For the ultimate in SG-1 humor, Stargate SG-1: Urgo is the place to go. This season three episode guest starred the comedic genius of Dom Deluise in the role of Urgo. Dom Deluise has been around for decades, and he’s a very funny man. He’s done …

The best line to come out of Stargate SG-1: Pretense, a season three episode, may be the one uttered by Jack O’Neill when he looks back at the new Stargate built by the Tollan. While Daniel was just amazed by the technology, that the Tollan were able to …

Stargate SG-1: Foothold continues a fun third season of the science fiction show with a disarming opening. SG-1 returns, a bit water-beaten from their mission, and heads to the infirmary for the standard post-mission exam. Their innocent chatter gets interrupted, however, when sinister happenings begin to occur. …

In this second episode of this new A&E series, The Beast, the plot thickens in the partnership of Charles Barker and Ellis Dove, as played by Patrick Swayze and Travis Fimmel. The two are FBI agents, but is Barker playing his own game? That’s the question that …

Patrick Swayze returns to episodic television for the first time since his short-lived 1982 series The Renegades, in this A&E TV drama, The Beast. The show airs Thursday nights at 10pm and is then rerun several times throughout the week.
A&E has gone all out in promoting this series, …

Country singer John Rich, of Big and Rich, is doing it again. Over on the CMT channel, the third round of Gone Country has just begun. The idea here is that entertainers, old and young, from all genres of entertainment, be it music or acting, try their …

Stargate SG-1: Prodigy is somewhat of a let down, mainly because Michael Shanks isn’t in it at all. He was given the week off to concentrate on the upcoming episode that he was directing. Actually, this wasn’t originally how it was supposed to be, but it’s how …

As I’ve written in prior reviews for Stargate SG-1, season four was a turnaround, one in which the Jack and Daniel friendship was shoved aside in favor of the Jack and Sam dynamic, limited as it was. Jack and Daniel fans were furious and this episode, The Light, …

Stargate SG-1: Absolute Power is an excellent show, though not a personal favorite. It’s another one of the stories that deals with Abydos remnants and references to Oma DeSala, whom I strongly detest. So, while it’s good, it’s not a favorite.
That said, Michael Shanks gets to utilize those …

In the fourth season of Stargate SG-1, an unusual show was done where time advanced forward to 2010. The Stargate was now public knowledge and disease was a thing of the past. The reason for this change was an alliance with a race called the Aschen. …

Stargate SG-1: Chain Reaction gives us a closer look at General Hammond’s life. Played by Don S. Davis, Hammond is forced into retirement, and it’s up to Jack to get to the root of the decision.
Meanwhile, SG-1 has been dismantled, with Daniel forbidden to go off-world, Teal’c reassigned …

Stargate SG-1: The Serpent’s Venom has one of the best Jack and Daniel moments ever. It’s a silly little bit, but it’s priceless.
With Teal’c away on a mission, Jacob arrives and solicits the team’s help to stop the successful negotiation of a treaty between two of the System …

Season four of Stargate SG-1 continues with an intriguing episode called The Curse. It guest stars a beautiful British actress named Anna-Louise Plowman. For some reason, a good majority of the guest stars, especially the Goa’uld, are British. They say it’s never been intentional, but it …

Stargate SG-1: Tangent is a very nice entry in season four of SG-1. It again divides the team up, but they are all focused on the same goal, and it’s full of angst and drama.
Jack and Teal’c are testing the new X-301 interceptor, which combines both American and …

Stargate SG-1: Point of No Return is an odd episode with some funny moments, but once again, the team is divided, and that’s always a sad thing. This time around, it’s Jack and Teal’c who cover one part of the tale, while Daniel and Sam work together.
Now I …

After a couple of good episodes, we’re back to the world of soap opera in Stargate SG-1: Beneath the Surface. In this episode, the team has had their memories implanted with new histories. They believe their planet has suffered an ice age, and that they are working …

Stargate SG-1: Scorched Earth is another winner in the fourth season of this science fiction series. Here, SG-1 has recently finished transplanting the Enkarans to a new home world. As they celebrate with a feast, an Enkaran from a distant settlement intrudes, pleading for help.
The reason is …

