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Batman Season 1

The Bookworm Turns

BatmanAs Bruce and Dick watch in horror, Commissioner Gordon is apparently murdered on live TV at the opening of Gotham City’s new suspension bridge…and Dick spots the Bookworm milling about in the crowd. Batman and Robin arrive at City Hall to begin gathering information on the heinous crime…and both they and Chief O’Hara are stunned when Commissioner Gordon walks into the room, unaware of what has transpired. An attempted bombing of the Batmobile confirms that the Bookworm has plans to write the end of Batman’s story.

Download this episode via Amazonwritten by Rik Vollaerts
directed by Larry Peerce
music by Nelson Riddle / Batman theme by Neal Hefti

BatmanCast: Adam West (Batman), Burt Ward (Robin), Alan Napier (Alfred), Neil Hamilton (Commissioner Gordon), Stafford Repp (Chief O’Hara), Madge Blake (Mrs. Cooper), Roddy McDowall (The Bookworm), Francine York (Lydia Limpet), John Crawford (Printer’s Devil), Tony Aiello (Pressman), Jan Peters (Typesetter), Byron Keith (The Mayor)

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Battlestar Galactica (Classic Series) Season 2 (Galactica: 1980)

The Night the Cylons Landed – Part 2

Battlestar Galactica (original)The Cylons, pretending to be indulging in the Halloween festivities, are en route to a radio station which they hope to use to signal the rest of the Cylon fleet. The invaders are also aware of the two Colonial pilots hot on their trail…but the people of Earth are still unaware of the danger in their own midst.

written by Glen A. Larson
directed by Barry Crane

Order the DVDsDownload this episodeGuest Cast: Wolfman Jack (Wolfman Jack), Peter Mark Richman (Colonel Briggs), William Daniels (Norman), Lara Parker (Shirley), Marj Dusay (Mildred), Val Bisoglio (Arnie), Bernie Hamilton (Cop), Heather Young (Star), Roger Davis (Andromus), Sheila de Windt (Stewardess), Rene Levant (1st Officer), Jed Mills (Cabbie), Ed Griffith (2nd Officer), Timothy O’Hagan (Karon), Rex Cutter (Centurion), Robert Lunny (Britton), Ken Lynch (Grover), John Finnegan (Oficer in trauma room), Herb Vigram (Pop), John Widlock (Chuck), Dan Ferrone (Police Sergeant), Alexander Petala (1st tough), Cosie Costa (2nd Tough), Tony Miratti (3rd tough), Louis Sardo (4th tough), Paul Tuerpe (Fireman), Chip Lucia (M.C.)

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Season 05 Star Trek The Next Generation

Cost of Living

Star Trek: The Next GenerationStardate not given: The Enterprise is on an urgent mission to destroy an asteroid on a collision course with an inhabited planet. The asteroid is obliterated, but a metal-consuming substance riding the asteroid transfers to the hull of the Enterprise. Later, Worf and Alexander argue in Troi’s office about their latest father-son dispute over the family rules, and as if that experience isn’t enough of a headache, Lwaxana Troi beams aboard on her way to get married to Campio, a member of another planet’s royalty (and Mrs. Troi reluctantly admits she hasn’t actually met him yet), and she begins to interfere with Worf’s relationship with Alexander, trying to show the boy how to revel in rebelling against authority. While Counselor Troi tells her mother not to intercede in Worf’s family affairs, a problem is discovered with the ship’s systems, caused by the metal “virus” (of which the crew is not yet aware). Mrs. Troi later reveals to Alexander that she isn’t entirely sure about her upcoming marriage to Campio (who beams aboard with an ever-present aide whose duty seems to be that of making sure all of Campio’s actions are as neutral and inoffensive as possible). The life support systems come under attack by the erosive substance, and when Picard orders the ship to warp to the nearest starbase, the engines are the next target of the virus, jeopardizing the Enterprise and everyone aboard.

