ORBzine - UK TV Roundup February 1999

Tales From The Crypt [Season 2, Episode 6] The Thing From The Grave

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

Babylon 5 [Season 5, finale]
End of an era - tear-jerking. OTOH, the last few eps were depressing, and nothing really happened in them. Here is hoping Crusade will get here soon!

Seaquest DSV [Season 2, Episode 21-2] [saturday & sunday, ITV]
Season 2 came to a fiery double-episode conclusion.
Season 3 arrived the next week.

Highlander [Season 2, Episode 7] Return of Amanda Highlander [Season 2, Episode 8] Revenge of the Sword
Shown [wednesday & thursday, ITV]

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Star Trek: DS9 [season 1, Episode 4] Past Prologue
Shown [thursday, BBC2]

This series seems to be in the middle of a repeat too. This reviewer switched on the television to discover Bashir meeting Garak for the very first time - something I missed the first time it was shown, about five years ago.

27th Jan [Wednesday]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer [Season 1] was dumped - for Ice Skating :(

3rd Feb [wednesday]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer [Season 1] We get to see the episode delayed from last week. Hey, we waited two and a half years for it, so what is another week?

9th Feb [tuesday]

New trailer is shown; Every generation has its idiot Yes, the new series of Red Dwarf is due out this month! And Arnie Rimmer has risen from the grave!!!

10th Feb [wednesday]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer [Season 1] is bumped again - this time for SNOOKER! :(

11th Feb [thursday]

Hard-hitting prison drama Oz, starring Ernie Hudson ( Ghostbusters) and Lee Tergeson (Chet in the Weird Science TV show) reached the end of its run last week. It has been replaced by a new show called Prey , which has no notable stars except Larry Drake ( Dark Man ).

15th Feb [Monday]

Red Dwarf [Season 2, finale] These reruns are digitally enhanced with CGI to replace the original scenes with the plastic models. Personally, this reviewer has always felt the models to have a certain charm, a certain Britishness. The BBC spent as much on the SPFX budget of 1 Red Dwarf episode as they did on an entire season of Dr Who, and now all that has been thrown away and replaced with fancy CGI. Which begs the question - will Dr Who be re-released with CGI SPFX?

16th Feb 1999 [Tuesday]

Highlander [Season 2, Episode 9] Run For Your Life

This is reviewed in our special supplement!

17th Feb 1999 [Wednesday]

Star Trek: TNG [Season 5, Episode 19] The First Duty

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer [Season 1, Episode 3] The Witch

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Highlander [Season 2, Episode 10] An Epitaph For Tommy

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18th Feb [Thursday]

ST: DS9 [Season 1] was another repeat - followed by Quantum Leap [Pilot] . All these repeats make this reviewer feel old - I mean, I remember watching that for the first time, ten years ago!

The only thing that really stands out is Al's abortive catch-phrase, Ain't that a kick in the butt? - and there is really nothing more to be said!

Now ...

Red Dwarf [Season 8, Episode 1] Back in the Red (1)

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Prey [Season 1, Episode 2] Discovery

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19th Feb [Friday]

The same week as he played a Seacouver Immortal, Johnathan Banks turns up on Seaquest DSV [Season 1, Episode 17] ! Whale Song

20th Feb [Saturday]

Star Trek: VGR [Season 4, Episode 8] Year of Hell, Part I

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This weekend there was a special Censored theme to Channel 4, which they used as an excuse to screen a couple of 1980s Video Nasties.

Evil Dead 2 and Zombie Flesh Eaters are both reviewed in the TV Movies section.