Stargate Birthdays – January 4th

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Jan 042013
 

Birthday best wishes to Gary Jones, Dave Foley and Julian Sands on the 4th of January.
Gary played Walter in all three live action Stargate series and has appeared in Sanctuary, Highlander, Supernatural and movies in addition to his stand up comedy. IMDB

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Julian has a long resume in the business from his leading role in the movie Warlock and manyother movies as well as a lot of tv work including playing The Doci in two episodes of Stargate SG1 and recurring roles in 24 and Smallville. IMDB

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Dave Foley played Malcolm Tunney in the Stargate Atlantis episode “Brain Storm” as well as appearing in Sky High, NewsRadio, Eureka, Leverage and Kids in the Hall. IMDB

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Stargate Birthdays – January 3rd

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Jan 032013
 

Happy birthday on this day to two Stargate actors.
Up first is Alisen Down who played Dr Brightman in both Stargate SG1 and Stargate Universe, she has also appeared in Battlestar Galactica and more recently Lost Girl. IMDB
Sharing the 3rd and it’s celebrations is Zak Santiago who was Cpl. Rivers in Stargate Universe and the guide Rogelio in SG1, he’s also been in Defying Gravity, V and Sanctuary. IMDB

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SF Debris -Stargate (Movie) An Opinionated View

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Jan 012013
 

As always an entertaining perspective on a well known movie, I can highly recommend you taking the time to have a good dig around the SF Debris site, you’ll find reviews/opinions and some well produced offerings from Trek through Red Dwarf to Howard The Duck. If you like MS3TK or anything similar then you’ll enjoy the “opinions” presented here especially if you are a fan of the particular show or movie:)

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Stargate Birthday – Christopher Redman

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Jan 012013
 

A Very Happy Birthday (January 1st) to Christopher Redman who played Airman Shep Wickenhouse in the Stargate SG1 two parter “Heroes”, yes that episode even thinking about it gets you reaching for the tissues. Christopher has also been in Saved, Touching Evil, CSI Miami and is in the upcoming Percy Jackson movie. IMDB

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Stargate Birthdays – December 31st

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Dec 312012
 

A happy birthday to Peter Williams who  set the standard  for the Goa’uld system lords on television as Apophis in Stargate SG1. He’s also appeared in Dead Like Me, Da Vinci’s Inquest, Fallen and MacGyver.
Official Site  IMDB

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Also today G. Michael Gray celebrates his birth, he appeared in the Stargate Atlantis episode “Outsiders” as Sefaris as well as guest spots on Fringe, Psych, Smallville and Supernatural. IMDB

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Ghost Storm

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Dec 302012
 

Ghost Storm

I watched this movie today and it was great fun if you like that sort of thing and you know that I do:)
For the purposes of Stargate there were a few familiar faces such as Steve Bacic (SG1 Camulus / Major Coburn), Aaron Douglas (SG1 Jaffa / Moac) and David Lewis (SG1 Cameron Balinsky).
There was also Andrew Dunbar (SGU Cpl. Gorman) and Daniel Boileau (SGA Cocoon Victim) who both had smaller roles in this Syfy Saturday feature.
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Gatecast Bonus 6 – The Simpsons

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Dec 292012
 

avatar2 Richard Dean Anderson guest stars in Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore a season seventeen episode of the animated comedy The Simpsons. He plays himself in a story which involves a Stargate SG1 convention in Springfield and the over enthusiastic attentions of two devoted MacGyver fans with the aid of some rope and a hammer. During the fun and games Mr Burns has outsourced the nuclear power plant to India and Homer as the sole union member who gets to retain his job is sent overseas to run the facility with some unexpected consequences.

The Simpsons is well known for making full use of it’s famous guest stars playing themselves and in this case spinning a Stargate and MacGyver tale around Richard Dean Anderson is inspired as it also pokes fun at the culture of fandom a few years before it really became well I guess mainstream and accepted in mass media. RDA has serious fun sending up his MacGyver persona the role which made him a global celebrity in the hit series. The second story in the episode follows Homer as he moves to India to run the outsourced nuclear power plant, a healthy dose of satire aimed squarely at the US and a few other societies that are pricing themselves out of manufacturing and maybe even seeing it as beneath them.

Next week should be the final bonus episode of this mini-break from dedicated Stargate episodes with a Burn Notice episode “Lesser Evil” featuring Michael Shanks as a guest star. We hope you’ve had a good christmas and we wish everyone a happy new year with special mention to those who celebrate other seasonal events, through the gate we are all one family.

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Stargate Birthday – Dan Shea

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Dec 232012
 

A Very Happy Birthday (December 23rd) to Dan Shea a stunt co-ordinator, performer & body double on shows such as Psych, Stargate ( SG1 & SGA ) plus movies such as 2012, Red, Paycheck and many more.

