ORBzine UK TV Roundup October 2000
First Week, October
Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 4]
The Gamekeeper
This was reviewed in our special supplement here!
V: The Series [Season 2]
The entire Season 2 of "V" was broadcast this month, at the rate of one episode per night. The reviews can be found on this month's TV reviews page.
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven [Season 1]
The entire Season 1 of "Crow: Stairway to Heaven" was broadcast this month, at the rate of one episode per night. The reviews can be found on next month's TV reviews page.
McArthur is located by the Feds, who try to capture him. The local Law Enforcement types try to shoot him in the back when he runs away - even though he is clearly unarmed and not a threat.
They eventually catch him and stick him in a yet-to-be-officially-opened Federal prison.
Veiss is doing his Duane Barry routine. He has flashbacks to the time he saw his buddies abducted from a logging camp.
MacArthur has another for to worry about. An alien bounty-hunter - actually one of Veiss's buddies who was abducted by the aliens
This was reviewed in our special supplement
This is an action drama from the early 1990s. The guest-star this week is Emma Caulfield the girl who plays Demon Anya in Buffy the Vampire Slayer . She plays a 20-ish girl who went to L.A. and became a high-class hooker. Like Jeri Lynn Ryan in Co-Ed Call Girl , we get to see her in a string bikini!
Beyond the obvious babe factor, this illustrates why Anya seems so much more mature than the other kids. She's probably about 30 years old by now!
The plot is something to do with a mad bomber or something. What makes this episode stand out is the Captain Cash cartoon, an insert worthy of the original film itself. It advises children that if they let OCP recycle their dead pets [as petfood!] the child will get a nice shiney nickel. The only flaw with this is that it doesn't take inflation into account.
This is the TV show about a lame cop who is a night-time vigilante and fights evil using his souped-up 1983 Honda motorbike. The show's regular babe is played by Marilu Henner [Taxi]. The music is by Tangerine Dream.
In the Pilot episode the villain is played by Christopher Lloyd [Back to the Future].
[Season 1] Dennis Franz [NYPD Blue] pops up as a senior detective.
This episode is about a TV presenter who runs a live TV broadcast inside a haunted house. The result is something reminiscent of Blair Witch Project . He runs into trouble, and asks his crew for help. Instead of helping him, they tell him Keep doing it, we've got great viewing figures!
Fist of the North Star
The super-thug scares off a biker gang who've heard of his reputation. Then he helps some villagers who object to paying for their water supply.
Babylon 5: Crusade [Season 1, Episode 12]
Each Night I Dream of Home
This was reviewed in our special supplement
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Mortal Kombat: Conquest [Season 1, Episode 10]
Unholy Alliance
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Second Week, October
Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 5]
Need
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Farscape [Season 2, Episode 10]
My Three Crichtons
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Six Million Dollar Man, The [Season , Episode]
Lindsay Wagner is the bionic woman, star of this show. Richard Anderson plays the same character he does in the Lee Majors show. This time he sends her on a rescue mission to sunny Costa Brava - no, not the sunny Spanish holiday resort. No, this is a fictional country somewhere in South America. Her assistant is a mysoginist old git who constantly forwards the view that it is no job for a woman. Of course, bionic Jamie proves him wrong.
Thunderbirds [Season 1, Episode 13]
Vault of Death
This is reviewed in a special supplement
Star Trek: The Original Series [Season 1, Episode 11-2]
The Menagerie I & II
This was reviewed in our special supplement
This appears to be from the Season 1999/2000 - to start with, there is new theme music.
Dick [Lithgow] decides to sell the family's old car. Meanwhile, his dimwitted brother Harry learns about the concept of insurance ...
Weird Science [Season 3, Episode 11]
The Wyatt Brief
We get another dose of the spin-off show, with Vanessa Angel as the electronic genie Lisa and Lee Tergesen [Oz, Shaft] as the thuggish brother played by Bill Paxton in the movie.
This was reviewed in our special supplement
This episode was directed by Diane Keaton.
