The Andromedan Original #61 Reviews Log starting on page 40 February 2001 Vol. 5 #13 The official highly-sporadic newsletter of Star Base Andromeda Lincoln, NE

WillyCon 2001: A Space Oddity in March The campus of Wayne State College, in Wayne NE, will be site for the third annual WillyCon science fiction convention on March 16-18, 2001. Hosted by the Wayne State College Science Fiction club, the convention has been growing in size and popularity since its founding in 1999. This year’s literary guest is author Julie Czerneda, a Cana- dian science fiction writer whose first novel, A Thousand Words for Stranger, was published in 1997 by DAW Books. Her second novel, Aurora Award Finalist Beholder’s Eye, was published by DAW in 1998, with the sequel to A Thou- sand Words for Stranger, Ties of Power, out in 1999. The sequel to Beholder’s Eye, Changing Vision, was released summer 2000. She has a standalone called In the Company of Others, coming June 2001. DAW has purchased another novel in each of her two series. Artist guest is Frank Wu, who recently returned from the Illustrators of the Future/ Writers of the Future award ceremony in L.A. where he was one of the 10 quarterly art winners - and he also won the GRAND PRIZE! Star Base Andromeda member Bryce Pfeiffer, his wife Karen and their kids are the Fan Guests of Honor this year! The convention features numerous science-oriented panels and workshops, as well as a writing contest, filking, gaming, an art show/auction and long-running video room. Other elements will be special presenta- tions at Wayne State’s planetarium, and performances of fan-favorite music by the Wayne State band. SBA members who have attended WillyCon 1 and 2 have given them very positive reviews! Memberships are $15 for the whole weekend ($10 with student I.D.). You can find out more details about WillyCon3 at the official con website: http://www.wsc.edu/student/activities/clubs/sfclub/ Willycon3.htm

Other Local Cons Coming Soon… We’re Back…Again! site://www.alphaconcentral.com Well, here we are again, folks. It’s site://ww.dmsfs.org/demicon/demicon.html been a very long 38 months since our site://straylight.unl.edu/index.html last “official” Andromedan Log arrived site://www.sfedora/com in everybody’s eager hands. Our last In addition to WillyCon 2001, there are several other upcoming conventions in the regular issue was #60, which fea- Lincoln/Omaha area or at least a short drive away. Check out the websites above tured a cover date of November 1997, for information about AlphaCon, a professionally run Star Wars convention set to and which had a cover story about take place in the Omaha Civic Auditorium on the weekend of May 4-6, 2001, and the loss of UPN programming on featuring appearances by Anthony Daniels (C3PO), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Lincoln’s then-Cablevision system. continued on page 3 continued on page 2

Golden Globe Award Winners — Page 9February 2001 1 Editor: Scott Clark (e-mail address at left) Andromeda Officials Contributors: Scott Clark, Floyd Orr Mike Ponte The Andromedan Log is published monthly by Andromeda Press, a division of Star Base Andromeda. Address: 7210 Francis St., Lincoln NE 68505-1545. E-mail address: [email protected]. (Presidio, Registrar, Historian) © 2001 Star Base Andromeda (SBA). The opinions expressed in reviews in this or any other issue of Phone: (402) 435-5602 The Andromeda Log are the opinions of the individual writer and do not necessarily represent the E-mail: [email protected] opinions of any other club members, the staff of The Andromedan Log, or of SBA as a whole. External Scott Clark (Editor, CCC, Publicity) reprint rights on all original material printed here revert to the original authors, with the understanding Phone: (402) 325-0246 that all material may be re-used by SBA in a “Best of…” capacity at an unspecified future date. E-mail: [email protected] Phone numbers, addresses and e-mail addresses are printed here for club member use and for club business only, not for public distribution. Changes of Address should be sent to the SBA address above. Frank Dreier (Librarian) Annual membership dues for Star Base Andromeda are as follows: $10.00/Full member — Receives E-mail: [email protected] all club publications, is eligible for office, and is able to vote in all elections or on issues associated with David Teche (Treasurer) the club. Only full members able to attend at least 20% of club meetings are eligible to hold office; $6.00/ E-mail: [email protected] Supporting — Receives all club publications, however is ineligible to hold office or vote. All club Agris Taurins publications are mailed first class. For postage outside the U.S. add an additional $5.00. (ConCussion rep/List maintainer) The expiration month of your membership is listed on your mailing label. Renewal notices go out both the month before expiration and with your final issue of The Log. Club members wishing to join E-mail: [email protected] the SBA electronic mailing list, please send a request to the Editor's e-mail address.

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Only name and city SBA members have attended three MediaWest*Cons, two WillyCons, and three will be printed if your letter is actually used. ConCussions. We’ve helped promote (and also attended) three book signings in Please send Letters to either the mailing two years by our author friend Robert Reed. We’ve had nearly two dozen “First address or e-mail address above right. Friday” club potluck gatherings. We’ve welcomed numerous guests to our public meetings, and greeted three new members to the club. All in all, life in Star Base Seeking Columnists… Andromeda has gone on pretty much without a hitch in the absence of our suppos- The Andromedan Log is seeking edly “monthly” newsletter. columnists to broaden the mix of But…and that’s a big “but”…it is definitely way past time to get our errant content in future issues of the club publication back on track. Despite the ease of tracking breaking news and rumors newsletter. We are specifically seeking on the Internet, there’s still nothing quite like having our own self-published members (or non-members) of SBA magazine to give us something “concrete” to point to as a means of tracking club interested in writing a regular, monthly and general fannish history. With the return this issue of The Andromedan Log, we column exploring news and reviews in hope to be back to a monthly publishing schedule. We’re going to try very hard, the comic-book, gaming and science/ for at least the next six months, to maintain that once-per-month goal. This will be space-exploration fields. If you are accomplished by setting a solid contributor’s deadline of the final Tuesday meet- interested in contributing a monthly or ing of each month — with the goal being to publish the new Log in the first week bi-monthly column on either of these of each new month. subjects, or if you’d like to propose a I must personally apologize for the lack of Logs in this lengthy gap. There’s no column of some other interest to the one particular reason for their absence…just a lot of little things that always took readers, please contact the editor at the priority over keeping up with publication. I’ve got huge files of old news and e-mail or snailmail addresses above. episode guides, and over the past 3 years have come close to publishing a new We’re also interested in publising issue on a half-dozen different occasions, but never quite finished the entire short fiction and ongoing cartoons. if contents before another month went by and everything I did have had become you have a short story (or a moderate- outdated. I let my subscription to The Hollywood Reporter lapse in early 2000. Since length story which could be split into that was one of the main sources for entertainment news for the Log, we’ll be doing smaller pieces) which you would like a little scrambling to come up with new and reliable sources for tv and movie to share with fellow SBAers, please Continued on page 3… submit it to the editor for approval and editing. Or, if you are a cartoonist Let's try to get back on something like a regular schedule. interested in trying out a monthly Deadlines for contributions to upcoming issues of The Log: humorous one-panel or “comic-strip”, contact us and we’ll talk about your Issue #62 (March) — February 27th illustrious future on the staff of The Log! Serious2 Andromedan applicants Log only, #61 please… Issue #63 (April) — March 27th WWWebwatch CONTENTS http://www.locusmag.com Andromedan Challenge – Feb 2001 43 This site, obviously the web home of sf magazine Locus, has a lot of goodies, Calendar of Upcoming Events BC but the most impressive feature is a link (via obvious references once you visit Channel Surfing (TV Schedule) 14 the page) to a detailed bibliography of current and past writers’ works, both in Club News 4 novel form and in shorter fiction. I encourage you to browse once you get there. Editorial 2 Literary News 36 http://members.xoom.com/profxoom Local Author News 4 Local Genre TV Chart 10 This is the personal website of local fan and comic artist Scott Stewart. Scott Mediawatch 6 was a guest at Rigel X and was the Fan Guest of Honor at Andromeda One in New Genre Library Books 7 1994. For A1, Scott produced a series of promotional artwork around our Personal Logs Poll #6 42 “squid” mascot theme (including our “we’re not squidding you” t-shirt), and Reviews had several pieces in the con’s art show and auction. Scott’s website reproduces BVS: Blooded 41 several pieces of Andromeda-based artwork, as well as examples from the BVS: Child of the Hunt 41 variety of other projects he’s done artwork for. In addition, he also showcases BVS#3: Coyote Moon 40 numerous pieces of comic-book professionals’ artwork which he’s accumulated BVS#2: Halloween Rain 40 over the years. BVS#4: Night of the Living Rerun 40 BVS: Return to Chaos 42 Titan A.E. 42 http://straylight.unl.edu/concussion Godzilla 2000 41 This is the official ConCussion convention website. It is currently relocating. Television News 11 Upcoming Novels 36 http://www.wsc.edu/student/activities/clubs/sfclub/ WWWebwatch 3 willycon3.htm This is the official site of WillyCon, the SF convention to be held by the Wayne Cons State College science fiction club. continued from page 1… Editorial, continued… an SBA member. These dates have been Warwick Davis (Wicket the Ewok, and continuously pushed back and revised the title character in Willow), comic- news. I’d also appreciate any news during the period without any Logs, but book artist Bernie Wrightson, actor people want to forward me on a timely as of January 2001 will stop being Carel Struycken (Lurch in the two basis, especially if it is just to my adjusted and will continue to expire as Addams Family movies, and Lwaxana personal e-mail addresses and not to per usual. Although club funds are Troi’s manservant Mr. Hohm in Star the sba mailing group. Also, please primarily ear-marked for publication Trek the Next Generation episodes. note the plea for new columnists on costs, they also go towards the rental of DemiCon is the12th annual fan-run page 2 — anyone out there want to video equipment for our public meet- convention being held in Des Moines. tackle a new opinion or news column ings, and for supplies at various public Although the above “Straylight” link on an ongoing basis? events we host (open houses, picnics, is currently a dead-end, it will eventu- Of utmost importance at the moment etc.). ally connect to the current site for is the following: Please take a second To all the long-distance members of Lincoln’s own upcoming ConCussion 6, look at the mailing label on your copy SBA, our most sincere apologies for the which was the successor to SBA’s own of this issue. That label includes two long wait for this new issue. Most of us Andromeda conventions in 1994 and key pieces of information. First, your here in the Lincoln area have benefitted 1995. new membership # — we’ve gone back from the ability to at least attend the The link to the Slanted Fedora over old club records and given folks occasional meeting. But for those of you website will connect you to information membership numbers based on the who became members only to receive about an upcoming pro-run convention order in which they joined SBA, from the newsletter, we might as well have on March 23-25 in the Kansas City area, 1974 to the present. We’ve recently had ceased to exist. I hope that the news, featuring appearances by a variety of th our 120 member join (although we reviews and other features of upcoming SF actors, including: Roxann Dawson, currently only have 25 active mem- issues will help to make up for the gap Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips bers). Secondly, you’ll see a completely since issue #60. and Robert Picardo of Star Trek Voy- revised and up-to-date expiration One final apology — this issue may ager; Denise Crosby and LeVar Burton month listed in red. This date indicates seem a little rough around the edges. of STNG; Robin Curtis of STII and the month in which your membership We’re still missing a few of our regular STIII; and Mira Furlan of Babylon 5. to SBA will expire. You will receive an features, but they will hopefully return If you don’t have web access, please advance renewal flyer the month before next issue. Thanks for everyone’s feel free to contact us at club meetings your expiration, and an “urgent patience, and welcome back to The for copies of convention flyers. We’ll renewal” flyer in your final month as Andromedan Log! also have more room for fuller reports February 2001 3 — Scott Clark, editor on upcoming cons in the next issue. Star Base Andromeda Official Club News & Announcements for February 2001e

Meetings…We Have Meetings members from a distance. Images having been distributed through Star Base Andromeda meetings discussed in the past have included several branches of the Lincoln City continue to be held twice-weekly, both both single-sided and front-and-back Libraries starting in February 1998. In in the fourth-floor meeting rooms of the designs, and since we’re starting over the past couple of years we’ve also had Bennett Martin Public Library (136 S. from scratch, any and all ideas will be requests for additional copies of the list 14th St.) in downtown Lincoln. We considered. from other outside organizations, meet from 2:00 until 5:15 on Sunday To encourage all SBA members or including our friends and associates in afternoons, and again on Tuesday nights associates to consider submitting their the Lincoln Northeast High School beginning around 6:30 p.m. On Tues- designs, we’re reissuing the original Science Fiction Club. We’ll keep the days, we traditionally leave the library challenge: A free year’s membership masters of this reading list on file, and around 7:30-7:45 and head to a down- will be awarded to the individual who can personalize a print run for any town restaurant to continue the meet- submits the design chose n for each of other business or organization who ing over dinner. We also occasionally these projects. In addition, the person would like to help us distribute them, do the same following the end of some whose design is selected for the Club T- by placing their logo or information on Sunday meetings. Visitors and guests Shirt will also receive a free club t-shirt the back covers. If you know of a are encouraged to attend any or all of when they are produced with that person, business or organization who’d these meetings, as membership in the design. So…all of you artistically- like one or more copies of this reading club is not required in order to take inclined SBAers get your creative juices list, please contact the editor with part in our public gatherings. flowing! information about the approximate size Club Logo/T-Shirts We’re setting a lengthy advance of your order. deadline for both of these projects, to give Classify This… It’s time to take the Club Logo and people plenty of time to work on their ideas. One of our current “big projects” is Club T-Shirt projects out of mothballs The Club Logo design deadline is the First the subgenre classification system we’ve and consider them again. First pro- Friday gathering of July 2001. The deadline been working on for the library for the posed back in 1996, both of these for Club T-Shirt designs is the First Friday past couple of years. See the article on concepts have been pushed back gathering of August 2001. repeatedly as we’ve worked on other page 5 for the latest report on this. Booklist Available! important projects, but we neet to Should We Do This? Recommended Science Fiction return to them now. The club is cur- Our Following the relative success of for Young Adults rently seeking a Updated Logo, which reading list proved to our History of Science Fiction Litera- can be used throughout The Log, and on be a big hit when it was introduced a ture presentation in February 1998, we club stationary, flyers, membership while back, with over 300 copies of it forms, etc. This new logo should encompass a general SF theme, and should (if possible) incorporate some Local Author News element of Star Trek, to acknowledge Our lone Lincoln genre author, Robert Reed has been extremely active in SBA’s origins as a Star Trek club. the past three years, seeing twelve sales of short-story works in 1998, thirteen in Examples of previous logos have 1999, and only slightly fewer in 2000. 1999 saw the publication of his first appeared in earlier issues of The Log collection of short stories. The Dragons of Springplace, an 11-story collection, and on the inside front cover of the was released in the Spring of that year. The collection, put out by Golden Andromeda One program book. The new Gryphon Press as a $23.95 hardback, with cover illustration by Hugo award- design should be simple and clean, winning Bob Eggleton, received positive reviews in Locus, Kirkus, easily reproducable at a variety of sizes, Amazon.com and Publisher’s Weekly, and would’ve seemed to be a likely and recognizable with a minimum of shoo-in for any awards in a “collection” category, although very few of the difficulty. major awards have such a category. Similarly, we are also seeking a 2000 saw the publication of Marrow, an expansion of his Hugo-nominated design for a Club T-Shirt. Such a design novella (SF Age 7/97), which arrived as a hardcover release in August. Bob had could be, or could include the new club stories selected for both of the major SF-oriented annual anthologies for 1998 logo above, or it could be completely and 1999, The Years Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Gardner original. This design should be some- Dozois, and The Years Best SF, edited by David Hartwell. He will have upcom- thing distinctive and noticable — we’d ing stories in Asimov’s and The Magazine of Fantasy &Science Fiction. In 1999 like attendees at regional conventions and 200, he appeared in both of these, as well as the now defunct Science to be able to see us in our shirts and Fiction Age and Amazing Stories, and the British ‘zine Interzone. Most impres- recognize us as Star Base Andromeda 4 Andromedan Log #61 continued on page 43… Developing a Class System… Nearly two years’ worth of club members’ work was put to the test last Spring, as the most recent draft of our Science Fiction Subgenre Classification System was presented to the cataloging department of the Lincoln City Librar- ies. For the past 3+ years, members of Star Base Andromeda have been hammering out a listing of common and uncom- mon science fiction subject headings and subgenre headings, with the ultimate goal of having an easy-to-use checklist for library catalogers to use when entering new SF novels into the library’s collection. Member concerns about the number of headings on our most recent draft (still nearly 300!) were allayed when the library catalogers expressed strong support for our work thus far. Which is not to say that we’re done! Far from it, as the catalogers had several modifications and suggestions of their own, and are now looking forward to seeing a tightened and streamlined checklist, with definitions, as we proceed with the next stage of this project. A lot of the hard work is done, with the massive 500+ list of headings having already been trimmed back extensively. We hope to the work of streamlining our Subgenre Classification System this spring, following which we’ll begin to look back at the existing SF collection in the library and catalog it on behalf of the library staff — this was our choice, based on their declaration that they would not have time to go back and recatalog all of the older SF. They did agree to enter in our data if we did the work of determining which categories the existing novels should fall into, however, so that is our long-range project for the next year-or-so. In addition to the above, the catalogers were also highly receptive to our volunteering to help them catalog hard-to- define SF novels in the future. This proposal, originally from longtime SBA member Agris Taurins, would allow SBA to have a strong, ongoing hand in making sure that SF novels are accurately classified in the library’s collection in the future, and that all our hard work at creating a classification system would be put to its most effective use. As a final note, during the presentation to the catalogers, several of them (astonished at the level of detail and thought that had gone into our system) suggested that we may wish to consider making our finished product available for other libraries to use in the future. Hmm…one thing at a time! A special thanks to all the Star Base Andromeda members who’ve put in so much time on this ongoing project, and for their continued useful suggestions and nitpicking. We’ve still got a ways to go until we’re finished, folks, but we’ve cleared some of the earliest and biggest of the hurdles! have been considering producing a ramp up our publicity efforts to in- Brian Hirt, all of Lincoln! similar presentation on the fantasy crease public awareness of the club’s Take a Reading genre as another public library pro- existence, we’d like to re-emphasize the In the fall of 1999, the members New Membership Payback gram. As with the Science Fiction club’s attending Tuesday night meetings, program, we would have a generalized rewards system. To encourage current concerned that most of our meetings overview of fantasy literature, with 3 to club members to seek out potential new had become almost exclusively discus- 4 specialized talks of 10-15 minutes members for the club, the following sions of media-related SF, instituted a each on specific authors or themes of bonuses are available: For every new semi-regular feature to our week- the genre. If you have any suggestions, Supporting Member ($6) you are respon- day meetings: Book Discussions. Ap- or would like to volunteer to take part sible for bringing into the club, you get proximately once every other month, in such a presentation, please contact a free month added to your member- we (as a group) select a single SF or the Presidio during regular meetings, ship; for every Full Member ($10) you Fantasy novel that we each agree to or via the mail and e-mail addresses on convince to join, you get 2 free months read by a particular date, and then we page 2. If we do decide to take this on, added to your membership. Copies of have a more in-depth discussion of that we will have to be slotted into the our membership flyer are available for novel. We’ve already tackled Arthur C. library’s regularly scheduled series of distribution — just ask Scott (Publicity Clarke’s Childhood’s End and Isaac public events…or we might want to Chair) for a supply. If you are the Asimov’s I, Robot, William Gibson’s wait until the two new library branches person who has convinced someone to cyberpunk masterpiece Neuromancer, open in 2002 and aim for doing a join, remind them to put your name in L.E. Modesitt’s The Parafaith War, program at one of these new locations. the “referred by…” section of the Robert Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy Membership News/Paybacks registration form so you get appropri- and Lincoln author Robert Reed’s Although three new members have ate credit! We’ll have the latest report Marrow. Our next selection is Ray joined SBA since the last issue of The of club membership standings in the Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Andromedan Log saw print, no payback Officer Reports section of the next issue Way Comes, which we will be discuss- bonuses have been awarded because of The Log. ing at the February 13th meeting. All none of these new members joined as a We have had three new members SBA members who are interested in direct result of a current member’s join since our last issue. We welcome joining these discussions are encour- efforts. As we work to get The Log back new Supporting Members Floyd Orr continued on page 43… on a regular publishing schedule, and and Roger Wait, and new Full Member February 2001 5 Mediawatch Genre News and Observations through February 2001 One Ring to Rule Them All but lose the big picture. You forget that vehemently denied news reports that Peter Jackson, director of the upcom- the camera should move faster, because shock rocker Marilyn Manson would ing Lord of the Rings film trilogy, told when you cut it, you want this to be a star in a remake of Willy Wonka and E! Online that he faces a year’s worth of part of a fast scene. Momentum is a the Chocolate Factory, or that Tim post-production now that principal very hard thing to maintain.” The first Burton was the director. The rumor had photography has wrapped. The chal- Rings film, The Fellowship of the Ring, been reported in both the New York lenge is to keep things real and faithful opens Dec. 19. Post and the British Sun tabloid. to J.R.R. Tolkien’s original books, he Giants Undertaking “Contrary to a false and misleading report published in the Jan. 31 edition said. “The one thing I’ve always been Universal Pictures will develop the of the New York Post, singer Marilyn consistently going for in the style of the fantasy epic movie Giants with director Manson has not been cast in a role in shooting and the performances and the Ralph Zondag (Dinosaur) and writer the upcoming Warner Brothers Pictures design is to make Middle-Earth feel real Mark Steilen, according to The Holly- film Charlie and the Chocolate Fac- and lived-in,” Jackson told the site. wood Reporter. The film tells the story of tory,” Warner said in a statement. “And whether it’s an elf or a dwarf or a a family cast away on an island inhab- “Additionally, the director of the hobbit or a human, I think it’s impor- ited by giants. project is not Tim Burton, as falsely tant for us to convey that the character Zondag and Steilen will co-produce stated in the Post. Gary Ross is real and exists at a particular moment the project. They partnered on the (Pleasantville, Dave, Big) is directing in time.” project after becoming friends through the film, currently in development at Conveying the reality of the films their children, the trade paper reported. the studio, from a screenplay by Scott means pushing the envelope in terms of 451 Getting Hotter violence, Jackson said. “It’s going to be Frank (Out of Sight), which he is PG-13. Again, it’s part of making it real. Frank Darabont (The Green Mile) is adapting from the beloved Roald Dahl The material we’ve shot would easily in talks to direct the long-awaited novel.” The studio also asked the Post give us an R-rated movie if we chose to feature-film update of Ray Bradbury’s to issue a retraction. cut it that way. We haven’t shot any- classic SF novel Fahrenheit 451, Variety BAFTA…Tastes Just Like Chicken reported. Darabont would also rewrite thing that is disturbing or horrific or Chicken Run was the only genre film Terry Hayes’ script for Castle Rock and nasty. We’re just trying to depict battles to garner notable nominations for Warner Brothers, the trade paper realistically. But we’ll be very circum- British Academy Film Awards, which reported. spect with how we edit the material. will be announced Feb. 25 at London’s The studio will finance and produce We’re aiming for the tougher end of a Odeon Leicester Square theater, Variety Fahrenheit 451 with Icon’s Mel Gibson PG-13—we’ll try and push the enve- reported. But genre films fared well in and Bruce Davey and Storyline’s Craig lope a little bit.” nominations for the Orange Audience Zadan and Neil Meron. Gibson had Jackson added, “Real life is quite Award 2001, which are voted on by the originally intended to direct the film, complex—nothing is ever black and general public. but opted out, the trade paper reported. white. And even though we are dealing Chicken Run was nominated for the Bradbury’s novel was previously with good and evil in a very clear-cut Alexander Korda Award for outstand- filmed in 1966 by director François way, as Tolkien wrote, we’re trying to ing British film of the year, for visual Truffaut. capture some of the story’s complexity. effects and for an Orange Audience For example, the character of Boromir. Another Ring to Confuse Them Award. He is a fundamentally good person— DreamWorks will develop a movie Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole good at heart—but he does things based on Hideo Nakata’s Japanese Christmas was nominated for best villains would do. He tries to take the horror-mystery phenomenon The Ring, makeup and hair and for an Orange Ring forcibly from Frodo. It’s fun to according to The Hollywood Reporter. A award. The other Orange nominees film good people doing bad things, and Japanese television series and 1998 film, included Dinosaur, Mission: Impos- it makes for a movie that has a little based on Suzuki Koji’s series of Ring sible 2, Stuart Little, What Lies Be- more interest and psychological novels, have been a big hit throughout neath and X-Men. content.” Southeast Asia. Hot Set The other challenge is to keep focus The Ring centers on a journalist who Production halted on the SF movie through all three films. “The difficulty investigates an urban legend about a Evolution Jan. 30 when special effects is you have to imagine the momentum cursed videotape that supposedly kills sparked a fire on the Los Angeles set, of the films as a whole,” Jackson said. viewers seven days after they watch it. the Associated Press reported. Star “I always find it’s very easy to lock Willy Wonky… yourself into making a shot feel nice, David Duchovny and several gorilla- 6 Andromedan Log #61 Warner Brothers Pictures on Jan. 31 suited actors escaped unharmed, the wire service reported. The fire erupted at the Raleigh New SF/Fantasy at Lincoln City Libraries Studios lot during production on the AUTHOR TITLE DreamWorks film, the AP reported. Jeffrey Carver Eternity’s End Scores of actors and production staff P.N. Elrod Lady Crymsyn poured out of the lot, and Duchovny James Alan Gardner Hunted was whisked off to a shopping center. Robert Jordan Winter’s Heart The fire occurred as crews set off five Geoffrey A. Landis Mars Crossing fireballs, 15 feet in diameter, fire James Luceno Star Wars: Jedi Eclipse officials told the AP. One of the fireballs Elizabeth Moon Against the Odds ignited the scenery. Firefighters quickly Terry Pratchett The Truth: A novel of Discworld put out the blaze. The film was ex- Mickey Zucker Reichert Flightless Falcon pected to resume production the Fred Saberhagen The Arms of Hercules following day. Ian Stewart Wheelers More Footage Required Bruce Sterling Zeitgeist Sheri S. Tepper The Fresco Star Wars: Episode II star Hayden Sheri R. Thomas, ed. Dark Matter: A century of speculative fiction Christensen (Anakin Skywalker) will from the African diaspora go back before the cameras to shoot Kathy Tyers Balance Point additional scenes in the spring and again in November, Variety columnist Army Archerd reported. Archerd Behind, which is based on the best- clear-cut villain.” added that Christensen will reprise the selling series of books of the same Paul Giamatti plays the orangutan role in 2003, when Episode III is name, broadens into more theaters in Limbo, providing most of the film’s expected to begin production. the coming weeks. comic relief. Canadian supermodel Christensen told Archerd that he and Raising More Hell Estella Warren plays Wahlberg’s love interest, the Sun reported. his Vancouver family spent the Christ- Doug Bradley will reprise the role of mas holidays at director George Lucas’ Pinhead in the upcoming Hellraiser: Steve and Ron give back Marin County, Calif., ranch. Hellseeker, the sixth installment in the Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard Meanwhile, Episode II designer horror film franchise created by Clive will create animated short films for Doug Chiang told the official Star Wars Barker, the SFX Network Web site DreamWorks’ CountingDown.com Web site that the movie will introduce reported. Cinematographer Rick Bota Web site, part of the site’s new theater two new planets. Chiang added, “We (The House On Haunted Hill) will make section, the site announced. The first will be developing Coruscant and his directorial debut with Hellseeker, pair of shorts—part of a series of Naboo further. You will see parts of SFX reported. Dreams created exclusively for the Web Coruscant and Naboo that we have Ashley Laurence, who appeared in by Howard—will feature Howard and never seen before. There will be some the first three Hellraiser movies, is Spielberg each explaining a personal neat surprises.” reportedly set to return to the series. dream. Both shorts will premiere on Left Way Behind at the B.O. Hellseeker will also feature Callum CountingDown.com on Feb. 5. Left Behind, the Christian-themed Keith Rennie (Due South). PDI DreamWorks (Antz) animated apocalyptic movie, opened in 874 Apes, Redux the shorts using Flash animation technology. “This will be the first time theaters on the weekend of Feb. 2 and Tim Burton, director of the upcoming that either Steven Spielberg or Ron took in an estimated $2.6 million at the update of 1968’s Planet of the Apes, Howard have created content specifi- box office, the Hollywood trade papers told the Calgary Sun that his film will cally for the Web, and we are extremely reported. While respectable, the take differ from the original. “We’re trying pleased to have this opportunity to wasn’t enough to place the movie in the to be completely respectful of the display their work to their millions of weekend’s top 10. original, but we’ve added new charac- fans online,” CountingDown.com co- The movie has followed an unusual ters and new story elements,” Burton founder Tim Doyle said in a statement release strategy. It was released on said. “You could say we are keeping video and DVD in October, taking in the essence of the original, but inhabit- Harry Potter and… more than $90 million in sales. The ing that world in a different way.” Time Warner Entertainment, which video release was designed to drum up Mark Wahlberg stars in the movie as holds the marketing rights to J.K. interest in the theatrical release among air force Capt. Leo Davidson, a pilot Rowling’s Harry Potter series of fundamentalist Christians, who re- who is AWOL from an Earth-launched children’s novels, was granted owner- ceived discounted theater tickets with space station and finds himself on a ship of 107 Potter-related Internet the videos. Producers also solicited planet in which apes are the dominant domain names in a ruling by the “sponsorships” from church groups species. Tim Roth’s chimpanzee United Nations’ World Intellectual and individuals who were willing to General Thade is the leader of the ape Property Organization, the Associated pony up money to help bring the film society, Burton said. He is “definitely Press reported. The domain names to movie theaters in their towns. Left the villain of the piece. And a really include February 2001 7 www.harrypotterinhollywood.com, Middle-Earth. Eon Magazine Web site to expect major www.harrypottersmovie.com and The first Rings movie, The Fellowship changes in DC Comics’ stable of www.harrypotterfilm.org, which had of the Ring, premieres Dec. 19. superheroes when he takes a crack at been registered by HarperStephens of A Whole New Galaxy “re-imagining” them. Former Marvel Agoura Hills, Calif., the AP reported. Comics creator Lee has been hired by The SF Web site GalaxyOnline.com Time Warner told the U.N. panel it his one-time rival to come up with a announced that it has bought Galaxy had the rights to produce merchandise new batch of stories that reshape DC magazine, the venerable genre maga- based on the four books in the Harry characters such as Superman, Batman, zine founded in 1950. Galaxy magazine Potter series, the first of which is about Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, ceased publication as a print periodical to be turned into a Hollywood film by with the first set of his books to hit in the mid-1990s, but has maintained a Time Warner unit Warner Brothers. stands late next year. Web site, which is part of the deal. “I wrote the Superman and I wrote …the Website Infringement Terms were not disclosed. the Wonder Woman,” Lee told the site. Internet fans of J.K. Rowling’s Harry GalaxyOnline.com said it was “I’m starting to write the Batman and Potter books are running afoul of mulling how best to relaunch the print the Green Lantern now, and I don’t Warner Brothers, which is producing a edition of the magazine. “We certainly know how I’m going to do them all. But feature film based on the first book, won’t be introducing anything immedi- they’ve got such great artists lined up Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. ately,” said GalaxyOnline.com presi- to do it, so I try to find the time. It’s a The studio has issued letters to fans dent and chief executive Doug Conway very exciting project.” who have registered domain names in a statement. Lee added, “I don’t want to know featuring what Warner claims are Plant Wilts anything about the characters, because trademarks. The fans include teen-age Stephen King told readers on his I want to do it as if I just thought of the girls, such as Claire Field, a British fan official Web site idea. So I may not make the characters who registered the domain [www.stephenking.com/ the same sex, the same race, the same harrypotterguide.co.uk, and Singapore sk_100900.html] that he will sus- anything. I mean, I may just change fan Catherine Chang, who registered pend release of chapters of his elec- everything around. It’s just going to be HarryPotterNetwork.net. tronic novel The Plant so he can finish ‘What if I had thought of Wonder As a result, British fan Alastair other projects. King will stop issuing Woman? How would I have done it?’ Alexander has created a Web site called new installments of the supernatural And we’ll see.” PotterWar to protest Warner’s heavy horror tale after December’s “very hand. Calling All Writers long” part six and won’t offer new ones For its part, Warner seems to be The Science Fiction Research Associa- for at least a year or two, the author backing off. “We’ve been naive,” tion, [www.sfra.org] devoted to the said. Warner senior vice president Diane study of science fiction as literature, is “The Plant will be going back into Nelson told Entertainment-Rewired issuing a call for papers for its upcom- hibernation so that I can continue work Magazine. “The studio’s letter is an act ing 32nd SFRA conference, May 24-27, on Black House (the sequel to The of miscommunication. We never in Schenectady, N.Y. The association is Talisman, written in collaboration with intended to shut down any Web sites. seeking papers, paper proposals and Peter Straub),” King wrote. “I also need In some cases, we just wanted those we panel proposals from scholars inter- to complete work on two new novels contacted to transfer the domain name ested in any aspect of science fiction. (the first, Dreamcatcher, will be avail- over to us. In no way is our goal to shut The deadline for submissions is March able from Scribner’s next March) and down the Web sites.” 15. see if I can’t get going on The Dark The conference will focus on pros- Adventure Will Find You Tower again. And my agent insists I pects for science fiction in the coming The newly relaunched Web site need to take a breather so that foreign millennium, its historical roots and its [www.lordoftherings.net] for translation and publication of The connections to other genres. Speakers New Line’s upcoming Lord of the Plant—also in installments, also on the will include C.J. Cherryh, David Weber, Rings film trilogy has attracted more ‘net—can catch up with American Jane Yolen and Vincent Di Fate. than 41 million hits since it debuted publication. Yet don’t despair. The last Jan. 12, the studio reported. More than time The Plant furled its leaves, the A New Use for Toenails 1 million hits an hour were recorded in story remained dormant for 19 years. If Venerable SF author Arthur C. Clarke the first few days the new site was live. it could survive that, I’m sure it can will write a message and provide a Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 19, fans survive a year or two while I work on DNA sample to be sent into outer space will be able to view the film’s first other projects.” in 2003, part of the Houston-based theatrical trailer in streaming video King will offer part six free of charge Encounter 2001 project, the Reuters format, the studio announced. The new to thank the 75 to 80 percent of readers news service reported. The 83-year-old site also contains production informa- who voluntarily paid for the other five author of 2001: A Space Odyssey is one tion, interviews with the filmmakers segments, he said. of 55,000 people who have signed up to and cast, photos, a tour of a set, Stan Lee Does DC take part in the project. downloadable screen savers, a Web “It’s like a cosmic message in a bottle, Comic book legend Stan Lee told the 8browser Andromedan and an Log interactive #61 map of an archive of humanity,” Encounter 2001 spokesman Chris Pancheri told play Ripley for a fifth time, the London successfully cloned to reappear in Alien Reuters. The spacecraft is tentatively Sunday Express reported. Resurrection in 1997. scheduled for launch by an Ariane V The British paper said the film — To Strike, or Not to Strike… rocket in French Guiana in the third which will be set on Earth for the first After months of gloominess, quarter of 2003. A giant solar sail will time — would be released in 2004, the Hollywood’s labor outlook brightened carry the craft on a 13.5-year journey 25th anniversary of the original. somewhat over the Feb 3-4 weekend as beyond Pluto and on into deep space. “I’ve always wanted to do one where negotiators for writers, studios and “Farewell my clone!” is the brief we go back to the planet from where networks took what could be a key step handwritten message Clarke will send the alien originally came or even get to toward averting a devastating strike. along with the DNA sample and a Earth,” Weaver told the newspaper. Negotiators agreed Saturday night to photograph of himself, Reuters re- The 51-year-old actress will also be extend film-TV contract talks — which ported. executive producer on Alien 5, written were in their 12th day at Writers Guild by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Again…? of America West headquarters in Joss Wheedon. More than 20 years after the first Hollywood — to Monday. That move Fans thought the films’ run had come Alien film shocked audiences around took the talks past the WGA’s two- to an end when Weaver’s character was the world, actress Sigourney Weaver week deadline rather than pulling the killed off in Alien 3 in 1992, but she was has agreed a 15 million pound deal to plug on the bargaining. As they did last weekend, negotiators took Sunday off. 2000 Golden Globes Reps for both sides refused to charac- terize how the talks were proceeding, List of Winners at 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards but the extension means clear progress has been achieved. The decision to keep BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - The following is a list of winners in each talking could be a sign that a deal is category on Sunday at the 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards (news - web within reach, although sources cau- sites), which are handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association: tioned it will be difficult to hammer out FILM agreements on all 42 WGA demands BEST DRAMA Gladiator for contract changes. BEST MUSICAL OR COMEDY Almost Famous The only definitive implications of BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich the extension is that both sides have BEST ACTOR, DRAMA Tom Hanks, Cast Away agreed to talk Monday and have set no BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL OR COMEDY Renee Zellweger, Nurse Betty deadline for concluding this round of BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL OR COMEDY George Clooney, O Brother, Where talks. The WGA’s negotiators plan to Art Thou brief a special meeting of the WGA BEST DIRECTOR Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon board Monday night. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Kate Hudson, Almost Famous Prior to the start of negotiations on BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Benicio Del Toro, Traffic January 22, the WGA set a two-week BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon deadline and insisted that if there were BEST SCREENPLAY Steven Gaghan, Traffic no deal at that point, it would then stay BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard, Gladiator away from further talks until a month BEST ORIGINAL SONG Bob Dylan, “Things Have Changed” from Wonder before the May 2 contract expiration. Boys But a few minutes after talks started TELEVISION that day, WGAW president John Wells DRAMA The West Wing modified the threat by saying that MUSICAL OR COMEDY Sex and the City negotiations could be extended at the ACTRESS, DRAMA Sela Ward, Once and Again deadline if there were significant ACTOR, DRAMA Martin Sheen, The West Wing progress. ACTRESS, MUSICAL OR COMEDY Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City Wells and key studio execs — Walt ACTOR, MUSICAL OR COMEDY Kelsey Grammer, Frasier Disney Co. president Robert Iger, MINI-SERIES OR MADE FOR TV MOVIE Dirty Pictures DreamWorks principal Jeffrey ACTRESS, MINI-SERIES OR TV MOVIE Judi Dench, Last of the Blond Katzenberg and Warner Bros. chairman Bombshells Barry Meyer — also declared that day ACTOR, MINI-SERIES OR TV MOVIE Brian Dennehy, Arthur Miller’s Death that a deal could be worked out, of a Salesman despite the widespread pessimism that SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MINI-SERIES OR TV MOVIE Vanessa Redgrave, If a work stoppage can be avoided. Both These Walls Could Talk sides then limited commentary for the SUPPORTING ACTOR, MINI-SERIES OR TV MOVIE Robert Downey, Jr., next dozen sessions to a day-end bare- Ally McBeal bones recap of issues discussed. continued on pageFebruary 35… 2001 9 All times listed are Central Time Zone Television News All channels listed are for Lincoln Cablevision Genre TV news Through February 2001 Winter 2000–2001 TV Line-Up – Network/Syndi/Cable This viewing schedule lists all genre series and the day- and time-slots they have settled into during the current winter…insofar as we can deter- mine. Some of these day- and time-slots are susceptible to extreme change, especially those on WGN (14). All stations and channels listed are for the Lincoln cable market, and on Lincoln’s Time Warner Cable system. As always, check your local listings each week. The chart below lists only “new” episode airings, and does not include any repeat schedules, such as the FX airings of The X-Files or syndicated airings of Star Trek Voyager reruns. You will find additional information in the Channel Surfing feature each issue. MONDAY 7:00 pm KXVO 15 Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict 1:00 am KETV 7 Beastmaster 8:00 pm KXVO 15 Stargate: SG-1 [season 3] 1:00 am WGN* 14 Jack of All Trades*** 9:00 pm PAX 49 Mysterious Ways 1:30 am WGN* 14 Cleopatra 2525 10:00 pm KXVO 15 Queen of Swords 2:05 am WOWT 6 The Invisible Man 10:30 pm KOLN 11 Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict 2:30 am WGN* 14 Beastmaster 10:35 pm KLKN 8 Sheena 4:00 am WOWT 6 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World 11:00 pm KXVO 15 Relic Hunter 7:00 pm SciFi 62 First Wave (repeats at 10:00 pm) 11:30 pm KOLN 11 Total Recall 2070*** 8:00 pm WB 15 Roswell 12:00 pm KETV 7 Sheena 8:00 pm SciFi 62 The Invisible Man (repeats at 11:00 pm) 12:00 pm KPTM 9 The Outer Limits 9:00 pm SciFi 62 Lexx (repeats at Midnight) SUNDAY TUESDAY 12:35 am KOLN 11 Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda 2:00 am WGN* 14 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World 4:00 am KXVO 15 The Immortal 7:00 pm NBC 6 3rd Rock From the Sun 4:00 am WOWT 6 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World 7:00 pm WB 15 Buffy, the Vampire Slayer 11:00 am WGN* 14 Beastmaster 7:00 pm PAX 49 Mysterious Ways 11:00 am KXVO 15 Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda 8:00 pm FOX 9 Dark Angel 6:00 pm ABC 7/8 The Wonderful World of Disney 8:00 pm WB 15 Angel 6:00 pm FOX 9 Futurama WEDNESDAY 6:00 pm WGN* 14 Xena: Warrior Princess 7:00 pm CBS 3/11 Touched By an Angel 2:00 am WGN* 14 Cleopatra 2525 7:00 pm FOX 9 The Simpsons 2:00 am PAX 49 Mysterious Ways 7:00 pm WGN* 14 Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda 2:30 am WGN* 14 Jack of All Trades 8:00 pm FOX 9 The X-Files 7:00 pm UPN — 7 Days** 8:00 pm WGN* 14 Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict 8:00 pm UPN — Star Trek: Voyager** 10:00 pm WGN* 14 Cleopatra 2525 9:00 pm SciFi 62 Exposure 10:30 pm WGN* 14 Jack of All Trades*** THURSDAY 11:00 pm KXVO 15 Xena: Warrior Princess 2:00 am WGN* 14 Total Recall 2070*** VARIABLE*** 8:00 pm WB 15 Charmed WGN* 14 Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict FRIDAY WGN* 14 Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda 7:00 pm WB 15 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch WGN* 14 Xena, Warrior Princess 7:00 pm SciFi 62 Black Scorpion (repeats at 10:00 pm) WGN* 14 Cleopatra 2525 8:00 pm FOX 9 FreakyLinks WGN* 14 Jack of All Trades 8:00 pm SciFi 62 Farscape (repeats at 11:00) * – Superstation WGN is carrying all of these syndicated series this season, and will plug any 9:00 pm SciFi 62 Secret Adv. of Jules Verne (repeats at 12:00 p.m.) or all of them into random holes in the network’s schedule, primarily Saturday or Sunday 9:00 pm SHOW 63 Stargate SG-1 during the afternoon or late-night timeslots. WGN airs its syndicated fare one week after other SATURDAY syndicated stations, due to exclusivity requirements.. 3:00 am KETV 7 Total Recall 2070*** ** – UPN series 7 Days, and Star Trek: Voyager do not air in the Lincoln market on cable. 11:00 am KXVO 15 The Immortal The timeslots are listed here for the benefit of SBA members outside the Lincoln TV market. 2:00 pm WGN* 14 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World *** – Jack of All Trades will be removed from the air, and Cleopatra 2525 will expand to a 1- 3:00 pm WGN* 14 Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict hour length beginning in February 2001. Total Recall 2070 will no longer air as of Feb 2001. 4:00 pm WGN* 14 Xena: Warrior Princess 5:00 pm WGN* 14 Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda

10 Andromedan Log #61 Joss the WB Slayer vised on Fox on March 7. Where’s the Big Giant Head? Joss Whedon—creator of The WB’s Alba was nominated as actress of the The next stop may be back to deep hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer— year in a new show and breakout star space for the sitcom 3rd Rock From the has signed a four-year production deal of the year. In other genre programs, Sun, which shot a potential series finale with the show’s producer, 20th Century Kristen Johnston (3rd Rock from the when the crew recently wrapped up its Fox Television, Variety reported. Under Sun) was nominated for supporting sixth season, a show spokesman said on the deal, estimated to be worth more actress of the year in a comedy series, Friday. than $20 million, Whedon will create and Alyson Hannigan (Buffy the The studio audience that watched the and produce new programming for Vampire Slayer) was nominated as season finale being taped got a hint that Fox, while continuing as executive supporting actress of the year in a the end might be near when series star producer on Buffy and its spinoff, drama series. John Lithgow got up before the crowd Angel, the trade paper reported. Pay No Attention to Da Man and made a special announcement, said Whedon’s new deal doesn’t include Singer and actress Brandy is in talks James Anderson, a spokesman for movies. Whedon becomes a free agent to play Dorothy in a hip-hop television Carsey-Werner Prods., which produces in the feature world as of May 1. He adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic 3rd Rock. was previously set up at the studio children’s book The Wizard of Oz for “(Lithgow) pretty much said that under a four-year, $16 million deal that Fox broadcasting, according to The we’re having a great time, you guys are covered both TV and film, Variety Hollywood Reporter. Randall Kleiser wonderful and you may be witnessing reported. will direct the television movie, tenta- history here tonight because this may The trade paper reported that the Fox tively titled The O.Z., the trade paper be our last episode,” Anderson said. TV network could pick up a Whedon reported. Leslie Reed, a 3rd Rock spokes- pilot to be developed for next season. Brandy joins Queen Latifah (Glenda woman from NBC, which carries the Other networks, including ABC, have the Good Witch), Busta Rhymes show, confirmed that a potential series also expressed interest in working with (Cowardly Lion), Little Richard (the finale was shot but said a final decision Whedon, Variety reported. Fox is Wizard), Ginuwine (the Scarecrow) and on the show’s fate has yet to be deter- currently in contract renewal talks with R&B group IMX (the flying monkeys), mined. She also confirmed that Elvis The WB over Buffy, in which both sides all of whom have agreed in principle to Costello flew in from Ireland to guest have traded rancorous comments do the Fox TV Pictures project, though star on the show and sang “Fly Me to Wither Witchblade no deals have been signed, the trade the Moon” for the episode. TNT’s upcoming supernatural series paper reported. Tina Andrews is “We won’t know for a couple of Witchblade is slated to begin produc- writing the script. Kenneth “Babyface” months probably” if the show will tion Feb. 19 in Toronto, the Edmonds and his wife, Tracey, will return in the fall, Reed said. “But they Comics2Film Web site reported. The oversee the musical part of the project did film a finale because they didn’t first episode to film, “Diplopia,” will be through her Edmonds Entertainment want to be caught not wrapping up the the third to air when the series pre- Group, according to the Reporter. series in case it was canceled.” mieres in August. Witchblade is based In the new version of the classic 3rd Rock, a show about four aliens on the Top Cow comic series of the story, Dorothy will be a successful but who assume human form and live same name. lonely hip-hop musical producer in Los among everyday people, debuted in Toronto will stand in for New York Angeles who finds herself after a January 1996 and has taped 138 epi- City. Yancy Butler will reprise the lead massive earthquake in a strange land sodes to date. The show has the dubi- role of Sara Pezzini from TNT’s popu- called the Big O.Z. ous distinction of appearing in 18 lar Witchblade movie last year. The FreakyUnlinked different time slots during its run — more than any other show in TV cast also includes Anthony Cistaro as A spokeswoman for Fox told SCI FI history. Kenneth Irons, Eric Etebari as Ian Wire that its paranormal drama series Anderson said the frequent moves Nottingham and David Chokachi as Freakylinks has been pulled from the are testament to the show’s versatility, Jake McCartey. The site reported that network’s schedule for the sweeps but also probably took a toll as loyal the series will add several new charac- month of February. The last original viewers struggled to follow it from time ters: Gabriel Bowman, a street-smart episode aired Jan. 26. slot to time slot. entrepreneur; Madame Boucher, a But the spokeswoman denied a He said the final episode, which will character from the comics; Danielle, report that the network has decided to either be aired as two half-hour shows who is connected to Irons in a love-hate cancel the low-rated show, though no on consecutive weeks or as a one-hour relationship; and Captain Yardley Scott, new airings have been slated. “They finale, begins when the aliens get a Sara’s boss. haven’t told me that it’s gone for good, message from their home planet that but it’s not scheduled for February,” TV Guide’s Dark Angel it’s time to return. the spokeswoman said in an interview. Jessica Alba, star of Fox’s hit SF series “What happens is the aliens have to Nine episodes of the show’s original 13 Dark Angel, received two nominations accept that fact and they decide to have aired; production has already for the 2001 TV Guide Awards, which throw a big farewell party, not telling were announced Jan. 29. The awards wrapped, she added. will be presented in ceremonies tele- February 2001 11 anyone that they have to go home or A spokeswoman for SCI FI had earlier collector binders from Dynamic Forces, what the reason is,” Anderson said. told SCI FI Wire that such talks were comic books from JMJ Media Group’s He added that the show ends with underway, but would not offer details Andromeda label, and posters and the four aliens sitting in the same red about them. calendars from Trends International convertible where they began the show But in a posting to a SCIFI.COM Corp. in the pilot six years ago. bulletin board, Straczynski said, “To Sci Fi Highs “That’s how you’re going to be left,” confirm what [SCI FI executive vice The SCI FI Channel reported record Anderson said. “It’s open-ended president and general manager] Bonnie ratings for the year 2000, fueled by enough that if this is not the last season, Hammer has stated, yes, there are original series and specials such as the writers could certainly write conversations ongoing between SFC, December’s six-hour miniseries, Frank themselves back in. But it also ends [Warner Brothers], myself and Doug Herbert’s Dune. The channel reported a properly so that if this is the last season Netter about some new projects. I’m final year-end prime ratings record of the audience and fans who have been not at liberty at this point to be much 0.9, or 558,000 households, which at with the show will not be let down.” more specific than that. Could be a year’s end put it in the top 10 among The finale will air sometime in May movie in the B5 universe. Could be a cable networks for the first time. on NBC, which is a unit of General series set in the B5 universe. Could be a SCI FI’s ratings were up 13 percent Electric Co. combination of those, plus a little from a year earlier, and the number of Toothless Threats something else. Suffice to say that SFC households increased 25 percent, the A day after threatening to quit if her wants to become the new home for B5 network reported. In terms of demo- hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer moves in all its parts and pieces, and there are graphics, SCI FI ranked No. 1 among all from The WB, star Sarah Michelle several possible ways to accomplish television networks in its concentration Gellar backed away from her ultima- this currently under discussion.” of adults 25-54. tum, the Los Angeles Times reported. Straczynski added, “We may have In 2000, SCI FI aired 182 hours of “I’m not going anywhere, and I can’t some resolution on these issues as early original programming, compared with stress that enough,” a contrite Gellar as next month. To that end, we have 116 in 1999. SCI FI was the largest told the Times on Wednesday, adding verified the availability and interest of provider of prime-time dramatic series that she was “humiliated” over the those who helped make B5 a success on cable for the year. SCI FI success- reaction to comments she made to E! among the crew, and everyone we have fully launched four new original series, Online. spoken to is excited and ready to get all of which have been renewed for On Jan. 23, Gellar told the site that going. Same crew, same quality, same further seasons. They included Lexx, she would leave the show if it switches dedication. Beyond that, I can’t com- The Invisible Man, Exposure and networks. Fox, which produces the ment ... except to say that if we get the Crossing Over with John Edward. series, has been threatening to pull it go-ahead on what I think may be Upcoming series include new episodes from The WB if it can’t reach agreement coming, it could be a very exciting of The Outer Limits and News From on terms of a new contract, including opportunity to do another kind of story the Edge. more money per episode. Both ABC that no one’s ever done before in SF TV, just as no one had ever done anything Edgy News and the Fox broadcasting network have The SCI FI Channel has ordered 13 reportedly expressed interest in acquir- quite like B5 before.” Give Us Lexx Dolls episodes of News from the Edge, an ing Buffy. hour-long drama about a tabloid But on Jan. 24, Gellar told the Times, New home videos, DVDs, CDs and newspaper whose crazy stories turn out “I just said it in passing, and it was only other merchandise connected with The to be true, Variety reported. The meant to show my appreciation and SCI FI Channel’s original series Lexx comedic paranormal series was origi- support for The WB. But Fox has been are coming out soon under license from nally developed for NBC by Greenblatt very good to me, too. I intend to stay Salter Street Films International, the Janollari Studios. with Buffy, no matter what.” Gellar— wholly-owned distribution subsidiary Production is expected to be com- who has at least one more year on her of Salter Street Films, the company pleted before the potential writers’ and contract after the current fifth season— announced. In the United States, Acorn actors’ strikes this spring. SCI FI is added that she “absolutely” hopes to Media will release 20 episodes of Lexx aiming to air the series this summer, continue doing the show even after on DVD and video. In Canada, Koch the trade paper reported. that, the Times reported. International has released the first four Getting More Exposure The Future of Babylon 5 Lexx movies on DVD and video and will follow up with the first 20 episodes The SCI FI Channel announced the Babylon 5 creator J. Michael creation of Exposure Studios, a new Straczynski confirmed for fans that he of the Lexx one-hour series. GNP Crescendo, meanwhile, will production entity aimed at developing and partner Doug Netter are talking SF projects by new filmmakers. Estab- with The SCI FI Channel about new release a new CD of the Lexx soundtrack, with music from all three lished during the successful Exposure projects, which could include a new TV Film Festival in New York, Exposure movie or series set in the B5 universe. seasons composed by Marty Simon. Other merchandise licensing arrange- Studios is committed to finding promis- ments include trading cards and ing new filmmakers and giving them 12 Andromedan Log #61 the opportunity to write and direct SF Maybe it was predictable. ages 18 to 34, and its mid-season movies. John Edward, the psychic talk show replacement schedule is ample testa- SCI FI kicked off the company at the personality from cable’s Sci Fi Channel, ment to the fact. The network’s slate of Sundance and Slamdance film festivals is looking at a promising future as he winter fare for its testosterone-charged in Park City, Utah, Jan. 18-28. Attend- takes his series into broadcast syndica- viewers includes: ees are encouraged to apply in person tion. — a shoot-’em-up series where a and online at the Exposure booth inside TV station execs attending the special, secret team of detectives hunts the Interactive Lounge, hosted by industry’s annual NATPE convention and kills mutants living in the midst of ShowBiz Data. Interested filmmakers here, are lining up to add his show, men; and may also submit applications to Expo- Crossing Over, to their schedules for — a sci-fi, gore-filled series featuring a sure Studios at SCIFI.COM. the fall 2001 season. doctor who uncovers strange goings-on Exposure Studios is based at the Edward communicates on the show in a haunted hospital from the Civil channel’s SCI FI Lab in Los Angeles. with the spirits of the deceased, and War era. Exposure will commission films conducts interviews with audience The new shows will join a male- between three and ten minutes in members eager to contact their loved oriented lineup that already features the length, from independent and student ones. Star Trek: Voyager sci-fi series and two filmmakers from different artistic “It has exploded at the convention,” hours of World Wrestling Federation fields, as well as Exposure series said Steve Rosenberg, president of the Smackdown! action each Thursday alumni. Once complete, these works show’s distributor, USA Studios. night. will have their world television pre- WCBS New York bought Edward to “The audience seems to get who UPN miere on SCI FI’s short-film series, run as two separate half-hours at 4 is, and they’re watching,” said Tom Exposure, and be streamed online on p.m., figuring that the only way the Nunan, UPN president of entertain- SCIFI.COM. Participating filmmakers station can make a dent in the Nielsens ment, speaking at a media event to will also be granted meetings with against WABC’s Oprah and two half- discuss the new mid-season shows. development executives and agents, hours of Judge Judy on WNBC is with Special Unit 2 has no set premiere allowed to shadow directors of existing an offbeat show that has become a date, but will make its debut sometime SCI FI original series and will be given surprise success on Sci Fi every week- in the spring, according to UPN. Set in access to industry mentors and guid- night at 11. KCAL Los Angeles and Chicago, the series revolves around a ance. WPWR Chicago will run Crossing Over secret team of detectives whose mission What the Frell? in daytime while the series continues in is to track and kill “missing links” that Simon & Schuster Interactive, in its late-night berth on Sci Fi. look like mummies, gargoyles, association with The Jim Henson Co., The show could work, says Bill werewolves and the like. There’s no will publish a computer game based on Carroll, VP and director of program- shortage of shooting amid a concurrent The SCI FI Channel’s original series ming for consulting firm Katz TV hail of humor designed to keep the Farscape in the first quarter of 2002. Group, “because the people who show on the lighter side. The Farscape game is being developed believe in mediums who can communi- Last but not least among new UPN by the Red Lemon game studio for the cate with the dead will be riveted by series is All Souls, set in a haunted PC and an unnamed next-generation Edward’s performance. And he’s pretty Boston hospital where ghosts roam the gaming console, the companies an- entertaining even to people who think halls and strange experiments take nounced. the whole thing is a hoax.” place on patients who come in for The game will be an action adventure Edward has become something of a otherwise routine surgery. Part X-Files in which gamers can assume the role of celebrity, the subject of everything from and part The Shining the hospital’s astronaut John Crichton, Peacekeeper profiles in mass-market magazines to a strangeness dates back to a past that Aeryn Sun, Chiana, D’Argo, Rygel or piece on NBC’s Dateline. The includes a brilliant Civil War-era doctor Zhaan. The game will find the crew of newsmagazine started out to debunk who went crazy when his three sons the sentient ship Moya stranded on a Edward’s “gift” and wended its way to died in the war. desolate planet in a far-off corner of the a fence-sitting “Hey, this guy could be “For a show like this, you’ll get a lot universe, caught between warring for real” wrap-up. of value out of the stories (from) the native factions and the deadly Peace- Studios USA thought the Dateline mood you create,” said Mark Frost, the keepers. Gamers will have to uncover report was so balanced that when show’s executive producer and co- clues to a mystery to stop a threat to station general managers tell USA’s creator of the cult series Twin Peaks, galactic stability before time runs out. salespeople they’re hesitant about commenting on the distinctive other- The game will combine character buying Crossing Over and thus giving worldly feel to All Souls. interactions and fast-paced combat in a credence to a supernatural fraud, USA All Souls has no set premiere date, third-person environment. The first shoves the Dateline piece into a VCR but will debut in the winter or spring, public demonstration of the game will and lets the GMs see for themselves. according to UPN, which is a unit of take place at the Electronic Entertain- More New Shows from UPN Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Studios. ment Expo in Los Angeles in May. The UPN television network makes no bones about its penchant for males Speaking With the Dead February 2001 13 Channel Surfing Genre TV Series Upcoming Schedule – February 2001 Information for this section comes from several different sources, of varying accuracy. Information on syndicated shows is usually available for about a month in advance. Information on network shows is usually not available very far in advance, with a few exceptions. Because of the large gap of time since the last issue of the Andromedan Log, the Channel Surfing entries this issue begin only with the current, 2000-2001 television season, with a few minor exceptions.