For us he’ll forever be known for carrying a big wrench on Stargate SG1 and the one that made Richard Dean Anderson look so good falling from a great height,  a man of many talents is Dan. IMDB

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Gatecast Bonus 5 – MacGyver

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Dec 222012
 

Welcome to the fifth bonus episode from Gatecast in which we are going to cover the Richard Dean Anderson series MacGyver. The format is pretty much the same as what we do for a standard episode of the show so it includes a commentary on the fifth season episode Live and Learn which has a familiar guest star in the shape of Christopher Judge. We’ve also included a little background information on both RDA and MacGyver but by no means are we experts and there is conflicting information on the web.

MacGyver premiered in the US in October 1985 on the ABC network and ran for 7 seasons with an additional 2 TV movies and became a world wide hit making RDA a global celebrity. Christopher Judge only made this one appearance on the show but if you go through the series credits you’ll see plenty of actors and crew that appear in this and the later Stargate shows.

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Worship the Hair

This and maybe 2 more bonus episodes are going to be released over the holiday period in the hopes of first making sure for those that are interested in a little audio entertainment they have something from us but also to address the expected drop off in downloads of this holidays, it happens every year and we want to save the Stargate episodes for when everyone is back into the swing of things. Next week we’ll be doing a Simpsons episode which also features a guest appearance by RDA in and out of his MacGyver persona, join us and let us know what you think:)

Seasons Greetings, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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PtoP Online: SG1 The Alliance Screenshots

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Dec 212012
 

A high resolution shot of Anubis and his super starship hovering over Kelowna, you can find more images from the aborted Stargate game SG1: The Alliance over on Past to Present Online.

Thanks to Stargate Atlas for the tweets:)

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Stargate Birthday – Nicole de Boer

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Dec 202012
 

A Very Happy Birthday (December 20th) to Nicole de Boer who played Dr. Alison Porter in the excellent Stargate Atlantis episode “Whispers”, only one appearence in the Stargate franchise but it was memorable.

She also starred in The Dead Zone playing Sarah Bannerman and Deep Space 9 as Ezri Dax as well as a way too small a role in Heaven. Earlier roles included Yuna in Deepwater Black.   IMDB

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Seasons Greetings from Gatecast

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Dec 192012
 

Stargate Christmas

A huge thank you to everyone who has listened, contributed and supported us through a slightly more difficult 2012 than we expected. We’ve lost quite a few listeners this year the majority I believe thanks to our RSS issues which I know from first hand experience can easily be neglected and then ignored in the belief a cast has died. That aside and with a more positive spin we’ve had a number of co-hosts this year and they have all been fantastic and that’ll be something we will be hoping for more of in 2013.  The folks in the UK make scheduling a recording session fairly easy but we certainly want to embrace our overseas audience given that the US specifically accounts for the majority of downloads from 82 separate countries so we’ll be flexible given enough time for everyone to arrange a suitable time frame.
We’ve had excellent support over on twitter, our followers have steadily grown and retweets etc have been center stage in getting word out about our show on that platform. Facebook has also been busy, we have a solid bunch of members on the group but Google+ has lagged behind, more followers but less interaction on the portal.

Anyhow it’s that time of year again so seasons greetings and for those like us who celebrate a very a happy Christmas and for everyone an excellent new year.

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Stargate Birthday – Jessica Steen

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Dec 192012
 

A Very Happy Birthday on December 19th to Jessica Steen who played the first incarnation of Elizabeth Weir in the double episode of Stargate SG1 “Lost City”, she has also appeared in NCIS, Heartland, Flashpoint and Earth 2.
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Santa Baby…

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Dec 192012
 

Thor the wise and magnificent.

Many thanks to the Save Future Stargate Travel facebook group for posting the picture.

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Stargate Birthdays – December 17th

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Dec 172012
 

A bumper basket of Stargate Birthdays today (December 17th).
First up is the delightfully whimsical and talented Kate Hewlett who appeared in four episodes of Stargate Atlantis playing Jeannie Miller aka Jeannie McKay who was Rodney’s sister and in a pleasing symmetry she and David are also brother and sister. Kate has written and consulted for television ( The LA Complex and Being Erica ) as well a numerous other roles on tv and theatre. IMDB 

David MacInnis appeared in two episodes of Stargate Atlantis ( The Return Parts 1&2 ) and a single episode of SG1 (Ex Deus Machina). He has also worked on Dead Like Me, The 4400, Smallville and Saving Hope. IMDB

Matthew Harrison guest starred in the SG1 episode “Double Jeopardy” and was a scientist in the Atlantis episode “Conversion”. He’s appeared in Smallville, Tru Calling, Cold Squad, Psych and had a recurring role in Chaos. IMDB

Last and certainly not least a very happy birthday to Ernie Hudson who will perhaps always be known for being the fourth Ghostbuster who best represented us normal folk in other words if there is a pay cheque then I’m in:)
Ernie was also Warden Leo Glynn in the prison drama OZ and has also guest starred in Bones, Torchwood, ER and Desperate Housewives, alas his only appearance in Stargate was in the SG1 season 9 episode “Ethon” playing Pernaux in which we see some familiar faces from an
earlier SG1 episode. IMDB

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