A very happy birthday to Christopher Redman who was Airman Shep Wickenhouse in the two part SG1 episode Heroes. He also starred in CSI Miami and appeared on Arrow, Saved, The Dead Zone and K-19: The Widowmaker
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Happy Birthday to Jeff Gulka who played Charlie in the Stargate SG1 episode Show and Tell as well as appearing on Millenium, The X-Files, Sole Survivor and Air Bud. IMDB
Many happy returns of the day to Peter Williams who set the standard for the Goa’uld playing the system lord Apophis in Stargate SG1. He has also appeared on Earthsea, Fallen, MacGyver, Dead Like Me and provided voices on shows such as Neon Rider and Hurricanes. IMDB Twitter Official Site
Happy Birthday to G. Michael Gray who played Sefaris on the Stargate Atlantis episode Outsiders. He’s also been on Dark Angel, Try Calling, Jeremiah, Psych and Motive. IMDB
That’s the final two Stargate themed birthdays for the year, we begin again tomorrow or today for those reading this who are already in 2014:)
A very happy birthday to Zahf Paroo who was Jamala in the Stargate SG1 episode The First Commandment as well starring in Defying Gravity and appearing on Andromeda, Battlestar Galactica, Fringe, Psych and Continuum. IMDB Twitter Official Site
A very happy birthday to Ingrid Torrance who played a Staffer in the Stargate SG1 episode Covenant, she also made guest appearances on Dead Like Me, The 4400, Andromeda, Smallville, Supernatural, Once Upon A Time and The Killing. IMDB Official Site Twitter Youtube
Many happy returns of the day to Leonor Varela who played Chaya Sar in the Stargate Atlantis episode Sanctuary as well as guest starring on Agents of Shield, Human Target, Dallas, Arrested Development, E-Ring, Tic Tac and Cleopatra. IMDB Official Site Twitter
In memory of Viveca Lindfors (Dec 29 1920 – Oct 25 1995)
She played Catherine Langford in the Stargate movie and had a long and distinguished career in movies and television in both the USA and her native Sweden. IMDB
This weeks on Gatecast we have another bonus episode and the show will be a little longer than normal as the feature is a full length movie namely A Dog’s Breakfast. The movie was directed by David Hewlett and written by David and his wife Jane Loughman and was made in 2006 and after numerous festival screenings and huge fan support it securing a distribution deal and was released via streaming, vod and dvd within a number of markets. A Dog’s Breakfast was a project intended to fill the gap during the hiatus of producing Stargate Atlantis and in that regard they were able to secure a significant amount of hardware and talent not to mention roping in friends to make the movie come to life both in front and behind the camera. Kate Hewlett (Marilyn) stars with David as one third of the main cast with Paul McGillion (Ryan) as the final part of the trilogic in this kinda old school British domestic farce, additional support is given by Christopher Judge and Rachel Luttrell and lets not forget Mars the pooch who causes so much mischief in the movie.
I’m not going to go into too many plot details although we hope you’ve all seen the movie so lets just say any fan of the Stargate franchise should seek it out, it’s currently on DVD (R1 & R2) as well as various streaming options and hand on heart it is a very funny movie. David did actually write a script for the series ( Star Crossed ) shown within the movie and that would have been interesting as a Galaxy Quest type look at a scifi series as it was being made and shown but nothing came of it. We have yet to see a sequel although the movie may have been a little ahead of it’s time in terms of exploiting the fanbase and online options, it’s going to be interesting to see how Debug the Hewlett’s latest movie project fares if a widespread theatrical release isn’t on the cards.
David is the one on the right
Next weeks show will be another bonus episode (third of four) and it’s going to be the Andromeda episode “Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath” a third season episode which features Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge alongside the regular cast such as Lexa Doig. Brad will be helping us out with the show as Alan was in the process of moving to Finland so we hope you join us for that. So with christmas behind we wish everyone a happy new year and enjoy the last episode of Gatecast released in 2013.
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Words and even pictures can not express how pleasing it’s been to do the show and interact with other fans of Stargate and scifi in general. We hope you all have a wonderful christmas and new year and if you don’t celebrate these holidays then accept our thanks and best wishes in the spirit of our Stargate family.