The end of the 1999-2000 season in January or even in the spring. Not Freedom, UPN was a bloodbath for genre or border- only do the other markets not go head- FreakyLinks, FOX line-genre television shows, especially to-head with new fare on the broadcast GvsE/Good vs Evil, USA/SCI FI on the three main broadcast networks channels, but this also leaves them with Harsh Realm, Fox/fX (ABC, NBC and CBS), which cancelled new episodes to air during traditional Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, every dramatic SF series on their sched- rerun periods — hence this past Syndicated [End of run] ules. Saturday night was a particularly “Summer of Sci Fi”, a ratings bonanza Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Disney/ bad night for network genre fare, with for the Sci Fi Channel. Syndicated Early Edition, The Pretender, The For those of us in the Lincoln cable Jack of All Trades, Syndicated Others and Profiler all being axed. market, the biggest network story of Manhattan, AZ, USA Ratings and critical acclaim didn’t seem the moment has little do to with us. The Mystery Science Theater 3000, SCI FI to matter — The Pretender on NBC was UPN network, for which Lincoln’s Now and Again, CBS still pulling in respectable numbers, Time Warner Cable system still does The Others, NBC while The Others (NBC) and Now & carry an affiliate, looked to be in big The Outer Limits, Showtime [Past six Again (CBS) had caught the critics’ eyes trouble when News Corp. acquired seasons in repeats on SCI FI, which has and were starting to build loyal follow- Chris-Craft Industries in a $5.4 billion contracted to produce a final season of ings. On the “big three” networks, only deal. Chris-Craft Industries owns new episodes] 3rd Rock From the Sun, Sabrina the several key stations that UPN relies on. Peter Benchley’s Amazon, Syndicated Teenaged Witch, Touched By An Angel There had been speculation that UPN Poltergeist: The Legacy, SCI FI/ and Mysterious Ways survived the might fold. However, News Corp. Syndicated [End of run] season, and the latter has mainly chairman Rupert Murdoch seems to be PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranor- moved to the PAX cable network this backing a deal that will keep the mal, Syndicated [The four exiting fall. Worse still, there are no new fall Viacom-owned UPN intact, at least for seasons were picked up for repeat genre series on ABC, CBS or NBC. now. If UPN were to fold early next airing by TNT, which is considering Meanwhile, the other three major year, it was contractually bound to alert new TV movies or possibly reviving the broadcast networks (Fox, WB and station affiliates by Oct. Negotiations series] UPN) have been actively programming continued into January of 2001, when The Pretender, NBC [The four existing genre series, both in the past season Murdoch announced that he was seasons are running on TNT in repeats, and in the projected 2000-2001 televi- renewing the UPN contracts of all which has ordered two new TV movies, sion year. WB has the largest on-going affected stations through the end of the to start in Jan 2001] selection of SF, while both Fox and 2001-2002 television season. Since Time Profiler, NBC [repeats now air on UPN added genre series to their Warner Cable insists that carrying a Court TV] upcoming schedules. Cable networks UPN affiliate would require the elimi- Roughnecks: Starship Troopers and the broader field of syndication nation of another channel in our cable Chronicles, Syndicated continue to provide the largest number line-up, whether the network survives Secret Agent Man, UPN of genre offerings. or not will remain a moot point for us. Sliders, SCI FI [End of run] Only six major new genre (or Thus far the only UPN genre series to Stark Raving Mad, NBC borderline-genre) series are debuting have lasted long enough to make the Total Recall 2070, Syndicated [can- this fall, a much smaller number than jump to syndicated repeats is Star Trek: celled the previous year by Showtime] the past few seasons. There are two Voyager. The War Next Door, USA major reasons for this: First, there are a greater number of returning series, CANCELLED SHOWS many of which premiered last season. (Including some series which pre- And secondly, the nature of “premier- miered in the 2000-2001 season) ing” series has changed noticeably over the past few years. No longer is the fall Bob, the Devil and God, NBC the only time for new series to make Cleopatra 2525, Syndicated their debut. Cable series (on Sci Fi, Early Edition, CBS [repeats now airing TNT, USA, etc.) often start their seasons on Family Channel] The Fearing Mind, FAM [???] 14 Andromedan Log #61 Next, you will find our traditional sponse to Cordelia’s vision proves to be learns that she is terminally ill, Angel run-down of series currently airing too good when he accidentally kills an enters into a series of mysterious trials new episodes, with series overviews innocent victim. After destroying the in an attempt to save her life. The heavily cribbed from the season demonic protector of a pregnant downside: he could get both of them preview report on the SciFi.Com woman named Jo, the guilt-ridden killed in the process. “Reunion” – website. This list contains primarily vampire feels compelled to defend her Angel races to find Darla before her drama and comedy shows. Plots are himself. But Jo vanishes, and Angel imminent rebirth as a vampire. Unfor- given for new episodes of genre series soon learns that the expectant mother is tunately, Drusilla is expecting him, and which have aired from September 2000 not only being hunted by evil bounty manages to stave off Angel long to the present. Next issue’s entry will hunters, but she must also face a enough for Darla to make a clean be considerably shorter, listing only the mysterious tribunal in order to live getaway. “Redefinition” – As Wes, current month’s plots, plus those future through the night. Gunn helps to Cordy and Gunn reel from the shock of plots for which we can track any retrieve a talisman needed for the trial, being fired, their deadly serious ex-boss information down. but to find Jo, Angel must face his own intently reinvents himself as a cold- chamber of horrors — a karaoke bar. hearted one man weapon of mass Schedule for September 2000 “Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been” destruction. “Blood Money” – Angel and beyond… – Cordelia and Wesley explore an digs up dirt on Wolfram & Hart’s abandoned Hollywood hotel possess- connection to a shelter for runaways, Angel [WB] ing an unsavory past and a dark and the woman who manages it. Air Schedule Sep 5 Sanctuary (re) mysterious presence, and discover a “Happy Anniversary” – Angel and the Sep 12 Blind Date (re) piece of Angel’s history as a recluse in Host search for an eccentric physicist Sep 19 To Shanshu in L.A. (re) 1952. “First Impressions” – Cordelia they fear will cause the end of the Season Two Episodes Begin Now Sep 26 Judgement becomes Gunn’s guardian angel after world (by trying to stop time in order Oct 3 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been she has a troubling vision of him, but to prevent his girlfriend from breaking Oct 10 First Impressions Oct 17 Untouched she realizes she can’t save him without up with him) – and who unknowingly Oct 24 Dear Boy Angel and Wesley. Meanwhile, Gunn has help from two Apocalypse-loving Oct 31 [pre-empted by 2-hours of BUFFY] Nov 7 Guise Will Be Guise requests Angel’s help in finding a killer Lubber demons. “The Thin Dead Line” Nov 14 Darla demon named Deevak; Angel unknow- – Unbeknownst to Gunn, Cordy or Nov 21 The Shroud of Rahmon ingly receives nocturnal visits from his Wesley, Angel investigates a squad of Nov 28 The Trial Dec 5 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been (re) sire, Darla. “Untouched” – Unaware of zombie police officers who assault Dec 12 Judgement (re) Lilah’s plans to cultivate her as an everyone in their path — a case also Dec 19 Reunion Dec 26 To Shanshu in L.A. (re) assassin, offers to help a runaway who brought to the trio by Anne. Jan 2 First Impressions (re) possesses uncontrollable telekinetic Jan 9 Untouched (re) powers. “Dear Boy” – After Angel Jan 16 Redefinition Beastmaster [syn] Jan 23 Blood Money finally meets Darla outside of his Air Schedule [Week of] Jan 30 Guise Will Be Guise (re) dreams, she kicks her mind games into Sep 4 The Umpatra (re) Feb 6 Happy Anniversary Sep 11 The Last Unicorns (re) Feb 13 The Thin Dead Line high gear, causing Wesley and Cordelia Sep 18 Rescue (re) Feb 20 Reprise to fear for Angel’s sanity. While Angel Sep 25 Revelations (re) Feb 27 Epiphany dreams about his first encounter with Season Two Episodes Begin Now This horror/adventure series, a Oct 2 Manlinks Drusilla (guest star Juliet Landau) in spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Oct 9 Iara 1860 London, he has a brush with Darla Oct 16 Seer airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on the WB in his waking life. “Guise Will Be Oct 23 Orpheo network (channel 15). The second Oct 30 Xinca Guise” – Since Angel’s out of town, Nov 6 Ghosts of the Forest season began September 26th. The Wesley poses as the benevolent vamp Nov 13 Rage character of Charles Gunn, the street- Nov 20 White Tiger when a powerful businessman de- Nov 27 Heart Like a Lion smart leader of a band of amateur mands Angel’s services to protect his Dec 4 Manlinks (re) vampire slayers who was introduced Dec 11 Iara (re) daughter. “Darla” – As Darla struggles late in season one, joins the cast regu- Dec 18 Seer (re) to sort out her identity, Angels feels it is Dec 25 Orpheo (re) lars this season. Eccentric millionaire becoming increasingly important to Jan 1 Rage (re) David Nabbit will make occasional Jan 8 White Tiger (re) find where Wolfram & Hart are hiding Jan 15 Gone appearances; detective Kate will her. While attempting to rescue Darla Jan 22 Golgotha continue in her recurring role; Angel’s Jan 29 Tao’s Brother from Wolfram & Hart, Angel also Feb 5 Wild Child sire, Darla, brought back from death in reminisces about his rampaging days Feb 12 Mate For Life season one’s finale will remain a Feb 19 Centaurs with Spike and Drusilla. Part 2 of 2 — season-long threat; and Spike’s old Beastmaster was the highest-rated begun on tonight’s Buffy. “The Shroud flame Drusilla will pop up in a cross- of the new syndicated genre series in its of Rahmon” – Angel and Gunn go over storyline during Angel and Buffy’s first season this past year. Season two undercover to foil the theft of a de- nd November sweeps episodes. SEASON began the week of October 2 . The monic burial shroud, unaware that the TWO “Judgement” – In the second- series is carried locally on KETV evil garment makes people near it season premiere, Angel’s quick re- psychotic. “The Trial” – After Darla February 2001 15 (channel 7) Sunday nights at 1:00 a.m., lion people escape an arranged mar- of those who sentenced him by using and WGN (channel 14) Sundays at 11 riage. biological time bombs Note: The original a.m. and Mondays at 2:30 a.m. In last two Showtime TV movies will air in spring’s season finale, Dar lost his Black Scorpion [Sci-Fi] February on the Sci Fi Channel. beloved Kyra to a hatchet meant for Air Schedule him. In the second season, Dar will Jan 5 Armed and Dangerous Jan 12 Wave Goodbye Buffy the Vampire Slayer [WB] have to move on as the focus of the Jan 19 Blinded By the Light Air Schedule show shifts to saving the animal Jan 26 Home Sweet Homeless Sep 5 New Moon Rising (re) kingdom from an advancing civiliza- Feb 2 Love Burns Sep 12 Primeval (re) Feb 3 Black Scorpion [Movie 7pm] Sep 19 Restless (re) tion. Dar will find himself at odds with Black Scorpion II: Aftershock [Movie 9pm] Season Five Episodes Begin Now the Nords, a powerful new race that Feb 9 Out of Thin Air Sep 26 Buffy vs. Dracula Feb 16 No Stone Unturned Oct 3 The Real Me will bring metal weapons and ad- Feb 23 Crime Time Oct 10 The Replacement vanced fighting techniques into his Mar 2 An Officer & a Prankster Oct 17 Out of My Mind Mar 9 No Sweat Oct 24 No Place Like Home world. His brainy sidekick, Tao, will be Mar 16 Roses are Red, You’re Dead Oct 31 Fear, Itself (re) [7 pm] of more help as the two face several Mar 23 Life’s a Gas Halloween (re) [8 pm] new recurring characters, including a Mar 30 Fire & Brimstone Nov 7 Family [unk] Virtual Vice Nov 14 Fool For Love backward-aging Boy King, a demon [unk] Bad Sport Nov 21 Shadow that disguises itself as a beautiful [unk] Power Play Nov 28 Listening to Fear [unk] He Who Laughs Last Dec 5 Buffy vs. Dracula (re) woman, and a mysterious warrior [unk] Kiss of Death Dec 12 Real Me (re) named Arina, whom Dar finds attrac- [unk] Photo Finish Dec 19 Into the Woods [unk] Face the Music Dec 26 Restless (re) tive. SEASON TWO “Manlinks” – A [unk] Zodiac Attack [1] Jan 2 Out of My Mind (re) primeval race and a group of techno- [unk] Zodiac Attack [2] Jan 9 Triangle A female cop turns masked vigi- Jan 16 No Place Like Home (re) logically advanced invaders challenge Jan 23 Checkpoint King Zad for supremacy in the region. lante in this campy action series from B- Jan 30 The Replacement (re) “Iara” – A search for four missing men Movie producer Roger Corman. Based Feb 6 Blood Ties Feb 13 Crush leads Dar and Tao to an island inhab- on a pair of tv-movies starring Joan Feb 20 I Was Made to Love You ited by exotic women and some strange Severance as the Black Scorpion, the Feb 27 [new – unknown title] [unk] No Man’s Land spotted pigs. “Seer” – Arina and the series recasts the lead role. TV MOV- [unk] For Your Love evil Terrons pursue the seer Olwen , IES “Black Scorpion” – A detective [unk] Salvation intending to use her powers to outwit (Joan Severance), feeling helpless to [unk] The Sound of Silence This hit series continues to air their enemies. “Orpheo” – Orpheo stop crime, turns superhero in order to Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on the WB network returns from the dead to take his true battle a killer called “The Breathtaker”. (channel 15). The fifth season began love, Arina, back with him. “Xinca” – “Black Scorpion II: Aftershock” – Joan September 26th. Emma Caulfield (Anya) Tao’s people have vanished from his Severance returns as the masked joined the “regulars” in the opening homeland, driven off by an evil priest; superhero, this time to take on two theme credits starting this season. Buffy Arina leads the Nords against the supervillains called Aftershock and acquired a mysterious sister named Terrons. “Ghosts of the Forest” – Gangster Prankster. SEASON ONE Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg), but [unknown plot]. “Rage” – Dar wins a “Armed and Dangerous” – In the Dawn’s origins weren’t explained for a good-natured sparring match, enraging opener, Black Scorpion battles a villain few episodes. Xander will find a career, his young opponent and opening old armed with a deadly prosthesis. “Wave Giles will take over the magic shop, wounds for evil King Voden and the Goodbye” – A marine biologist turns Willow will continue to develop her Ancient One. “White Tiger” – As part into a superpowered criminal after she powers and her relationship with Tara of a plot to win Dar’s love, the evil is exposed to toxic waste. “Blinded By (whose secrets will be revealed) and demon Iara tempts a white tiger with the Light” – Flashpoint tries to blind Spike will continue to remain a potent the promise of humanity. “Heart Like a the city’s populace. “Home Sweet presence in Sunnydale. Drusilla returns Lion” – [unknown plot]. “Gone” – A Homeless” – Darcy battles a criminal during November sweeps in a cross- villager out for vengeance and Voden, seismologist. “Out of Thin Air” – The over between Buffy and Angel. Even who needs Dar’s powers, threaten the insane, but benign Dr. Phoenix resusci- the jailed Slayer, Faith, may drop by. life of a rare Tasmanian tiger. tates Black Scorpion’s archenemy, SEASON FIVE “Buffy vs. Dracula” – “Golgotha” – [unknown plot]. “Tao’s Breathtaker (guest star Adam West), The Slayer’s fifth season opens as the Brother” – A new Eiron leader emerges who plans to release a dangerous nerve renowned Transylvanian bloodsucker to reclaim Xinca from the clutches of gas over Los Angeles. “No Stone casts his dark shadow over Sunnydale. the evil blood priests. “Wild Child” – Unturned” – When eligible bachelors, The gang is on red alert after Buffy Dar attempts to reunite Huna with the including Steve, begin to disappear reports a surprise encounter with baby she lost long ago, who was raised throughout the city, Black Scorpion Dracula. Riley wants to tackle him by wolves. Guest starring Farscape’s traces the abductions to Medusa, the immediately, even though the caped Claudia Black and Anthony Simcoe. owner of a high-class mineral spa. one’s metamorphoses reveal he is more “Mate For Life” – Dar helps Lyca of the “Crime Time” – The evil Clockwise, faced with 25 years in jail, vows to take powerful than the average vamp. But 16 Andromedan Log #61 the same amount of years off the lives Buffy suggests they avoid him until they have more info, and Riley thinks a doting Spike reveals that Riley’s been Wrestling With Demons [8pm] Feb 8 Heartbreak City (re) [7pm] she’s starstruck by the famous — and paying vamps to drink from him. By Bride and Gloom [8pm] famously sexy — count. However, it’s episode’s end, Riley has left Sunnydale, Feb 15 The Good, the Bad and the Cursed Xander who falls under his spell. And possibly for good. “Triangle” – Buffy’s Charmed continues to air on the as Buffy tries to knock the daylights out post-Riley emotional turmoil is inter- WB network (channel 15) Thursdays at of Drac, the sun’s rising on a surprising rupted by a malevolent troll acciden- 8 p.m. The third season began on new development at home. “The Real tally set loose on Sunnydale by Anya October 5th. Last season, in the process Me” – Buffy’s slaying is hampered by and Willow as a result of their bicker- of stopping an apocalypse, the sibling rivalry when she’s forced to ing. “Checkpoint” – Buffy and com- Charmed ones discovered that an take Dawn with her and Giles to the pany get a visit from the Council of organized evil has been at the root of magic shop, where they find the owner Watchers, who possess insight into much of their troubles. In the third dead from multiple puncture wounds. who (or what) Glory is. Unfortunately, season, Piper’s romance with Leo will “The Replacement” – Xander is frantic they’re less than forthcoming with the take a surprising turn, Prue will fall for when he wakes up from a demon crucial information. “Blood Ties” – someone during a trip to the 17th attack and finds a Xander double Dawn’s entire world crumbles around century, and a new guy will come to taking over his job, apartment and her after she learns she is the Key — town. Julian McMahon joins the cast as girlfriend. “Out of My Mind” – Buffy and dealing with the truth proves to be a soldier of fortune who is posing as an learns that Initiative experiments left even harder than anyone anticipated assistant District Attorney. The assistant Riley with super strength, a high when she runs away on Buffy’s 20th DA will have a thing for Phoebe. tolerance for pain and an abnormally birthday. “Crush” – Buffy and Dawn SEASON THREE “The Honeymoon’s fast heartbeat that could lead to a heart carry on what is quickly becoming a Over” – Barenaked Ladies perform at attack unless he gets help. When an rather ill-fated tradition for the Sum- the sisters’ club in the third season ailing Riley goes into hiding, Buffy mers girls – getting involved with the opener. Elsewhere, Prue and Phoebe turns to Spike for help, but he takes most problematic men available. After catch a demonically possessed killer, advantage of her plight to further his being scolded by her big sister for only to watch him beat the murder own plot to eliminate her. “No Place having a crush on Spike, Dawn sheds charge in court after they have to lie on Like Home” – This chilling story finally light on the identity of the true object of the witness stand. “Magic Hour” – The sheds light on Buffy’s kid sister, Dawn. the neutered vamp’s affection – Buffy. sisters try to unite two young lovers The plot also kicks off a fascinating With his frustrating Slayer fixation kept apart by a sorcerer’s curse; a storyline and introduces an enemy with finally out of the closet, Spike swallows defiant Piper secretly plans her wed- hints of apocalyptic power. When a his pride and professes his love to her ding to Leo, angering the white-lighters night watchman mistakes Buffy for a face, only to be rebuffed by the su- celestial superiors, who have promised wannabe raver, he tells her to scoot and premely creeped-out Buffster. Angry “unspeakable wrath” if the two wed. take her glowing orb with her. She and humiliated, a sulky Spike returns “Once Upon a Time” – The sisters aid a pockets the orb for later study, but is home to find Drusilla waiting…and it girl using a jewelry box to keep a fairy sidetracked when her mom falls ill. looks like she’s ready to take him back. safe from trolls, who want to use the While at the hospital pharmacy to get a winged creature to take over the prescription, Buffy sees the watchman Charmed [WB] magical kingdom ruled by the fairy’s parents. “All Halliwell’s Eve” – On again. Only now he’s stark raving mad. Air Schedule “Family” – Tara’s birthday arrives, and Sep 7 Heartbreak City (re) [7 p.m.] Halloween night, the sisters are sent Chick Flick (re) [8 p.m.] through a time vortex back to 1670, with it the requisite surprise, in the Sep 14 Astral Monkey (re) [7 p.m.] form of her brother and domineering Awakened (re) [8 p.m.] where they must protect an unborn Father. Meanwhile, Buffy’s new Sep 21 Something Wicca This Way Comes (re) [7 child from evil. “Sight Unseen” – p.m.] supernatural foe, Glory, recruits a Witch Trial (re) [8 p.m.] Someone breaks into the Halliwell’s demon in a new plan to take down the Sep 28 Apocalypse, Not (re) [7 p.m.] house and smashes all the mirrors, and Be Careful What You Witch For (re) [8 p.m.] as the sisters consider the suspects, a Slayer. “Fool For Love” – Buffy forces Season Three Episodes Begin Now Spike to explain how he killed two Oct 5 The Honeymoon’s Over determined Prue sets out to find the Oct 12 Magic Hour culprit. “Primrose Path” – Piper and Slayers, and his flashbacks explain how Oct 19 Once Upon a Time he first met Drusilla. Part 1 of 2 — Oct 26 All Halliwell’s Eve Phoebe try to reverse the effects of a continued on tonight’s Angel. Nov 2 Sight Unseen spell cast to save an innocent that Nov 9 Primrose Path “Shadow” – While Buffy is indisposed Nov 16 Power Outage unintentionally causes Prue to experi- at the hospital with Joyce’s tests, Giles Nov 23 Astral Monkey (re) [7pm] ence all human suffering, the weight of Apocalypse, Not (re) [8pm] which could kill her. “Power Outage” – inadvertently sells Glory evil Nov 30 Be Careful What You Witch For (re) transmogrification devices. “Learning Dec 7 The Honeymoon’s Over (re) Cole plans to destroy the Halliwell Dec 14 Sleuthing With the Enemy sisters by enlisting the help of a demon to Fear” – As the Scoobies investigate a Dec 21 Magic Hour (re) murderous, meteorite-born creature, Dec 28 Reckless Abandon (re) who elevates his victims’ anger into Buffy stays with Joyce, whose brain Jan 4 Once Upon a Time (re) violent rage. Cole then tries to get the Jan 11 Coyote Piper tumor is affecting her personality. “Into Jan 18 We All Scream For Ice Cream sisters to turn on each other. “Sleuthing the Woods” – Just as Joyce’s successful Jan 25 Blinded by the Whitelighter With the Enemy” – A demon named surgery relieves some of Buffy’s stress, Feb 1 Ex Libris (re) [7pm] February 2001 17 Krell seeks Prue and Piper’s help in The first season of this series began Dark Angel [FOX] destroying Belthazor, the demon who in January 2000, paired with Jack of All Air Schedule disguises himself as Cole and has his Trades as the Back2Back Action Hour. Oct 3 [Pilot episode] (2 hr) Oct 9 [Pilot episode] (2 hr) (re) sights set on killing the charmed sisters. Although production on Cleopatra was Oct 10 Heat “Coyote Piper” – An evil spirit existing put on indefinite hiatus as of Septem- Oct 17 Flushed Oct 24 [pre-empted] in the form of a gas escapes an alche- ber, producers have indicated that the Oct 31 C.R.E.A.M. mist who wants to control it, and enters Back2Back Action Hour will continue Nov 7 [pre-empted by Election coverage] Nov 14 411 on the DL the body of a man to hunt for one of the in January with only Cleo. Whether this Nov 21 Prodigy Halliwell sisters. “We All Scream For means that Cleopatra 2525 will go back Nov 28 Cold Comfort Ice Scream” – Prue has a melody stuck into production on hour-long episodes, Dec 5 [pre-empted] Dec 12 Blah Blah, Woof Woof in her head and she discovers its origin or whether reruns will be repackaged Dec 19 Heat (re) while having lunch with Phoebe in a in pairs is unknown. The series airs Dec 26 Flushed (re) Jan 2 [pre-empted] park — it’s the sound of an ice-cream Sunday nights at 10p.m. on channel 15, Jan 9 Out truck whose driver abducts children. and Mondays at 1:30 a.m. and Wednes- Jan 16 Red Jan 23 Prodigy (re) “Blinded By the Whitelighter” – A days at 2:00 a.m. on WGN (channel 14). Jan 30 Cold Comfort (re) warlock slays a witch and steals her A fan write-in campaign is under way Feb 6 Art Attack power to deflect objects and spells. The to reverse the show’s imminent cancel- Feb 13 Rising Feb 20 The Kidz Are Alright sisters pursue the killer, against the lation. In the second half of the season, Feb 27 Female Trouble advice of Natalie, the fallen witch’s the gals face a psychopathic mind This new series from executive Nightlighter. “Wrestling With Demons” controller named Raina and a mutant producer James (Titanic) Cameron airs – A demon disguised as a sports agent named Creegan, and Hel gets infected on the FOX network (channel 9) recruits mortals to turn demonic, and with a brain-sucking parasite. “The Tuesdays at 8p.m. The series premiered his latest apprentice is a man from Watch” – When her sister is injected with a 2-hour pilot on October 3rd. She’s Prue’s past, an athlete who disappeared with a killer virus, Sarge is blackmailed beautiful, she has an attitude and, by six years earlier. “Bride and Gloom” – A into becoming an assassin on the eve of the way, she possesses super-human warlock uses disguises to lure Prue to a a peace conference in order to obtain an strength and speed. In fact, she can ceremonial altar, where he plans to wed antidote. “Baby Boom” – The gals’ pretty much kick anyone’s butt. She is the Halliwell sister and turn her to evil discovery of a lost child leads to an Max (Jessica Alba), a genetically – hoping the effect will spread to her explosive confrontation with Bailie enhanced human created by the siblings and the Book of Shadows. “The betrayers who have turned the infant government. When she was nine, Max Good, the Bad and the Cursed” – While into a bomb. “Brain Drain” – A brain and several other proto-soldiers tried to visiting a ghost town with her father, parasite, developed by the Bailies to escape the government facility that was Phoebe has visions of a cowboy from prey on the resistance, is contracted by their home. Max made it, but she’s not the Old West getting beaten up…and Hel, whose body cannot rid itself of it sure about the others. About the time she begins to suffer from his injuries. unless she dies. “Mauser’s Day Out” – Max escaped, terrorists set off an Sarge’s attempts to modify Mauser electromagnetic pulse in the Earth’s Cleopatra 2525 [syn] reawaken his original Bailie program- atmosphere, taking out hard drives, Air Schedule [Week of] ming, prompting him to complete a computer networks and electric money, Sep 4 Choices (re) mission to kill the Voice. “Reality and sending America into a depression. Sep 11 Double (re) Sep 18 Hel and Highwater, Part 1 (re) Check” – A test run in a virtual reality Now an adult, Max works as a bike Sep 25 Hel and Highwater, Part 2 (re) simulator leads Cleo on a journey into messenger and hides out from govern- New Season One Episodes Continue the past, where she encounters her old ment surveillance. When she needs to, Oct 2 The Watch Oct 9 Baby Boom boyfriend. “The Pod Whisperer” – Cleo she steals to get enough money to help Oct 16 Perceptions (re) and Sarge use Mauser’s new vehicle to her search for the others like her. And Oct 23 Brain Drain Oct 30 Mauser’s Day Out rescue Hel from the surface, after when her conscience gets the better of Nov 6 Reality Check Bailies attack them. “Out of Body” – her, she helps out a cyber-journalist Nov 13 Pod Whisperer Nov 20 Out of Body Out for revenge, Raina sends Cleopatra named Logan Cale (Michael Nov 27 Juggernaut Down [Season/Series Finale] to another plane of existence, where Weatherly), who is on a mission to help Dec 4 The Watch (re) she becomes a transparent figure that is the helpless. [Pilot Episode] – In the 2- Dec 11 Baby Boom (re) Dec 18 Brain Drain (re) unable to communicate with her hour opener, Max works as a bike Dec 25 Mauser’s Day Out (re) teammates…who all think she is dead. messenger by day, but spends her Jan 1 Reality Check (re) Jan 8 The Pod Whisperer (re) “Juggernaut Down” – The women take nights stealing to pay a PI who is Jan 15 Out of Body (re) advantage of Cleo’s empathic link with helping her in her quest to find her Jan 22 Juggernaut Down (re) Season Two Episodes Begin Now a power battery to tour the interior of a fellow experimental subjects. But she Jan 29 Truth Be Told [now one hour long] dormant Bailie. SEASON TWO “Truth then gets caught robbing a scruffy Feb 5 In Your Boots Be Told” – Hel convinces the evil cyber-genius (Logan Cale) — who may Feb 12 The Soldier Who Fell From Grace Feb 19 No Thanks for the Memories Creegan to help her search for her know