ORBzine - UK TV Roundup July 1999
22nd June 1999 [Tuesday]
The Visitor [Season 1, Episode 2]
Fear of Flying
This show was created by Devlin & Emmerich ( Stargate, ID4, Godzilla ) - landed on ITV tonight. There was no warning of this - the episode seemed mid-season, and without previous episodes or the pilot it made little sense.
This is reviewed in our special supplement
27th June 1999 [Sunday]
Babylon 5 [Season 2, Episode 2]
Revelations
We visit for episode 2 of Season 2 - a flashback that took this reviewer back to 1994-5.
This is reviewed in our special supplement
American Gothic [Season 1, Episode 6]
Potato Boy
This is reviewed in our special supplement
29th June 1999 [Tuesday]
QL pops up again to fill vacancies caused by Wimbledon ending sooner than expected.
This is reviewed in our special supplement
The Visitor [Season 1, Episode 3]
The Devil's Rainbow
This is reviewed in our special supplement
3rd July 1999 [Saturday]
This is the new series from Raimi & Tapert ( American Gothic, Hercules, Xena ). It is a contemporary spy-thriller show, but there is an SF element insofar as the weekly McGuffin this week is a rogue android under orders to assassinate a VIP ...
4th July 1999 [Sunday]
Babylon 5 [Season 2, Episode 3]
The Geometry Of Shadows
This is reviewed in our special supplement
American Gothic [Season 1, Episode 9]
To Hell And Back
This is reviewed in our special supplement
6th July 1999 [Tuesday]
The Visitor [Season 1, Episode 4]
Dreams
This is reviewed in our special supplement
7th July 1999 [Wednesday]
This is reviewed in our special supplement
8th July 1999 [Thursday]
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 2, Episode 2] The Circle
This is reviewed in our special supplement
9th July 1999 [Friday]
How The Tess Was Won
This is reviewed in our special supplement
10th July 1999 [Saturday]
UFO [Season 1, Episode 8]
Sub-Smash
This is reviewed in our special supplement
11th July 1999 [Sunday]
Babylon 5 [Season 2, Episode 4]
A Distant Star
This is reviewed in our special supplement
American Gothic [Season 1, Episode 10]
The Beast Within
This is reviewed in our special supplement
13th July 1999 [Tuesday]
The Visitor [Season 1, Episode 5]
Remember
This is reviewed in our special supplement
15th July 1999 [Thursday]
This is reviewed in our special supplement
16th July 1999 [Friday]
Yet more of Raimi's pseudo-SF hokum. This time the plot centres around a brainwashing technique developed by the US Military, and now in the hands of a renegade General who wants to take over the USA.
Outer Limits [Season 2, Episode 11]
The Refuge
This was repeated on BBC2.
Reviewed in our special supplement
Today's SciFi films are Plymouth and The Last Starfighter
Star Wars Fantasies is C4's look at the Star Wars phenomenon. Someone interviewed dozens of Yanks outside some cinemas showing the Special Editions back in 1997.
18th July 1999 [Sunday]
Outer Limits [Season 2, Episode 8]
Straight and Narrow
Reviewed in our special supplement
Babylon 5 [Season 2, Episode 5]
The Long Dark
This is reviewed in our special supplement
American Gothic [Season 1, Episode 11]
Rebirth
This is reviewed in our special supplement
19th July 1999 [Monday]
The Simpsons [Season 5, Episode 15]
Deep Space Homer
Shown 24th Feb 1994
This is reviewed in our special supplement
20th July 1999 [Tuesday]
3rd Rock from the Sun [season 4, Episode 1]
Doctor Solomon's Traveling Alien Show (2)
This is reviewed in our special supplement
The Visitor [Season 1, Episode 6]
The Black Box
This is reviewed in our special supplement
22nd July 1999 [Thursday]
Star Trek: DS9 [Season 2, Episode 4] Invasive Procedures
This is reviewed in our special supplement
23rd July 1999 [Friday]
What Price Gloria?
This is reviewed in our special supplement
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