Stargate SG-1: Entity is a decent fourth season entry for the series. Here, Sam Carter gets taken over by an entity and refuses to leave her body, that is until Jack threatens the entity. Then the entity leaves the body, and Sam is declared brain dead, kept …

Stargate SG-1: Revelations is a show I just can’t stomach much. It’s the last episode of season five and the first without Daniel Jackson, unless you count the mystical look at the end in an unspoken ‘oh, Daniel’s here’ type of moment.
Basically, in Stargate SG-1: Revelations, SG-1 learns …

Stargate SG-1: Meridian is a show that changed the course of the series, and it’s one that frankly, I don’t watch. I saw it the first time and a couple of times after, and I’ve seen scattered scenes here and there, but otherwise, I refuse to watch it …

Stargate SG-1: The Sentinel has SG-1 split as they try and fix a problem that was caused by another team’s visit.
Throughout the episode, Jack is in the ‘city’, appearing in scenes with Henry Gibson, famous from the Laugh-In television series. Gibson does nothing for me here, not that …

As season five of Stargate SG-1 winds down, it offers up what is actually a very good episode in Menace, except for a couple of mitigating factors and one really big episode omission.
Michael Shanks who played Daniel Jackson had decided to leave the show due to a number of …

Stargate SG-1: The Warrior is a Jaffa centered storyline. Once again, Teal’c gets caught up in something that isn’t exactly what it seems. He tends to leap before he looks much of the time. Here, he practically turns his back on Jack and SG-1 because of …

Another crazy idea, but an entertaining episode is how I’d describe Stargate SG-1: Fail Safe from season five. The team is together for the entire episode, and that’s something I treasure.
Basically, Stargate SG-1: Fail Safe is the movie Armageddon. SG-1 works fast to try and deflect an …

Stargate SG-1: Last Stand concludes the action begun the week before in the episode entitled Summit.
Here Daniel, or Pajama Boy as many have teased based on the outfit he wore, has gone undercover at a System Lord summit with the unrealistic goal of releasing a toxin into the air …

As season five of Stargate SG-1 continues, we get the first of a two-episode story. This first part is called Summit. Though we go off-world, the team is again split up, and quite honestly, I just don’t like this show much.
Basically, Daniel is enlisted by Jacob and …

I do enjoy Stargate SG-1: 48 Hours, but it’s one more Earth-based story, and it’s yet another one where the team is divided up. One misses the vintage years when SG-1 went exploring, and they were truly a team.
Here, Teal’c finally gets his revenge. Let’s all cheer! …

Proving Ground is a nice little episode of the fifth season of Stargate SG-1. It’s yet another show focused on Earth (one must wonder how much economics played in all of these Earth-bound episodes) where four potential SGC candidates are put through a rigorous training exercise, the four …

In celebration of their one-hundredth episode, the powers that be at Stargate SG-1 produced a show that was a tribute to the people who put the show together, week after week. There are a host of cameos by the crew and background people who work on the show. …

Stargate SG-1: Desperate Measures has its moments, but it’s another story that is Earth-based and not really a big favorite.
Among the pluses is another appearance by Tom McBeath as Harry Maybourne, and that means some good Jack and Harry craziness. The two characters have a crazy connection and …

In season 4 of Stargate SG-1, there was an episode called 2010 that I just didn’t like very much, reason being everyone was just so depressed with their lives. Season five gives us the precursor to that episode, though, and it’s called 2001. It’s far better and …

Stargate SG-1: Between Two Fires is the final time we see the Tollan in an episode of SG-1. The team arrives on Tollana to attend a funeral and are surprised when asked to return to discuss a possible exchange of technology. This is unheard of from the …

The early season five episodes of Stargate SG-1 had so many neat episodes, including this one called The Tomb. It’s a keeper from the get-go, with Jack being his usual impatient self while Daniel tries to decipher the way into a ziggurat.
Stargate SG-1: The Tomb has SG-1 teamed …

Stargate SG-1: Beast of Burden is one of my favorite season five episodes of this series. It’s just full of good stuff.
In this episode. the Unas named Chaka is kidnapped by men from another planet. Feeling responsible, Daniel convinces his teammates and General Hammond to go on …