more about Max’s past than she Feb 26 Noir or Never father in exchange for giving him realizes. “Heat” – Lydecker closes in th [unk] [6 episode is Series Finale] Voice. “In Your Boots” – Creegan uses after Max is reunited with the woman 18 Andromedan Log #61 Hel’s body to escape prison. who saved her the night she escaped from the Manticore lab. Meanwhile, is stunned to find that the big day taps and Talyn return, placing the crew of Max is afraid to rendezvous with a into not only her softer side, but her Moya in jeopardy when Talyn destroys fellow fugitive from Manticore who has jealous streak after Logan runs into a an alien vessel and the aliens comrades information about her past. “Flushed” – lady from his past. But before things get seek justice for the guilty party. “A Logan runs smack into his past while ugly, Max is called away to save Clockwork Nebari” – Government helping a client locate her presumed- Normal from an angry art forger, who agents from Nebari finally catch up dead dad; Max helps Sketchy one-up a thinks that a Jam Pony employee with Chiana, who reveals her past to two-faced casino owner. “411 on the pilfered one of his precious paintings. Crichton when the rest of the crew is DL” – A lead on a fellow Manticore “Rising” – A lost pager leads a band of brain “cleansed”. “Liars, Guns and fugitive sends Max on a mission to find genetically altered soldiers to Max and Money Part 1: A Not So Simple Plan” – an old friend; Logan’s ex returns, Original Cindy; Logan begins to get Stark returns, with plans to rob a hoping to make amends for past sins. some feeling in his paralyzed legs. Shadow Deposity to acquire the funds “Prodigy” – Logan puts his life on the with which to buy D’argo’s son out of line to barter for Max’s, after a hostage Farscape [SciFi] slavery. “Liars, Guns and Money Part crisis at a genetics conference traps Max Air Schedule 2: With Friends Like These” – Crichton with a deadly fellow Sep 1 [pre-empted] gathers a group of mercenaries to Sep 8 The Ugly Truth attendee…Lydecker. “Cold Comfort” – Sep 15 A Clockwork Nebari liberate D’argo’s son, while Moya is The hunter becomes the prey as Max Sep 22 Vitas Mortis (re) infested with deadly parasites. “Liars, and Zach go after Lydecker for kidnap- Sep 29 [pre-empted] Guns and Money Part 3: Plan B” – Oct 1 Sci Fi Channel Chain Reaction ping one of their own. When a fellow Rhapsody in Blue (re) [6p.m.] Having turned himself over to Scor- bio-synth is abducted en route to a A Bug’s Life (re) [7p.m.] pius, Crichton is at the vengeful Nerve (re) [8p.m.] private pow wow with Zack, Max and Hidden Memory (re) [9p.m.] scientist’s mercy. “Die Me Dichotomy” her militant brother-in-arms fear Oct 2000 [pre-empted entire month] – Crichton’s fierce mental battle with Nov 2000 [pre-empted most of month] Lydecker is to blame. But when they Nov 13 Look at the Princess 1: A Kiss is But a Kiss Scorpius reaches a powerful climax in ambush him at a secret meeting of his (re) the slam-bang second-season finale. own, the kids realize that while their Nov 14 Look at the Princess 2: I Do, I Think (re) Having rescued Crichton from Nov 15 Look at the Princess 3: The Maltese hostage is innocent (this time), he does Crichton (re) Scorpius’s clutches, the crew petitions know who has their friend…and why. Nov 16 The Way We Weren’t (re) an alien surgeon to heal the wounded Nov 17 The Ugly Truth (re) As the three form an unholy alliance to Dec 2000 [pre-empted entire month] Moya and remove a chip from save the girl from a mutual foe, one Jan 5 Liars, Guns and Money Part 1: A Not So Crichton’s brain, which has allowed Simple Plan makes a false move that puts them all Jan 7 Sci Fi Channel Chain Reaction Scorpius to penetrate his mind and in mortal jeopardy. “Blah Blah, Woof Throne For a Loss (re) [6pm] control his body. But as Crichton’s Woof” – Lydecker’s manhunt for PK Tek Girl (re) [7pm] comrades await his surgery, havoc Til lthe Blood Runs Clear (re) [8pm] Vogelsang’s killer puts Max on too The Flax (re) [9pm] ensues among them. First, a tender many “most wanted” lists. Meanwhile, Jan 12 Liars, Guns and Money Part 2: With Friends moment backfires on Aeryn, then Like These a stray bullet lodged in Logan’s spine Jan 19 Liars, Guns and Money Part 3: Plan B Zhaan is tricked into helping Crichton leaves him near death. “Out” – Max Jan 26 Die Me Dichotomy [season two finale] escape. Aeryn gives chase, determined Feb 2 Nerve (re) and Logan’s growing attraction is put Feb 9 Hidden Memory (re) to save him — regardless of the conse- to the test as he breaks their first date to Feb 16 Crackers Don’t Matter (re) quences. bust a flesh peddler, who makes it his Feb 23 The Way We Weren’t (re) Mar 2 The Locket (re) sole mission to silence “For Eyes Only” Mar 9 Die Me Dichotomy (re) The Fearing Mind [FAM] Mar 16 FARSCAPE SPECIAL [7pm] forever. “Red” – Max takes on an army Air Schedule [week of] Season 3 Episodes Begin Now Oct 21 Sweet Meat of super-human soldiers in an episode Seson of Death [8pm] Oct 28 Good Harvest Mar 23 [new – unknown title] amped up on action sequences. The Nov 4 Upgrade Mar 30 Self Inflicted Wounds Pt 1 – Could’a, Nov 11 The Cure trouble starts whem Logan recruits his Would’a, Should’a favorite biker chick to protect a Federal Nov 18 Call of the Wild This groundbreaking hit series, Nov 25 Good Harvest (re) witness with info on local corruption. from Rockne S. O’Bannon (Twilight Dec 2 Two Faces But the operation hits a snag after Max Dec 9 Gentleman Caller Zone) and the Jim Henson creature Dec 16 Upgrade (re) realizes that the guy she’s guarding is a shop normally airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on Dec 23 [pre-empted] face from the not-so-distant and very- the Sci Fi Channel (62), with an imme- Dec 30 [pre-empted] Jan 6 [unknown] painful past, and that those who want diate repeat at 11 p.m. the same night. Jan 13 [pre-empted] him dead may have plans for her as However, following a mini-marathon This new drama/thriller launched well. “Art Attack” – Logan and Max on October 1st, Farscape was pre- on the Fox Family Channel on October move closer to romance in a decidedly empted for the entire months of Octo- 21st. It airs Saturdays at 7:00 p.m. on lighter episode than usual. Faced with ber and December, with repeats airing Fox Family (channel 32), with repeats being Logan’s date for a family wed- in November, and the final four new on various days at various times. ding, Max goes on a mad dash to find episodes of season two not to air until Description: Meet Bill Fearing, the the perfect dress in the hope of wowing January 2001. Season three will begin in world’s scariest suspense writer. And the Cale crowd. The glammed-up Max March 2001. “The Ugly Truth” – Crais (who’s never been to a wedding before) February 2001 19 when you meet the rest of his family, This sci-fi action series airs Sundays doing research for Adam’s website you’ll understand where he gets his at 6 p.m. & 9 p.m. on the Sci Fi Channel about the paranormal, when Adam inspiration. It’s amazing how the (62), with repeats at 11 a.m. Saturdays. suddenly died under mysterious horrors of everyday life can take care of The second season ended on September circumstances. Derek took over the a bad case of writer’s block. Get ready 24th. “Underworld” – [unknown plot]. Web site, changed its name to to explore the darkest corners of the “Tomorrow” – Hoping to obtain the Freakylinks and continued the family Fearing mind. “Sweet Meat” – [un- missing volume of the prophecies of business from his home in Florida. known plot]. “Good Harvest” – [un- Nostradamus, the Gua manipulate Devoted to debunking the strange and known plot]. “Upgrade” – [unknown Cade into believe they’ve taken over unusual and exploring the fantastic, plot]. “The Cure” – Bill becomes con- the Earth. “The Believers” – To share Derek and his crew search for answers. vinced he is dying, after a routine the truth about the Gua invasion with He’s doing just fine until he receives an doctor’s appointment; a bed-ridden millions of tv viewers, Foster and Eddie e-mail with a picture of a still-living youngster observes the sinister behav- sieze control of a popular talk show. Adam. Now Derek finds himself drawn ior of his new neighbors. “Call of the SEASON THREE Season three features into a subculture of the frightening and Wild” – Bill is unnerved by the exper- a move to a new day and timeslot — unusual by a strange shapeshifting tise displayed by Cynthia’s old beau on Mondays at 7:00 p.m., with repeats at creature that may be evil. If Derek a fishing trip; three hunters are stalked 10:00 p.m. It also features the introduc- doesn’t follow, he may never know the by an unseen force. “Two Faces” – tion of a new character played by Traci truth about his brother. And if he does [unknown plot]. “Gentleman Caller” – Lords, and a new plot arc.“Mabus” – follow, it could cost him his life and [unknown plot]. Although no official [unknown plot]. “Raven Nation” – much, much more. “Subject: Fearsum” announcement of its cancellation has [unknown plot]. “The Flight of Francis – Derek and his brother’s ex-fiancée been made, The Fearing Mind disap- Jeffries” – [unknown plot]. “Still at embark on a strange and scary search, peared during the Christmas holiday Large” – [unknown plot]. “Asylum” – as the mystery of a vanished Colonial season and has not been seen again. Eddie enters the mental hospital to gain settlement may be tied to the death of access to a judge who has been commit- Derek’s twin brother. “Subject: Three First Wave [SciFi] ted after a mental breakdown. “Gulag” Thirteen” – In investigation into Air Schedule – In an effort to stop Mabus from mysterious deaths in a small town that Sep 3 [pre-empted] launching the Second Wave, Foster date back 150 years lead the Sep 10 Underworld Sep 17 Tomorrow breaks Joshua out of prison for his Freakylinks group to a secret lurking in Sep 24 The Believers [2nd season finale] assistance. “Comes a Horseman” – the surrounding woodlands. Derek and Oct 2000 [pre-empted entire month] Foster is exposed to a lethal airborne his partners race to solve a case involv- Nov 2000 [pre-empted entire month] Dec 2000 [pre-empted entire month] virus while investigating a biological ing a possessed woman and her unborn Jan 7 Sci Fi Channel Chain Reaction research facility. “Skywatchers” – The child before they come to harm. “Sub- Crazy Eddie (re) [9am] Joshua (re) [10am] disappearance of a Raven Nation ject: Edith Keeler Must Die” – When The Box (re) [11am] operative leads Foster, Jordan and Derek and his partners go hunting for Blind Witness (re) [noon] The Channel (re) [1pm] Eddie to a mining town. alligators in New York City’s sewers, The Heist (re) [2pm] they find something even nastier. Rubicon (re) [3pm] “Subject: Coelacanth This!” – [un- Tomorrow (re) [4pm] FreakyLinks [FOX] The Believers (re) [5pm] Air Schedule known plot]. “Subject: Desert Squid: Season Three Episodes Begin Now Oct 6 Subject: Fearsum Myth or Legend?” – Derek and his Jan 8 Mabus Oct 13 Subject: Three Thirteen Jan 15 Raven Nation Oct 20 Subject: Edith Keeler Must Die friends fish for the truth about a desert Jan 22 The Flight of Francis Jeffries Oct 27 Subject: Coelacanth This! squid that may be killing livestock in Jan 29 Still at Large Nov 3 Subject: Desert Squid: Myth or Legend? New Mexico. “Subject: The Harbingers” Feb 5 Asylum [removed from schedule: extended hiatus] Feb 12 Gulag Jan 5 Subject: The Harbingers – Retracing Adam’s final days, Derek Feb 19 Comes a Horseman Jan 12 Subject: Still I Rise and his pals visit a kitschy hamlet full Feb 26 Skywatchers Jan 19 Subject: Me and My Shadow Mar 5 Mabus (re) Jan 26 Subject: The Stone Room of psychics. Star Ethan Embry’s real-life Mar 12 [pre-empted] [pre-empted during February sweeps] wife Amelinda Smith plays Tamra. Mar 19 Eyes of the Gua This new series, from some of the Mar 26 The Plan “Subject: Still I Rise” – Derek investi- [unk] Wednesday’s Child same folks who brought us the Blair gates the mystery of a dead hip-hop [unk] Unearthed Witch Project, is seen on the FOX [unk] Shadowland singer believed to have risen from the [unk] Legacy network (channel 9), Fridays at 8 p.m. grave as a zombie. “Subject: Me and [unk] The Edge starting October 6th. It aired for all of My Shadow” – Chloe is asked to [unk] The Vessel [unk] Requiem five weeks, before being yanked for consult on a boy who pathologically [unk] Checkmate poor ratings. FreakyLinks returned in fears the dark, after viewing a mass- [unk] The Black Box January for 4 more airings, before FOX [unk] Beneath the Black Sky murder scene where the cause of death [unk] Terminal City pulled it for the February sweeps. is unknown. “Subject: The Stone [unk] Twice Bless’d Whether or not the remaining four Room” – Derek heads for Baltimore to filmed episodes will air is debatable. help Jason investigate supernatural Derek Barnes (Ethan Embry) was strangeness at his estranged dad’s law 20 Andromedan Log #61 working for his twin brother, Adam, firm. Freedom [UPN] This animated series continues to Gene Roddenberry’s Androm- Air Schedule air on Sundays at 6:00 p.m. on the FOX eda [syn] Oct 27 Alpha Dogs network (9). The third season began on Air Schedule [week of] Nov 3 The Chase th Oct 2 Under the Night [Series Premiere] Nov 10 Assassins November 5 . For its third season, Oct 9 An Affirming Flame Nov 17 Enemy Futurama will feature more story lines Oct 16 To Loose the Fateful Lightning Nov 24 Freezone Oct 23 D Minus Zero Dec 1 Siege with Bender, the devious robot, and Oct 30 Double Helix Dec 8 Alpha Dogs (re) pay homage to 1958’s camp flick Queen Nov 6 Angel Dark, Demon Bright Dec 15 The Chase (re) of Outer Space. This season’s guest Nov 13 The Ties that Blind Dec 22 Lone Wolf Nov 20 The Banks of the Lethe Dec 29 Enemy (re) voices include Hank Azaria as Dr. Nov 27 A Rose in the Ashes Jan 5 Assassins (re) Zoidberg’s uncle, Bea Arthur as a “fem- Dec 4 Under the Night (re) [Cancelled] puter” who runs an Amazon-like Dec 11 An Affirming Flame (re) This new series premieres on UPN planet, and hip-hop superstar Coolio as Dec 18 To Loose the Fateful Lightning (re) stations on October 27th. At the height Dec 25 The Banks of the Lethe (re) a “Kwanzaa-bot.” SEASON THREE Jan 1 D Minus Zero (re) of American peace and prosperity, a “The Honking” – A clever horror Jan 8 Double Helix (re) terrorist act takes out Air Force One Jan 15 All Great Neptune’s Ocean homage opens the third season. The and the president, plunging the country Jan 22 The Pearls That Were His Eye story begins with a spend-the-night-in- Jan 29 The Mathematics of Tears [Pax Magellanic] into a state of emergency. The Joint Feb 5 Music of a Distant Drum a-spooky-house-or-lose-your-inherit- Chiefs of Staff take over, dissolving the Feb 12 Harper 2.0 ance scenario involving Bender. Indeed, Feb 19 Forced Perspective government and suspending the ghosts drive the devious robot out of Feb 26 The Sum of Its Parts Constitution. The new Regime estab- [repeats in March/April] his late uncle’s castle, and into the path [unk] Star-Crossed lishes martial law, and the media is of an old-fashioned, four-wheeled car, a [unk] The Devil Take the Hindmost secretly censored. Four former Special [unk] Feat and Loathing in the Milky Way driverless thing that howls-honks at the Forces soldiers end up working for the [unk] The Honey Offering moon after the attack. Fry thinks his [unk] It Makes a Lovely Light Resistance. They must learn to work as [unk] …Its Hour Come Round At Last friend is just “a big hallucinating baby.” a team in their fight against the Regime This new syndicated series, based But a fortuneteller reveals that Bender’s in the hope that, over time, they will be in part on notes left behind by Star been infected by a virus from a able to help restore the America that Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and “werecar,” and unless he destroys the was lost. We in the Lincoln cable market starring former Hercules headliner continue to be without a UPN affiliate, vehicle, he’s doomed to become a killer Kevin Sorbo, premiered the week of however we’ll include the descriptions of car himself every midnight — and October 2nd. It is carried locally by “War UPN series like Freedom for those of our attack the one he loves the most. KOLN/KGIN (channels 10/11) Satur- is the H-Word” readers who are able to pull in the series – Seeking servicemen’s day nights at 12:30 a.m., KXVO (chan- discounts, Bender and Fry both join the over the air or through other means. nel 15) Sunday mornings at 11 a.m., Earth Army, only to find themselves in Freedom was cancelled by UPN in and on WGN (channel 14) Saturdays at a war and being led by Zapp January, after airing only 7 new epi- 5 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. Sorbo Brannigan. “The Cryonic Woman” – sodes. It will not return. plays Dylan Hunt, the captain of an After a prank gets Fry, Leela and artificially intelligent starship, the Bender fired, Fry lucks into a job that Futurama [FOX] Andromeda Ascendant, hailing from gets him reunited with his previously- the Commonwealth that governs three Air Schedule frozen 20th-century girlfriend. “Para- Sep 3 Mother’s Day (re) galaxies. When the Commonwealth is Sep 10 [pre-empted] sites Lost” – A miniaturized version of betrayed, a surprise attack by the Sep 17 A Big Piece of Garbage (re) the crew takes a fantastic voyage inside Sep 24 Hell is Other Robots (re) Nietzscheans sends the Andromeda Oct 1 Mars University (re) Fry to cure him of worms, which are into the event horizon of a black hole. Oct 8 My Problem With Popplers (re) actually improving him. “Amazon Three hundred years later, a salvage Oct 15 [pre-empted] Women in the Mood” – Zapp Oct 22 [pre-empted] ship retrieves the Andromeda with Oct 29 When Aliens Attack (re) Brannigan gets Leela to join Amy and plans to sell her, only to find Dylan Season Three begins now Kif Kroker on a double-date, which Nov 5 The Honking alive, having been frozen in time due to Nov 12 Bender Gets Made (re) [West Coast only?] ends with all stranded on a planet of the black hole. Devastated by the news Nov 19 Anthology of Interest I (re) [West Coast Amazonian women. “Bendless Love” – only?] that everyone he knows is dead and Nov 26 War is the H-Word Bender’s best talent – bending things – that the Commonwealth has been lost, Dec 3 The Cryonic Woman lands him a scab job where a knockout Dylan “sets out to weave together the Dec 10 I Second That Emotion (re) fembot comes between him and an old Dec 17 [pre-empted] many diverse cultures of the known Dec 24 A Clone of My Own (re) friend. Dec 31 Lesser of Two Evils (re) worlds until they are once again Jan 7 A Bicyclops Built For Two (re) united.” Dylan recruits the crew of the Jan 14 The Deep South (re) salvage ship for the Andromeda, who Jan 21 Parasites Lost Jan 28 Raging Bender (re) for their own different reasons take up Feb 4 Amazon Women in the Mood his cause. “Under the Night” – After a Feb 11 Bendless Love Feb 18 The Day the Earth Stood Stupid civil war leaves the universe in ruins, the last starship captain, Dylan Hunt February 2001 21 (Kevin Sorbo), and a group of merce- strange planet has left Tyr without Belman (Majel Barrett Roddenberry) naries set out to restore peace and order memory and the guardian of a mysteri- will rejoin the cast as a recurring to the Commonwealth. In the opener, ous metal crate. “Harper 2.0” – After a character. SEASON FOUR “The Forge the Commonwealth is betrayed by the dying perseid bites his neck, Harper of Creation” – Aboard a freighter in the Nietzscheans and Captain Dylan Hunt finds himself dangerously overloaded Caribbean, and with the help of Da’an, is trapped alone aboard the Androm- with information, while enjoying Lili Marquette gives birth to a half- eda Ascendant on the event horizon of fantastic creativity. “Forced Perspec- Jaridian child who may be the last hope a black hole. 300 years later, Captain tive” – Commandos capture Dylan and for the race. “Sins of the Father” – Beka Valentine and the crew of the take him to Mobius to stand trial for a Renee and Liam investigate a Taelon salvage vessel Eureka Maru locate the 300-year-old crime. plot to produce Kryss, a substance that Andromeda for a shifty client. “An enables Taelons to adjust to Earth’s Affirming Flame” – With the Androm- Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: atmosphere, and learn that Volunteers eda back in real time, Hunt fights a Final Conflict [syn] are forcing Earthlings into slave labor guerilla war against a group of merce- to manufacture the drug. “First Breath” Air Schedule [week of] naries planning to taker her over. Sep 4 Apparition (re) – The investigation of a break-in at Meanwhile, Beka and her crew regret Sep 11 One Taelon Avenue (re) Renee’s apartment leads her and Liam Sep 18 Abduction (re) their mission and turn against their Sep 25 Arrival (re) to a clandestine cloning operation at a avaricious client. “To Loose the Fateful Season Four Episodes Begin Now biomedical facility operated by a Nobel Oct 2 The Forge of Creation Lightning” – A group of child warriors Oct 9 Sins of the Father laureate. “Limbo” – A cyber-resurrected bent on causing the destruction of solar Oct 16 First Breath Jonathan Doors (David Hemblen) and systems is discovered on a Guard Oct 23 Limbo an alien murder aboard the mother ship Oct 30 Motherlode Station outside of the Dyhedra system. Nov 6 Take No Prisoners may deal death blows to the Taelons’ “D Minus Zero” – During a fight with Nov 13 Second Wave Earth presence. After a cannister of Nov 20 Essence an enemy, Dylan has some dissension Nov 27 Phantom Companion Taelon core energy is stolen, Zo’or within the ranks as Beka and Tyr Dec 4 Dream Stalker warns Sandoval that if it is not recov- Dec 11 The Forge of Creation (re) question his leadership. “Double Helix” Dec 18 Sins of the Father (re) ered, many humans will die. – The Nietzscheans try to lure Tyr into Dec 25 First Breath (re) “Motherlode” – Augur will die if he their fold with promises of a wife if he Jan 1 Limbo (re) does not help amoralist Declan Conners Jan 8 Motherlode (re) will help them defeat the Andromeda. Jan 15 Lost Generation steal $3 trillion in gold from Zo’or. “Angel Dark, Demon Bright” – When Jan 22 The Summit “Take No Prisoners” – The Alliance Jan 29 Dark Matter an accident throws the Andromeda Feb 5 The Keys to the Kingdom announces that it has negotiated Ascendant backwards in time to the site Feb 12 Street Chase amnesty for all resistance members, Feb 19 Trapped By Time of a major Nietzschean–High Guard [unk] Hearts and Minds with Zo’or himself guaranteeing the battle, Dylan and his crew must decide [unk] Blood Ties rebels’ safety. “Second Wave” – In the whether to interfere with history. “Ties [unk] Atonement face of an imminent Jaridian attack, the [unk] Epiphany That Blind” – Beka is reunited with her [unk] Dark Horizon Taelons prepare to flee Earth, leaving con-artist brother after the Andromeda [unk] Point of No Return the planet in chaos. “Essence” – Zo’or responds to a distress call from a The fourth season of this syndi- believes the key to Taelon survival lies Wayist holy man. “Banks of the Lethe” cated series airs Saturdays at 7 p.m. on in developing human-like emotions, so – Captain Hunt is reunited with his KXVO (channel 15), Saturdays at 3 p.m. he sets about trying to capture joie de long-lost love (guest star Sam Jenkins and Sundays at 8 p.m. on WGN (chan- vivre from Renee’s younger brother, Sorbo), after a 300 year separation. “A nel 14), and Saturdays at 10:35 p.m. on Richard. “Phantom Companion” – Rose in the Ashes” – [unknown plot]. KOLN/KGIN (channels 10/11). The While on board the Taelon mothership, “All Great Neptune’s Ocean” – The new season began the week of October Renee is taken hostage by a phantom- nd Castalian president is assassinated as 2 . In the third season cliffhanger, like man who has taken it upon himself civil war brews between the water- and freedom fighter Lili Marquette was to “protect” the ship. “Lost Genera- air-breathers of the oceanic republic, back on Earth about to give birth to a tion” – After a human baby is born and Tyr becomes a murder suspect. half-human, half-Jaridian baby. The with a CVI implant, Liam and Renee “The Pearls That Were His Eyes” – catch was that she needed help of some suspect wrongdoing at a Taelon- Beka Valentine gets a distress call from kind from Da’an…help that might cost controlled fertility clinic. “Dream her beloved Uncle Sid (guest star John him his life. In the fourth season Stalker” – Liam connects a murder to a de Lancie) and learns to her dismay opener, the cliffhanger lets us in on serial killer. [unknown title] – Liam and that he has become a heartless tycoon. Lili’s fate. Although they are leaving Renee investigate when a friend of his “The Mathematics of Tears” – Dylan the cast, Lili will appear in at least one perishes due to a malfuncting CVI unit. finds that Andromeda’s sister ship is episode and Augur may show up in as “Summit” – When Da’an leaves on a being run by a crafty captain on a many as four episodes this season. mysterious “final journey”, Liam murderous mission. “Music of a Melinda Deines joins the cast as J Street, follows him. “Dark Matter” – A hugh Distant Drum” – A crash landing on a a brilliant cyberpunk who will no mass of dark matter collides with the doubt take over for Augur. Also, Taelon mother ship, “freezing” all the 22 Andromedan Log #61 resistance sympathizer Dr. Julianne Taelons aboard. “Keys to the Kingdom” – Earth stands at the brink of attack ing humanity. This episode: Sara’s Jan 22 Perchance to Dream Jan 29 Frozen in Time after a Taelon artifact containing the demon detector gets her into hot water. Feb 5 Diseased secret of synthetic core energy is stolen Also, after he is shot, Raphael Cain Feb 12 The Lesser Evil [Season One Finale?] Feb 19 Cat & Mouse (re) from the Mothership. “Street Chase” – recalls his own origins as an Immortal. Feb 26 Beholder (re) To evade Sandoval and a mind probe, a “Demons of the Night [2]” – Sara Mar 5 Ghost of a Chance (re) nanobot-infested J Street must trust discovers the truth about Raphael’s Mar 12 [pre-empted] Season 2 Episodes Begin Now Liam and Renee. past while they search for Goodwin, Mar 19 Money For Nothing [1] who was taken by the demons who Mar 26 Money For Nothing [2] killed Raphael’s wife. “Not So Dead” – This traditional sci-fi adventure Honey I Shrunk the Kids: The comedy airs Fridays on the Sci Fi Series [syn] Raphael thinks he may have killed a human, only to discover that a jumping Channel (62) at 7 p.m., with immediate Air Schedule [week of] repeats of the same episode at 10 p.m. Sep 4 Honey, Growing Up is Hard to Do (re) demon is on the loose. “Half Way” – Sep 11 Honey, I Shrink, Therefore I Am (re) An aging rock star tries to reform evil Oddly enough, the series also airs in [Final Airing — Series Cancelled] by creating a demon deprogramming general syndication, on Mondays at This syndicated series, produced by center while a bounty hunter from hell 2:05 a.m. on WOWT (channel 6). Once a the Walt Disney company, has been tries to stop him. “Wicked Wicked small-time thief, Darien Fawkes cancelled and ceased to air as of mid- West” – Sarah and Goodwin get (Vincent Ventresca) now works for the September 2000. transported into a Demon version of government after an experiment left the Old West, and Raphael must save him with the ability to turn himself The Immortal [syn] them. “Prime Location” – The trio must invisible. But without a special drug Air Schedule [week of] investigate a building that may be a called a counteragent, using his invis- Oct 2 Demons of the Night [1] [Series Premiere] ibility power will drive him insane. Oct 9 Demons of the Night [2] demon magnet. “Studio D” – Sara Oct 16 Not So Dead discovers a TV production company is Darien has made an uneasy deal. He Oct 23 Half Way plays spy for a government agency and Oct 30 Wicked Wicked West using its product to negatively influ- Nov 6 Prime Location ence viewers. “Flight 666” – A shape- it gives him the counteragent. With his Nov 13 Studio D partner Hobbes (Paul Ben-Victor), Nov 20 Flight 666 shifting demon boards a plane with a Nov 27 Bride’s Kiss deadly biochemical toxin in its posses- Darien has been forced to go straight, Dec 4 The Hunted sion; Raphael ends up in federal for now. “The Value of Secrets” –Darien Dec 11 Demons of the Night [1] (re) and Hobbes investigate the theft of a Dec 18 Demons of the Night [2] (re) custody. “Bride’s Kiss” – [unknown Dec 25 Not So Dead (re) plot]. “The Hunted” – [unknown plot]. government super-computer that can Jan 1 Half Way (re) answer any possible question, in any Jan 8 Wicked Wicked West (re) Jan 15 Prime Locatin (re) possible universe. “Separation Anxi- Jan 22 Studio D (re) The Invisible Man [SciFi] ety” – Darien and Hobbes investigate This new series starring Lorenzo Air Schedule Aug 4 The Value of Secrets the man engaged to Hobbes’ ex-wife, Lamas (Renegade, Falcon Crest), Aug 11 Separation Anxiety while Hobbes suffers pangs of jealousy premiered the week of October 2nd. The Aug 18 It Hurts When You Do This Aug 25 The Other Invisible Man and regret. “It Hurts When You Do Immortal airs Saturdays at 11 a.m. and Sep 1 [pre-empted] This” – A severe head wound lands Sundays at 4 a.m. on KXVO (15). A Sep 3 Sci Fi Channel Chain Reaction Hobbes in the hospital, where a danger Pilot episode (re) [6 p.m.] cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer Catevari (re) [8 p.m.] far worse than his injury awaits. “The and Highlander, it follows the adven- Ralph (re) [9 p.m.] Other Invisible Man” – Darien discov- tures of a sword-wielding Immortal Sep 8 Reunion Sep 15 Cat & Mouse ers the existence of another invisible whose life goal is the eradication of Sep 22 Beholder man, and a secret that will change Demons from the mortal world. The Sep 29 The Catevari (re) Oct 6 Ralph (re) things forever. “Reunion” – Darien story begins in 17th-century Japan Oct 13 Tiresias (re) returns to his hometown to investigate when Rafe Cain (Lorenzo Lamas of Oct 20 Liberty & Larceny (re) the possibility that his brother, Kevin, is Oct 27 The Devil You Know (re) Renegade) is rescued by the mystical Nov 3 Impetus (re) not dead. “Cat & Mouse” –When the Yashiro (Robert Ito) after his ship sinks. Nov 10 The Value of Secrets (re) Chinese government’s attempts to Rafe starts his life over in Japan, as he Nov 13 The Devil You Know (re) Nov 14 Impetus (re) create their own invisible man fail, they marries and has a child. Unfortunately, Nov 15 Separation Anxiety (re) try to steal the American model — evil demons named Mallick and Nov 16 Reunion (re) Nov 17 Cat & Mouse (re) mistakenly believing that to be Hobbes. Vashita kill his wife and kidnap his Nov 24 [pre-empted] “Beholder” – The rest of the world daughter. Rafe pleads to God for Dec 1 [unknown – repeat] becomes invisible to Darien after he’s Dec 8 [unknown – repeat] immortality to avenge his wife’s Dec 10 Invisible Man Chain Reaction blinded while on the trail of an interna- murder and find his daughter, but Tiresias (re) tional assassin.