ORBzine - UK TV Roundup May 2000
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First Week, May 2000
Herc gets a bash on the head, and Hera's worshippers convince him he is a Prince. . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . .
Second Week, May 2000
Herc and Aeolus must save a bunch of babies from a Queen [cast in the mold of Lady MacBeth] who talks her husband into ordering them arrested. One of the babies will grow up to become King, the soothsayer said ... Aeolus gets strange dreams that lead him north - and as in Close Encounters of the Third Kind he meets up with [2] others who have had the same vision. This seems to have a link to the Xena Season 2 Xmas Special [with Santicles]; Gabby gave her donkey to a man and his pregnant wife - while here the 3 wise men find a woman giving birth in a stable ...
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . . 3rd Rock From The Sun [Season 4, Episode 8] Indecent Dick Kristen Johnston is going to pose naked in PlayPen magazine, and Dick is impressed. However, he is offended when he discovers his GF Jane Curtin posed naked for art photos 20 years previously!
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . Prey [Season 1, Episode 3] Pursuit The heroes track down the serial killer Lynch, who burns himself to a crisp to avoid capture. However, enough remains for Larry Drake & co to trace the new species to South Mexico. Also, Sloan discovers that the creatures have psychic powers - they can detect a human presence, and even pick up emotions! Thanks to Larry Drake's press conference last episode announcing the discovery of the creatures, they panic. All of their agents in LA [108 of them!] torch their apartments to dispose of the evidence and then disappear.
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . . Roar [Season 1, Episode 10] Traps Reviewed in our special supplement here! . New Adventures of Robin Hood [Season 3, Episode 8] A Date With Destiny This is reviewed in a special supplement here! . . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . . Codename: Eternity [Season 1, Episode 1] Ethaniel's Story Reviewed in our special supplement here! .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . .
Third Week, May 2000
Herc and Aeolus meet a squeeky-voiced Dragon who is in the control of a warlord who's been waiting 10 years to get even with Herc ... . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . . 3rd Rock From The Sun [Season 4, Episode 9] Happy New Dick! New Years Eve 1998 - can Dick actually achieve something before 1999 arrives?
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . Prey [Season 1, Episode 4] Origins Dr Parker, her sidekick lab assistant and Tom the tame non-human, take a trip to South Mexico. They discover the mummified corpse of a 10-year-old non-human female, and signs of ruins. The non-humans discover their presence, and scan them using strange grid-beam spotlights. Do the creatures have advanced technology. Walter Attwood [Larry Drake] tells them he is secretly working for the US Federal Government - and the scientists are shocked that their Government would be interested in work that is so clearly vital to National Security! In fact, it turns out he works for the President's National Security Advisor. However, their suspicions are belayed when he shares his own info with them. This includes satellite photos of South Mexico which reveals a village mile and a half across, buried under 15 feet of sand for the last 50 years. The village was abandoned around 1964, when its population was about 1000-1200. Since the creatures can conceive at age 10 and have 4 uteruses, there could now be as many as 187,000 of them. The mummy has a tattoo that matches the pattern on the non-humans' beds. This tattoo was only put on those designated to become leaders - and Tom has one too. He returns to his home, where he meets the mother he has not seen in 19 years - he was aged 11 when they conscripted him. We see the use of the non-humans' secret weapon; the poisoned tongue-stud! Tom is captured and tortured - can Parker and the African-American cop save him?
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . . New Adventures of Robin Hood [Season 3, Episode 11] Body and Soul This is reviewed in a special supplement here! . . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . . The Outer Limits [Season 1, Episode 20] Birthright A United States Senator wakes up in hospital diagnosed with a severe concussion. His Security Detail enter and walk him out, along with all records and x-rays. He is interrogated by men who want to know what his mission is, and finds himself reliant on regular injections of a strange substance.
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . . Codename: Eternity [Season 1, Episode 2] The Mission Reviewed in our special supplement here! . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . .
Fourth Week, May 2000
As in Season 4, Herc stays out of sight for most of the episode. Aeolus' first lady-love is married to his cousin, a King. Aeolus is mistaken for his cousin, a King who is trying to organise a Peace treaty conference. In a redneck town, Christian Slater's grandpa drops dead - then gets up and acts like nothing happened. As he starts to rot the preacher [Randy Quaid] drops round and has a word with the family.
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . . Prey [Season 1, Episode 5] [Previously reviewed last year] Revelations The team take the pillar to Larry Drake's secret warehouse base. They examine it, and discover the strange signs indicate the path of a comet. The nonhumans arrive, and Larry Drake blows up the warehouse. BTW, is this reviewer the only one who thinks Drake's Fed boss is too young?
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . .
Reviewed in our special supplement here! . . . Codename: Eternity [Season 1, Episode 3] The Hunter Reviewed in our special supplement here! |
Hercules [Season 3, Episode 8]
Prince Hercules
Sliders [Season 2, Episode 1]
Into The Mystic
Star Trek: Voyager [Season 5, Episode 12]
Bride of Chaotica
Farscape [Season 1, Episode 19]
Nerve
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 6, Episode 23]
Profit And Lace
Buffy [Season 3, Episode 5]
Homecoming
Xena: Warrior Princess [Season 2, Episode 19]
The Execution
Charmed [Season 1]
Babylon 5 [Season 3, Episode 16]
War Without End [Part I]
Battlestar Galactica [Season 1, Episode 3]
Planet of the Gods
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