Order the DVDswritten by Peter Allan Fields
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy

Cast: Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Brian Bonsall (Alexander), Tony Jay (Campio), Carel Struycken (Mr. Homn), David Oliver (Young Man), Albie Selznick (Juggler), Patrick Cronn (Erko), Tracy D’Arcy (Young Woman), George Ede (Poet), Christopher Halste (First Learner), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 1

Deathwalker

Babylon 5Waiting for a Narn representative to arrive at the station, Na’Toth spots a woman she claims is a war criminal who committed atrocities upon her family during conflicts 30 years ago and viciously attacks her. Sinclair discovers that the victim of the assault would indeed appear to be Jha’dur, a Dilgar warmaster whose hideous biological experiments took the lives of thousands. She now claims to have created a drug which bestows immortality, and Earth immediately calls the station with orders for Sinclair to ship Jha’dur home so planetside scientists can develop her discovery. As it so happens, the Narn Regime has given G’Kar similar orders. Most of the smaller members of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, however, still harbor a deep hatred of the Dilgar and Jha’dur in particular…to the point of severing diplomatic ties with anyone who now chooses to associate with her.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by Lawrence G. DiTillio
directed by Bruce Seth Green
music by Christopher Franke

Guest Cast: Sarah Douglas (Jha’dur), Robin Curtis (Ambassador Kalika), Cosie Costa (Abbut), Aki Aleong (Senator Hidoshi), Ardwight Chamberlain (Kosh), Robert DiTillio (Ambassador #1), Sav Farrow (Tech #2), Mark Hendrickson (Ashok), Marianne Robertson (Tech #1)

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Space: Above And Beyond

Sugar Dirt

Space: Above And BeyondThe 58th is assigned to play just a small part of a massive Earth effort to take a Chig airstrip on Demios. Though seemingly insignificant, control of that installation guarantees control of the surrounding sector. Though the invasion is expected to come at the price of a great loss of life, the airstrip is taken with great ease and very little resistance. Only when the 58th sets up shop at the airstrip do they realize that their target is a trap designed to lure as many Earth carriers to this sector as possible for a Chig ambush – and help may never come.

Order the DVDwritten by Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer
directed by Thomas J. Wright
music by Shirley Walker

Guest Cast: Granville Van Dusen (General Weirick), Iqbal Theba (General Siraj), Jennifer Balgobin (Lt. Rice), Bill Kalmenson (Commander Preising), Mark Adair Rios (Lt. Smith), David St. James (Admiral Broden), Josh Abramson (Lt. Nelson), David Jean Thomas (General Alcott), David Cooley (Lt. Feeley), Edmund L. Shaff (Chaplain), Keith Rosary (LIDAR Operator), James Kiriyama-Lem (General Ming), Chrisopher Villa (Marine), Nancy Linehan Charles (Admiral Vetter)

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Earth: Final Conflict Season 1

Law & Order

Earth: Final ConflictRho-ha, the Taelon whose experiment with human DNA went disastrously wrong, stands trial for murder, with Boone and Sandoval assigned to defend him. Boone is skeptical of his legal prowess, but Sandoval insists that secret knowledge of the Taelons’ experiments cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of a non-implant. The prosecuting attorney is none other than Joshua Doors, son of the resistance leader. As the trial progresses and numerous disturbing discoveries are made, it becomes apparent that the Taelon Synod wishes to enforce its own brand of justice, regardless of what fate the human court may decide for Rho-ha.

written by Paul Gertz
directed by Joe Scanlan
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Anita Le Selva (Zo’or), Kari Matchett (Rho-ha), William de Vry (Joshua Doors), Diego Chambers (Travis Perkins), Walker Boone (Willie)

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Deep Space Nine Season 06 Star Trek

His Way

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Bashir introduces the other officers to his new holoprogram featuring Vic Fontaine, a Las Vegas lounge singer of the 1960s who impresses everyone with his perceptiveness concerning their love lives. When Kira leaves to see Shakaar on Bajor, Odo, despairing of ever having his feelings for her returned, begins using Bashir’s holoprogram to consult Vic, who gives him tips on how to win a woman’s heart. But can the Constable learn how to change more than his shape?