“Ghost of a Chance” – instead it is his evil enemy Mallick who Liberty and Larceny (re) It Hurts When You Do This (re) During a secret mission in Latin grants his wish. Rafe swears vengeance, Beholder (re) America, Darien clashes with a sexy but which locks him in a battle that may Dec 15 Reunion (re) Dec 22 [pre-empted] lethal female superagent. Darien learns never end. “Demons of the Night [1]” – Dec 29 [pre-empted] of the “dark woman,” another invisible Raphael Cain’s continuing quest to Jan 8 Ghost of a Chance [Now on Mondays at entity. “Flowers For Hobbes” – Darien prevent Satan’s minions from destroy- 8pm] Jan 15 Flowers For Hobbes February 2001 23 finds a link to the past, and Hobbes Dec 4 A Horse of a Different Color (re) Sep 11 [Mon-Thu repeats begin at 11:05 p.m. Mon, Dec 11 Shark Bait (re) 11:30 p.m. Tue-Thu] discovers a promising future when on Dec 18 Monkey Business (re) Sep 17 There Are No Missions (re) [9 p.m.] the trail of a thief who stole from the Dec 25 The Morning After (re) View of the Garden (re) [11 p.m.] Jan 1 Croquey in the Pokey (re) Sep 24 Into the Looking Glass (re) [9 p.m.] Nobel sperm bank. “Perchance to Jan 8 One Two Three Give Me Lady Liberty (re) There Are No Missions (re) [11 p.m.] Dream” – Darien must uncover the Jan 15 Hamnesia (re) [end of regularly scheduled airings] secrets of a nefarious but lucrative Jan 22 Seventy Brides For One Brother (re) Final Season Episodes Begin in January 2001 [removed from syndicated airings] Jan 7 Déjà vu All Over Again underworld, involving sleep clinics This syndicated series, paired with Jan 14 A Girl Who Wasn’t There before the Keeper commits a malicious Jan 21 In Through the Out Door Cleopatra 2525 in a Back2Back Action Jan 28 Déjà vu All Over Again (re) murder. “Frozen in Time” – Darien Hour, has officially been cancelled. New Feb 4 All the World’s a Stage finds himself on a collision course with Feb 11 The Man Behind the Curtain episodes of its first and only season will Feb 18 The Evil That Men Do his past when the Dark Woman kid- continue to air until the end of January Feb 25 Let No Man Put Asunder naps an old friend and plans to cryo- 2001. Airs locally on Sunday nights at Mar 4 A Time For Every Purpose [SERIES genically freeze her. “Diseased” – FINALE] 10:30 on KXVO (channel 15), and on This fan-favorite espionage/ Arnaud De Fehrn, Darien’s old foe, Mondays at 1:00 a.m. and Wednesdays orchestrates a flu outbreak that causes a conspiracy series airs on the USA cable at 2:30 a.m. on WGN (channel 14). “A network (channel 27) Sunday nights at deadly and mysterious infection in Horse of a Different Color” – Catherine Darien’s quicksilver gland. “The Lesser 9 p.m., with repeats of earlier episodes the Great orders the Russian navy to Sundays at 11 p.m. “Face in the Mirror” Evil” – Darien reacts with cynicism destroy Pulau Pulau if her stolen horse toward an invitation from Allianora to – Nikita escapes from Section One. “Up isn’t returned within 24 hours. “Shark the Rabbit Hole” – [unknown plot]. attend a meeting with “The Organiza- Bait” – Jack and Emilia enlist tion” and begins to question his own “Four Light Years Farther” – [unknown Blackbeard’s help in thwarting a plot/season finale]. Although initially agency’s intentions. A huge ratings murder plot hatched by the psychotic success for Sci Fi, The Invisible Man cancelled, a fan effort to get the series descendant of Leonardo Da Vinci renewed has resulted in a fifth season will return for a second season begin- (played by guest star Michael [Ioalus] ning in March 2001. of 8 episodes going into production to Hurst). “Monkey Business” – Jack and conclude the plots left hanging. Al- Emma compete to secure a prized idol though all of the regular cast members The Invisible Man [syn] called the Silver Monkey for their will appear over the course of this 8- Air Schedule respective countries, but run into part storyline, they won’t all be in each Oct 2 The Catevari (re) “The Morning Oct 9 Ralph (re) trouble with Croque. episode. That final season is currently Oct 16 Tiresias (re) After” – Napoleon (Verne Troyer) planned to air in January. When La Oct 23 Liberty & Larceny (re) returns to Pulau Pulau with casks of Oct 30 The Devil You Know (re) Femme Nikita was initially canceled, Nov 6 Impetus (re) wine from his vineyard — a vintage the producers took their time in setting Nov 13 The Value of Secrets (re) laced with a mind-controlling drug he Nov 20 The Catevari (re) up the big finale over the last several Nov 27 Seperation Anxiety (re) plans to use against world leaders. episodes. The penultimate episode Dec 4 The Other Invisible Man (re) “Croquey in the Pokey” – Croque is Dec 11 It Hurts When I Do This (re) looked like it should have been the Dec 18 Reunion (re) imprisoned for plotting against Napo- finale, with Nikita and Michael having Dec 25 Tiresias (re) leon, and it’s up to Jack to protect the escaped from Section One together. But Jan 1 Liberty & Larceny (re) governor from his fellow convicts. Jan 8 The Devil You Know (re) La Femme Nikita has never been a Jan 15 Ghost of a Chance “One Two Three Give Me Lady Lib- show that offered storybook endings. In Jan 22 Flowers For Hobbes erty” – Jack uncovers the truth when Jan 29 Perchance to Dream the real finale, Nikita and Michael Feb 5 Frozen in Time Napoleon tries to send America a ended up back at Section One, and a See episode descriptions under Trojan horse statue. “Hamnesia” – surprising revelation was made. Since SciFi entry above. Airs on Monday Emilia develops amnesia and places the show has been reinstated, there’s mornings at 2:05 a.m. on WOWT Jack’s secret alter ego as the Daring now plenty of room to continue this (channel 6). Dragoon in jeopardy. “Seventy Brides series along the new path. SEASON For One Brother” – Croque uses Emilia FIVE Peta Wilson reprises her role as Jack of All Trades [syn] as a bargaining chip when he negotiates the elite operative Nikita for the final with a lustful sultan who wants her for Air Schedule [week of] eight episodes of the action series, Sep 4 One Wedding and an Execution (re) his harem. which USA brought back from cancella- Sep 11 Love Potion #10 (re) Sep 18 X Marquis the Spot (re) tion because of a fan campaign so Sep 25 It’s a Mad, Mad…Opera (re) La Femme Nikita [USA] massive that the network’s viewer e- New Season One Episodes Continue Air Schedule Oct 2 A Horse of a Different Color mail address was overwhelmed by the Aug 20 Face in the Mirror [9 p.m.] Oct 9 Shark Bait Time Out of Mind (re) [11 p.m.] volume. These final eight episodes also Oct 16 Croque For a Day (re) Aug 27 Up the Rabbit Hole [7 p.m.] guest star Edward (Equalizer) Wood- Oct 23 Monkey Business Four Light Years Farther [Season/series Oct 30 The Morning After ward. “Déjà vu All Over Again” – This finale 9 p.m.] Nov 6 Crooney in the Pokey Face in the Mirror (re) [11 p.m.] episode finds Nikita hoping that her Nov 13 One Two Three Give Me Lady Liberty Sep 3 Getting Out of Reverse (re) [9 p.m.] Nov 20 Hamnesia days in the field are over, since it has Up the Rabbit Hole (re) [11 p.m.] Nov 27 Seventy Brides For One Brother [Series Sep 10 Four Light Years Farther (re) [9 p.m.] been revealed that she was actually an Finale] 24 Andromedan Log #61 Getting Out of Reverse (re) [11 p.m.] internal investigator for the Center. But when a new terrorist threat in which too. It’s called “The Great Uprising,” between two planets in a binary orbit. Nikita has valuable prior experience and it’s led by a master hacker called One of the planets, Fire, is entirely emerges, Mr. Jones sends her on one CrayZhorse. If CrayZhorse has his way, desert and the other, Water, is com- last mission. “A Girl Who Wasn’t the world will be plunged into anarchy. pletely covered in water. Stan, Xev and There” – Quinn creates a holographic It’s up to Price and her team to stop Kai are soon drawn into the never- image of Madeline to help Operations. him. We in the Lincoln cable market ending war between the two planets, “In Through the Out Door” – Nikita continue to be without a UPN affiliate, and Xev falls in love with Prince (Nigel suffers from mysterious blackouts. “All however we’ll include the descriptions of Bennett), the ruler of Fire. “May” – A the World’s a Stage” – Nikita lures Mr. UPN series like Level Nine for those of our floating city on the planet Water has Jones into the field to wrest some readers who are able to pull in the series been attacked and destroyed by bal- answers from him. “The Man Behind over the air or through other means. loons from Fire, its orbit partner. May, the Curtain” – Nikita comes face-to- the only survivor of the attack, is face with her father and finally learns Lexx [SciFi] brought to the LEXX. Stan tends May’s the real reason she was recruited into Air Schedule wounds and soon falls in love with her. Section One. “The Evil That Men Do” – Season Three [“Fire & Water”] Episodes Begin Now But he cannot stop her slide towards Aug 18 Fire & Water Terrorists shoot down Operations’ Aug 25 May death. However, Prince — ruler of the private jet, compelling Nikita and her Sep 1 [pre-empted] planet Fire — offers to cure her if father to save him before he falls into Sep 8 Gametown Stanley will assist him, and a fateful Sep 15 Boomtown enemy hands. “Let No Man Put Sep 22 Gondola deal is struck. “Gametown” – Stan is Asunder” – The Collective kidnaps Sep 29 [pre-empted] happy as his beloved May recovers Oct 1 Mantrid (re) [Sunday nights only at 12:30 Adam in an attempt to force Michael to a.m.] from her wounds. Kai, meanwhile, hand over Mr. Jones, prompting heroics Oct 8 Terminal (re) arrives in Gametown, a floating city on Oct 15 Lyekka (re) by Operations. Oct 22 Luvliner (re) the planet Water, in search of food for Oct 29 Lafftrak (re) the LEXX crew. The buff young folks of Nov 5 791 (re) Gametown seem to do nothing but play Level Nine [UPN] Nov 12 Stan’s Trial (re) Air Schedule Nov 13 Luvliner (re) sports and take showers. Stan fails to Oct 27 [Pilot episode] Nov 14 Love Grows (re) fulfill his half of his bargain with Nov 3 Defcon Nov 15 White Trash (re) Nov 10 Through the Looking Glass [Terror in the Nov 16 Wake the Dead (re) Prince and loses May. Meanwhile, Fifi, Sky] Nov 17 Twilight (re) a different sort of Gametown player, Nov 17 Reboot Nov 19 Norb (re) steals all the Moths from the Lexx, Nov 24 Digital Babylon Nov 26 [pre-empted] Dec 1 Ten Little Hackers Dec 3 [pre-empted] stranding Kai on the city. “Boomtown” Dec 8 A Price to Pay Dec 10 Patches in the Sky (re) – Kai is stranded on Gametown, but Dec 15 Mail Call (re) Dec 17 Woz (re) Dec 22 Through the Looking Glass [Terror in the Dec 24 [pre-empted] escapes with the help of Bunny to Sky] (re) Dec 31 [pre-empted] Boomtown — a place where the girls Dec 29 Reboot (re) Jan 7 The Net (re) Jan 5 Digital Babylon (re) Jan 8 K-Town [now on Mondays at 9pm] are gorgeous and the boys are buff and Jan 12 [pre-empted] Jan 15 Tunnels everyone has uncomplicated sex all day Jan 19 Wetware Jan 22 The Key long. Kai is soon joined there by Stanley Jan 26 Avatar Jan 29 Garden Feb 2 [pre-empted] Feb 17 Lexx Chain Reaction and Xev. Stanley finds everything he’s Feb 9 [pre-empted] I Worship His Shadow (re) [11am] always wanted, and more. But the [unk] Goff Goes Home Supernova (re) [1pm] [unk] Eat Flaming Death Eating Pattern (re) [3pm] utopia of Boomtown is destroyed as the This new series premieres on UPN Gigashadow (re) [5pm] city is attacked by forces from the Feb 19 The Beach th stations on October 27 . When high- Feb 26 Heaven and Hell planet Fire, using Moths stolen from tech criminals and anarchists do the Mar 5 Fire & Water (re) the LEXX. “Gondola” – Stan, Xev, Kai Mar 12 [pre-empted] unthinkable, who ya gonna call? How Mar 19 May (re) and a second living Kai they have about Level 9, the government’s elite, Mar 26 Gametown (re) picked up find themselves together in a [unk] Battle balloon over the planet Fire. “K-Town” top secret group that’s the country’s [unk] Girltown last and only hope for defense. This This odd little Canadian sci-fi series – Stan and Xev find themselves in deep group of computer wizards can get into airs on the Sci Fi Channel Fridays at 9 trouble in K-Town, a weird city on the any computer system and use methods p.m., with an immediate repeat of the planet Fire. They are almost rescued by of surveillance about which most police same episode the same night at mid- Kai, but he has been damaged and departments and government agencies night. Additional repeat showings are ceases to function properly. Stan and only dream. The folks at Level 9 don’t on Sundays at 12:30 p.m. Third season Xev are unable to help Kai until they need fingerprints to find their man— began August 18th. A fourth season of get some lucky assistance from some- they have satellite photos and surveil- all-new episodes has already been one who looks and behaves a lot like lance cameras, and can listen in on ordered by the Sci Fi Channel. SEA- Mantrid (Dieter Laser), their former virtually any conversation. The team is SON THREE “Fire & Water” The nemesis. “Tunnels” – Xev and Stan lose lead by Annie Price, a former FBI agent, LEXX crew are awakened after four Kai and wind up on the run in under- who realizes the danger a cyber terror- thousand years of cryo-sleep to find ground tunnels that lead from one city ist poses. The bad guys have a team, their nonfunctioning ship caught to another on the planet Fire. Unfortu- February 2001 25 nately, the tunnels are populated by planets… “Heaven and Hell” – Kai and pets. “Manhattan Cactus Serial dangerous psycho-killers. The situation Xev fly to Prince’s new headquarters on Murders” – [unknown plot]. “The looks very bad until they are joined by the planet Fire to try to bring back Stan. Dawged Deputy” – [unknown plot]. Prince, who offers to help them if only Prince will not help them, so Kai “Indian War” – Daniel inadvertently they will help him. Xev rejects his offer, descends into the core of Fire to find starts a war. “Cattle Drive” – While and the situation goes from bad to Stan. Prince goes after him and it trying to prevent an international worse. “The Key” – Stan, Xev and Kai appears the two will be stuck there incident, Daniel discovers a drug return to their ship, the LEXX. Stan forever. Xev returns to the LEXX, smuggling operation in town. “Jake’s wants to destroy the pair of planets where 790 persuades her that the only Daughter” – A young woman claims they are orbiting, so that the LEXX can way to recover Kai is to destroy the two Mayor Jake is her father. “Brown eat the chunks, allowing them to move planets. The LEXX destroys them both, Parcels of Land” – [unknown plot]. on. But Xev distracts Stan from this unleashing vast and unforeseen conse- “Bees Story” – [unknown plot]. plan with a sudden strong sexual quences. “Jake’s Zoo” – [unknown plot]. interest in him. Stan fears that it’s just a Following very poor ratings, USA pulled tease, but it is not. She gives him The Lone Gunmen [FOX] the plug on this series, with no immediate everything he wants — but in return Air Schedule plans to air the remaining unshown she gains control of the “key” to the Season One episodes. “Lt. Colonel’s Boy” – [un- Mar 4 (Pilot) LEXX. “Garden” – The LEXX crew Mar 11 Bond, Jimmy Bond known plot]. discover a wonderful city on the planet Mar 18 Eine Kleine Frohike Water called Garden. It is populated by Mar 25 [pre-empted] [Moves to new day/timeslot in April] Mysterious Ways [NBC/Pax] cute women who pass the day nurtur- This spinoff of The X-Files will Air Schedule ing tasty plants. They grow a special premiere during March 2001 in its Season One Lyekka plant for Stan, and he decides Jul 24 Amazing Grace predecessor’s timeslot for a month, Jul 31 The Gray Lady that his wandering days are over. Xev before moving to its own day and time Aug 7 The Midas Touch is not happy on Garden because it is Aug 14 Camp Sanopi in April. Aug 21 Spirit Junction devoid of men, but Kai finds a purpose. Aug 22 Pilot episode (re) [First PAX airing] It is therefore agreed that she will go Aug 28 Twins Manhattan, AZ [USA] Aug 29 The Gray Lady (re) [PAX] out on her own and that the trio will Sep 4 Crazy Air Schedule Sep 5 Spirit Junction (re) [PAX] part ways as friends. “Battle” – The Season One Sep 11 Ties That Bind [final NBC airing] Jul 23 [Pilot episode] LEXX crew are attacked by balloons All remaining airings are PAX only Jul 30 Manhattan Cactus Serial Murders from the planet Fire under the com- Sep 12 Demons Aug 6 The Dawged Deputy Sep 16 Amazing Grace (re) [Sat 9p.m.] mand of Prince. Their only Moth is Aug 13 Indian War Sep 19 The Midas Touch (re) Aug 20 Cattle Drive destroyed and Xev is kidnapped. Kai Sep 23 The Gray Lady (re) [Sat 9 p.m.] Aug 27 Jake’s Daughter Sep 26 Twins (re) captures a balloon and they then Sep 3 [pre-empted] Sep 29 Spirit Junction (re) [Sat 9p.m.] Sep 10 Brown Parcels of Land engage in battle with the other bal- Oct 3 Crazy (re) Sep 17 Bees Story Oct 7 Demons (re) [Sat 9p.m.] loons. The slow-motion ballet of Sep 24 Jake’s Zoo Oct 10 Ties That Bind (re) Oct 1 [pre-empted] destruction ends with Xev being Oct 14 The Midas Touch (re) [Sat 9p.m.] [Series Cancelled] stranded on the burning desert surface Oct 17 Amazing Grace (re) [unk] Lt. Colonel’s Boy of Fire and Stan and Kai escaping to the Oct 21 Twins (re) [Sat 9p.m.] This odd little half-hour “dramedy” Oct 24 The Grey Lady (re) orbiting LEXX. “Girltown” – Stan and started this summer on the USA cable Oct 27 Crazy (re) [Sat 9p.m.] Kai search for Xev and find her foot- Oct 31 Camp Sanopi (re) network (channel 27). It currently airs Nov 4 Ties That Bind (re) [Sat 9p.m.] steps crossing the inhospitable surface Sundays at 8:30 p.m., with repeats on Nov 7 Crystal Clear of the planet Fire. Her tracks lead to Nov 11 Amazing Grace (re) [Sat 9p.m.] Fridays at 10:30 p.m. Brian McNamara Nov 14 19A/Stranger in the Mirror Girltown, a city populated by some and Chad Everett star in this quirky Nov 18 The Gray Lady (re) [Sat 9p.m.] very peculiar girls. Queen develops sitcom about an L.A. police officer who Nov 21 Handshake strong interest in Stanley Tweedle, but Nov 28 Intentions takes a job as a small-town sheriff. Dec 1 Camp Sanopi (re) [Sat 9pm] his needs and hers turn out to be very [Pilot] – Daniel Henderson loves his Dec 5 Spirit Junction (re) different, indeed. “The Beach” – Stan, Dec 9 Crystal Clear (re) [Sat 9pm] big-city job, which requires him to Dec 12 [pre-empted] Xev and Kai meet with disaster when dress in drag to work undercover. But Dec 16 Stranger in the Mirror (re) [Sat 9pm] they return to the orbiting LEXX. Stan Dec 19 Reason to Cry in the opener, his wife dies in a boating Dec 23 Reason to Cry (re) [Sat 9pm] and Kai plummet down to the surface accident, and he’s too depressed to Dec 26 Twins (re) of the planet Water. Kai sinks deep into “even put on a dress and go to work.” Dec 30 Handshake (re) [Sat 9pm] the bottomless ocean and Stan is left Returns to shared airings on NBC, Monday nights Henderson then decides to move to Jan 1 The Greater Good [NBC Mondays 7pm] swimming on the vast and empty Arizona with his son, Atticus. There, he Jan 2 Stranger in the Mirror (re) [PAX] surface. Xev searches for them and Jan 6 Demons (re) [PAX Sat 9pm] becomes the sheriff of a small town Jan 8 Yesterday [NBC Mon 7pm] eventually finds Stan’s floating body. whose eccentric mayor (Everett) and Jan 9 19A [PAX Tue 7pm] But Stan also washes up on a beach, Jan 13 Intentions (re) [PAX Sat 9pm] residents are as bizarre as his first case, Jan 15 Strike Two [NBC Mon 7pm] which seems to make no sense as there which involves the mysterious disfig- Jan 16 Handshake (re) [PAX Tue 7pm] are no beaches on either of the two urement of many of the townspeople’s Jan 20 Spirit Junction (re) [PAX Sat 9pm] 26 Andromedan Log #61 Jan 22 Dead Dog Walking [NBC Mon 7pm] case of cheating in Declan’s class has Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Jan 23 Camp Sanopi (re) [PAX Tue 7pm] Jan 27 Stranger in the Mirror (re) [PAX Sat 9pm] him theorizing that the two students in [SciFi] Jan 29 Wonderful [NBC Mon 7pm] End of NBC question may share more than just test Air Schedule airings again Sep 2 [pre-empted] Jan 30 Crystal Clear (re) [PAX Tue 7pm] answers. “Crazy” – Peggy deems a Sep 9 Hamlet (1960) (re) Feb 3 Twins (re) [Sat 9pm] female patient plagued by “voices” as Sep 16 It Lives By Night (re) Feb 6 Do You See What I See? [Tue 7pm] crazy, until the woman’s child begins to Sep 23 Horrors of Spider Island (re) Feb 10 19A (re) [Sat 9pm] Sep 30 Squirm (re) Feb 12 Strike Two (re) [Tue 7pm] make the same claim. “Ties That Bind” Oct 7 Puma Man (re) This series, described in some – Declan’s assistant, Miranda, is one of Oct 14 Devil Fish (re) reviews as “Touched by an Alien” or a group of seemingly unconnected Oct 21 Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (re) Oct 28 The Giant Spider Invasion (re) “Touched by an X-File”, got an eight- individuals who all find themselves Nov 3 Merlin’s Shop of Magical Wonders (re) week summer try-out on NBC (channel drawn inexplicably to a waterfall in Nov 10 Space Mutiny (re) Nov 17 The Final Sacrifice (re) 6), before moving permanently to NBC Alaska. “Demons” – Peggy is assigned Nov 24 [pre-empted] cable sister station PAX (channel 49). It to help a potential suicide victim — a Dec 1 The Girl in the Gold Boots (re) aired Mondays at 7 p.m. on NBC, and girl haunted by demons, arousing Dec 9 The Final Justice (re) Dec 16 Quest of the Delta Knights (re) currently airs Tuesdays at 7 p.m. PAX, Declan’s interest in the case. “Crystal Dec 23 [pre-empted] with repeats Wednesdays at 2 a.m. and Clear” – Declan and Peggy investigate Dec 30 [pre-empted] Jan 6 Horror of Party Beach (re) Saturdays at 9 p.m. Adrian Pasdar stars after a window washer plunges 30 Jan 13 Devil Doll (re) as Declan Dunn, an anthropologist stories, lands on a car and survives. Jan 20 The Deadly Bees (re) Jan 27 Werewolf (re) whose own past experience with “Stranger in the Mirror” – Declan Feb 3 Invasion of the Neptune Men (re) miracles fuels his quest to investigate begins to suspect one of his students is Feb 10 Hobgoblins (re) inexplicable phenomena. Are they channeling an urgent message from the Feb 17 The Touch of Satan (re) Feb 24 Puma Man (re) flukes? Coincidences? Or is there a victim of a decades-old murder. Mar 3 Timechasers (re) higher power at work?. “Amazing “Handshake” – A seer’s prediction of Mar 10 Parts: The Clonus Horror (re) Mar 17 The Phantom Planet (re) Grace” – In the opener, Declan battles death sends Declan on a journey of Mar 24 The Screaming Skull (re) a nay-saying scientist (Rae Down reconciliation with his estranged sister. Mar 31 Danger: Diabolik (re) Chong, series regular) with a gripe “Intentions” – [unknown plot]. “Rea- This series was cancelled after 10 against God after a young boy is saved son to Cry” – [unknown plot]. “The seasons, but continues to air repeats from drowning in a frozen lake by Greater Good” – Declan is torn be- regularly on the Sci Fi Channel (62), what Declan thinks may be a ghost. But tween saving a friend and securing a Sunday nights at 10 p.m. and Saturday as he and his new sidekick close in on a find, after Miranda develops a fatal mornings at 10 a.m. possible explanation, an ominous turn illness that could be cured by a biblical of events leads them to even more relic alleged to have healing powers. The Outer Limits (Showtime) questions. “The Gray Lady” – Peggy “Yesterday” – A cop gets a lesson in Air Schedule revisits her own tragic past when she answered prayers when he gets a Season Six Sep 1 Stasis (re) and Declan look into the alleged return chance to relive the day he could have Sep 3 Judgement Day (re) [1:00 p.m.] of a mystic’s dead husband. A man saved his late partner’s life. “19A” – Skin Deep (re) [1:45 p.m.] Glitch (re) [2:30 p.m.] makes a deathbed promise to his wife One man’s premonitory dreams about Simon Says (re) [3:15 p.m.] to contact her exactly one year later to a plane crash may be linked to a Decompression (re) [4:00 p.m.] Gettysburg (re) [4:45 p.m.] prove there is life after death, drawing woman who claims to have been Revival (re) [5:30 p.m.] Declan and Peggy as witnesses. “The visited by the spirit of her Manifest Destiny (re) [6:15 p.m.] Midas Touch” – Peggy and Declan husband…who died in the crash. Final Appeal [Series Finale – 90 mins] [7:00 p.m.] discover a town extremely blessed by “Strike Two” – A deaf man regains his Outer Limits Farewell Tribute [8:40 p.m.] good fortune and a woman whose hearing — and develops a strange new Sep 8 Final Appeal (re) Sep 15 Down to Earth (re) touch bestows good luck. “Camp psychic power — after being struck by Sep 22 Inner Child (re) Sanopi” – Stranded and injured after a lightning. “Dead Dog Walking” – Sep 29 Glitch (re) Oct 6 Breaking Point (re) rafting accident, Declan is saved by the Declan pokes around the past of Oct 13 The Beholder (re) folks at an exclusive campsite that may Peggy’s new international beau and Oct 20 Seeds of Destruction (re) be Mr. Dunn’s last resort. “Spirit finds an odd link to his friend and the Oct 27 Simon Says (re) Nov 3 Decompression (re) Junction” – An “urban legend” leads foreign fellow’s former flame. “Won- Nov 10 Abbadon (re) Declan to the heart of a small-town derful” – Peggy helps a troubled couple Nov 17 The Grid (re) Nov 24 Revival (re) tragedy in this absorbing episode. deal with their daughter’s sleepwalk- Dec 1 Gettysburg (re) Intrigued by rumors of a railroad ing. “Do You See What I See?” – Dec 8 Something About Harry (re) Dec 15 Zig Zag (re) crossing allegedly haunted by a group Declan’s mentor becomes his next Dec 22 Nest (re) of teens who died on the tracks, Declan mystery when the elderly anthropolo- [Showtime Airings conclude] and Peggy head to the location to check gist begins having bizarre visions, The sixth and final season of new it out for themselves. There, they find including alien spaceships, clowns and episodes for the SHOWTIME cable not only irrefutable proof of paranor- the Big Bad Wolf. network aired on Fridays at 9:45 p.m. mal activity, but also a secret that ties (unless otherwise listed above). Repeats one of the grieving fathers to the deaths continue there through at least October. — and to the hauntings. “Twins” – A February 2001 27 “Final Appeal” – A time-travelling Grid” – Investigating his brother’s Jan 8 The Counterfeit Queen Jan 15 The Serpent scientist is on trial in a future world murder, a man discovers a mind- Jan 22 The Pact bereft of technology. Season Finale. The control project operated by a computer. Jan 29 The Emissary Feb 5 Kidnapped Sci Fi Channel recently announced that “Glitch” – [unknown plot]. “Revival” – Feb 12 Uncle it has reach an agreement with the A faith healer bites off more than he Feb 19 Runaways producers of The Outer Limits to back can chew when his gifted protege turns Feb 26 Death to the Queen (re) Mar 5 Honor Thy Father (re) production of a final, seventh season of out to be a man-eating alien. [unk] The Punishment this much-heralded anthology series, to “Gettysburg” – A pair of Civil War re- [unk] The Return [unk] The Hanged man begin airing on Sci Fi in 2001. enactors are transported through time This new adventure series pre- to 1863 Gettysburg on the eve of battle. mieres in syndication during the week The Outer Limits (syn) of October 2nd and is described as a Air Schedule [week of] Peter Benchly’s Amazon [syn] distaff version of the Zorro story, with Sep 4 Human Operators (re) Air Schedule [week of] Sep 11 Blank Slate (re) a mask-wearing, sword-wielding Season One Sep 18 Tribunal (re) Sep 4 Wild Child (re) heroine fighting against the corrupt Sep 25 Summit (re) Sep 11 A Bible and a Gun (re) Season Six Syndicated Airings Begin forces of oppression in early California. [Final Airing — Series Cancelled] Oct 2 Judgement Day It will air locally on KXVO (channel 15) This syndicated adventure series Oct 9 The Gun Saturdays at 10 p.m. “Destiny” – Tessa Oct 16 Stasis was cancelled after just one season, and Alvarado (Tessie Santiago), a Spanish Oct 23 The Breaking Point will cease to air as of late September, Oct 30 Manifest Destiny aristocrat, returns home to avenge her Nov 6 Simon Says 2000. Nov 13 Skin Deep father’s death and finds her people Nov 20 Down to Earth oppressed by a military dictator. Nov 27 The Beholder Poltergeist: The Legacy [syn] Dec 4 Judgement Day (re) “Death to the Queen” – The Queen of Dec 11 The Gun (re) Air Schedule [week of] Swords must avoid a trap set for her by Season Four Dec 18 Stasis (re) Montoya and Grisham, while she Dec 25 Breaking Point (re) Sep 4 The Traitor (re) Jan 1 Inner Child Sep 11 Double Cross (re) investigates