Stargate SG1 The Scourge Welcome to a new episode of the Stargate Archives and Tim joins me once again and we discuss the Season 9 SG1 episode “The Scourge”. An unprepared SG1 are assigned a last minute mission to “babysit” members of the IOA who are going to visit the Gamma site home of classified scientific experiments, Richard Woolsey is heading…

Stargate SG1 Off The Grid On this episode of the Stargate Archives I am joined by Tim who chose the SG1 episode “Off The Grid” which is the sixteenth episode from the ninth season of the show. A briefing by Colonel Reynolds (Eric Breker) indicates a potentially galactic scale problem with a engineered form of Kassa (space corn) which has extreme ad…

Stargate Theatre Métal Hurlant Chronicles - Master of Destiny On this episode of the Stargate Archives podcast we once again visit the Stargate Theatre and watch a member of the Stargate family do their stuff, in this case it is Joe Flanigan in the Métal Hurlant Chronicles episode Master of Destiny. Métal Hurlant was originally a scifi/horror graph…

Stargate Theatre Sea Beast Here we are again with a new edition of Stargate Theatre part of the Stargate Archives podcast and I am taking a look at the 2008 made for tv movie “Sea Beast” aka “Troglodyte” which starred Corin Nemec and Camille Sullivan. The movie was directed by Paul Ziller and tells of the events in a small fishing community as some…

Stargate Theatre Mega Snake On this episode of Stargate Theatre I’m taking a look at the 2007 made for tv movie “Mega Snake” which stars Michael Shanks as an EMT who has to deal with a “mystical” snake which grows to an enormous size thanks to its diet of fresh meat and it has a taste for human flesh. Mega Snake was made for the Syfy Channel and wa…

Stargate Theatre Deadly Voltage On this episode of Stargate Theatre I am taking a look at the 2015 made for tv movie “Deadly Voltage” starring Mike Dopud as Jamie and Alaina Huffman as Charlotte. The movie was directed by John L'Ecuyer and tells the story of a family who are taking a trip to commemorate the death of a family member when a freak ele…

Stargate Theatre Metal Shifters Here we are again for another Stargate Archives podcast and a Stargate Theatre presentation of the 2011 tv movie “Metal Shifters” aka “Iron Invaders” aka “Iron Golem”. The movie was written and directed by Paul Ziller with the music provided by Christopher Nickel and Stunt Coordination by Glenn Ennis. There is also a…

Stargate Theatre Abominable Snowman On this episode of Stargate Theatre I am taking a look at the 2013 made for tv movie “Abominable Snowman” aka “Deadly Descent” which stars the former Stargate actor Chuck Campbell and co-stars Adrian Paul from Highlander fame. The movie follows the exploits of Brian Tanner (Chuck) who lost family and friends in t…

Stargate Theatre Dragon Wasps My thanks for joining me on this latest trip down the rabbit hole that is “b” movies that feature or star former Stargate actors, in this episode of the podcast will be taking a look at the 2012 movie Dragon Wasps which starred Corin Nemec and Benjamin Easterday. This movie follows the adventures of two young women (Gi…

Stargate Theatre Loch Ness Terror On this new episode of Stargate Theatre part of the Stagate Archives podcast I am taking a look at the 2008 tv monster movie “Beyond Loch Ness” aka “Loch Ness Terror” which starred Brian Krause (James) with Carrie Genzel (Karen Riley), Niall Matter (Josh Riley) and Don S. Davis (Neil Chapman). The movie opens upon …

Stargate Theatre Chupacabra vs The Alamo On the latest Stargate Theatre we take a look at the 2013 tv movie “Chupacabra vs The Alamo” aka Beast of the Alamo which stars Erik Estrada and Julia Benson with Aleks Paunovic, Zak Santiago, Nicole Muñoz and a few other faces we’ve seen in Stargate. The movie was made for the Syfy channel and is set in and…

Stargate Theatre Morlocks We’re back with Stargate Theatre and Morlocks aka Time Machine: Rise of the Morlocks which was a production for Syfy and released in 2011, it starred David Hewlett and Robert Picardo with Christina Cole and Daniel Caltagirone in supporting roles. The story takes its inspiration from the H.G. Wells Time Machine novel but fa…

Stargate Theatre The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon from 2008 is the latest movie I am taking a look at under the Stargate Theatre banner, the movie stars Michael Shanks and Shannen Doherty with JR Bourne and others who will be familiar to Stargate fans. The movie begins with an archaeological expedition led…

Stargate Theatre Wyvern Welcome to the new episode of Stargate Theatre part of the Stargate Archives podcast and this week I am looking at the 2009 monster movie “Wyvern” which debuted on the Scifi channel Jan 31st of that year. The movie is set in the small Alaskan town of Beaver Mills which is a couple of days away from summer solstice and the en…

Stargate Theatre Ferocious Planet Well meaning scientists once again cause trouble in the tv movie “Ferocious Planet” which is the subject of this new episode of Stargate Theatre part of the Stargate Archives. This movie stars Joe Flanigan who recently spent a mighty fine five years playing Colonel John Shepherd on Stargate Atlantis and here he pla…