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: James Darren (Vic Fontaine), Debi A. Monahan (Melissa), Cyndi Pass (Ginger)

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Season 3 Xena: Warrior Princess

Tsunami

Xena: Warrior PrincessWhile at a village picking up supplies, Gabrielle spots Autolycus in a chain gang being led onto a ship. She boards the vessel to find out why he is there. When the crew tries to take her off the ship, she fights them and then yells for Xena. The warrior immediately jumps aboard as the ship is leaving the dock. After she learns what is going on, she pays a visit to Autolycus in the hold. As they are talking, Xena and one of the prisoners feel a jolt. On deck, the warrior learns that the water depth is lower than it should be and spots a cloud of ash in the air. She realizes that Mount Aetnas has erupted. Knowing what is going to happen, the captain turns the ship. But it is already too late, as a giant wave approaches the ship.

Order the DVDswritten by Chris Manheim
directed by John Laing
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Bruce Campbell (Autolycus), Todd Rippon (Macon), Stephen Tozer (Thadeus), Toby Fisher (Petridies), Stephen Hall (Captain)

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Farscape Season 3

Eat Me

  • By Dave
  • April 20, 2001

FarscapeAboard a Transport Pod in need of refueling and repair, Crichton, Chiana, D’Argo and Jool encounter an older, diseased Leviathan named Rovhu. Moya has missed their scheduled rendezvous to pursue a distress call from Talyn – and eventually finds the warship badly damaged warship and her captain in a coma. All the four on the Pod know is that they need to dock sooner rather than later, so they decide to board Rovhu. They soon discover the ship has been overrun by scavengers that use the ship, its Pilot, and even themselves as food sources. A greater threat is Kaarvok, a fellow with an appetite for brains who appears to kill both Chiana and D’Argo. In truth, Kaarvok has the capability to “twin” people, creating identical genetic copies. Over time, the process causes degradation, explaining the primitive states of the other scavengers. But for now, that means there’s still a living Chiana and D’Argo, and the four Moyans need no persuading to find a way off this Leviathan from hell.

Order the DVDswritten by Matt Ford
directed by Ian Watson
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh (Jool), Shane Briant (Kaarvok), Lisa Griffiths (Belima)

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Season 10 SG-1 Stargate

Line in the Sand

  • By Dave
  • April 20, 2007

Stargate SG-1Landry sends SG-1 to assist a village that has been approached by the Ori. Carter has developed a prototype of Merin’s phasing device that the IOA hopes will keep the village undetectable when the Ori return. Carter has concerns that the device’s power consumption is too great to make such a large-scale phase successful, and she is proven right when the dimension-shifting field collapses the night before the Ori are to return. Carter can not finish her repairs in time, and the Ori take the village. Carter is severely wounded and the device is damaged, but Mitchell is able to activate and put the two of them out of phase.

Tomin arrives leading the Ori troops, and brings Vala up to the Ori flagship. The Orici has ordered Tomin to educate Vala in the ways of the Ori, but Vala desperately tries to convince Tomin that the Ori have twisted his allegiance and turned him into a murderer. Teal’c tries to remain hidden within the village, but a small group of villagers decides to accept Origin in order to spare their lives. But only the village leader knows how SG-1 has managed to make Carter and Mitchell disappear, and she refuses to surrender. The Prior orders the village destroyed, and cites Origin to Tomin as justification. Tomin has a different interpretation of the text, and argues that those in the village who want to follow Origin should be saved. His entreaties fall on deaf ears . . . which provides an opening for Tomin to question his orders without doubting his faith. On the planet, Mitchell tries to convince Carter to keep her own faith alive – so that she and the village might have a chance to keep on living.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxwritten by Alan McCullough
directed by Andy Mikita
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Tim Guinee (Tomin), Aisha Hinds (Thilana), Eric Breker (Colonel Reynolds) , Aaron Craven (Matar), Greg Anderson (Prior)

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Season 3 Stargate Stargate Atlantis

