Happy birthdays to Brandy Ledford and Mitchell Kosterman on the fourth both of who played two roles in the Stargate franchise. Brandy was in an episode of SG1 and SGA with Mitchell’s three spots all in SG1 including the episode “Heroes”.

Brandy Ledford

Mitchell Kosterman

Saving Hope is the new vehicle for Michael Shanks and Erica Durance, love the trailer and looking forward to the series.

Archer

Series 3 of the Big Finish Stargate audio dramas are due for release later in the year (May 31st part 1) and is split into two parts, they can be pre-ordered from the Big Finish website now. Once again Michael Shanks and Claudia Black play their respective roles but for many it may be Cliff Simon returning as Ba’al which peeks people’s interest.

Big Finish Stargate Portal

CAST:
Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson), Claudia Black (Vala Mal Doran), Cliff Simon (Ba’al), John Schwab (Major Hunter), Andrew Collins (Keto), Stephen Hogan (Olssen), Susan Franklyn (Rix), Alex Mallinson (Airman/Robot/Jaffa), Paul Hyu (Lt Colonel Yin), Andrew Whipp (Zoder), Regina Reagan (Wellan), Anna Tolputt (La’rath), John Banks (Korek)

SYNOPSIS:
A shooting in the heart of Stargate Command is only the beginning for Daniel Jackson and Vala Mal Doran.
Suddenly it’s friend against friend, none of their allies can be relied upon and they’re the universe’s only hope to foil the latest scheme concocted by the last System Lord, Ba’al.
Will Daniel, Vala and a few of Vala’s less than savoury friends be enough to stop a conspiracy that reaches deep into the heart of Stargate Command and threatens to destroy everything they’ve spent years building?

Thanks to Stargate Zone.

Lego Friends Samantha Carter | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog.

It’s the daddy of them all, happy birthday to Richard Dean Anderson born this day Jan 23rd 1950.

He brought us McGuyver then eclipsed that with Jack O’Neill under the Stargate banner, thanks for everything RDA it’s been great and looking forward to you continuing to dip into TV now and again.

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Two Stargate alumni celebrate their birthdays today (22nd).

From SG1 we have Michael Kopsa who played two roles in the show the first as a news anchor in the episode “There But For The Grace Of God” and then General Kerrigan in “Proving Ground” and “Prodigy”.

We then have Jennifer Spence who played Dr Lisa Park in 36 of the 40 episodes of Stargate Universe.

Scott and Miles from The Scifi Diner interview Chris Judge.

MC Etching

If you fancy your own custom etched glasses then this is the place for you and here is an example of their work with various Jaffa glyphs etched into some scotch glasses.

MC Etching website

It’s finally released, the first issue of Dark Matter is out. The scifi story created by Stargate writers/producers Paul Mullie and Joseph Mallozzi.

Dark Matter

Sharing the 5th of January as their birthdate is Paul McGillion who starred on Stargate Atlantis as Dr Carson Beckett and continued in the tradition of the franchise in bringing us well respected Doctors and in Scifi in general. His performance helped make Beckett a leading role in the show thanks to the positive fan response from the pilot.

Many happy returns Paul.

Our best wishes to Joe Flanigan today (the 5th) on his birthday (born 1967) and our thanks for his exceptional work on Stargate Atlantis playing John Sheppard. We’ve seem him guest star on Warehouse 13 and Fringe recently as well as TV movies Ferocious Planet and Change of Plans but we want more.

Happy Birthday Joe.

I own a set of these from QMX, nice little conversations pieces.

ThinkGeek :: Stargate Coasters.

StarshipsStartHere: In For Refit

It’s a simple idea but so well executed:)

The Gatecast wishes Peter Williams a very happy Birthday for the 31st. Peter as you know played Apophis in the SG1 pilot Children of the Gods and thus became only the first Goa’uld on the TV show and only second of his species in the franchise, he went on to guest star in 20 episodes of SG1. Along with the writers Peter helped to shape the style, flamboyance and arrogance of the system lords and truly created a guy we loved to hate.

Peters Blog

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IMDB

Website

Christmas and New Year greetings from The Gatecast

Best wishes to all our listeners and the fans that made

Stargate SG1, Atlantis and Universe possible which

in turn spawned us.

For 2012 we will be continuing season 6 of SG1 and then going

straight into season 7 which we should complete and then things will get interesting.

The Gatecast proper will return on the 7th of January with Nightwalkers

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Birthday greetings on the 22nd to Jay Brazeau who played the unforgettable Harlan in “Tinman” and “Double Jeopardy” in Stargate SG1 also the Lord Protector in the Atlantis episode “The Tower”.

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Happy Birthday to Michael Shanks, we watched the actor and his character grow for well over a decade and branch out into other genres and productions. Guest roles on Sanctuary, Andromeda, Smallville, Burn Notice plus many a scifi/fantasy feature sealed Michaels place in our part of the world.

Daniel (of the Dan&Gina podcast) a long time listener and guest host of our show found these absolutely brilliant Stargate figures in a local junk shop. Not only was I surprised the movie actually had a toy line but good ol’ Kawalsky got himself immortalised in plastic:)

GateWorld » For Pete’s Sake.

David DeLuise yes the brother of Peter and Michael got himself a juicy role on SG1 and even got further with Sam than most did, kudos:)

Gateworld once again comes up with the goodies.

Now this is something I would have loved to have done but probably would never have found the time:)

The Beast Within: Interview with Sanctuary’s Christopher Heyerdahl – The Morton Report.

Christopher is a brilliant actor, he plays the role his chooses with such style and presence it’s hard to imagine anyone doing as good a job and lets not forget a lot of time he is under extensive prosthetics.

Fleece black Stargate beanie hat with sewn white glyph by EnchantedCraft.

Lexicon – Story Arc Map.

I am always impressed with the time and effort that goes into this sort of project and then to give to the fanbase.

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£57.97

Stargate Atlantis – Complete Season 1-5 [Blu-ray]: Amazon.co.uk: Joe Flanigan, Rachel Luttrell, David Hewlett, Jason Momoa, Tori Higginson, Paul McGillion, David Nykl: Film & TV.

15 Meme of Amanda Tapping

There are some nice images here which define her character quite well, maybe not in the Trek league but still a lot of fun.

Thanks to Lorekings

GateWorld » Measure of a Man.

Chad talks with Jamil Walker Smith about his time on SGU, his character and what could have been and explores his film project “Make A Movie Like Spike.”

I really enjoyed the character of Greer on SGU, dark and troubled but as we came to see there was something to cheer for beneath all the troubles, his season 2 development was excellent and would I believe have gone on to become one of the focal points of the show.

Now not only does this look fantastic but for a fan of the show it must be a great achievement.

The cake was created for the 2010 “That Takes The Cake” competition.

Thanks to Between The Pages blog.

Animatronic Stargate helmet.

I never cease to be amazed at the incredible talents of people not directly in the movie industry to create not only works of art but actual prop replicas which in many cases outshine those designed to be seen on screen.