the disappearance of the Jan 8 Seeds of Destruction [Final Airing — Series Cancelled] village peasants. “Fever” – Tessa must Jan 15 The Grid The final season of Sci Fi Channel stop a deadly fever that is consuming Jan 22 Manifest Destifny (re) episodes of this series have aired in Jan 29 Glitch the inhabitants of the town and Captain syndication during the 1999-2000 Feb 5 Revival Grisham manages to steals the antidote. Feb 12 Gettysburg season, however the series will cease to “Vengeance” – The Harvest Festival is Sixth season of syndicated episodes air as of late September, 2000. began the week of September 18th. The disrupted when an assassin kills the father of Tessa’s childhood friend, series airs locally on KPTM (channel 9), Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Saturdays nights at 12, midnight. Ramon. “Witness” – A killer’s mother Repeats of earlier season 1 through 5 Paranormal [syn] (Bo Derek) targets Tessa. “Duel With a episodes air on the Sci Fi Channel (62) Air Schedule [week of] Stranger” – Tessa’s former love is hired Season Four Sundays at 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., and Sep 4 Force Majeure (re) to kill the Queen. “Running Wild” – Mondays at 7, 8 and 9 p.m. SEASON Sep 11 Stone Dreams (re) [Season Finale] Tessa’s godfather is killed during a [Final Airing — Series Cancelled] burglary, and the Queen of Swords SIX “Judgement Day” – A convicted This series was cancelled after four murderer tries to prove his innocence vengefully seeks out the criminals. seasons in syndication, and will cease “Honor Thy Father” – The Queen of while being hunted by the victim’s to air as of late September, 2000. The sister on a top-rated TV show. “The Swords must rescue two men captured TNT cable network has picked up by Montoya, one of whom learns her Gun” – [unknown plot]. “Stasis” – Two exclusive rights to repeats of Psi Factor, lovers living in an oppressive future secret identity. “The Counterfeit and apparently is in discussions with Queen” – An imposter (guest star society try to connect even though the producers about funding additional they’ve only seen each other as holo- Elizabeth Gracen) poses as the Queen new episodes. No word on how serious of Swords to steal a payroll of gold, so grams. “The Breaking Point” – Travel- those discussions are. ing forward in time, a scientist discov- Tessa must clear her name and unmask ers his wife has been murdered and he the bandit. “The Serpent” – El Serpiente is the prime suspect. “Manifest Des- Queen of Swords [syn] (guest star David Carradine), a famous Air Schedule [week of] bandit, decides on Santa Helena as his tiny” – [unknown plot]. “Simon Says” Oct 2 Destiny [Series Premiere] – [unknown plot]. “Skin Deep” – Oct 9 Death to the Queen next target and manages to put a rift [unknown plot]. “Down to Earth” – Oct 16 Fever between the Queen of Swords and Oct 23 Vengeance Doctor Helm. “The Emissary” – [unknown plot]. “The Beholder” – Oct 30 Witness [unknown plot]. “Inner Child” – Nov 6 Duel With a Stranger Grisham learns of a hidden fortune/An Nov 13 Running Wild emissary from Spain hunts the Queen. [unknown plot]. “Seeds of Destruction” Nov 20 Honor Thy Father – A small-town vet probes links be- Nov 27 Destiny (re) “Kidnapped” – Vera is kidnapped by a Dec 4 Fever (re) former flame, and the Queen of Swords tween fast-breeding tumors and Dec 11 Vengeance (re) genetically-engineered corn. “The Dec 18 Witness (re) must save her before her reputation is Dec 25 Duel With a Stranger (re) ruined. “Uncle” – Tessa’s uncle arrives 28 Andromedan Log #61 Jan 1 Running Wild (re) in town bent on avenging his brother’s “The Cross of Voodoo” – Two graduate adventure elements more than the death and Montoya makes an innocent students disappear while searching for romance or angstiness. SEASON TWO man scapegoat for the crime. the Haitian Cross of Utu, said to “Skin and Bones” – The second season possess mysterious powers. “Lost begins as a geologist finds the buried Relic Hunter [syn] Contact” – Sydney, Nigel and billion- bones of Agent Pierce and brings them Air Schedule [week of] aire Rod Thorson parachute into the to Sheriff Valenti. The lawman then Sep 4 Possessed (re) jungle to find a Relic Hunter team that tries to cover up the case, but encoun- Sep 11 Nothing But the Truth (re) Season Two Episodes Begin Now disappeared while looking for the ters interference from an eager Deputy Sep 18 The Put Back world’s oldest artifact. “The Reel Hanson/Max and the others must Sep 25 The Dagger of Death Thing” – Whiel working as advisors on rescue Michael after he is arrested for Oct 2 Last of the Mohicans Oct 9 Legend of the Lost a movie set, Sydney and Nigel discover murder; Liz takes a job with a congress- Oct 16 Fertile Ground ancient Egyptian artifacts thought to woman who has a hidden agenda. “Ask Oct 23 Gypsy Jigsaw Oct 30 Three Rivers to Cross have never been found. “M.I.A.” – Not” – Max’s leadership ability is put Nov 6 Roman Holiday Sydney is kidnapped and Cate, Nigel to the test when Michael and Isabel Nov 13 Cross of Voodoo Nov 20 Lost Contact and Claudia must figure out which of insist on eliminating the new curator at Nov 27 The Put Back (re) their many enemies has taken her. “Out the UFO museum; Tess finds a home Dec 4 The Dagger of Death (re) of the Past” – Claudia’s kooky past-life with the Sheriff. “Surprise” – Isabel’s Dec 11 Last of the Mohicas (re) Dec 18 The Legend of the Lost (re) recollections send Syd down the Nile to friends throw her a surprise birthday Dec 25 Fertile Ground (re) locate Cleopatra’s lost necklace. “The party at the Crashdown Café but a Jan 1 Gypsy Jigsaw (re) Jan 8 The Reel Thing Eyes of Toklamanee” – Syd goes to mysterious headache and hallucina- Jan 15 M.I.A. Saint Louis, looking for an Indian tions of Tess in jeopardy grip the alien Jan 22 Three Rivers to Cross (re) Jan 29 Out of the Past artifact that may have been lost during teen during the festivities. “Summer of Feb 5 The Eyes of Toklamanee the construction of the city’s new ‘47” – To bolster his failing history Feb 12 Run Sydney Run subway system. “Run Sydney Run” – grade, Michael reluctantly agrees to The second season of this action/ Sydney is captured by a big-game interview a former Air Force pilot who adventure/mythology series begins the hunter while searching for a lost sword served at Roswell during the famed th week of September 18 . This series airs in Russia. incident. As Captain Hal Carver’s locally on KXVO (channel 15), Satur- recitation unfolds through flashbacks, days at 11 p.m. SEASON TWO “The Brandon Fehr (Michael) portrays the Put Back” – The series second season Roswell [WB] Air Schedule younger Carver while other cast begins with Syd and Nigel tracking Sep 4 Tess, Lies and Videotape (re) members appear as the tale’s support- down an ancient African artifact that is Sep 6 Four-Square (re) [Wed 8 p.m.] ing players. “End of the World” – Max difficult to find. “The Dagger of Death” Sep 11 Max to the Max (re) Sep 18 The White Room (re) travels through time to tell Liz that – An anthropologist sends Syd and her Sep 25 Destiny (re) their relationship will imperil his team to Calcutta, to find the sheath to Season Two Episodes Begin Now Oct 2 Skin and Bones planet, and together they devise a plan an Indian dagger he claims led him to Oct 9 Ask Not to change the future. “Wipeout!” – murder. “Last of the Mohicans” – A Oct 16 Surprise Oct 23 Summer of ’47 Most of the residents of Roswell vessel believed to contain the Great Oct 30 End of the World disappear after a green pulse from the Warrior Spirit of the Mohican tribe is Nov 6 Harvest sky descends on the town, leaving only found and wreaks havoc on Sydney Nov 13 Wipeout! Nov 20 Meet the Dupes the alien quartet, Courtney, Liz, Maria and Nigel’s trip home from Peru. “The Nov 27 Max in the City and the Valentis behind. “Meet the Legend of the Lost” – Syd jets to New Dec 4 Skin and Bones (re) Dec 11 [pre-empted] Dupes” – After murdering their leader, Guinea after Nigel is abducted by a Dec 18 A Roswell Christmas Carol aliens resembling Michael, Isabel and familiar foe, who needs them to un- Dec 25 [pre-empted] Tess travel to Roswell from New York “Fertile Dec 29 A Roswell Christmas Carol (re) [Fri] earth a lost civilization. Jan 1 [pre-empted] to persuade Max to attend a summit Ground” – At Sydney’s high-school Jan 8 Ask Not (re) with leaders from other planets . “Max reunion, she discovers that her old beau Jan 15 Surprise (re) Jan 22 To Serve and Protect in the City” – Max and Tessa travel to has more on his mind than old times — Jan 29 We Are Family New York City, where Rath takes Max a trek into Hawaii to search for the Idol Feb 5 Disturbing Behavior Feb 12 [pre-empted] to meet an enigmatic individual called of Lono. “Gypsy Jigsaw” – Claudia’s Feb 19 How the Other Half Lives the Emissary, who tests Max’s claim to skill with Tarot cards proves useful, as Feb 26 Viva Las Vegas the throne. “A Roswell Christmas she, Syd and Nigel jet to Bucharest to Mar 26 Off the Menu The second season of this teen- Carol” – It’s not such a wonderful life investigate the murder of Syd’s col- angst meets alien conspiracy theory for Max after he allows a man to die league. “Three Rivers to Cross” – Fred series begins this fall on October 2nd. rather than use his powers in public. A Dryer (Hunter) guests as Syd’s father, Roswell currently airs Mondays at 8 car strikes a holiday shopper who an engineer who calls her to China to p.m. on the WB network (channel 15). pushed his daughter out of the path of help a group of monks locate a legend- Only 13 episodes were ordered for the the vehicle. As the man lies dying on a ary statue they fear may be lost after a second season, and producers plan to crowded sidewalk, Max resists the urge dam is opened near their village. emphasize the science fiction and to help him. The man’s ghost then “Roman Holiday” – [unknown plot]. February 2001 29 haunts the alien teen (the only one who This fantasy-adventure series 7 Days [UPN] can see him), demanding that Max to which has been a success in Canada, Air Schedule something to “restore the balance” for began airing on the Sci Fi Channel in Sep 7 X-35 Needs Changing (re) Sep 14 Time Gremlin (re) letting him perish. A more mundane the U.S. in January of 2001. “In the Sep 21 Mr. Donovan’s Neighborhood (re) Christmas crisis plagues Michael. He Beginning” – In The Beginning - Jules Sep 28 The Cure (re) Oct 4 [pre-empted] agonizes over a present for Maria, since Verne is a visionary, a young Paris Season Three Episodes Begin Now he neglected to get her any gift at all student who dreams of writing great Oct 11 Stairway to Heaven Oct 18 Peacekeepers last year. “To Serve and Protect” – novels and plays about the future. He is Oct 25 Rhino Isabel suffers from nightmares depict- kidnapped by the League of Darkness, Nov 1 The Dunwych Madness ing a girl bound, locked in a trunk and and forced to download his vision of Nov 8 Olga’s Excellent Vacation Nov 15 Deloris Demands screaming for help. Sheriff Valenti is the future into the disembodied mind Nov 22 The Fire Last Time questioned about the year-old shooting of Count Gregory, the League’s mon- Nov 29 [pre-empted] Dec 6 Pope Parker of Everett Hubble. “We Are Family” – strous leader. Meanwhile, Phlleas Fogg Dec 13 Stairway to Heaven (re) Sheriff Valenti loses his tin star in this has embarked on a life of gambling Dec 20 Tracker Dec 27 Peacekeepers (re) well-scripted episode, which finds the after the death of Sir Boniface Fogg, Jan 3 Top Dog lawman taking orders from an ambi- head of the British Secret Service. He Jan 10 Adam & Eve & Adam tious FBI agent. Valenti’s unorthodox wins the airship AURORA in a card Jan 17 Rhino (re) Jan 24 The Dunwych Madness (re) methods during the search for a game - just in time to help his cousin, Jan 31 Head Case missing girl draw the ire of a by-the- secret agent Rebecca Fogg, rescue Jules Feb 7 Raven Feb 14 The First Freshman book cop, and an equally intolerant from the League’s evil power. “Queen This time-travel adventure series judge who suspends Roswell’s leading Victoria and the Giant Mole” – When airs on the UPN network Wednesdays law enforcer. The Sheriff gets a tempo- an invention from one of Jules’ stories at 7 p.m. The third season began rary reprieve when an eager Federal is used in an attempt on Queen October 11th. We in the Lincoln cable agent requests his help with the case. Victoria’s life, Verne first encounters market continue to be without a UPN However, playing second fiddle Phileas Fogg, the manservant affiliate, however we’ll include the descrip- doesn’t sit well with Valenti, who has Passeparrtout, and Fogg’s sister tions of UPN series like 7 Days for those of no choice but to keep his demanding Rebecca, a member of the British our readers who are able to pull in the series new boss in the dark when the investi- intelligence field. “Rockets of the over the air or through other means. gation takes an unexpected turn. Dead” – [unknown plot]. “The “Disturbing Behavior” – Laurie escapes Cardinal’s Design” – [unknown plot]. from an ambulance on the way to a “The Cardinal’s Revenge” – [unknown Sheena [syn] Air Schedule [week of] mental facility, and unwillingly joins plot]. “The Eyes of Lazarus” – [un- Oct 2 Sheena Michael and Maria, who were follow- known plot]. “Lord of Air and Dark- Oct 9 Fallout ing her in the Jetta and witnessed her ness” – While investigating a priest’s Oct 16 Revenge of the Jirds [Of Mice and Men] Oct 23 Rites of Passage getaway. murder, Jules is seduced into joining Oct 30 Tourist Trap the crew of the League of Darkness’s Nov 6 Buried Secrets Nov 13 Lost Boys Secret Adventures of Jules flying battleship. “Southern Comfort” – Nov 20 Wild Thing Verne [SciFi] With the help of Rebecca, Jules and Nov 27 Fallout (re) Passepartout, the Civil War’s Union Dec 4 Revenge of the Jirds (re) Air Schedule Dec 11 A Rite of Passage (re) Season One troops destroy he Prometheus and Dec 18 Tourist Trap (re) Jan 5 Queen Victoria and the Giant Mole Count Gregory takes revenge. Dec 25 Lost Boy (re) Jan 12 Rockets of the Dead Jan 1 Sheena (re) Jan 19 The Cardinal’s Design [1 of 2] Jan 8 Doing as the Romans Jan 26 The Cardinal’s Revenge [2 of 2] Jan 15 Children of the Las Mistas Feb 2 The Eyes of Lazarus Secret Agent Man [UPN] Jan 22 Prey Feb 9 Lord of Air and Darkness [1 of 2] Air Schedule Jan 29 Divas of the Jungle Feb 16 Southern Comfort [2 of 2] Sep 1 Sleepers (re) Feb 5 Forbidden Fruit Feb 23 Let There Be Light Sep 8 Uncle S.A.M. (re) Feb 12 The Fool Monty Mar 2 The Ballad of Steeley Joe Sep 15 Breach (re) Feb 19 Sanctuary Mar 9 The Black Glove of Malchizedek Sep 22 T.K.O. Henry (re) This new syndicated fantasy/ Mar 16 Dust to Dust This parody of spy shows aired Mar 23 The Golem adventure series starring Gina Lee Mar 30 Crusader in the Crypt Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on the UPN net- Nolin as the eponymous heroine [unk] In the Beginning [pilot episode] work, but was not picked up for a premiered the week of October 2nd. It [unk] The Strange Death of Professor Marichal second season, and will cease to air this [unk] The Rocket’s Red Glare airs locally on Saturdays at 10:30 p.m. [unk] Rocket to the Moon fall. We in the Lincoln cable market on KLKN (channel 8), and Saturdays at [unk] The Inquisitor continue to be without a UPN affiliate, [unk] Royalty midnight on KETV (channel 7). [unk] Secret of the Realm however we include the descriptions of “Sheena” – Sheena, who has the power [unk] The Victorian Candidate UPN series like Secret Agent Man for [unk] The Book of Knowledge to transform herself into animal form, those of our readers who are able to pull in protects a jungle paradise from en- the series over the air or through other croaching civilization. “Fallout” – means. [unknown plot]. “Revenge of the Jirds” – A rather lively “coffee” cargo sends 30 Andromedan Log #61 Sheena and Cutter hightailing it after crashes in the jungle, bringing with it able to pull in the series over the air or animal smugglers. “Rites of Passage” – dreams of rescue. “Amazons” – Ama- through other means. Repeats of seasons [unknown plot]. “Tourist Trap” – zons save Roxton, Malone and Chal- 1 through 6 episodes continue to air [unknown plot]. “Buried Secrets” – lenger from attacking pterodactyls, Monday through Friday on KXVO [unknown plot.] “Lost Boys” – Sheena then take the men back to their camp (channel 15) at 10 p.m. SEASON helps the peaceful Souman tribe fight a for spring mating rites. “Divine Right” SEVEN “Unimatrix Zero, Part 2” – corporation that is out to get their land – A riderless horse lures Roxton and Janeway, Tuvok and Torres’ mission to at any cost. “Wild Thing” – Cutter races the band into the clutches of an evil protect the existance of the Borg haven to find a half-animal Sheena, before wizard. “Stone Cold” – At a haunted known as Unimatrix Zero from detec- trophy hunter can add her to his castle, the adventurers seem compelled tion by the Borg Queen fails. As they collection. “Doing as the Romans” – to re-enact a romantic story of intrigue scramble to change plans, Seven Sheena must infiltrate N’Gama’s palace — one that could end in death. “Skin confronts the fact that she has been in to rescue a kidnapped girl. “Children of Deep” – Dinosaurs are behaving oddly, an emotional relationship with one of the Las Mistas” – While plotting but the crew knows something is really the other drones. “Imperfection” – revenge against an enemy, Sheena finds wrong when Marguerite is nice to When Seven of Nine’s Borg systems an old friend in trouble and discovers a everyone. “London Calling” An ancient begin to break down, the hunt is on to bizarre experiment. “Prey” – [unknown map outlines an escape route — now find a way to save her life. “Drive” – plot]. “Divas of the Jungle” – [un- the adventurers must prove to skeptics Paris and Kim volunteer to enter a race known plot]. “Forbidden Fruit” – On a all they have seen. “The Prisoner” – that symbolises a peace treaty between search for two missing botanists, While searching for her long-lost four warring races. However, the race’s Sheena and Cutter find a hostile parents, Veronica unwittingly releases peaceful intentions are undermined environment and a deadly secret that a savage giant from captivity. “The with plans of sabotage and murder. pits them against each other. “The Fool Games” – Captured by lizard men, Torres feels she is nearing the end of Monty” – A TV star’s footage of the Malone, Marguerite and Roxton are her relationship with Paris. However, Darak’Na sparks a tribal war and may forced to fight as gladiators in the they work things out with surprising expose Sheena’s secret. arena. “The Source” – [unknown plot]. results. “Repression” – Former mem- “The Trophies” – [unknown plot]. bers of the Maquis fall victim to a spate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The of mysterious attacks on board Voy- Lost World [syn] Star Trek: Voyager [UPN] ager. Tuvok is placed in charge of the investigations, and soon makes some Air Schedule [week of] Air Schedule Sep 4 Creatures of the Dark (re) Sep 6 Muse (re) remarkable discoveries. “Critical Care” Sep 11 The Journey Begins (re) [Pilot – pt 1] Sep 13 Pathfinder (re) [Barclay/Troi] – The Doctor is abducted from Voyager Sep 18 Stranded (re) [Pilot – pt 2] Sep 20 Life Line (re) Sep 25 Barbarians at the Gate (re) Sep 27 The Haunting of Deck Twelve (re) and forced to work in a hospital where Season Two Episodes Begin Now Oct 4 Unimatrix Zero (re) [7:00 p.m.] patients are treated based on their Oct 2 All or Nothing Season Seven Episodes Begin Now Oct 9 Tourist Season Unimatrix Zero, Part 2 [8:00 p.m.] social status. “Inside Man” – A holo- Oct 16 Amazons Oct 11 Imperfection gram of Reginald Barclay is sent to Oct 23 Divine Right Oct 18 Drive Voyager bringing news that the ship Oct 30 Stone Cold Oct 25 Repression th Nov 6 Skin Deep Nov 1 Critical Care [150 aired episode] can be returned home in a matter of Nov 13 London Calling Nov 8 Inside Man hours through a ‘geodesic fold.’ How- Nov 20 The Prisoner Nov 15 Body and Soul Nov 27 All or Nothing (re) Nov 22 Nightengale [The Command] ever, the crew becomes suspicious of Dec 4 Amazons (re) Nov 29 Flesh and Blood [2 hours] the holographic Barclay’s intentions Dec 11 Tourist Season (re) Dec 6 Tsunkatse (re) Dec 18 Stone Cold (re) Dec 13 Collective (re) after seeing him exhibit strange Dec 25 Divine Right (re) Dec 20 Fury (re) behaviour. “Body and Soul” – While in Jan 1 Skin Deep (re) Dec 27 Drive (re) the Delta Flyer The Doctor, Harry Kim Jan 8 London Calling (re) Jan 3 Imperfection (re) Jan 15 The Games Jan 10 Repression (re) and Seven of Nine come under attack Jan 22 The Source Jan 17 Shattered for transporting a hologram through Jan 29 The Trophies Jan 24 Lineage [Inner Child] Feb 5 Voodoo Queen Jan 31 Repentence Lokirrim space - an act which is strictly Feb 12 The Guardian Feb 7 Prophecy [Descendants] forbidden. To hide the doctor, Seven of Feb 14 The Void The second season of this syndi- Feb 21 Workplace [1] Nine downloads him into her cyber- cated adventure series begins the week Feb 28 Workplace [2] netic implants shortly before they are of October 2nd. The Lost World airs [unk] Human Error [unk] Q2 taken to a Lokirrim holding cell. On locally on Saturdays at 2 p.m. and The seventh and final season of this board Voyager, Tuvok enters Pon Farr. Sundays at 2 a.m. on WGN (channel latest Star Trek series airs on the UPN “Nightengale” – While Voyager stops 14), and on Sundays at 4 a.m. on network Wednesdays at 8 p.m., begin- for maintenance, Kim, Seven and WOWT (channel 6). SEASON TWO ning on October 4th. We in the Lincoln Neelix use the Delta Flyer to search for “All or Nothing” – The friends emerge cable market continue to be without a UPN dilithium, when they come across a war from battle to find that one of their affiliate, however we’ll include the descrip- between two alien races. After receiv- number is lost, and goons have en- tions of UPN series like Star Trek: ing a distress call from a damaged ship slaved a village. “Tourist Season” – A Voyager for those of our readers who are claiming to be on a humanitarian plane full of 21st-century tourists February 2001 31 mission, Kim is offered his first chance they also cure the physical reason for before it’s too late. “Point of No at commanding a vessel of his own. his criminal behavior. The Voyager Return” – The SG-1 team come into “Flesh and Blood” [2 hours] – The crew crew then face the ethical dilemma of contact with a strange man who has of Voyager find a Hirogen training transporting a “changed man” to his vast knowledge of the Stargate pro- facility, and discover that the hologram final doom. “Prophecy” – When the gram, and claims to be an alien from technology they gave the Hirogen Voyager encounters an experimental another planet. “Tangent” – O’Neill several months ago was modified to the Klingon “sleeper” ship from the Alpha and Teal’c volunteer to test fly a point where the Holograms are smarter Quadrant, they must convince the Goa’uld death glider, and end up and more cunning than their hunters. warlike crew that the Klingons and trapped in space with Apophis not far The Doctor is abducted by a band of Federation are now allies…then they behind. “The Curse” – [unknown plot]. Holograms that escaped from the must prove that Voyager’s presence “Serpent’s Venom” – The team is Hirogen facility and is asked to join here at this time is not part of a tragic dispatched to try to disrupt a possible them in forging a new life as indepen- Klingon prophecy. alliance between the lords of two dent ‘photonic beings.’ The crew of powerful systems. “2010” – The year Voyager must ally with the Hirogen to Stargate: SG-1 (Showtime) 2010 brings changes to Earth and the find the Doctor and re-capture the Air Schedule SGC. “Absolute Power” – The team renegade Holograms. After a confron- Sep 1 Beneath the Surface notice a change in Daniel when he is Sep 8 Point of No Return tation with the Hologram ship, Voy- Sep 15 Tangent reunited with the Harsesis child. “The ager is disabled and B’Elanna is ab- Sep 22 The Curse Light” – Travelling to a new planet, the ducted, with the Doctor’s help, to aid Sep 29 Serpent’s Venom team members find themselves trans- Oct 6 Small Victories (re) the Holograms in their plight. Voyager Oct 13 The Other Side (re) fixed by a beautiful but deadly device. secretly trails two Hirogen ships in Oct 20 Upgrades (re) “Prodigy” – Carter helps a promising Oct 27 Crossroads (re) pursuit of the renegade Hologram ship. Nov 3 Divide and Conquer (re) young cadet. “Double Jeopardy” – A Iden, the band’s self-appointed leader, Nov 10 Window of Opportunity (re) former acquaintance seeks the crew’s Nov 17 Watergate (re) begins showing signs of delusional Nov 24 The First Ones (re) help. “Entity” – A destructive force behaviour when he considers himself Dec 1 Scorched Earth (re) invades the unit, causing dire ramifica- as the ‘Saviour of his people,’ and Dec 8 Beneath the Surface (re) tions for SG-1. Dec 15 Point of No Return (re) believes that his people will worship Dec 22 Tangent (re) him as a God in their new settlement. Dec 29 [pre-empted] Jan 5 Chain Reaction [9:05pm] Stargate: SG-1 (syn) With Voyager and the Hirogen ships The Curse (re) [9:50pm] Air Schedule [week of] trailing close behind, the Doctor and Jan 12 2010 [9pm] Sep 4 Family (re) Serpent’s Venom (re) [9:45pm] Sep 11 Secrets (re) Torres must find a way to disable the Jan 19 Absolute Power [9:05pm] Sep 18 Bane (re) ships and the holograms before they Small Victories (re) [9:50pm] Sep 25 Out of Mind (re) come under attack from the Hirogen, Jan 26 The Light [9pm] Season Three Syndicated Episodes Begin The Other Side (re) [9:45pm] Oct 2 Into the Fire and before Iden can execute his plan. Feb 2 Prodigy [9pm] Oct 9 Seth “Shattered” – An accident throws Divide and Conquer (re) [9:45pm] Oct 16 Fair Game Feb 9 Double Jeopardy [9pm] Oct 23 Legacy Chakotay into a chaotic journey Upgrades (re) [9:45pm] Oct 30 Learning Curve through various periods of Voyager’s Feb 16 Exodus [9pm] Nov 6 Point of View Window of Opportunity (re) [9:45pm] Nov 13 Dead Man Switch history, from before it left the Alpha Feb 23 Entity [9pm] [Season 4 Finale] Nov 20 Rules of Engagement Quadrant to 17 years in the future. Watergate (re) [9:45pm] Nov 27 Forever In A Day With the help of various crew members The Showtime (channel 71) airings Dec 4 Into the Fire (re) Dec 11 Seth (re) from various time periods, he seeks a of the current season are on Fridays at 9 Dec 18 Fair Game (re) means to restore the ship to temporal p.m. The fourth season of original Dec 25 Legacy (re) Jan 1 Learning Curve (re) stability. “Lineage” – When B’Elanna episodes began airing on Showtime in Jan 8 Past and Present and Tom learn she is pregnant, and the July. “Upgrades” – The team members Jan 15 Demons encounter a device that enables them to Jan 22 Point of View (re) Doctor’s test reveal their daughter will Jan 29 Jolinar’s Memories [1 of 2] have dominant Klingon genetic traits, become superhuman. “Crossroads” – Feb 5 The Devil You Know [2 of 2] Torres ruefully reflects on her relation- Teal’c is reunited with a long-lost love, Feb 12 Foothold Feb 19 Pretense ship with her human father and who claim to have discovered a way to Feb 26 Urgo considers having her unborn daughter defeat the Goa’uld. “The First Ones” – Mar 5 A Hundred Days Mar 12 Dead Man Switch (re) genetically modified to eliminate the Help captive by an Unas, Daniel Mar 19 Rules of Engagement (re) Klingon qenes. “Repentence” – Rescu- Jackson must use his skills to survive. Mar 26 Forever in a Day (re) “Watergate” – After discovering a Apr 2 Past and Present (re) ing the victims of a starship accident, Apr 9 Demons (re) the Voyager crew agrees to transport a Stargate, the Russians turn to the SG-1 Apr 16 Shades of Grey group of “death row” criminals and team for help. “Beneath the Surface” – Apr 23 Crystal Skull Apr 30 New Ground their guards to the species’ home SG-1 find themselves working on an May 7 Maternal Instinct planet. When Seven’s Borg nanoprobes alien power station with complete May 14 Nemesis [Season 3 Finale] are used to fix damage to one prisoner, amnesia. Only Teal’c remembers remnants of their past lives, and tries to 32 Andromedan Log #61 help the others recall their memories The third season of syndicated Dec 19 Red, White & Dick defense class. “A Dick Replacement” – Dec 26 Les Liaisons Dickgereuses (re) airings of this popular sci-fi series Jan 2 Dick’ll Take Manhatten [1 & 2] (re) After a psychic tells him he won’t be begins the week of October 2nd. It will Jan 9 Dick Digs [moves to 7pm] around too long, Dick decides to find Jan 16 There’s No Business Like Dick Business continue to air on Saturdays at 8 p.m. Jan 23 Indickscretion (re) Mary a new lover. “Dick’s Ark” – Mary on KXVO (15). SEASON THREE “Into Jan 30 A Dick Replacement suggests that she and Dick spend some the Fire” – Imprisoned on Hathor’s Feb 6 Dick’s Ark time apart, and Sally becomes the Feb 13 You Don’t Know Dick planet, the team has only one hope of The sixth season of this genre weather forecaster at the local tv escape. “Seth” – The SG-1 team pursues sitcom begins on October 24th. New station. “You Don’t Know Dick” – After an ancient Goa’uld Lord posing as the episodes will air Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. everyone convinces Dick that he leader of a religious cult on Earth. “Fair on NBC (channel 6). In the new season, doesn’t know what Mary likes, he tries Game” – The intense rivalry between Tommy goes to college and his replace- to buy concert tickets for the two of Goa’uld System Lords puts the fate of ment slaps Sally with a sexual harass- them. Earth in jeopardy. “Legacy” – The SG-1 ment suit, and Dick mulls familial team becomes infected by Machello’s relations by continuing to