Windom Earl [Kenneth Welsh - Crocodile Dundee 2] is in town, with evil plans for Agent Cooper. Other Guest Stars include Sherilyn Fenn 's on-screen uncle [David Patrick Kelly - Dreamscape], Joan Chen 's on-screen husband [David Warner - TMNT 2 ] and Cooper's FBI associate [Miguel Ferrer - Robocop ].
Third Week, October
Stargate SG-1 [Season 2, Episode 6]
Thor's Chariot
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Farscape [Season 2, Episode 14]
Beware of Dog
This was reviewed in our special supplement
This is a hi-tech thriller, but not really SF. However, this episode the Guest Star is Marjean Holden[ Crusade ]. She plays a pit-fighter - well, pool-fighter. Holden selects the protagonist, Nikita, as her opponent in a gladiatoral match to the death.
For some strange reason, their skimpy dresses don't get ripped off!
The UFO pilot killed in the previous episode is given an autopsy by the NSA. However, MacArthur must recover the body and somehow convince the aliens that the dead guy was never on Earth ...
The FBI guys now have a rookie on their team, to replace the agent suspended for freeing MacArthur last episode.
This was reviewed in our special supplement
This is about 4 astronauts who are on the third manned mission to Mars. Their mission is to discover what happened to the first 2 missions.
They discover that there is intelligent life on Mars. Differently sane life, perhaps, but definitely intelligent. The Martians are English-speaking humans with their skin painted silver. They are psychic, and extremely illogical. The most important one is played by Gordon Pinsent Jnr [Fraser Snr from Due South].
Star Trek: The Original Series [Season 1, Episode 15]
Shore Leave
This was reviewed in our special supplement
First Wave [Season 1, Episode 2]
Crazy Eddie
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Xena [Season 4, Episode 3]
A Family Affair
This was reviewed in our special supplement
The Hunger
A young woman decides she wants to become a stripper. However, she finds out the place she applies to is a weird kind of S&M parlour.
Six Million Dollar Man, The [Season , Episode]
Bionic Woman [Season 1, Pilot]
Lindsay Wagner wakes up in a hospital bed with severe amnesia. She cannot remember the skydiving accident, or her relationship with Steve. She knows that they grew up together, that when her parents died she was aged 16, and Steve's parents became her legal guardians. Incest!!!
The babe seems to think that her doctor is the new love interest. This is more like a soap opera than an action show.
Fist of the North Star
raging flame reverse flow punch: there are too many who must die
Last episode the hero won a phyrric victory. This time he tries to get a water supply for the villagers.
He meets a nobleman who offers him an alliance - and will help him rescue his GF. However, he is a communist or something, and rejects the offer.
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Mortal Kombat: Conquest [Season 1, Episode 11]
Thicker Than Blood
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Six Million Dollar Man, The [Season , Episode]
Bionic Woman [Season 1]
Lindsay Wagner is hired by a middle-aged villain to steal some secret documents. The villain's 30-something son is impressed by her, but refuses to believe that his father is the villain she says he is.
The Bionic Woman appears to be still living with Steve Austin's parents.
Star Trek: Voyager [Season 4, Episode 11]
Concerning Flight
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Nothing new here. Veiss harrasses a group of OAP scientists. Surprise surprise, we finally get the cliched woman giving birth plot.
Star Trek: Voyager [Season 4, Episode 12]
Mortal Coil
This was reviewed in our special supplement
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Cardigan has to track down a female cyborg who is killing off the people she blames for her military unit being wiped out in a war.
Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 18]
Visitors From Beyond The Stars
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 19] The Ghost of Nero
This was reviewed in our special supplement
The heroine [ Lori Singer ] and a Secret Agent-type recurring character [Anthony Head - Buffy ] investigate a coverup concerning an air crash. Head got off the plane that crashed just before it lifted off; was he somehow responsible?
This is very far from the character of Giles in BTVS. And Head does a great job of pulling off the tough-guy act.
Babylon 5 [Season 4, Episode 6]
Into The Fire
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Babylon 5 [Season 4, Episode 7] Epiphanies
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Babylon 5 [Season 4, Episode 8] Illusion of Truth
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Angel [Season 1, Episode 6]
Sense & Sensitivity
This shown has been edited by Channel 4 to remove violence. Not only is it hard to follow because of the missing scenes, it is also so short they can squeeze 2 episodes into 90 minutes [including advert breaks]!
