Day: July 17, 1978

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Come Back, Mrs. Noah

In Orbit

PrimevalWith the Britannia 7 space station still stuck in orbit without a qualified crew, Mrs. Noah and the others aboard set about trying to work out the basics of surviving in orbit. When the space station is equipped with such modern marvels as an artificial “space chicken” that disgorges sausage-like strings of eggs, it begins to look as though survival may be a bit more complicated than anyone thought. In the meantime, the BBC kindly provides two-way communication between those stranded on the space station and their families on Earth, and Mrs. Noah discovers that Mr. Noah has been comforted by their buxom next door neighbor.

Come Back, Mrs. Noahwritten by Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft
directed by Bob Spiers
music by John Scott / theme song by David Croft

Cast: Mollie Sugden (Mrs. Noah), Ian Lavender (Clive Cunliffe), Donald Hewlett (Carstairs), Michael Knowles (Fanshaw), Tim Barrett (Mission Controller), Ann Michelle (Assistant Controller), Joe Black (Garstang), Jennifer Lonsdale (The Technician), Gorden Kaye (The Television Presenter), Norman Mitchell (Mr. Noah), Diana King (Mrs. Carstairs), Raymond Bowers (Professor Holzburger), Jennifer Guy (Ivy Basset), Kenneth MacDonald (Space Man)

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Season 02 Star Trek The Next Generation

Shades Of Gray

Star Trek: The Next GenerationStardate 42976.1: While exploring a new planet with Geordi, Riker is stung by an alien thorn whose poison creeps up his spine toward his brain. Pulaski brings him back to the ship and tries to trigger emotional responses to destroy the poison by forcing the first officer to remember his past adventures.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Maurice Hurley, Richard Manning & Hans Beimler
story by Maurice Hurley
directed by Rob Bowman
music by Ron Jones

Cast: Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien)

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Season 02 SG-1 Stargate

The Gamekeeper

Stargate SG-1SG-1 finds a planet where an advanced civilization has obviously set up shop, with several locals apparently encased in some sort of technology that has trapped them and connected to their brains. When they find some empty apparatus similar to those units, SG-1 is ensnared and forcibly plugged into the gear as well. O’Neill and Teal’c awaken to find themselves in some sort of virtual reality scenario that O’Neill recognizes as a mission he served on in 1982 in West Germany, a mission that didn’t turn out well for his teammates. Daniel and Carter find themselves reliving Daniel’s most painful childhood memory, the death of both of his parents. But in both scenarios, even when the sequence of events can be altered, it quickly becomes apparent that someone is watching – a group of hooded observers, and a man who claims to be the Keeper. But while the Keeper is controlling the team’s surroundings, he can’t control their actions, and they soon stop cooperating and find themselves being released from the machines. But even that is no guarantee that they’ve found their way to safety again.

Order the DVDsstory by Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright
teleplay by Jonathan Glassner
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Dwight Schultz (The Keeper), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Jay Acovone (Captain Kawalsky), Michael Rogers (Col. John Michaels), Laara Sadiq (Technician), Lisa Bunting (Claire Jackson), Robert Duncan (Melburn Jackson), Diane Brown (Docent), Gillian Barber (Resident #1), Cathy Weseluck (Resident #2)

Notes: Dwight Schultz is known to TV viewers the world over as The A-Team’s “Howling Mad” Murdock, and to SF fans as the bumbling, neurotic Lt. Reginald Barclay from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. He also has an extensive list of voice acting credits, ranging from The Family Guy and The Animatrix to video and computer games such as Destroy All Humans!, Everquest II, Star Trek: Elite Force II and the Battlestar Galactica game.

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Season 1 Witchblade

Maelstrom

WitchbladePezzini finds it tempting to call in sick and stay in bed all day – with Conchobar – but decides to go to work anyway. Not long after she leaves, however, a band of masked thugs burst into her apartment and kidnap Conchobar. Like him, they’re Irish nationals, but they have no personal interest in him. To his captors, Conchobar is valuable only as a bargaining chip they hope to use to lure his brother, an IRA terrorist, out into the open. Pezzini goes above and beyond the call of duty to find who has taken her lover and where he’s been taken – and she even begins to use powers beyond those granted by her badge to this end. The terrorists want not only money, but the Witchblade itself – and when Kenneth Irons refuses to help her retrieve it, Sara Pezzini finds herself up against the invincible might of her own weapon…and an infinite well of rage and hatred tapped by the death of someone very close to her.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Richard C. Okie
story by Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie
directed by James Whitmore Jr.
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Nestor Serrano (Captain Dante), John Hensley (Gabriel Bowman), Kim De Lury (Conchobar), Trent McMullen (Sean), Deborah Pollitt (Terrorist), Dree MacDonald (Terrorist), Brendan Wall (Terrorist), Tracy Shreve (?), Johnie Chase (?), Kevin Rushton (?), Nenna Abuwa (?)

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