cope with the Total Recall 2070 [syn] deadly legacy. “Learning Curve” – news that The Big Giant Head (frequent Air Schedule [week of] Jack’s efforts to bring some fun into the Sep 4 Brightness Falls (re) guest William Shatner) is actually his Sep 11 Restitution (re) life of a young alien could get him father. SEASON SIX “Les Liasons Sep 18 Paranoid (re) court-martialed “Point of View” – Dickgereuses” – Mary is unhappy that Sep 25 Machine Dreams [1] (re) When an alternate version of Earth is Oct 2 Machine Dreams [2] (re) her sister Renata (Megan Mullally) has Oct 9 Self-Inflicted (re) invaded by the Goa’uld, the Stargate come back into her life. She never even Oct 16 Allure (re) crew must appeal to the alternate Oct 23 Nothing Like the Real Thing (re) told Dick that she had a sister. To- Oct 30 Bones Beneath My Skin versions of themselves for help. “Dead gether, the couple decide to pay Renata Nov 6 Eyewitness Man Switch” – A cold-hearted alien Nov 13 Personal Effects back for all her past injustices. The plan Nov 20 Meet My Maker [Final Episode] bounty hunter captures the SG-1 team is to fake a fight, and for Dick to woo Nov 27 Infiltration (re) while they are making a routine and win Renata — and then break her Dec 4 Baby Lottery (re) planetary exploration. “Rules of Dec 11 Burning Desire (re) heart. But no one plans on Dick quickly Dec 18 Bones Beneath My Skin (re) Engagement” – The team travels to a becoming used to Renata’s lavish Dec 25 Eyewitness (re) planet inhabited by young soldiers Jan 1 Personal Effects (re) lifestyle. “Fear and Loathing in Ruther- Jan 8 Meet My Maker (re) involved in deadly war games. “For- ford” – Mistakenly believing that [End of Series Run] ever in a Day” – Daniel Jackson re- Tommy and Alissa have eloped, Dick, This one-season production contin- unites with Sha’Re. “Past and Present” Strudwick and Mary go after them. ued to air repeats for much of the past – The Stargate team visits a planet “Indickscretion” – When Dick and year, finally showing 3 of the final 4 where all of the inhabitants suffer from Mary double-date with Don and Sally, episodes in November 2000. Cancelled amnesia. “Demons” – The Stargate Tom and Harry take to the road. in 1999 from its airings on Showtime, it team wanders into a medieval situa- “Dick’ll Take Manhattan, Part 1” – will soon cease to air in syndication. It tion, where they are mistaken for The Solomons find themselves leading currently airs on Thursdays at 2 a.m. on demons. “Jolinar’s Memories” – In different lives in a “parallel universe” – WGN (channel 14), Saturday nights at order to save her father, Carter must New York City. Part 1 of 2. “Dick’ll 11:30 p.m. on KOLN (channel 11), and tap into the memories of Jolinar. [1 of 2] take Manhattan, Part 2” – In the Saturdays at 3 a.m. and Sundays at 2 “The Devil You Know” – Conclusion. conclusion, lawyer Dick romances a.m. on KETV (channel 7). The SG-1 team must escape from a seedy bar singer Mary, while Sally is prison built to simulate the fires of hell. involved with Don, the Mayor of New continued on page 34… [2 of 2] York City. “Why Dickie Can’t Teach” – [unknown plot]. “B.D.O.C.” – When 3rd Rock From the Sun [NBC] Tommy goes off to college, Dick finds it Air Schedule hard to adjust, but Sally and Harry are Sep 5 The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary (re) [7:00 p.m.] quick to inteview replacement aliens. Sep 5 Dick Strikes Out (re) [7:30 p.m.] “Red, White & Dick” – After they sing Sep 12 The Big Giant Head Returns Again [1 hour] the “Star Spangled Banner” at a football (re) Sep 19 [pre-empted by Olympics] game, the Solomons become enamored Sep 26 [pre-empted by Olympics] of all things American. “Dick Digs” – Oct 3 [pre-empted] Oct 10 [pre-empted] Dick joins Mary on an expedition, but Oct 17 [pre-empted] doesn’t dig archaeology; and renting Season Six Episodes Begin Now Oct 24 Les Liasons Dickgeureses his room strikes the other Solomons as Oct 31 Fear and Loathing in Rutherford a really “inn” thing. “There’s No Nov 7 [pre-empted] Business Like Dick Business” – While Nov 14 Indickscretion Nov 21 Dick’ll Take Manhattan [1] Dick and Sally form an act to entertain Nov 28 Dick’ll Take Manhattan [2] at childrens’ parties, Mary and Harry Dec 5 Why Dickie Can’t Teach get involved in officer Don’s self- Dec 12 B.D.O.C. February 2001 33 The X-Files [FOX] motives. [Part 3 of 3]. “Patience” – dains Scully’s concerns about a poten- Air Schedule Neither man nor beast is the conclusive tial public-health hazard. Sep 3 Closure [Part 2 of 2] (re) culprit in a brutal double homicide that Sep 10 [pre-empted] Sep 17 [pre-empted] forces Doggett to think outside his “old Xena: Warrior Princess [syn] Sep 24 [pre-empted] fashioned” lines. “Roadrunner” – Pre-empted until October 29th Air Schedule [week of] Oct 29 Requiem [Part 1 of 3] (re) Scully’s “simple consultation” on a Sep 4 Looking Death in the Eye (re) [will not air if World Series goes to 7 games] Utah murder gets complicated when it Sep 11 Livia (re) Season Eight Episodes Begin Now Sep 18 Eve (re) Nov 5 Within [part 2 of 3] appears that someone wants to keep Sep 24 Motherhood (re) Nov 12 Without [part 3 of 3] her in an isolated town. “Invocation” – Season Six Episodes Begin Now Oct 2 Coming Home Nov 19 Patience Ten years to the day he disappeared Nov 26 Roadrunner Oct 9 The Haunting of Amphipolis Dec 3 Invocation into thin air, a seven-year-old boy Oct 16 The Heart of Darkness Dec 10 Via Negativa returns to his point of departure — Oct 23 Who’s Gurkhan? Dec 17 Redrum Oct 30 Legacy Dec 24 [pre-empted] surprisingly unaged. “Via Negativa” – Nov 6 The Abyss Dec 31 Hollywood A.D. (re) Two FBI agents and 20 cult members Nov 13 The Rhinegold Jan 7 Surekill Nov 20 The Ring Jan 14 Salvage are killed, allegedly by the cult founder, Nov 27 Return of the Valkyrie Jan 21 Badlaa a convicted murderer who believes that Dec 4 The Haunting of Amphipolis (re) Dec 11 Heart of Darkness (re) Jan 28 Je Souhaite (re) the key to a higher plane of existence is Feb 4 The Gift Dec 18 God Fearing Child (re) Feb 11 Medusa a particular hallucinogen. “Redrum” – Dec 25 Married With Fishsticks (re) Feb 18 Per Manum Justice is at the core of an off-beat Jan 1 Succession (re) Feb 25 This is Not Happening [Part 1 of 3] Jan 8 Coming Home (re) Mar 2001 [pre-empted for entire month for LONE murder tale in which time goes back- Jan 15 Old Ares Had a Farm GUNMEN] wards for Doggett’s prosecutor friend, Jan 22 Dangerous Prey Apr 1 Deadalive [2 of 3] Jan 29 The God You Know Apr 8 [unknown title – new] [3 of 3] as he stands accused of murdering his Feb 5 You Are There Apr 15 [unknown title – new] wife. “Surekill” – The fatal shooting of Feb 12 Path of Vengeance Apr 22 Vienen Feb 19 To Halicon and Back a realtor while alone in a cinder-block Feb 26 Send in the Clones The eighth season begins on Mar 5 Who’s Gurkhan? (re) th jail cell has Doggett hoping motive will November 5 . New episodes will reveal more than method, which seems Mar 12 Legacy (re) continue to air on FOX (channel 9) Mar 19 The Abyss (re) nearly impossible. “Salvage” – What- Mar 26 The Rhinegold (re) Sundays at 8 p.m. Repeats of earlier ever stopped — and split — a moving Apr 2 The Ring (re) season episodes air in general syndica- Apr 9 Return of the Valkyrie (re) car is nowhere to be found (though the Apr 16 The Last of the Centaurs tion on KETV (channel 7) Sundays at driver is) but evidence suggests the Apr 23 Missing Pieces 12:30 a.m. and Sunday nights at 11:30 Apr 30 When Fates Collide obstacle was a man — whose funeral May 7 Last Chance p.m.; also on Sundays at 3 a.m. and 11 was earlier that day. “Badlaa” – [unk] Japan I p.m. on KPTM (channel 9). The X-Files There’s a karmic twist to this murder [unk] Japan II The sixth season of all-new epi- is also stripped twice daily (at 8 p.m. mystery, with a climax that puts Scully sodes began the week of October 2nd. and 11 p.m.) on the FX network (chan- to a real test. The victim in this case is The new episodes of Xena air locally on nel 38), with the 8 p.m. airings repeats an importer-exporter from Minnesota KXVO (channel 15) on Sundays at 11 of the previous day’s 11 p.m. airings. found in a DC hotel room, 20 minutes p.m., and on WGN (14) Saturdays at 4 SEASON EIGHT “Within” – The after checking in following a flight from p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. Repeats of eighth season begins with the FBI India. Despite much blood, the cause of earlier seasons air on the Sci Fi channel forming a task force to find Mulder. But death is unknown. Doggett finds (62) Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. neither Scully (now pregnant) nor fingerprints in the room suggesting a Producers have announced that this Skinner (who witnessed Mulder’s child was there. But what Scully finds season will be the final season for this disapearance) is heading the job. in her autopsy suggests more: some- still-popular show. SEASON SIX Instead, they’re made to feel more like things appears to have exited the man’s “Coming Home” – After Xena and suspects as they meet Special Agent body, which she determines was in Gabrielle awaken from a 25 year sleep, John Doggett (new regular Robert India at the time of death. The ensuing Ares needs Xena’s help to restore his Patrick), who’s been put in charge by investigation brings the agents to godly powers, but he gets more than he newly promoted Deputy Directory Mulder consultant Chuck Burks, whose bargained for when the Furies play a Kersh. Any hope of trust immediately prognosis is that the suspect is virtually trick on him. “The Haunting of dissipates when Kersh warns Scully unstoppable. “The Gift” – A case Amphipolis” – On her trip back to her and Skinner that he wants to hear no Mulder investigated but didn’t report home, Xena finds the town possessed mention of “alien…nonsense” that brings Doggett and Skinner to a and sinister powers awaiting her. “The might embarrass the bureau. But at Pennsylvania town, where they en- Heart of Darkness” – The dark angel least they still have the Lone Gunmen. counter a once-missing woman and a Lucifer tries to make Xena enter Hell [Part 2 of 3]. “Without” – Conclusion. legend about a forest creature. Features and take her “rightful” place. “Who’s Doggett loses Mulder, and Scully loses an appearance by David Duchovny in Gurkhan?” – Gabrielle sets out on a the title “skeptic” with her theory of “flashbacks” to a previous, but unseen, rescue mission to North Africa with the why; Skinner plants a seed of doubt in case. “Medusa” – Something in the gang in tow when she discovers her Doggett regarding Kersh and his Boston subway has eaten away a transit niece has been kidnapped. “Legacy” – 34 Andromedan Log #61 cop’s body tissue, but his Chief dis- Xena and Gabrielle try to help two must battle to the death once more. more likely. warring African tribes unite against They do so again and again in the Silicon…the Final Frontier their Roman enemies. “The Abyss” – A series, which includes such a battle in He long ago resigned his commission group of cannibals capture Virgil and every episode. “Menage-A-Kill” – as commander of the starship U.S.S. Gabrielle. “The Rheingold” – Beowulf, a Barbara Bush comes to stay with the Enterprise and more recently appears Norse warrior, sets out on a quest with Smiths. “Father Knows Death” – When to have lost his gig as pitchman for Xena, after she decides to right a wrong Kennedy’s parents visit, Kreigman tries Priceline.com. from her dark past. “The Ring” – Xena to win the affections of Kennedy’s Now, after playing a beauty contest must battle Grindl, a monster she father. “Death of a Salesman” – host in the recent film Miss Congenial- created when she was an evil warrior, Kreigman gets a job at Kennedy’s ity, actor William Shatner is set to in order to recover a dangerous en- workplace. “Death Dish” – Kennedy preside over the real-life Miss USA chanted ring. “Return of the Valkyrie” must destroy a sports complex created pageant in March, organizers of the – Brunnhilda kidnaps Gabrielle. “Old by Kreigman. “Get a Death” – [un- event said on Tuesday. Ares Had a Farm” – Xena learns that a known plot]. Following extremely poor Shatner, 69, best known as Capt. group of warlords who have learned of ratings, USA cancelled this short-lived James T. Kirk in the 1960s TV drama Ares’ mortality have targeted the series. No plans have been announced to air Star Trek and a string of movie sequels, former god. “Dangerous Prey” – Xena the remaining, unshown episodes. “Death is the latest celebrity named to emcee finds herself matched against the in the Hood” – [unknown plot]. the Miss USA pageant following a six- wicked Prince Morloch, who has been year hosting stint by Dick Clark. hunting Amazons for sport. “The God MediaWatch Before Clark’s 1988-1993 reign as You Know” – The archangel Michael host, veteran game show host Bob asks Xena and Gabrielle to stop the evil continued from page 9… Barker presided over both the Miss – and immortal – Roman emperor USA and Miss Universe pageants for Caligula, who is slaughtering inno- “It’s been a positive sign that the two decades starting in 1967. cents. “You Are There” – A tabloid TV talks have had so little leak out because The Miss USA announcement comes reporter (guest star Michael Hurst) tries it means both sides took them very weeks after reports that online ticket to get the scoop on Xena and her seriously,” a veteran negotiator said. discounter Priceline.com was severing motivation for her quest to obtain the “Keeping the lid also gives negotiators its relationship with Shatner, whose legendary golden apples from Valhalla. more flexibility because they can make quirky delivery and offbeat singing a proposal and then modify it without style have been hallmarks of the The War Next Door [USA] having that position hardened because company’s advertising since its incep- Air Schedule it’s gone public.” tion nearly three years ago. Season One The WGA’s key issues have been Jul 23 [Pilot episode] Priceline.com acknowledged earlier Jul 30 Menage-A-Kill increased residuals for cable, foreign, this month that it had begun airing its Aug 6 Father Knows Death video/DVD, Fox Broadcasting, UPN first commercial that does not feature Aug 13 Death of a Salesman and the WB; Internet jurisdiction; and Aug 20 Death Dish the Canadian-born Shatner but added Aug 27 Get a Death expansion of creative rights such as that he remains under contract through Sep 3 [pre-empted] guaranteed access to sets and premieres Sep 9 Menage-A-Kill (re) [Sat 10:30 p.m.] October of this year. Sep 10 Pilot episode (re) along with elimination of the posses- This year’s Miss USA pageant will be Sep 17 Blood is Thicker Than Death sory credit for film (“A Film By ...”). Sep 24 And Baby Makes Death telecast live March 2 on CBS from Gary, Oct 1 [pre-empted] The companies, represented by the Ind. [Series Cancelled] Alliance of Motion Picture & Television [unk] Death in the Hood Producers, have argued that the WGA Adventure has a Name This new series (originally called must recognize that rising costs have Indiana Jones has left James Bond “Kill, Kill, Kill”) premiered on USA been depressing overall entertainment shaken but not stirred after being voted (channel 27) in July. Until recently, it industry profits. top movie hero of all time by a massive aired Sundays at 8 p.m., with repeats The talks have been closely watched majority in a British magazine poll. Saturdays at 10 p.m. Linden Ashby as a key indicator on dual fronts — Readers of Total Film voted the (Spy Games) stars in a sci-fi sitcom whether the 12,000 WGA members will archaeologist-adventurer, played by about a retired CIA agent who is drawn walk out in three months and whether Harrison Ford, into the top spot while into an endless battle with his old the Screen Actors Guild (news - web smooth-talking Bond came in second. nemesis. [Pilot] – In the opener, former sites) will follow when its film-TV Dr. Jones, a professor of archaeology secret agent Kennedy Smith wants to contract expires July 1. SAG and the who travels the 1930’s world saving enjoy retirement and his simple job as a American Federation of Television & precious artifacts, has appeared in three car salesman. What makes his new life Radio Artists (news - web sites) are films. The first, Raiders of the Lost Ark, even more enjoyable is knowing that he expected to demand many of the same became Paramount Pictures’ highest- has finally defeated his nemesis, an economic gains that the writers are grossing film when released in 1981. “evil supergenius” named Kreigman. seeking, so if the WGA strikes, a SAG/ But when Kreigman returns from the continued on page 39… AFTRA work stoppage would become dead and moves in next door, the two February 2001 35 LiteraryLiterary NewsNews Recent announcements and awards from the field of book and magazine publishing 2000 Hugo Winners Upcoming Novels 2000 HUGOS (for work in 1999) January through March 2001 Novel: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge The following possibly noteworthy books were listed on Novella: “The Winds of Marble Arch” by Connie Willis “Forthcoming Books” lists in Locus, Publisher’s Weekly, and (Asimov’s 10-11/99) several on-line sources for October, November and Decem- Novelette: “1016 to 1” by James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s ber. As usual, publishers’ plans may change at any mo- 6/99) ment. Short Story: “Scherzo with Tyrannosaur” by Michael [Codes: H – Hardcover; P – Mass Market Paperback; T – Trade Paperback; NF – Non-Fiction] Swanwick (Asimov’s 7/99) Non-Fiction: Science Fiction of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History by Frank M. Robinson January 2001 Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois William Ashbless — On Pirates (H) Professional Artist: Michael Whelan Robert Asprin & Linda Evans — The House That Jack Built (P) Dramatic Presentation: Galaxy Quest (Directed by Alfred Bester — redemolished (T) Dean Parisot; Story by David Howard; Screenplay by Ben Bova — Jupiter (H) David Howard and Robert Gordon ) Bruce Boxleitner — Frontier Earth: Searcher (H) Semiprozine: Locus (Charles N. Brown, ed.) Jim Butcher — Fool Moon (P) Fanzine: File 770 (Mike Glyer, ed.) Orson Scott Card — Shadow of the Hegemon (H) Fan Writer: Dave Langford Deborah Chester — The Sword, the Ring and the Chalice: The Chalice (P) Fan Artist: Joe Mayhew Jack Dann, ed. — Dreaming Down Under (H) John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo): Cory Doctorow Jack Dann & Gardenr Dozois, eds. — Genometry (P) L. Warren Douglas — Sacred Pool (H) David Eddings — The Redemption of Althalus (H) Jeffrey Ford — The Beyond (H) 1999 NEBULAS (presented in 2000) Martin H. Greenberg, ed. — Single White Vampire Seeks Same (P) Katherine Kerr — The Fire Dragon (P) Novel: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edgehill — Beyond World’s End (H) Novella: “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang (Starlight 2) Jeff Mariotte — Angel: Hollywood Noir (P) Novelette: “Mars is No Place for Children” by Mary A. Julian May — The Rampart Worlds 3: Sagittarius Whorl (P) Turzillo (SF Age) Karen Michalson — Enemy Glory (H) Short Story: “The Cost of Doing Business” by Leslie What Mike Moscoe — They Also Serve (P) (Amazing Stories) Mel Odum — Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Revenant (P) Script: The Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan Tim Powers — Nightmoves and Other Stories (H) Joel Rosenberg — Not Quite Scaramouche (H) 2000 WORLD FANTASY WINNERS Richard Paul Russo — Ship of Fools (T) S.L. Viehl — Endurance (P) Ben Weaver — Brothers in Arms (H) The recipients of the 2000 World Fantasy Awards were Susan Wright — Star Trek: Dark Passions, Book 1 (P) announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Corpus Susan Wright — Star Trek: Dark Passions, Book 2 (P) Christi, TX on October 29, 2000. February 2001 Novel: Thraxas by Martin Scott Forrest J. Ackerman, ed. — Ackermanuscripts: Non-fiction Fangoria (H/NF) Novella [tie]: “The Transformation of Martin Lake” by Jeff Toni Anzetti — Riders of Leviathan (P) VanderMeer (Palace Corbie 8) and “Sky Eyes” by Laurel Kage Baker — The Graveyard Game (H) Winter (F&SF 3/99) Stephen Baxter — Manifold: Space (H) Short Fiction: “The Chop Girl” by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s Fredric Brown — From These Ashes: The Short SF of Fredric Brown (H) 12/99) Jonathan Carroll — The Wooden Sea (H) Arthur C. Clarke — The Collected Stories of A.C.C. (H) Keith R.A. DeCandido — STNG: Diplomatic Implausibility (P) Continued on page 37… Denny DeMartino — The Astrologer #1: Heart of Stone (P) 36 Andromedan Log #61 Robert Doherty — Area 51: The Grail (P) Doranna Durgin — STNG: Tooth and Claw (P) Anthology: Silver Birch Blood Moon Ellen Datlow & Terry Michael Flynn — Falling Stars (H) Windling, eds. David Gemmell — Sword in the Stone (P) Collection [tie]: Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint and Kurt R.A. Giambastiani — The Year the Cloud Fell (P) Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson Ken Goddard — Outer Perimeter (H) Artist: Jason Van Hollander Edward Gorey, ed. — The Haunted Looking Glass (T) Special Award/Professional: Gordon Van Gelder — editing Katherine Kurtz — St. Patrick’s Gargoyle (H) St. Martin’s and F&SF John Marco — The Saints of the Sword (T) Non-Professional: British Fantasy Society Ashley McConnell — Stargate SG-1: The Morpheus Factor (P) Life Achievement: Marion Zimmer Bradley and Michael L.E. Modesitt, Jr. — The Octagonal Dragon (H) Moorcock Billie Sue Mosiman — Red Moon Rising (H) Andre Norton & Rosemary Edgehill — Leopard in Exile (H) SIDEWISE AWARDS FOR ALTERNATE HIS- Michael Reaves — Star Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter (H) TORY Spider Robinson — By Any Other Name (H) Christopher Rowley — The Shast War (P) 1999 Best Long-Form Alternate History Sean Russell — The One Kingdom (H) Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnes — Point of Dreams (H) Brendan DuBois. Resurrection Day Charles Sheffield — Spheres of Heaven (H) Lisa Smedman — Shadowrun: Tails You Lose (P) 1999 Best Short-Form Alternate History Harry Turtledove — Colonization: Aftershocks (H) Gene Wolfe — Return to the Whorl (H) Alain Bergeron, “The Eighth Register” Translated from the William Tenn — Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Short SF of W.T. (H) French by Howard Scott. First American publication in Harry Turtledove — Colonization: Aftershocks (H) Northern Suns (eds. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant) Charles Wilson — Deep Sleep (H) March 2001 Award for Special Achievement Mark Anthony — The Last Rune, Book 3: The Dark Remains (T) Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye — License Invoked (P) Randall Garrett Patricia Briggs — The Hob’s Bargain (P) For the Lord Darcy stories, including the collection Murder Greg Brodeur & Dave Galanter — STNG: Maximum Warp, Book 1 (P) and Magic, the novel Too Many Magicians, the collection Greg Brodeur & Dave Galanter — STNG: Maximum Warp, Book 2 (P) Lord Darcy Investigates, and “The Spell of War”. Jeanne Cavelos — Babylon 5: Passing of the Technomages: Casting Shadows (P) Storm Constantine — Crown of Silence (H) CLARKE SHORT LIST ANNOUNCED Roxann Dawson & Daniel Graham — Entering Tenebrea, Book One (P) Sara Douglass — The Wayfarer Redemption: BattleAxe (H) Organizers have announced the short list for the 2001 Arthur Raymond E. Feist — Krondor: Tear of the Gods (H) C. Clarke Award for best SF novel published in Great Britain Charles L. Grant — Diablo #1 (P) in 2000, according to the Locus Online Web site. The prize— Nina Kiriki Hoffman — Past the Size of Dreaming (H) named for the venerable SF author—will be presented at a Nancy Holder — Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Book of Fours (H) ceremony at the Science Museum in London on May 19. A Tanya Huff — The Second Summoning (H) complete list of nominees follows. Paul Johnston — Water of Death (H) Stephen King — Dreamcatcher (H) • Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle Mercedes Lackey — The Serpent’s Shadow (H) • Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod Paul Levinson — Borrowed Tides (H) • Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler Jack McDevitt — Deepsix (H) • Perdido Street Station by China Mieville China Miéville — Perdido Street Station (T) • Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds Michael Moorcock — The Dreamthief’s Daughter (H) • Salt by Adam Roberts Linda Nagata — Limit of Vision (H) John Passarella — Angel: Avatar (P) BFSA SHORT LIST ANNOUNCED E. Hoffman Price — Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear, Fictioneers and Others (NF) The British Science Fiction Association announced the short J.K. Rowling — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (H) list for its 2000 annual awards. The awards are presented J.K. Rowling — Quidditch Through the Ages (H) annually by the association, based on a vote of BFSA mem- Fred Saberhagen — The Cassandra Complex (H) bers and members of the British national SF convention, Matthew Woodring Stover — The Blade of Tyshalle (T) Eastercon. Harry Turtledove — Through the Darkness (H) David Weber — Changer of Worlds (H) Continued on page 38… K.D. Wentworth — Stars Over Stars (P) Sean Williams — Evergence: A Dark Imbalance (P) February 2001 37 The awards will be presented April 15 GORDON R. DICKSON DIES Beginning with his publication of “The at the 2001 Eastercon in Leicestershire, Lovers” in the August 1952 issue of Great Britain. A complete list of nomi- Prolific SF author Gordon R. Dickson Startling Stories, Farmer has pioneered nees follows. died Jan 31 at his home in Richfield, the exploration of crucial human Minn. He was 77, according to Todd relationships and dimensions in science Best Novel Davidson, director of the Morris Nilsen fiction and inspired generations of Funeral Chapel in Richfield. writers from Chip Delany to Jonathan • Perdido Street Station by China Lethem, the SFWA said. Farmer joins a Miéville In a career that spanned a half century, prestigious list of Grand Masters, • redRobe by Jon Courtenay Dickson published more than 80 novels including such legends as: Robert A. Grimwood and many short stories, and was Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Clifford D. • Paradox by John Meaney publishing new work as late as last Simak, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz • Revelation Space by Alistair year, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Leiber, Andre Norton, Arthur C. Reynolds Writers of America reported. His best- Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, • Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle known work is the Childe Cycle series of Ray Bradbury, Lester del Rey, Frederik novels, which were intended to present Pohl, Damon Knight, A.E. van Vogt, Best Short Fiction an evolutionary blueprint for Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, Hal humanity’s ultimate expansion Clement and Brian Aldiss. • “Destiny on Tartarus” by Eric Brown throughout the galaxy, according to the • “La Vampiresse” by Tanith Lee Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. SAPPHIRE AWARDS AN- • “Adventures in the Ghost Trade” by Dickson also collaborated frequently NOUNCED Liz Williams with SF author Poul Anderson, with • “Singing Each to Each” by Paul di whom he attended the University of Filippo The Science Fiction Romance newsletter Minnesota, most notably on the Hoka announced the winners of the fifth • “The Suspect Genome” by Peter F. series, about a race of furry aliens who Hamilton annual Sapphire Awards for best mimic human culture, according to the science fiction romance of the year, SFWA. Best Artwork according to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Web site. Dickson, a native of Canada who The Sapphire honors books from any • Physiognomies of Flight by China became a U.S. citizen after immigrating Miéville genre that had a first publication date at age 13, was president of the SFWA between December 1999 and November • Hideaway by Dominic Harman from 1969 to 1971. In the course of his • Afetere’s Eyes by Gerald Gaubert 2000 and that featured both science career, he received a Nebula Award fiction and romance as intrinsic ele- and three Hugo Awards. Last year, he ments. A full list of winners follows. WARCHILD WINS AWARD was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Novel Warner Aspect announced that Warchild author Karin Lowachee is the Dickson is survived by a brother, Craig • First Place: Heir to Govandhara by winner of its Warner Aspect First Dickson; three nephews; and one niece. Saira Ramasastry Novel Contest. Lowachee’s book bested Services will take place Feb. 3 at the • Second Place: The Veiled Web by more than 1,000 manuscripts from all Morris Nilsen Funeral Chapel in Catherine Asaro over the world, the publisher an- Richfield. • Third Place: Star-Crossed by nounced. Marilynn Byerly FARMER NAMED GRAND Tim Powers, winner of the World MASTER Short Fiction Fantasy Award for Last Call and the Philip K. Dick Award for The Anubis • First Place: “Love’s Prisoner” by Gates, made the final selection. The Philip José Farmer will be the new Grand Master for 2001, the highest MaryJanice Davidson contest was open to authors who have • Second Place (tie): “A Roll of the not previously published a novel. honor of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the SFWA Dice” by Catherine Asaro, “Gambit” Warchild, an epic SF tale, is scheduled by Linnea Sinclair and “Ghost of for publication in February 2002. announced on its official Web site. Farmer will receive his Grand Master Love” by Jane Toombs Award at the Nebula Awards banquet in Los Angeles on April 28. All former SFWA presidents and current members of the board of directors voted on the designation.