Stargate Theatre Stonehenge Apocalypse Stonehenge Apocalypse is the latest movie I am taking a look at under the Stargate Theatre banner and this made for tv movie stars Misha Collins and Torri Higginson along with other notable actors we have seen on Stargate including Peter Wingfield, Michael Kopsa, David Lewis and Aaron Pearl. The movie premiere…

Stargate Theatre Jason X Welcome to another episode of Stargate Theatre part of the Stargate Archives podcast, this episode is taking a look at the 2001 scifi/horror movie Jason X which featured Stargate actors Lexa Doig and Chuck Campbell. This movie is the tenth in the Friday The 13th franchise and didn’t do well critically or at the boxoffice bu…

Stargate Theatre Sand Sharks On this episode of Stargate Theatre I am taking a look at the 2012 Corin Nemec starring movie “Sand Sharks”. Corin plays Jimmy a slick piece of work who returns to his home town with the intent to organise a spring break music festival. While the Sheriff isn’t happy to see Jimmy back the Mayor (Jimmy’s Dad) is delighted…

Stargate Theatre Arctic Blast Welcome to the first edition of Stargate Theatre as I watch and comment on movies (Theatrical and TV) that feature the regular cast members of Stargate or contain multiple appearances from semi-regular or significant guest stars. This format also allows me to do a single voice podcast as arranging for people to join me…

Stargate SG1 Urgo What appears to be a routine mission to a world that looks well lovely the team enter the gate and to them step out into the SGC, they find out that 15 hours have passed and they are immediately sent to the infirmary. Dr Fraiser discovers that each of the team have an alien device embedded in their brains and it is radiating energ…

Stargate SG1 Between Two Fires The members of SG1 attend a memorial for Omoc the Tollan who they encountered a few years earlier. They were surprised to be invited but find out from Narim ( Garwin Sanford ) that despite his rather gruff personality Omoc respected them. Even more surprising to Jack and company is the revelation by High Chancellor Tr…

Legend Skeletons in the Closet Here we are for the final episode of Legend the 1995 single season (half at that) which starred Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie. In this concluding episode entitled “Skeletons in the Closet” we see the Professor experimenting with moving pictures using a zoetrope with Ernest aka Legend as his star although th…

Legend Clueless in San Francisco During an epic experiment the Professor is interrupted by the arrival of a woman who is looking for the services of Nicodemus in an attempt to find her family, she had been found as a young girl in the plains by a local tribe and raised to womanhood. Ernest takes some convincing as he was looking forward to vacation…

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Legend Revenge of the Herd On this latest new episode from the Stargate Archives we’re back in the wild west for episode 9 of the one and only season of the Richard Dean Anderson show “Legend”. In this episode Ernest is pressured by his publisher to host a hunt for Ludwig Hauptman (Reiner Schöne) a visiting dignitary from Europe, given money is inv…

Legend Bone of Contention We return to the world of Ernest Pratt aka Nicodemus Legend as he gets himself involved in the conflict between the pursuit of science and the pursuit of money when Dinosaur fossils are discovered near Sheridan soon followed by death and betrayal. When a man dies bringing a dinosaur fossil to the Professor the search is on…

Legend The Gospel According to Legend Religion comes to Sheridan when an old nemesis of Ernest arrives leading a revival ministry and posing as a preacher. Naturally Ernest is sceptical but is he any different after all he makes most of his income while pretending to be someone else…. Ernest attends the first sermon and it soon becomes apparent tha…

Legend Knee-High Noon Cattle rustlers are becoming a nuisance and Legend is tasked to capture them but gets distracted when a woman (Laura Davenport) comes into town seemingly a fan of both Legend and Ernest with a small favour to ask and which she will be very grateful if it could be granted. As it turns out her son (Ben) is living his life in the…

Stargate SG1 Entity A routine MALP transit to P9C-372 does not go well when the remote device suddenly begins to float away and high energy discharges are observed, a feedback signal is also detected which grows in strength at which point Jack manually shuts down the systems but people are still hurt as the overload peaks. Sam and Walter are taken …

Third Rock From The Sun Auto Eurodicka In honour of the birthday of French Stewart we’re releasing the Gatecast bonus episode of Third Rock From The Sun entitled “Auto Eurodicka” in which the family look to purchase a car and Dick makes a new friend. The episode also features a number of the DeLuise family. In Auto Eurodicka we find Dick Solomon go…

Stargate SG1 Beachhead A Prior of the Ori arrives on the Jaffa world of Kallana and offers the people Origin, they turn him down but he states that this world will still serve the Ori as he proceeds to eliminate the Jaffa and raises a large energy shield around the Stargate. Nerus ( Maury Chaykin ) a former confederate of Ba’al sends a message to t…

Legend Episode 5 “The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill Hickok” In this latest episode from the Stargate Archives we return to the 1995 Richard Dean Anderson series “Legend” and it’s fifth episode which deals with the arrival of Wild Bill Hickok a true legend of the west. In this episode Wild Bill (William Russ) arrives in Sheridan to recruit Nico…

