Zak Santiago
Zak played Rogelio Duran in the Stargate SG1 episodes Evolution 1 & 2 and also Corporal Rivers in Stargate Universe. He has also guest starred on Fringe, Continuum, Defying Gravity, Psych, The True Heroines , Kingdom Hospital and Signed Sealed Delivered. IMDBTwitter Alisen Down
Alisen was Doctor Brightman in both Stargate SG1 and Stargate Universe and played an Alteran in Ark of Truth. She has also been in Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, Haven, Gracepoint and Lost Girl and is in the upcoming 12 Monkeys series. IMDBTwitter
Anna Cummer
Anna played Petra in the Stargate Atlantis episode The Tower, she has also been in episodes of John Doe, Eureka, Smallville and Reaper and provided voices for shows such as Monster Buster Club, Care Bears and InuYasha. Behind The VoiceIMDBOfficial
Christopher Redman
Christopher 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, K-19: The Widowmaker and Reign. IMDBTwitter Jeff Gulka
Jeff Gulka played young Charlie in the Stargate SG1 episode Show and Tell as well as appearing on Millenium, The X-Files, Sole Survivor and Air Bud. IMDB
Hallmark blitzed the holiday period with their crop of new tv movies centered in and around christmas and The Christmas Ornament was certainly not the worst of the bunch, a simply tale of a couple of mildly damaged souls who found each other amongst the chaos that is the holiday season. Yeah you can figure out the ending within minutes of watching the movie but that’s not why you watch these sorts of stories.
Anyhow the movie aired this afternoon in the UK and it featured a few familiar faces from Stargate, one better known but all accomplished actors with impressive tv resumes. May I present Jewel Staite who played Jenna, Laura Mennell who played Rebecca and Nels Lennarson who played Dale.
Peter Williams
Peter set the standard for the Goa’uld system lords in Stargate SG1 appearing in twenty episodes. He’s also been in Dead Like Me, Da Vinci’s Inquest, Fallen, The Listener, Working the Engels and MacGyver. OfficialTwitterIMDB G. Michael Gray
He’s appeared in the Stargate Atlantis episode “Outsiders” as Sefaris and has had guest spots on Fringe, Psych, Smallville, Supernatural and Motive. IMDBTwitter
Zahf Paroo
Zahf played Jamala in the Stargate SG1 episode The First Commandment as well starring in Defying Gravity and appearing on Andromeda, Battlestar, Fringe, Polaris, Motive and Continuum. IMDBTwitterOfficial
Ingrid Torrance
Ingrid 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, The Killing and the movie Under The Mistletoe. OfficialTwitterIMDB Leonor Varela
Leonor 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. IMDBOfficialTwitter
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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
In Memory of…
Wray Douglas (December 28th 1966 to Oct 29th 2014)
Wray passed away very recently and left a legacy of creativity and excellent in his chosen craft of special effects for television and movies.
He worked extensively as the special effects coordinator on all three of the live action Stargate shows.
Welcome to the third of the current batch of bonus shows we are releasing over the holiday season, this week we have a first time guest host and an episode from a much loved scifi franchise which traditionally doesn’t share a lot of actors with other shows in the genre due to it’s filming in LA and well I expect they pay a lot more but there certainly has been some crossover in guest stars and one major cross franchise performance from Mr Robert Picardo. In this show we will be discussing the Star Trek Voyager episode Message In A Bottle in which Robert plays the holographic Doctor as usual and it’s one of the many Voyager stories which his character takes center stage and makes the most of his talents which as Stargate fans we are familiar with when he played Richard Woolsey on both SG1 and Atlantis.
In Message In A Bottle Seven of Nine discovers a quadrant spanning communications network which seems to be abandoned and has detected at extreme range a Starfleet vessel, they attempt to communicate but the signal is corrupted and they decide to send a holographic encoded signal which will retain it’s integrity for longer and of course they volunteer the Doctor. He appears on board the Prometheus a prototype long range tactical vessel, the human crew are all dead and the ship is controlled by Romulans. The Doctor encourages the ships EMH (a more advanced model) to help recapture the ship and the two of them raise to the challenge with much danger and hilarity. Andy Dick guest stars as the EMH mark 2 and in his way this holographic being is as flawed as the original model but in the short space of time interacting with our Doctor he grows and begins to see himself as a being in how own right not just part of the technology of the ship.
We were fortunate this week to be joined by Michael Clark who is making his first appearance on Gatecast, Michael has hosted and appeared on way too many podcasts to mention and was jointly responsible for creating The Visionary Trek network which currently has three podcasts which deal with all aspects of Star Trek and who excel in interviews, news and features. Michael will be joining us in the new year for an Atlantis episode but the opportunity to get him involved and get his feet wet with style of show was too good to pass up so have a listen and let us know what you think and by all means pay a visit to his own site/shows, they are well worth listening too since I suspect like us your love for scifi covers more than just Stargate.
