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Dey Young (Arissa), John Durbin (Traidy), Nicholas Worth (Sorm), Randy Mulkey (Idanian #2), Brant Cotton (Idanian)

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 5

Phoenix Rising

Babylon 5Bloodhound telepaths and the violent faction of Byron’s rogues are engaging in guerilla warface aboard Babylon 5, and Bester’s arrival – and his unusual personal interest in Byron – have only made the situation worse. Garibaldi decides to renew his vendetta against the Psi Cop, only to discover that not all of Bester’s mental conditioning has been removed. The rogues storm medlab and take hostages, demanding that their terms be met, raising the stakes to a deadly level. Sheridan can only watch as Bester tries to crush Byron’s telepaths in his vise, unaware that Garibaldi – powerless to take revenge on Bester – may allow himself to be crushed by an old vice of his own.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by David J. Eagle
music by Christopher Franke

Guest Cast: Robin Atkin Downes (Byron), Jack Hannibal (Peter), Victor Love (Telepath), Leigh J. McCloskey (Thomas), Walter Koenig (Bester)

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Red Dwarf Season 08

Pete Part II

Red DwarfKryten throws the time wand to Bob the Skutter, who is promptly swallowed by the enormous dinosaur that was once known as Pete. In a vain attempt to get the creature to cough up the time wand, Lister and the others cook up a dinosaur-sized vindaloo, complete with a live cow, to upset Pete’s enormous stomach. This it does too well, however, returning the time wand when it gets sick after eating half the food supply on Red Dwarf. Hollister now sentences Lister and Rimmer to turn Pete back into a sparrow at any cost.

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

Guest Cast: Mac MacDonald (Captain Hollister), Jake Wood (Kill Crazy), Ricky Glover (Baxter), Ian Masters (Birdman)

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Clone Wars Star Wars Tartakovsky Series, Vol. 1

Chapter 15

  • By Dave
  • April 1, 2004

Star Wars: Clone WarsOn Padmè’s yacht, Yoda senses the disturbance on Ilum and asks the senator to divert course to offer assistance. Captain Tycho objects, until Yoda uses the Jedi’s unique form of persuasion to convince him of the urgency of the situation. Once on Ilum, the Jedi Master must make his way through a gantlet of chameleon droids to reach the Temple.

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

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2010s Season 1 Twilight Zone

The Comedian

The Twilight ZoneStruggling comedian Samir Wassan bombs on stage with his usual brand of political humor, and then has a chance encounter with one of his comedy heroes, a man who had it all and then all but vanished from public view. He can’t resist asking for pointers, and is told to use more personal anecdotes from his life…and then to be ready to let those stories go forever. Part of Samir’s next routine concerns his dog…who has disappeared by the time he gets home. In fact, his girlfriend doesn’t remember ever having a dog. Her nephew, after helping him post flyers for his lost dog, accompanies him to the comedy club the next night, and becomes part of the act as well…only to vanish from existence when his name is mentioned. After overcoming an initial wave of guilt, Samir begins mentioning more names in his act, settling old scores, and each time, erasing someone from existence. It’s too late to stop and return to his dead-on-arrival political humor, but Samir’s only beginning to discover how erasing people from history with a mere mention can change the history of those around him. His comedy career on the rise, even Samir’s skeptical peers admit he’s killing it. They just don’t realize how many he’s killing to do it…until someone discovers his secret.

Download this episode via Amazonwritten by Alex Rubens
directed by Owen Harris
music by Marco Beltrami and Brandon Roberts
original Twilight Zone theme by Marius Constant

The Twilight ZoneCast: Kumail Nanjiani (Samir Wassan), Amara Karan (Rena), Diarra Kilpatrick (Didi Scott), Ryan Robbins (David Kandel), Tracy Morgan (J.C. Wheeler), Marc Joseph (Deven), Toby Hargrave (Joe Donner), Danny Dworkis (Pete), Jacob Machin (Bartender), Briana Rayner (Candy Gower), Darcy Michael (MC), Sean Hewlett (Will), Brendon Zub (Gabe), Harry Han (Finance Bro #3), Melanie Rose Wilson (Waitress), Bryron Bertram (Murray), Lesley Mirza (Marjorie), Khamisa Wilsher (Drunk Woman), Willy Lavendel (Drunk Man), Ryan Beil (Ventriloquist), Jane Stanton (Standup Comic #3), Jordan Peele (The Narrator)

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2010s Season 1 Twilight Zone

Nightmare At 30,000 Feet

The Twilight ZoneInvestigative journalist Justin Sanderson, fresh from a nightmarish assignment in Yemen and turbulence in his personal life, takes on a new reporting assignment in Tel Aviv, boarding Northern GoldStar Flight 1015. Justin finds an MP3 player left behind by a previous passenger, containing a podcast…about the mysterious disappearance of Northern GoldStar Flight 1015 over the Atlantic. He begins listening and is alarmed when such events as a bird striking one of the plane’s engines is described more or less in real time, and he starts trying to alert the plane’s crew and fellow passengers to what he believes is imminent disaster. But for all the disturbance he causes, the only threat perceived by anyone is Justin himself. One fellow passenger, however, does believe him. Claiming to be a former airline pilot himself, he has the skills necessary to turn the plane around and avert disaster…if only Justin can help him break into the cockpit.

Download this episode via Amazonteleplay by Marco Ramirez
story by Simon Kinberg, Jordan Peele and Marco Ramirez
based on the teleplay and short story Nightmare At 20,000 Feet written by Richard Matheson
directed by Greg Yaitanes
music by Marco Beltrami and Brandon Roberts
original Twilight Zone theme by Marius Constant

The Twilight ZoneCast: Adam Scott (Justin Sanderson), Chris Diamantopoulos (Joe), Dan Carlin (voice of Rodman Edwards), Katie Findlay (Flight Attendant), Nicholas Lea (Captain Donner), China Shavers (Air Marshal), J. Cameron Barnett (Flight Attendant), Nabil Ayoub (Fawwaz Khalidi), Hana Kinani (Sadeen Khalidi), Greg Zach (Suspicious Punk), Vladimir Ruzich (Tsezar), Alexander Mandra (Igor Orlov), Demelza Randall (Mandy), Emanuel Mokhtari (Fadi Khalidi), Arkie Kandola (Omesh Singh), Tarun Keram (Tanveera Singh), Tim Howe (TSA Agent), Brea Schneider (Gate Attendant), Jordan Peele (The Narrator)

The Twilight ZoneNotes: Among the wreckage that has washed onto the shore from the downed plane is a stuffed animal of the gremlin glimpsed in the original Twilight Zone episode Nightmare At 20,000 Feet (1963). That original episode – which wasn’t made and aired until early in the original series’ fifth and final season – had already been remade once in the 1983 Twilight Zone movie. This is a much more significant reworking of the story, bringing in such 21st century elements as “true crime” podcasts, TSA patdowns, and suicidal airline pilots. We eagerly await Enigmatique’s podcast on the mystery of Oceanic Flight 815.

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