ORBzine UK TV Roundup Xmas 2001 Special
31st December 2001 - Monday - New Year's Eve
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys [Season 4, Episode 21]
Top God
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Smallville [Season 1, Episode 2]
Metemorphosis
Smallville [Season 1, Episode 1] Pilot
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
The 10th Kingdom [Season 1, Episode 6]
Reviewed in our special supplement!
30th December 2001 - Sunday
Bilbo and BeyondRory McGrath presents a documentary that examines JRR Tolkien's early life and WWI, the writing of the his books and their eventual success - as paperback bestsellers on the 1960s American college campuses.
Reviewed in our special supplement!
29th December 2001 - Saturday
Burnt Offerings: The Cult of the Wicker ManMark Kermode introduces this documentary on Britain's ultimate cult horror film. We get information not only on the makings of the movie, but also on the controversial events that resulted in the apparent destruction of the Director's Cut!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Futurama [Season 3, Episode 15]
I Dated A Robot
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Today's SF films include Theatre of Death
28th December 2001 - Friday
Star Trek: VGR [Season 2, Episode 7] ParturitionReviewed in our special supplement!
The 10th Kingdom [Season 1, Episode 5]
Reviewed in our special supplement!
27th December 2001 - Thursday
Star Trek: VGR [Season 2, Episode 6] TwistedReviewed in our special supplement!
The 10th Kingdom [Season 1, Episode 4]
Reviewed in our special supplement!
26th December 2001 - Wednesday - Boxing Day
BBC1 screened the second half of a specially-commissioned version of The Lost WorldReviewed in our special supplement!
The 10th Kingdom [Season 1, Episode 3]
Reviewed in our special supplement!
25th December 2001 - Tuesday - Xmas Day
Star Trek: VGR [Season 2, Episode 4] ElogiumReviewed in our special supplement!
The 10th Kingdom [Season 1, Episode 2]
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Today's SF films include Braindead, Toy Story & Hellraiser
24th December 2001 - Monday - Xmas Eve
Blackadder Back & Forth [45-minute Millennium special]It's New Years' Eve, 1999. Blackadder hosts a dinner party for Fry, Laurie & Co. He accidentally gets sent back in time, in a machine designed by Leonardo DaVinci and built by Baldrick.
We get to see a number of familiar figures from previous series. Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare [Colin Firth - Shakespeare in Love ]. Rik Mayall [ Drop Dead Fred is Robin Hood/Flashheart, and even Wellington pops up.
Reviewed in our special supplement!
The 10th Kingdom [Season 1, Episode 1]
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Futurama [Season 3, Episode 3]
The Cryonic Woman
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Today's SF films include a Ray Harryhausen double-bill: Golden Voyage of Sinbad & Jason and the Argonauts
22nd December 2001 - Saturday
Reviewed in our special supplement!
21st December 2001 - Friday
Reviewed in our special supplement!
20th December 2001 - Thursday
Futurama [Season 3, Episode 9]
The Bird-Bot of Ice-Catraz
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Lois & Clark [Season 2, Episode 9]
Season's Greedings
The BBC have shown Season 2 out of sequence deliberately: this is the Christmas episode. Thankfully, the episode actually works quite well as a stand-alone.
This was reviewed in a special supplement here!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 5, Episode 1]
The Tomb
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Relic Hunter [Season 1, Episode 19]
Love Letter
Reviewed in our special supplement!
19th December 2001 - Wednesday
Red Dwarf [Season 4, Episode 5]
Dimension Jump
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Mutant X [Season 1, Episode 10]
Dark Star Rising
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 5, Episode 16]
Summit
Stargate SG-1 [Season 5, Episode 7] Beast of Burden
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
18th December 2001 - Tuesday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 22]
Vengeance
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 4, Episode 17]
Atonement
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 5, Episode
]
Rite of Passage
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: VGR [Season 7, Episode
]
Star Trek: VGR [Season 1, Episode 14] Faces
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Today's SF films include Gattacca, Clan of the Cave Bear & Mad Max 2: Road Warrior
17th December 2001 - Monday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 21]
Stolen Lies
Reviewed in our special supplement!
The story starts in The Barbaric North - Blackburn 1645 . Captain Tobias Slater, witch locator, is cursed by one of his victims as she burns at the stake. He is then summoned to the village of Devil's Hole, where evil is afoot. He probes and screw-tinizes every woman in the village, with the help of his dwarf assistant [Warwick Davis - Willow ].
Stargate SG-1 [Season 5, Episode 4]
Red Sky
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Farscape [Season 3, Episode 17]
Revenging Angel
Reviewed in our special supplement!
The Mysterons plan to assassinate the Supreme Commander of Earth's Military. Captains Blue and Scarlet are assigned as bodyguards while the Commander attends trials of a new super-tank called the Unitron.
Today's SF films include Barb Wire
16th December 2001 - Sunday
Roswell High [Season 2, Episode 14]
How the Other Half Lives (2)
Reviewed in our special supplement!
15th December 2001 - Saturday
Invisible Man [Season 2, Episode 1]
Legends
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Psychiatrist Miguel Ferrer [ Robocop ] interviews new patient Malcolm McDowell [ Clockwork Orange ]. McDowell suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and is convinced that if he stops his compulsive behaviour then bad things(tm) will happen.
A young deaf woman discovers that she has the power to read someone else's thoughts. Unfortunately she is a Court sketch artist, and the only person whose thoughts she can read is a corrupt cop. Worse, he knows that she knows ...