The latest episode of The Beast had a surprising guest star. Victoria Tennant, remembered for The Winds of War and her marriage to Steve Martin, appears in Infected, the mother of a boy supposedly infected with some deadly disease. The infectors are demanding she give them a …

Once a year, Speed TV brings us the Bud Shootout Selection Show. This year the show was a whopping 90-minutes long, the extended coverage necessitated by the increased number of drivers in this year’s Bud Shootout.
The show was hosted by Steve Byrnes and Kenny Wallace. Byrnes is …

Stargate SG-1: Rite of Passage from the fifth season brings back the character of Cassandra, the alien child from season one’s Singularity, who was adopted by Doctor Janet Fraiser. While I love seeing Cassandra in a new episode, the original actress was unavailable and they chose to recast …

For me, Stargate SG-1: Red Sky shows how far Jack has progressed. In season four, there was a lot of criticism about how the Jack and Daniel friendship had been shoved to the side, and also how the show was veering away from exploration and turning into a …

Stargate SG-1: The Fifth Man is a fairly entertaining entry for the fifth season of this science fiction series.
John DeLancie returns again as Colonel Frank Simmons, a man on his own agenda. DeLancie is a wonderful actor, who can be delightfully evil and wonderfully playful. He’s very …

Stargate SG-1: Ascension is a bit of a different episode in that we get to see some SG-1 at home, specifically Amanda Tapping’s character of Sam. What’s really nice about this is that Tapping wanted to salute her fans, who had sent her many gifts over the past …

Stargate SG-1: Threshold is focused on trying to undo the brainwashing that Apophis had done on Teal’c, who now believes the Goa’uld is a god and that he is his First Prime. To try and get Teal’c back mentally, Bra’tac returns to the SGC to proceed with a …

Season 5 of Stargate SG-1 blasts its way onto the screen in a show called Enemies. It’s a good show well worth the hour watch.
Stargate SG-1: Enemies picks up where Season 4’s cliffhanger, Exodus, ended. One of the early scenes is a poignant conversation between Jack and …

The fourth season of Stargate SG-1 comes to an end with the cliffhanger episode entitled Exodus. There is a lot right about Exodus, and it makes for a thrilling view, even if not every bit of it thrills me personally.
The less than thrilling part for me is the …

Stargate SG-1: Double Jeopardy was Michael Shanks’ debut as a director. It was a daunting task that pretty much took care of any desires he had to direct more. Shanks likes to understand all aspects of show business, which is why he’s dabbled in writing an SG-1 …

Confessions of a Teen Idol - Episode 6 continued to examine the possible comebacks of one-time teen idols, including Adrian Zmed, Jeremy Jackson, Eric Neis, and Billy Hufsey. This time, the guys had to go up against the gatekeepers, a group of Hollywood casting directors and such, and …

Happy days are just about here again! Full Circle is the final episode of season six of Stargate SG-1, and Michael Shanks returns as Daniel Jackson. The opening scene is sheer heaven. Daniel talks to Jack in an elevator, and it’s just like old times. …

This sixth season episode of Stargate SG-1 does nothing for me at all. It’s one of the reasons I just groan through most of the shows. This one is called Prophecy, and it focuses on Jonas Quinn, which may be why I just don’t like it.
The show ties …

The Prometheus finally goes on her shakedown cruise in Stargate SG-1: Memento. There are actually elements of this season six episode that I like, notably John Novak as Colonel William Ronson, the commander of the Prometheus. He and Jack clash in the opening scenes, and it’s pretty …

Stargate SG-1: The Changeling is the second really good episode of the sixth season of SG-1, and for good reason — Michael Shanks guest stars. Of course, by now, it was pretty obvious the man would be back as a regular. It was just a matter of time.
This …

Stargate SG-1: Forsaken introduces the Hebridan race to the Tau’ri, though at first it’s believed they are the enemy.
SG-1 finds a spacecraft stranded on a planet. They agree to help the people who claim to own it get the ship up and running again. Essentially, the team …