Carmen Moore
Carmen played a reporter in the excellent Stargate Atlantis episode “Vegas”. She has also appeared in Wolf Lake, Andromeda, Arctic Air, BSG, Supernatural and Blackstone. IMDBOfficialTwitter Michael E. Ryan
Michael played himself on the Stargate SG1 episode Prodigy, he was at the time a General and the Chief of Staff for the US Airforce. A long and distinguished career in the US military which began back in 1965 and concluded at his retirement in 2001. Wiki
Dan Shea
Dan was Sgt. Siler on 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. IMDBOfficialTwitter Holly Dale
Holly 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. IMDBOfficial Agam Darshi
Agam appeared in two episodes of Stargate Atlantis (Outsiders and Suspicion) as well as playing Dr. Sonja Damji on the Stargate Universe episode Air Part 1. She also starred as Kate Freelander on Sanctuary and has guest starred on Arrow, The L Word, Watchmen, 2012, Played and Bates Motel. IMDBOfficialTwitter
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In memory of…
Derek Brechin (Dec 23 1951 – Nov 6 2009)
Derek was the editor of the Stargate movie and also worked on Doom,Total Recall, Die Hard, Paycheck, Executive Decision, Basic Instinct, Cutthroat Island and The Entity. Bio IMDB
Jay Brazeau
Jay played Harlan in two episodes of Stargate SG1 ( Double Jeopardy and Tinman) and was the Lord Protector in the Atlantis episode The Tower. He has also guest starred on Whistler, Supernatural, Reaper, Cold Squad, Cedar Cove and Psych as well providing the voice for many animated series as well as performing on the stage. IMDBTwitterBehind The Voice
Sarah Mutch
Sarah played Celina in the Stargate Universe episode Earth and has appeared on Smallville, Jake 2.0, Funkytown and Supernatural, she is also a model having been on the cover of Maxim and Cosmo. IMDB
Here we are with the second bonus show for this season, this week we are looking at the Sanctuary episode Bank Job which features quite a few actors from Stargate beginning with Amanda Tapping and working our way down, it was also directed by Peter DeLuise so there is another strong connection. In this third season episode the Sanctuary team are hot on the trail of a significant abnormal that is due to hatch from it’s egg very soon, they egg is in a safety deposit box in a small town bank but since they have the correct credentials then it should be in and out but when the abnormal is missing and on the loose they decide to fake a robbery to allow them to search for this creature which has now taken residence in a human host.
It was great to see Gary Jones guest starring once more opposite Amanda Tapping, he played the bank teller George who it turned out was to have a more significant impact on the story then expected, we also got former Stargate actors Ryan Robbins, Peter Flemming, Eric Keenleyside, Tobias Slezak and Robin Mossley appearing in the episode so lots of fun trying to remember who they played on Stargate and which episode. We had the time of course because Bank Job has quite a few montages when do kind of slow the episode down and ultimately a single location limits the action of a show and you rely on the drama and character interaction to keep the viewers entertained. I have to say that they do a very good job casting the episode, the characters were interesting and worked well together with both positive and negatives consequences within the story.
Many thanks to Adam for joining us, this was his second guest hosting spot on Gatecast and he will be returning in 2015 for more Stargate, we are as always looking for people to join us for an episode, as you see given enough time we can normally find a date/time to work around very varied locations from the US across Europe and down to Australia. Feedback, ratings and reviews are most welcome, feel free to get in touch about any aspect of our show or maybe more importantly Stargate even if it’s just to say hello or offer some criticism:)
Next week we have a first time guest on that bonus show, we’ll be discussing Robert Picardo in an episode of Voyager and we will be joined by Michael Clark, hope you stick around and have a listen but until then happy holidays and take care.
Welcome to the first of the current batch of Gatecast seasonal bonus shows, this week Brad joins me to watch and comment on R.L. Stines The Haunting Hour season one episode Fear Never Knocks. The episodes stars Christopher Heyerdahl (Stargate SG1 & Atlantis), Matthew Walker (SG1 and Atlantis), Quinn Lord (SG1) and is directed by Peter DeLuise (SG1, Atlantis and Universe). While grandad is out the kids play with his mysterious recording device and unleash the worst terrors and then the original owner of the device comes to collect and well trust me this show would make sure any kid did not sleep soundly after watching it.
Many thanks to Brad for joining me for this bonus episode, Alan was having fun at his Discworld convention so he missed out on this bit of fun, somehow though I think he wouldn’t want to changes places. Next week we have another bonus show and we’ll be looking at an episode of Sanctuary called Bank Job which as as you would expect lots of Stargate connections. We got a voicemail for last weeks show and we’ll save that for when we return with the “proper” Stargate specific shows in the new year but feel free to send us any comments you have, we’d love to have a bumper crop of feedback over the holidays.