X-Files [Season 8, Episode 3]
Patience
Reviewed in our special supplement!
14th December 2001 - Friday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 20]
Balance Of Power
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 5, Episode 2]
The Fifth Man
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: VGR [Season 1, Episode 12]
Heroes and Demons
Star Trek: VGR [Season 1, Episode 11] State of Flux
Reviewed in our special supplement!
13th December 2001 - Thursday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 19]
Flawed Victory
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Lois & Clark [Season 2, Episode 20]
Individual Responsibility
This was reviewed in a special supplement here!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 5, Episode 1]
Ascension
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
12th December 2001 - Wednesday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 18]
In Kold Blood
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Red Dwarf [Season 4, Episode 4]
White Hole
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 5, Episode 15]
Fail Safe
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 4, Episode 22] Threshold
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
11th December 2001 - Tuesday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 17]
The Master
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 4, Episode 16]
Trapped By Time
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 4, Episode 21]
Double Jeopardy
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: VGR [Season 6, Episode
]
Star Trek: VGR [Season 1, Episode 8] Ex Post Facto
Reviewed in our special supplement!
10th December 2001 - Monday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 16]
Kreeya
Reviewed in our special supplement!
A famous ballroom dancer is victim of a horiffic accident that severs both his feet. He manages to get new feet surgically grafted onto his body. However, they are eeeevil feet.
Stargate SG-1 [Season 4, Episode 20]
Entity
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
9th December 2001 - Sunday
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 3, Episode 14]
Foothold
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 2, Episode 18]
Profit And Loss
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 2, Episode 19] Blood Oath
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Xena: Warrior Princess [Season 6, Episode 22]
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Roswell High [Season 2, Episode 13]
Disturbing Behaviour (1)
Reviewed in our special supplement!
8th December 2001 - Saturday
The friendly alien teaches the teenage son of the family that driving without a licence is baaaad.
Invisible Man [Season 1, Episode 14]
Cat And Mouse
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
A young officer aboard a cargo ship suspects there are stowaways aboard. However, something is killing them off.
A young woman [ Natascha Gregson Wagner ] is treated by her psychiatrist [ Pam Grier ] for apparent multiple personality syndrome.
X-Files [Season 8, Episode 2]
Without (2)
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 2, Episode 16]
Shadowplay
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 2, Episode 17] Playing God
Reviewed in our special supplement!
7th December 2001 - Friday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 15]
The Serpent & The Ice
Reviewed in our special supplement!
X-Files [Season 1, Episode 22]
The Erhlrmeyer Flask
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 4, Episode 19]
Double Jeopardy
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: VGR [Season 1, Episode 5] Phage
Reviewed in our special supplement!
6th December 2001 - Thursday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 14]
Festival of Death
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Futurama [Season 3, Episode 2]
War is the H-Word
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Lois & Clark [Season 2, Episode 19]
Target: Jimmy Olsen
This was reviewed in a special supplement here!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 4, Episode 18]
Entity
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Relic Hunter [Season 1, Episode 9]
The Book Of Love
Reviewed in our special supplement!
5th December 2001 - Wednesday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 13]
Twisted Truths
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Red Dwarf [Season 4, Episode 3]
Justice
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 5, Episode 14]
48 Hours
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 4, Episode 17] The Prodigy
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: VGR [Season 1, Episode 3] Parallax
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Relic Hunter [Season 1, Episode 8]
Etched In Stone
Reviewed in our special supplement!
4th December 2001 - Tuesday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 12]
Shadow of a Doubt
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 4, Episode 15]
Street Chase
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 4, Episode 16]
The Light
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: VGR [Season 6, Episode
]
Star Trek: VGR [Season 1, Episode 2] Caretaker [Part II]
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Relic Hunter [Season 1, Episode 7]
Transformation
Reviewed in our special supplement!
3rd December 2001 - Monday
Mortal Kombat [Season 1, Episode 11]
Thicker Than Blood
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Three somewhat obnoxious strangers are trapped in an elevator in Amicus House. Yes, this is a parody of the 1970s Horror anthology films.
Stargate SG-1 [Season 4, Episode 15]
Chain Reaction
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: VGR [Season 6, Episode
]
Star Trek: VGR [Season 1, Episode 1] Caretaker [Part I]
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Relic Hunter [Season 1, Episode 6]
Diamond In The Rough
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Farscape [Season 3, Episode 16]
Infinite Possibilites II: Icarus Abides
Reviewed in our special supplement!
2nd December 2001 - Sunday
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: VGR [Season 5, Episode 15]
Dark Frontier [Part I]
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Stargate SG-1 [Season 3, Episode 13]
The Devil You Know
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 2, Episode 10]
Sanctuary
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 2, Episode 9] Second Sight
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Roswell High [Season 2, Episode 12]
We Are Family
Reviewed in our special supplement!
1st December 2001 - Saturday
Invisible Man [Season 1, Episode 13]
Reunion
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Thora Birch wanders into a hedge maze, and emerges to find the world deserted and on the brink of destruction. Amanda Plummer pops up as a crazy woman.
A man drives into a small town somewhere in the USA. He realises something is amiss ... music is banned there, on pain of death.
Star Trek: VGR [Season 5, Episode 14]
Bliss
Reviewed in our special supplement!
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 2, Episode 8]
Necessary Evil
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 2, Episode 7] Rules of Acquisition
Reviewed in our special supplement!
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