Echoes

Stargate AtlantisRodney spots a familiar face swimming in the ocean near Atlantis – well, more of a familiar flipper, belonging to the enormous, whale-like creature that helped his colleagues find his jumper when it crash-landed in the water. But it’s not alone this time – another creature of the same species is with it, and more are converging on Atlantis. Their appearance coincides with a series of strange sightings in the city itself, as first Teyla, then Dr. Weir, then Dr. Beckett, see visions of Ancients who aren’t there. Sheppard and Rodney go to investigate the water creatures, only to find that their whalesong-like communications are potentially fatal to humans. Aboard the Daedalus, Colonel Caldwell makes a strong argument for killing the creatures before they wreak any more havoc, and when Beckett’s sick bay is full of people who are literally dying from the whales’ approach, it’s a plan that Weir finds it hard to disagree with.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxstory by Brad Wright & Carl Binder
telelplay by Carl Binder
directed by William Waring
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Claire Rankin (Dr. Heightmeyer), David Nykl (Dr. Zelenka), Mitch Pileggi (Col. Caldwell), Patricia Nudd (Ancient Woman), David Neale (Ancient Pilot), David Quinlan (Ancient Scientist), Amanda Burke (Ancient Scientist), Michael Chase (Ancient Med Tech)

Notes: Rodney originally had a whale of a time in the ocean in Grace Under Pressure, and nicknames his aquatic friend “Sam” in honor of that occasion (whether or not Colonel Samantha Carter would actually find this to be flattering remains to be seen).

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2000s Series Season 1 V

We Can’t Win

V (2000s series)The resistance movement is in chaos: drawn out into the open by the “John May lives” message, members of the Fifth Column within the Visitors’ own ranks are slaughtered. The human resistance leaders’ lives are in disarray: Erica’s son Tyler, having learned that the man he grew up with is not his real father, loses his faith in both of his parents and flees to the Visitors’ mothership with Lisa. Ryan’s pregnant wife is on the run after learning that the baby she’s expecting isn’t entirely human, but if the Visitors find her, there will be no safe place for her. And on the Visitors’ ship, Lisa – Anna’s own daughter – fails the loyalty test Anna has devised to weed out defectors among her own people. But as Erica discovers, there are also humans willing to sell out their own kind.

written by Christine Roum & Cameron Litvack
directed by David Barrett
music by Marco Beltrami

Guest Cast: Charles Mesure (Kyle Hobbes), Ty Olsson (Jeffrey), Christopher Shyer (Marcus), Mark Hildreth (Joshua), Lexa Doig (Dr. Pearlman), Roark Critchlow (Paul Kendrick), Rekha Sharma (Agent Sarita Malik), Lucas Wolf (Samuel), Ernesto Griffith (Secretary-General), Ken Camroux-Taylor (Victor Caruso), Nicholas Carella (Alex Caruso)

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Doctor Who New Series Season 07

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Doctor WhoThe TARDIS brings the Doctor and Clara to Caliban House, a reportedly haunted mansion where a paranormal investigator and a potent psychic are trying to solve the mystery of a series of ghost sightings on the property. Claiming to be a government inspector, the Doctor elbows his way into the investigation, learning that the sightings stretch back to the first photographs ever taken at Caliban House. The Doctor is willing to bet that they go back even further than that, traveling backward and forward in time while always remaining in the same spot to prove his point. He discovers that the “ghost” is a time-distorted image of a young woman who may be the first human time travel test pilot. But something else is hot on her heels, and the Doctor risks his own life and his new psychic friend’s sanity to rescue the errant time traveler before she becomes its victim.

Order the DVDwritten by Neil Cross
directed by Jamie Payne
music by Murray Gold

Cast: Matt Smith (The Doctor), Jenna-Louise Coleman (Clara), Dougray Scott (Alec Palmer), Jessica Raine (Emma Grayling), Kemi-Bo Jacobs (Hila), Aidan Cook (The Crooked Man)

Notes: In theory, the Doctor’s visit to the (long since destroyed) geographical location of Caliban House on planet Earth’s last day may mean that his ninth incarnation and Rose are Doctor Whoorbiting overhead in Station One, partying down with Cassandra, the Face of Boe, and Jabe (The End Of The World, 2005) at exactly the same time. The Doctor uses a blue crystal from Metebelis 3 (The Green Death, Planet Of The Spiders) to amplify Emma’s psychic powers. The story begins on November 25th, 1974 – eleven years and two days after the premiere of Doctor Who. Jessica Raine would go on to appear as Doctor Who creator Verity Lambert in the docudrama An Adventure In Space And Time.

LogBook entry & review by Earl Green