Angel [Season 1, Episode 7] The Bachelor Party
This was reviewed in our special supplement
First Wave [Season 1, Episode 3]
Mata Hari
This was reviewed in our special supplement
First Wave [Season 1, Episode 4] Hypnotic
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Xena [Season 4, Episode 4]
In Sickness And In Hell
This was reviewed in our special supplement
The Hunger
This is based on a story by Tanith Lee
David Warner [ TMNT 2 ] plays the butler of a strange woman who is distantly related to Dracula.
The Hunger The Seductress
This is based on a story by Ramsay Campbell . A woman is romanced by William Katt [Greatest American Hero], who REALLY looks his age.
Red Dwarf [Season 4, Episode 6]
Meltdown
This is reviewed in our special supplement!
David Warner [ TMNT 2 ] pops up again, as a villain who has his claws in Joan Chen . Billy Zane [The Phantom] is Sherilyn Fenn 's new love interest. Supernatural arch-villain Bob puts in yet another appearance, and someone dies for no apparent reason. The 2 cops present do not even attempt CPR!
Six Million Dollar Man, The [Season , Episode]
Bionic Woman [Season 1]
Jamie takes some orphan kids on a picnic. Wow, that's exciting.
Fist of the North Star
Villains! Listen to the Blues of Hell!
Our hero meets a little crippled orphan kid. He is a friend of the comedy sidekick's, so they all go back to the orphanage together. Water is short, and they have two options for getting it. Either dig a well through solid rock, or steal water from the bad guys.
There is a bounty on the hero's head. Nobody is smart enough to find out WHY he's so valuable, and thus never realises how dangerous he is.
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Mortal Kombat: Conquest [Season 1, Episode 12]
Shadow of a Doubt
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Fourth Week, October
This was reviewed in our special supplement
The hero, Jake Cardigan, gets headhunted into an elite Federal Agency called Tek Posse. However, this dream job turns out to be different from what he expected. For example, the Uber-Feds are willing to torture a witness to death when she witholds information to protect her family from Tek Lord reprisals.
Also, Cardigan's former associates [including Shatner's character himself] turn into obnoxious, resentful assholes for no reason whatsoever.
Time Cop [Season 1]
The Future, Jack, The Future
Logan has a new partner, Tom Maddox [Bruce Campbell].
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Six Million Dollar Man, The [Season , Episode]
Steve Austin comes up against a car-sized robot probe thing.
Angel [Season 1, Episode 8]
I Will Remember You
Angel [Season 1, Episode 9] Hero
This was reviewed in our special supplement
First Wave [Season 1, Episode 6]
Speaking in Tongues
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Buffy the Vampire Slayer [Season 4, Episode 4]
Fear, Itself
This was reviewed in our special supplement
A redneck goes to a funfair carnival, and buys a jar with a strange ... thing floating in it. He takes it home and shows it to his friends, but his cheating wife mocks him ...
This is yet another show produced by Kenneth Johnson [ 6 Million Dollar Man, V ].
A meteor crashes to Earth, and David [not Bruce!] Banner finds himself trapped in a half-Hulk half-Human state. He finds a blind babe to help him. They get to the huge meteor [it's as big as your living room] However, the US Military want the meteor and manage to capture the hulk! Continued next week!
This is a 1990s version of Jules Verne 's Victorian tale of subterranean exploration. John Neville [ X-Files ] commands a drilling vehicle [with onboard AI] that discovers an underground world.
Babylon 5 [Season 4, Episode 9]
Atonement
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Fist of the North Star
I AM DEATH! I'll chase you to the ends of Hell!
This is a follow-up to the last episode. Ken the mass-murderer is after the biker gang. We also see the set-up for the return of the main villain ...
This was reviewed in our special supplement
Farscape [Season 2, Episode 15]
Won't Get Fooled Again
This was reviewed in our special supplement
First Wave [Season 1, Episode 8]
Book of Shadows
This was reviewed in our special supplement
This was reviewed in our special supplement
MacArthur is abducted and held prisoner by the humans, including a token Baldwin brother. They put him on trial, which is a good excuse to show clips from previous episodes.
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