38 Andromedan Log #61 HUGO BALLOT GOES ONLINE $75,000 when it is auctioned at a sale of MediaWatch Bond memorabilia at Christie’s in The nominating ballot for this year’s continued from page 35… London on February 14, the paper said. Hugo Awards has been posted to the Oh, Heck…007 Take Three www.netaxs.com/ official Web site < The magazine put Jones’ success SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Reuters) - ~phil2001 > of the Millennium down to his “boys’ own hero” qualities. Movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Philcon, the 2001 World Science Fiction Ford makes two appearances in the Inc. has struck a licensing deal to air 13 Convention to be held in Philadelphia poll, also securing the number six spot of its classic James Bond movies on the Aug. 30-Sept. 3. Members of Philcon for his role as Han Solo in the Star ABC television network through Sept. and members of Chicon VI—the 2000 Wars trilogy. 2002, the studio said on Wednesday. World Science Fiction Convention— Russell Crowe’s muscle-bound Sources who knew of the deal put its may nominate up to five works or Maximus from last year’s box office value at $25 million, but a studio individuals in each category. smash Gladiator came in third, fol- spokeswoman declined to comment. lowed by Bruce Willis’ John McClane The movies range from 1960s hits like Members may also nominate works or from the Die Hard films. Goldfinger and Thunderball up to individuals to receive Retro Hugo Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney 1983’s Octopussy and will appear on Awards for the year 1950. The Hugo Weaver in the Alien films, was the only ABC as part of the network’s Sunday Award, also known as the Science woman character to feature in the top Night Movie series. Fiction Achievement Award, is given 10, securing the number five spot. Hairy Toys annually by the World Science Fiction HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Twentieth Society and is named in honor of Hugo 007 Take One Century Fox hopes its big summer Gernsback, the father of magazine STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Actor Roger picture Planet of the Apes will generate science fiction. Moore did on Saturday in real life what he had done so often when playing his a lot of monkey business in the mer- PHILIP K. DICK NOMINEES most famous character, British secret chandising world. service agent James Bond — he walked Together with toy manufacturer ANNOUNCED away unperturbed from a car crash. Hasbro and specialty marketer Ap- Moore, 73, and his Swedish partner plause, the studio has unveiled a major The judges of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Christina Tholstrup were being driven marketing push for the Tim Burton Award and the Philadelphia SF Society from Gothenburg airport in southwest- epic. announced the six works that make up ern Sweden to a television studio when The program, which will be launched the final ballot for the award, which another car crashed into theirs, the at New York’s Intl. Toy Fair (Feb. 11- will be presented April 13 at Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet reported 15), is expected to generate revenues for Norwescon 24 in Seattle. The Philip K. Monday. the studio along the lines of those for Dick Award honors a distinguished Moore and Tholstrup avoided serious other Fox event titles such as Indepen- science fiction book published for the injury thanks to protective airbags. dence Day or X-Men. first time in the United States as a Although he complained of pain in the Hasbro will unveil a line of action paperback original. ribs, Moore refused to see a doctor or figures and collectible toys at the Toy cancel his appearance two hours later Fair, and will ship them to retailers just The award is sponsored by the Phila- on a Swedish television show, the before the film’s July release. delphia Science Fiction Society, and the newspaper said. Dark Horse Comics will publish Planet comic books and graphic novels, award ceremony is sponsored by the 007 Take Two NorthWest Science Fiction Society. The while Buster Brown will produce complete list of nominees follows. LONDON (Reuters) - The white bikini footwear. In addition to traditional that left James Bond shaken and stirred products such as lunch boxes, posters, • Call from a Distant Shore by Stephen in one of the most memorable scenes knit caps, trading cards, T-shirts and L. Burns from the British spy film series has backpacks, the Planet line will also • Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson been put up for sale. include dioramas, inflatable furniture, • Only Forward by Michael Marshall Swiss-born actress Ursula Andress scooters and scooter heads, underwear, Smith shot to stardom when she emerged clocks and shower caps. • Broken Time by Maggy Thomas from the sea wearing the white cotton The picture, which began shooting • Evolution’s Darling by Scott bikini in the 1962 movie Dr No, the first Nov. 6, is expected to wrap in April. Westerfeld 007 film. Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter • The Bridge by Janine Ellen Young “This bikini made me into a success,” and Michael Clarke Duncan star. Andress, now 64, said. The actress decided to sell the two- piece after she discovered it in the attic at her home, the Daily Telegraph reported on Friday. The bikini is expected to fetch up to February 2001 39 HHH HHHHH — Good — Excellent HH HHHH — Very Good — Fair Reviews H — Poor Opinions expressed within these reviews are the opinions of the individual reviewer, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the members of Star Base Andromeda, the staff of The Andromedan Log, or the other reviewers represented in these pages.

The reviews this issue are, admittedly, a little dated. They were assembled for various versions of the Log which never saw print over the past few months. You can help remedy this in upcoming issues by submitting your own brand-spanking new (and fresh) reviews of SF/Fantasy/Horror/Action-Adventure titles on TV, in the movies, in books or comics, or in any other medium which SBA members might fight of interest. The only formatting request is that you wrap up your review with a H to HHHHH score (or a “bomb” if you really want to warn us of something to avoid!). We’ll see you all back here next time with a slate of up-to-date reviews. In the meantime, please enjoy these recent-and-still-worthwhile gems…

during the series’ first season, as becomes increasily suspicious and with evidenced by the still somewhat Giles’ help she begins to snoop around tentative relationships between the and research the carnival’s background. characters, and the lack of Angel as a What she discovers is that the carnies major force in the plots. Halloween may be a pack of “skinwalkers” – Rain is set during Halloween, and individuals who’ve learned from the features the ancient force Samhain Native Americans the skills necessary coming to life through an animated to literally “become” an animal merely scarecrow who has soaked up an evil by wearing its pelt and casting a spell. rain on All Hallow’s Eve. First Buffy, That wouldn’t be so bad, except the then Giles, Willow and Xander end up pack plans to revive their long-dead doing battle with a graveyard full of patriarch, currently buried in the reanimated zombies (including Princi- Sunnydale cemetary, with a bloody Buffy the Vampire Slayer pal Flutie!). Then, they became trapped sacrifice of young innocents – including #2 – Halloween Rain in a pumpkin field with the demonic Willow and Xander. Once again, this by Christopher Golden and Nancy Samhain, who merely has to kill them book was well-written, with sharply- Holder before morning in order to be free to defined characters and a healthy dose Archway Paperbacks, 1997, $3.99 roam the world. This novel was filled of Native American mysticism. On the #3 – Coyote Moon with very witty dialogue, believable other hand, the story was very simple by John Vornholt and well-described action sequences, and straightforward, and the dialogue Archway Paperbacks, 1998, $3.99 and a well-researched occult back- wasn’t quite as zippy as in the earlier #4 – Night of the Living Rerun ground. The sequences in the grave- novel. This has been a problem with by Arthur Byron Cover yard as the various characters are many of the other media tie-ins Archway Paperbacks, 1998, $4.50 forced to battle the animated corpses Vornholt has written, including those were grim yet humorous at the same for Star Trek and Babylon 5. Coyote The second, third and fourth novels time. Author Christopher Golden has Moon is worth reading for the true in the Buffy paperback series for written several novels involving the X- Buffy fan, but doesn’t measure up to “young adults” were released in Men comic-book characters for Marvel the quality of Halloween Rain. November 1997, and January and Publishing, and proves he has an adept I was also not as pleased with February 1998, and are the first “origi- grasp of the Buffy characters here. I Night of the Living Rerun, by Arthur nal” novels in the series — volume #1 look forward to seeing more novels by Byron Cover, the last of the first batch being a novelization of the 2-hour series him in this series. of Buffy novels. Despite an appearance pilot. The reading audience for these Coyote Moon is not quite as good by The Master, the book is a mish-mash early books in the Buffy novel series is as Halloween Rain, but it’s still a fun of unfulfilled ideas and attempts at very clearly a young adult crowd – book. The plot involves the arrival of a witty dialogue that simply fall short. there’s not quite as much depth to the traveling carnival in Sunnydale during The plot involves the Master’s plans to plots, dialogue and descriptive text as a school break, when all the local kids mystically replay the events surround- you’d expect from books aimed at a are looking for a way to kill time. The ing his originally being trapped be- fully adult audience. carnival’s arrival coincides with the neath the Hellmouth, in the hopes of However, I’m pleased to say that appearance of a roaming back of wild preventing this event from ever having both Halloween Rain and Coyote coyotes who are terrorizing occured. Buffy, Willow, Xander and Moon were still enjoyable reads, and I Sunnydale’s streets by night. When Giles all suffer personality transplants think most fans of Buffydom will get a Xander and Willow strike up unusually as they are inhabited by the spirits of kick out of them. Both novels are set friendly relationships with two ex- individuals key to the events of the tremely good-looking carnies, Buffy Master’s entrapment. The descriptions 40 Andromedan Log #61 were muddied, the events unclear, and The movie starts with enough Blooded (released in August 98 by frankly I didn’t end up caring what humor. A lighthouse keeper and a Golden and Holder) reveals a com- happened. Not to mention the fact that Japanese inn’s patrons having their fortable familiarity with the charac- the book was released nearly an entire meal interrupted. After that, two teams ters and insight into their mindsets year afte the Master was destroyed on race to follow the Big G, one to study, that was not present in Halloween the TV series, making it seem extremely the other to destroy. Japan faces an Rain. This novel (the first not to be dated the moment it was released. The unlikely challenge from an awakening released in a numbered sequence), book’s only redeeming factors are some spaceship threatening the internet of its features the appearance in Sunnydale good action scenes and that the charac- computers, and a morphed up creature of a travelling cultural exhibit from ters remained “in character” through- called Orga. With a new attitude of kick Japan, including an antique sword out the stories. This one’s only for fans butt along with a new look, Godzilla is containing the imprisoned souls of who have to read every single book in read to stomp Tokyo with his latest foe Chirayoju, an ancient Chinese vam- the series. and defend Japan from the menace. pire, and Sanno, the Japanese warrior All in all, I recommend all three of Several sequences of t he railyard who sacrificed himself to halt these novels as enjoyable, light enter- and attacking the electric wires are a tip Chirayoju’s earlier reign of terror. In tainment. Halloween Moon captures of the hat to Inshiro Honda’s black and the course of the novel’s events, both the characters, their interaction and white classic (1954 Japan, 1956 Willow and Xander and possessed by dialogue the best, and I give it HHHH. America). Only jarring note is the the spirits of the ancient foes and Coyote Moon has an interesting idea, interplay between the Japanese and proceed to hunt each other, culminat- and uses an unusual mystical plot their cultural mood. The movie was ing in a final battle also involving element, but on the whole I can only worth paying the full admission price. both Angel and Buffy. The book is give it HH. Similarly, I can only give Out of a possible five stars Godzilla told in alternating segments of “real- Night of the Living Rerun HH as well. 2000 rates HHHHH. time” and “flash-back” and is a — Scott Clark — Floyd Orr wonderful read. The dialogue has never been sharper, and Golden and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Holder delve into Chinese and Blooded Japanese mythology with interesting results. New, original supporting by Christopher Golden and Nancy characters are introduced in the Holder background of this novel, but detract Pocket Books, 1998, $4.50 not in the slightest from all of the Child of the Hunt Buffy regulars getting their fair share by Christopher Golden and Nancy of “screen time”. The action scenes Holder were great, and the plot exposition Pocket Books, 1998, $5.99 was handled well. The only draw- Return to Chaos backs to this novel, released during by Craig Shaw Gardner the series second season, were that it Pocket Books, 1998, $5.99 still felt like a first season story, based Godzilla 2000 on the character relationships. And — the biggest drawback of all — this is Hey, it’s hard to keep a good the first of several Buffy novels from monster down, especially this forty- Golden & Holder to have rushed its something resident of Toho studios. In ending. It felt like a Star Trek the Next his first wide release in fifteen years Generation episode, where you’ve got (Godzilla 1985, with Raymond Burr), 90% of a really good story going, and he rises to the occasion. When I went to in the last 5 minutes realize that you see this latest outing, I realized this have to wrap things up or you’re wasn’t your father’s “Godzilla”. Gone going to run overtime. The rapid, are the dog-like head and three rows of jarring ending notwithstanding, I still dorsal fins on the back. Also gone is his found Blooded to be a very good novel, as media tie-ins go, and will slow, lumbering style of movement. HHHH Instead, he possesses a sleeker, reptilian give it . Definitely worth head and fins to make a punker jealous. The second batch of Buffy novels, taking a look at, even for non-hard- He also moves like an Olympian. The from Pocket Books main imprint this core Buffy fans. overall effects are several notches above time, aims for a slightly more mature October ‘98 saw the release of the standard fare of his previous readership than merely teenagers, and Child of the Hunt, also by Golden and outings (of the kiddie matinee mate- is (in general) an improvement over the Holder, another smashing entry in the rial). earlier releases. Despite the charm and Buffy print mythos. A travelling zippy dialogue of the first few books, February 2001 41 Renaissance Faire visits Sunnydale, and Three quarters of the way through this readers, and I give it a mere HH. It’s Buffy and her friends are enjoyably novel, I’d have given it five stars. really only worth one, but there are just caught up in the spirit of the entertain- However, the sudden ending alone is enough fun individual scenes to push it ment, except for the abuses heaped enough to knock this down from 5 to up to two. Read at your own risk. upon the hapless lad who performs the HHHH. However I still highly recom- — Scott Clark role of court jester to the heartless King. mend Child of the Hunt, even to just Meanwhile, late at night, creatures casual Buffy fans! Titan A.E. known as dark fairies are roaming Craig Shaw Gardner’s Return to Sunnydale’s streets…creatures with a Chaos was the December ‘98 entry in Titan A.E. is the second animated taste for living flesh. But the dark fairie the Buffy novel series, and was a feature from Twentieth Century Fox, are only the beginning of Buffy’s serious comedown from the quality of and is under the direction of Don Bluth. supernatural concerns — they are the Golden and Holder’s work. The plot in It deals with the story about the quest harbingers of the Wild Hunt, the a nutshell: four representatives from an of a space vehicle named Titan. It picks mythic ride on which the evil Erl King ancient sect of druids have arrived in up fifteen years after an interplanetary culls the weak and powerless from Sunnydale to conduct a series of spells war in which Earth was destroyed and humanity. As Sunnydale residents which will hopefully seal the survivors of the human race live in begin to disappear during several Hellmouth and bring about a new “drift colonies” named after cities of the consecutive nights of the Wild Hunt, world order. Meanwhile, a vampiric lost world. Buffy, Giles and the gang frantically ally of the druids is marshalling his A mixed group of six (three hu- research ways to combat this ancient forces to take over Sunnydale whether mans and three aliens) began a search mythologic force of nature, while still the druids succeed or not. As Buffy for Titan with another race of beings, trying to find a link between the Hunt tries to figure out the druids’ motives hoping to find the same to destroy it. and the visiting Ren Faire. The surpris- and methods, and struggles with an The groups are not on friendly terms ing plot twists added to enjoyment of attraction to one of the youthful priests, with one another, while our heroes are the novel. The dialogue and pacing in a vengeful teen vampire takes out the following clues embedded in the hand this story were terrific, as was the large frustrations from her life on Cordelia, of one of their own. Titan is the best cast of new guest and supporting who had always treated her badly in hope of the survivors of Earth. characters, particularly Roland, the the past. The characterizations were Animation was not on the level of court jester. The threat posed by the Erl awful in this novel, and the dialogue the Disney Studio. The characters are King to Buffy’s world was well real- was incredibly bland and lifeless. Other not really what one would expect. ized, and the story would have made a than Buffy and Giles, everyone else While the story is simple enough for very good 1 or 2-part episode of the seemed dramatically out of character younger viewers, the plot isn’t too series. Golden and Holder once again and there was very little energy or simplistic for the older members of the show they have a good grasp of the pacing to the story. Despite the incred- audience. characters, both through their verbal ible events that the plot was building On the five-star rating scale, Titan phrasing and their peeks inside the up to, I found myself completely A.E. rates a HHH. It does provide an characters minds. All in all, this was a uninterested in what was transpiring. I entertaining way to kill time. wonderful book, spoiled only by an find I can’t recommend this one to any — Floyd Orr ending that seemed sudden and forced. but the most undemanding of Buffy PERSONALLOGS POLL FEB #6 Your Personal Logs assignment this issue is as follows: It has been 3 years since our last issue of The Andromedan Log. That’s 38 months of good and bad television, movies, books, comic-books, real-life science breakthroughs and personal life changes. Pick the one or two major events that have occurred affecting you as a science fiction, fantasy or horror fan since November 1997. This can be something in your personal life or or something SF-related event. To encourage readers of The Log to respond to this feature, if we can get at least three mailed or e-mailed responses for inclusion by the deadline below, we’ll randomly select one of those who responded to receive an extra month free on their membership! Please keep your responses to 2-3 paragraphs – longer responses may need to be trimmed for space considerations.

Please respond as soon as possible via e-mail at [email protected], or by conventional mail to 7210 Francis St. Lincoln NE 68505-1545. Selected responses will appear in Andromedan Log #63. Final deadline for contri- butions to this Personal Logs entry is March 27th, 2001. The Personal Logs feature is designed to get conversations started and share a little about ourselves with other members of the club — It is especially designed for those SBA members living outside the Lincoln area, or those who don’t regularly attend Lincoln meetings, to take part in club discussions. We heartily encourage all club members to contribute, and are activel seeking subects for future Personal Logs. 42 Andromedan Log #61 aged to attend either or both of these meetings to put in their 2¢ worth. We’ll also be making our selection for the The Andromedan Challenge

Feb '01 next novel or short-story collection in • No more “Millennium” corrections from Arthur C. Clarke! our series in the near future. • The question of whether those tasty Millennios would still The Future of First Fridays be manufactured by General Mills after 2000 is answered! Star Base Andromeda’s traditional monthly potluck gatherings have • Can stop forgetting to write 1999 on checks and start continued, sporadically, during 1999 forgetting to write 2000! and 2000, with several gatherings at the Your Challenge is to come up with your own favorite reason that we’ve now Taurins home(s), one at the Clarks’ new passed into the year 2001. Deadline for contributions: March 27th. house, our annual Frisbee Golf picnic in Rules for The Challenge: Entries must be typewritten or legible if handwritten. Each September ‘99, and a group outing to a club member or reader of The Log is limited to entering The Challenge once each Chinese restaurant. Themes have month, however they may submit up to 3 answers with each entry. Entries should be ranged from Cajun-Creole, Fondue and clearly identified as Andromedan Challenge submissions and mailed to the editor's surface or e-mail address (page 2). At least three different entries must be received in Italian, to standard grill fare, with a order to select a winner. Winning entry receives one free month on their existing side-trip into slow-smoked meats in membership, or one free issue of The Log if not currently an SBA member. October ‘99. Although no “First Friday” Reminder of the last Challenge: List up to three comic books you don't want to see as (the traditional day for this event) was new TV series or movies. Deadline for contributions: February 27th, 2001. planned for January 2001, we hope to return to this regularly scheduled you know of any aspiring writers And Finally… gathering soon. “First Fridays” are open interested in feedback…let them know The “Official Star Base Andromeda only to SBA members, associates or of our plans. Webpage” is another project which has invited guests. If you’re interested in ConCussion slipped by the wayside in the past year. more information, please contact one of We hope to pursue development of this the club officers via the addresses on ConCussion VI will be held this site again in the next few months and page 2, or bring up the subject at one of coming Summer, moving to Lincoln have it up and running by late Spring our public meetings. from Omaha. We hope to have a full report on ConCussion VI and its guests or early summer. In the meantime, try Writers Group to try again? in the next issue of the The Log. In the out and mant since the summer of 1999, but we ConCussion website for more details at . Or e- as271/sail/sba.htm> for two older 2000. Intended as an opportunity for mail the con staff at sites with SBA-related material on aspiring writers both within SBA and . them, created by longtime SBA member the general Lincoln community to get Melissa Sailors. some feedback on their genre work from fellow fans and writers, the Local Author News continued from page 4… Writers Group meetings will be held sive of all, in 1999, was Bob’s triple-play with May cover dates — he had a story approximately every-other month, in each of the May issues of Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Science unless interest demands a more fre- Fiction Age! Several Star Base Andromeda members attended Bob’s book quent schedule. Traditionally, two signings at the new Southpointe Pavilions Barnes & Noble bookstore in April Tuesday meetings are earmarked for 1999 in honor of the release of Dragons of Springplace and the fall of 2000 for Writers Group activities — on the first, Marrow. We also held and official SBA meeting alongside his Marrow signing all contributing writers bring copies of at Nebraska Bookstore. Bob recently sold his series of Sister Alice novellas as a their own recently written short story combined hardback, which will probably see print in 2002. Finally, Bob did a (or a portion of a larger work), which well-attended reading for the Lincoln City Libraries’ John H. Ames Reading are distributed to all interested partici- Series in November 1999 (which was taped, including an interview, for airing pants. On the second week, the works on Community Access and for the library’s video collection). Special thanks to may be read aloud (author’s choice), Robert Reed for the inside information. and will all be discussed by the partici- pants. These Writers Group meetings If you (or someone you know) is a published science fiction or fantasy are held as part of SBA’s regularly author from the region covered by Star Base Andromeda and The Andromedan Log, scheduled Tuesday night meetings, then we want to publicize your work in the pages of this newsletter. Please send after all other Club business has been us news about upcoming book signings, your recent story sales, or the schedule taken care of. We will be contacting the for upcoming appearances of your novels or short stories, and we’ll list them local high schools and the UNL writing here. [Editor’s note: We’re still seeking updated information about Lincoln fantasy author Tom Frye. If you course students to notify them of these know anything about his latest projects, we’d like to update readers of his The Legend of the Lion series on scheduled events, in the hopes of the status of any upcoming volumes. Similarly, if you have any news of the activities of M.S. Murdock or expanding our circle of participants. If Kenneth Flint in Omaha, or Ron Gugat in Hickman, we’d love to include them here!] February 2001 43 MarkMark YourYour SchedulesSchedules…… Upcoming events in the Lincoln area of interest to SBA members and other local genre fans February 2001 March 2001 4 2:00-5:15 pm Star Base Andromeda club meeting1 4 2:00-5:15 pm SBA club meeting1 6 6:30-9:00 pm SBA club meeting 6 6:30-9:00 pm SBA club meeting 7 7:00-10:00 pm Lincoln Fantasy & Science Fiction 7 7:00-10:00 pm LF&SF club meeting club meeting2 11 2:00-5:15 pm SBA club meeting – “Game Week” 11 2:00-5:15 pm SBA club meeting – “Game Week” 3 13 6:30-9:00 pm SBA club meeting – “Book Discussion” 13 6:30-9:00 pm SBA club meeting – “Book Discussion” 14 7:00-10:00 pm LFSF club meeting 4 16-18 WillyCon 2001: A Space Oddity6 14 7:00-10:00 pm LFSF club meeting 18 2:00-5:15 pm SBA club meeting 18 2:00-5:15 pm SBA club meeting 20 6:30-9:00 pm SBA club meeting 20 6:30-9:00 pm SBA club meeting 7:00-8:00 pm B&N Mystery Book club meeting 7:00-8:00 pm Barnes & Noble Mystery Book club 21 7:00-10:00 pm LFSF club meeting meeting5 23-25 Slanted Fedora Con/Kansas City 21 7:00-10:00 pm LFSF club meeting 25 2:00-5:15 pm SBA club meeting “Video Week” 25 2:00-5:15 pm SBA club meeting – “Video Week” 27 6:30-9:00 pm SBA club meeting 27 6:30-9:00 pm SBA club meeting 28 7:00-10:00 pm LFSF club meeting 28 7:00-10:00 pm LFSF club meeting 1 — Star Base Andromeda meetings are held twice weekly at the downtown Bennett Martin Public Library of the store. Or you can just drop in and chat with the club members. (14th & “R” Sts.) on the fourth floor. Sunday afternoons, SBA meets from 2:00 until approximately 5:15. 6 — WillyCon 2001, the third annual convention hosted by the Wayne State College Science Fiction club, Occasionally, Sunday meetings are scheduled as “Video Weeks”, indicating video selections will be will be held the weekend of March 16-18, 2001. See the article on the front page of this issue for more shown. SBA also meets each Tuesday night beginning at 6:30, however we routinely migrate to a details! downtown restaurant around 7:30 to continue Tuesday meetings in a more casual setting. * — The tradition of “First Friday” gatherings for Star Base Andromeda involves a once-a-month potluck 2 — The UNL-based Lincoln Fantasy & Science Fiction club meets Wednesday nights from 7:00 to 10:00 open only to club members and associates. As we go to press, dates have not been selected for either the at the downtown UNL Student Union at 14th & “R” Sts., during the regular school year. Please check the February or March events. Check with the Presidio for updates. kiosks at the Union for specific room on Wednesdays. This organization also has a “gaming” group which * — Time Travelers Anonymous was an Omaha-based fan club for British TV series, including Doctor meets Sundays. Contact LFSF for more information. Representatitives of this organization can be reached Who. We have been unable to track down reliable current information on their schedule, they used to meet at Lincoln’s Comic World specialty store. the third Saturday of each month at the Swanson Branch of the Omaha Public Libraries (90th & Dodge) in 3 — Star Base Andromeda returns in February to dedicated one Sunday meeting per month to games and the downstairs public meeting room. Meeting times were 2:00-5:00, and traditional activities included trivia. Members in attendance at this meeting are encouraged to bring to the meeting a board game or viewing of unusual British videos and sharing of news about British TV shows. We will continue to seek trivia game that would appeal to fellow SF/Fantasy fans. out information on the current status of this club. If you have any new information about this group, or 4 — The members of SBA began a series of book discussions in the fall of ‘99. We continue this on a semi- any other genre-related organization with public meetings in the Lincoln/Omaha area, please send such regular basis with the assigned reading for February 23th being Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This information to the Editor (address/contact info on page 2). Way Comes”. A selection for the March discussion will be made during February meetings. * — Although both the Crossroads Barnes & Noble and the Borders at 72nd & Dodge streets in Omaha had 5 — The Barnes & Noble Mystery Book Club meets the third Tuesday of every month at the Barnes & begun Science Fiction discussion groups in 1998, the latest information from both stores is that neither Noble store at 52nd & “O” St. The book for discussion is posted in advance, in the mystery fiction section group is currently active. If this changes, their meetings will be added to this calendar. STAR BASE ANDROMEDA 7210 Francis St. Lincoln, NE 68505-1545

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