Stargate Atlantis Condemned The team take the jumper through the gate to a world whose people are called “Olesian” who practice an unusual form of punishment for those that break their laws, naturally it turns out that there is far more going on once the team dig beneath the surface of this society. The team visit the Olesian city and begin an agre…

Stargate Universe Gauntlet The Destiny is running scared as the Drone fleet ever present continues to threaten whenever the opportunity presents and with new sensor scans the threat becomes ever more clear as every viable star that could refuel the ship is blockaded. With no immediate hope from Earth the only option is to run a blockade to gain acc…

Legend Episode 4 “Custer's Next to Last Stand” In the fourth episode of the season Ernest becomes involved in the doings of the famous George Armstrong Custer who is touring the Forts in the region while investigating corruption within the war department. Ernest naturally ends up in the deep end after Libbie Custer (former friend) asks for help and…

Stargate SG1 - Prisoners SG1 are exploring a seemingly empty world full of "trees and moss" when they hear a noise and a running man appears, he is scared and speaks of the Taldor. SG1 agree to help him and moments later some sort of airborne technology emits a blinding light and they find themselves under a huge spot light in a vast empty space. T…

Legend Episode 3 “Legend on His President's Secret Service“ In the third of the one and only season of Legend we have Ernest being drawn into a suspected assassination plot against Ulysses S. Grant the current president of the United States, the suspect is one Colonel Ethan Catridge Steele played by Ken Jenkins. The Colonel’s daughter Abigail sort …

Stargate SG1 Season One Kree or not to Kree Well here we are again trying to spice things up a little and thus the beginning of a new series of podcasts which take a look at each season of Stargate and decide if each episode is really worth watching for someone new to the franchise or those like us who have rewatched many a time. Brad joined me for…

Legend Episode 2 “Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan” Here we are for the second episode in the one and only season of Legend as Ernest returns to Sheridan to make it his home both for the advantages being friends with the Professor provides as well as some gentle pushing from his publisher. Naturally the townsfolk are overjoyed to have their hero return b…

Stargate SG1 “The Tomb” Evidence found outside the entrance of a Ziggurat on the planet P2X-338 indicates that a Russian team had visited the world recently, further investigation confirms that a team had been lost on the world prior to the Russian program being shut down after the events of Watergate. A Russian team arrives at the SGC and together…

Legend Birth Of A Legend In this podcast I was looking for something Stargate related I could watch by myself (not as much fun on your own but you make do) and I remembered the Legend television show I bought on DVD last year but never got around to watching. Legend was a short lived show starring Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie about the …

Stargate Atlantis - The Daedalus Variations A Daedalus-class battlecruiser (BC-304) appears above the planet which is the current home of Atlantis and is identified as the actual Daedalus even though it is believed to be in the middle of the jaunt between Pegasus and the Milky Way. The team travel to the ship in a jumper and detect and energy signa…

Stargate Author Interview T. Fox Dunham This week on the Stargate Archives I was joined by author T. Fox Dunham (aka Fox) who had his short story “Hermiod’s Last Mission” included in the Points of Origin anthology published by Fandemonium. His other work tends to focus in the Horror and Supernatural genre as seen by his prolific output in anthologi…

Stargate SG1 - The Fifth Race Daniel discovers very old and interesting text on some data returned by a probe, it matches one of the languages discovered on the world that was home to Ernest Littlefield and indicated that at least four alien races were allied. General Hammond authorises a mission and Jack is pretty much bored silly until he looks i…

Journal Entry Six The comments and observations of an unnamed member of Stargate Command after the reactivation of the base under General Hammond.By Mike

Stargate Atlantis Trinity The team exit a space gate and arrive in orbit around the world of Doranda to find huge amounts of Wraith Hive ship wreckage, closer inspection of the planet finds only devastation apart from one structure noticeably more advanced than the surrounding construction. They venture down and find an Ancient outpost relatively u…

Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark Commentary Welcome to this call back to the Gatecast era when we would take a step away from the pure Stargate discussions and cherry pick shows/movies that featured the cast and/or crew from the franchise. As it turned out this year Alan was on call and wanted something to pass the time so we got together over skype and w…

Stargate Universe Hope On this episode of the Stargate Archives I am joined by Evy via twitter who has been following us for a while and commented on a previous episode (Malice). I asked her if she was interested in chatting about another of her favourite Stargate episodes and she said yes and chose the excellent Universe episode “Hope”. In the aft…

Burn Notice Lesser Evil This is being posted on the 15th of December which is the birthday of Michael Shanks and I thought it was worth releasing our Gatecast bonus episode look at Burn Notice onto the Archives feed. Alan and myself watched and discussed the Burn Notice season two finale “Lesser Evil” which has Michael Shanks as a guest star playin…

Journal Entry Five The comments and observations of an unnamed member of Stargate Command after the reactivation of the base under General Hammond. PreviousBy Mike