ORBzine - UK Television Roundup

First Week, August

The Visitor [Season 1, Episode 1] Pilot

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Star Trek: The Original Series [Season 1, Episode 5] The Naked Time

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Buffy [Season 3, Episode 15] Consequences

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

3rd Rock From The Sun

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Sliders [Season 2, Episode 11] The Young And the Restless

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 3, Episode 8] Meridian

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Tales from the Dark Side

A Warlock uses Black Magicks in an attempt to win the lottery. However, a bimbo hairdesser ( Carol Kane ) wins it instead. The Warlock tries to steal it back, but bites off more than he can chew.

X-Files [Season 6]

[Episode 20] The Unnatural [aka In the Big Inning]
This is reviewed in the special supplement!

[Episode 19] Three of a Kind
This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Babylon 5: Crusade [Season 1, Episode 6] Ruling from the Tomb

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Codename: Eternity - [Season 1, Episode 12] All Your Dreams

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Farscape [Season 2, Episode 7] Home On The Remains

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

Stargate SG-1 [Season 1, Episode 14] Hathor

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Second Week, August

The Visitor [Season 1, Episode 2] Fear of Flying

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Star Trek: The Original Series [Season 1, Episode 2] Charlie X

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Buffy [Season 3, Episode 16] Doppelgangerland

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Sliders [Season 2, Episode 12] Invasion

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 3, Episode 9] Defiant

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

X-Files [Season 6, Episode 21] Field Trip

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

X-Files [Season 6, Episode 22] Biogenesis

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Star Trek: Voyager [Season 5, Episode 22] Someone to Watch Over Me

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Babylon 5: Crusade [Season 1, Episode 7] The Rules of the Game

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Codename: Eternity [Season 1, Episode 13] 24 Hours

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Farscape [Season 2, Episode 8] Dream A Little Dream

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

Stargate SG-1 [Season 1] Tin Man

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Third Week, August

The Visitor [Season 1, Episode 3] The Devil's Rainbow

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Xena [Season 5, Episode 20] Livia

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Buffy [Season 3, Episode 17] Enemies

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

3rd Rock From The Sun

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Sliders [Season 2, Episode 13] As Time Goes By

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Star Trek: Deep Space 9 [Season 3, Episode 10] Fascination

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Charmed [Season 1]

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Star Trek: Voyager [Season 5, Episode 23] 11.59

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Babylon 5: Crusade [Season 1, Episode 8] Appearances and Other Deceits

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Codename: Eternity [Season 1, Episode 14] Deep Down

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Mortal Kombat: Conquest [Season 1, Episode 1-2] Warrior Eternal

Yes, after two predictable films (based on a bloody VIDEO GAME!) we now get a TV show.

The show is reviewed in depth in this month's TV reviews page.

Fourth Week, August

The Visitor [Season 1, Episode 4] Dreams

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Buffy [Season 3, Episode 18] Earshot

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Charmed [Season 1]

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Stingray [Season 1, Episode 1] Stingray

Shot in something called Supermarionation, which is a fancy way of saying that it is a puppet show! This 1962 adventure features Troy Tempest (as himself), sent to discover who or what is destroying oil-drilling exploration rigs. He discovers a secret race of air-breathing humanoids who live underwater.

Torchy the Battery Boy

Four Feather Falls [puppet western, straight out of Toy Story 2]

Supercar [with Derek Meddings, who later did SPFX on the Bond films]

Fireball XL5

Stingray

Thunderbirds [1962 - influenced 1970s Disaster movies]

Captain Scarlet - the villains want revenge for destruction of their city, but are opposed by an unkillable hero. In a lead-up to Anderson's next series, babes fly Interceptors

UFO [Anderson's first live-action series]

Space 1999 [originally intended as Season 2 of UFO]

Terrahawks

Space Precinct [1995]

Future plans:

New series of Captain Scarlet

New series of Thunderbirds

secrets of making the series:

the road moves, not the vehicle

the puppets could not walk, so remained seating whenever possible

voice-boxes in the puppets' heads (and later chests)

explosion in space: hang explosive charge from black roof, position camera below

Star Trek: Voyager [Season 5, Episode 24] Relativity

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Codename: Eternity [Season 1, Episode 15] Final Countdown

This is reviewed in the special supplement!

Mortal Kombat: [Season 1, Episode 3] Cold Reality

Mortal Kombat: [Season 1, Episode 4] Immortal Kombat

This is reviewed in the special supplement!