Many happy returns of the day to Carmen Moore who appeared in the Stargate Atlantis episode Vegas as the reporter and a lab assistant in the SG1 episode Cold Lazarus. She has also been in Wolf Lake, Andromeda, Flash Gordon, Blackstone and currently plays Loreen Cassway on Arctic Air. IMDB Twitter
Happy birthday to Michael E. Ryan who the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and now retired. He played himself in the SG1 episode Prodigy. Wiki
Birthday best wishes to Dan Shea who was Sgt Siler in Stargate SG1 and Atlantis and appeared on MacGyver, The X-Files and Supernatural. He is also a Stunt Performer and Stunt Co-ordinator on shows such as Arrow and Psych as well as movies like Fantastic 4, Paycheck, Underworld Evolution and War. IMDB Official Site
Happy Birthday to Holly Dale who directed the Stargate Atlantis episode Home and also directed episodes of series such as Grimm, Agents of Shield, NCIS, Castle, Being Erica, First Wave and Cold Case. IMDB Official Site
In memory of Derek Brechin (Dec 23 1951 – Nov 6 2009) Editor of the Stargate movie and also worked on Doom, Total Recall, Die Hard, Paycheck, Executive Decision, Basic Instinct and The Entity. IMDB
A very happy birthday to Jay Brazeau who was Harlan in two episodes of Stargate SG1 ( Double Jeopardy and Tinman) and the Lord Protector in the Atlantis episode The Tower. He has also guest starred on Whistler, Supernatural, Reaper, Cold Squad and Psych as well providing the voice for many animated series as well as performing on the stage. IMDB Twitter Behind The Voice
It’s that time of year again and the first of our seasonal bonus episodes will be an episode of Seaquest. The show is an American scifi series set in the near future about a state of the art submarine and it’s crew in a world that is significantly different from ours yet the people are very much the same. The particular episode is from the second season called “Vapors” and stars four of the DeLuise clan beginning with Peter and Michael who are regulars on the show with Dom as a major guest star and David appearing in a bit part. In Vapors Tony (Michael) is asked by his father Nick (Dom) to help him with a problem as his mother is taking some drugs which are causing a few problems. Tony takes Lucas and Dagwood (Peter) along with him on this adventure and they visit Buddy’s a dance club and smoking establishment which is managed by David’s character. This story is a lot of fun and exploits the dynamic between the DeLuise family and does overlap with the other story line which deals with some of the issues with Bridger (Roy Scheider) and the ships CMO Dr Wendy Smith (Rosalind Allen) with further emotional ups and downs with other members of the ships crew leading to a get together at the end of the day at the Captains beach house.
A Grand Day Out
Vapors is a fairly decent episode for someone new to the series to begin with, it’s pretty much standalone and in many ways does act as a little primer but of course the ship and crew we see in the second season is very much different to that of the first season and more so in the third season. Seaquest had many ups and downs during it’s three year life on television even with the Spielberg name involved but they aimed high and many times hit the mark by providing good adventure stories backed with science and environmental themes to educate and entertain the audience.
His Best Friend is a Dolphin
A huge thank you to Thomas who recommended this episode for a bonus show and for joining us to record the show, always tricky to sort out a time with someone in the US or any country with a significant time difference but rewarding when it all works out. Next weeks bonus episode will be the Hewlett movie “A Dog’s Breakfast” and that’ll be just me and Alan doing the commentary, it will be a longer episode as you would expect and hopefully worth the extra time to listen too:) Links…
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Birthday best wishes to Nicole de Boer who appeared just the once on Stargate Atlantis as Dr Alison Porter in the excellent Whispers. She is better known for her time as Ezri Dax on Deep Space Nine and Sarah on The Dead Zone tv series and of course the movie The Cube. IMDB
A very Happy Birthday to Reg Tupper who played a doctor in the Stargate SG1 episode In The Line of Duty. He has also guest starred on shows such as Smallville, Dead Zone, Tru Calling and Intelligence. IMDB
A SG1 blast from the past via the Spoofpark website and thanks to @StargateLegend
for tweeting the picture:)
David DeLuise stars in the latest Asylum movie ” Alone For Christmas ” aka Bone Alone but this time it’s not a creature feature or disaster flick but a family christmas movie full of hapless humans and talking dogs:) The movie was released Oct 15th 2013 in the US.
A very happy birthday to Jessica Steen who was the first Elizabeth Weir in the Stargate SG1 episodes “Lost City 1 & 2”. She has also appeared in the movie Armageddon and tv series such as Earth 2, Heartland and NCIS. IMDB Official Site
