ORBzine - UK TV Roundup March 1999

24th February 1999 - Tuesday

Highlander [Season 2, Episode 14] Unholy Alliance: Part 1

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

25th February 1999 - Wednesday

Star Trek: TNG [Season 5, Episode 20] Cost of Living

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer [Season 1, Episode 8] The Pack

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

X-Files [Season 5, episode 17] All Souls

This is a Scully episode - Mulder appears for an obligatory five seconds, but Gillian Anderson carries the entire show magnificently.

26th February 1999 - Thursday

Prey [Season 1, Episode 3] Pursuit

This reviewer only caught a glimpse - however, it seems to have an actual plot arc!

2nd March 1999 - Tuesday

Highlander [Season 2, Episode 15] Unholy Alliance: Part 2

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

3rd March 1999 - Wednesday

Star Trek: TNG [Season 5, Episode 21] The Perfect Mate
This is reviewed in our special supplement!

In the strangest of coincidences, Quark himself had a cameo in Buffy the Vampire Slayer [Season 1, Episode 9] The Dummy as the new School Principal! This is reviewed in our special supplement here!

X-Files [Season 5, Episode 20] The Pine Bluff Variant

This episode is unique insofar as there is no supernatural aspect, and the conspiracy theory has nothing to do with the mundane story arc Carter has carved out of his series' huge pile of loose ends. How you feel about this episode depends on how you feel about Mulder and Scully - what the hell, the series has always been character-driven, but this is ridiculous.

6th March 1999 - Saturday

Seaquest DSV [Season 3, finale]
This is reviewed in our special supplement!

7th March 1999 - Sunday

Babylon 5 [Season 1, Episode 9] Deathwalker

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

Dark Skies [Season 1, Episode 16] Burn, Baby, Burn

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

Seaquest DSV [Season 3]

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

9th March 1999 - Tuesday

Highlander [Season 2, Episode 16] The Vampire

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

10th March 1999 - Wednesday

Buffy the Vampire Slayer [Season 1, Episode 10]

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

X-Files [Season 5, Episode 21] Folie a Deux
A madman thinks giant bugs are turning people into zombies - hmm, that explains David Duchovny ...

Highlander [Season 2, Episode 17] Warmonger

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

11th March 1999

Red Dwarf [Season 8, Episode 4] Cassandra

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

Prey [Season 1, Episode 5] Revelations

This week we are given a run-down of what happened on the previous 2 episodes. The girl and the token friendly nonhuman followed up on the origins of the new species. They went to Mexico, where they uncovered the remains of a secret village in the mountains, a pillar with strange carvings, and the mumified corpse of a 9-year-old nonhuman girl - pregnant in all 4 of her uteruses!

Larry Drake's FBI contacts retrieve the pillar and deliver it to his LA warehouse, where they discover the carvings are a map of the night's sky. The creatures' tattoos indicate the path of a comet that was due to return in October 1998 ...

Meanwhile, the creatures are homing in on an energy source ...

Highlander [Season 2, Episode 18] Pharaoh's Daughter

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

17th March [Wednesday]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer [Season 1, Episode 11]

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

X-Files [Season 5, Episode 22 - finale] The End

This episode is so called not just because it is the final episode of Season 5, but because it was the final episode filmed in Vancouver. All the regular characters get a look in; A hit-team looking for CSM turns out to be Krychek looking to bring him back to the fold, along with WMM and John Neville.

Yet another of Mulder's ex-GFs makes an appearance; in Season 1 it was Amanda Pays, now it's Mimi Rogers.

Like B5, the ending is somewhat downbeat; however, with X-Files it was done as a deliberate lead-on to the 1998 X-Files: the Movie

X-Files: the Movie
Two things [other than the budget] set this apart from the average TV episode.

It kills off several recurring characters.

Mulder and Scully almost kiss ...
Other than that, it's business as usual.

18th March [Thursday]

Red Dwarf [Season 8, Episode 5] Krytie TV
This is reviewed in our special supplement!

Prey [Season 1, Episode 6] Infiltration

The good non-human has a showdown with the female assassin who's been dogging their efforts. Her mentor is SAAB's Colonel TC McQueen!

Highlander [Season 2, Episode 19] Legacy

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

19th March [Friday]

Tales of the Crypt

Big Arnie's directorial debut is repeated - starring veteran Schwartzenegger co-stars Rick Rossovich [Terminator] and Roy Brocksmith [Total Recall].