Stargate joins the 200 Club

Friday, August 18, 2006, 8 PM Central:

STARGATE SG-1 joins the rare group of scripted tv shows that reached 200
episodes--and it did it the hard way, on cable, 10 seasons, 2 cable
networks, roughly a dozen episodes per season.

cloud dreamer...

T'wasn't a dozen episodes per season. Epguides lists 22 for most of the
seasons.

Lord Vader III...

That's just horrible reporting. Whoever wrote this didn't even bother
to do any checking (or multiplication for that matter). 10 seasons of
a dozen episodes would only equal 120 (well short of 200).

It's the longest SF tv drama to do and possibly second only to England's
DOCTOR WHO, as an English-speaking SF drama in length.

mike3...

How about Dr. Who? It's European, not Asian, but it went for 26+

jayembee...

I guess you missed the part (left in the above quote) where Ken
said "and possibly second only to England's DOCTOR WHO, as an
English-speaking SF drama in length".

seasons, man,
now _that's_ long.

Tim Bruening...

And it has resumed in the past two years!

jryearwood1975...

The thing is the show keeps on going because people like it. The
network knows a good thing only when the ratings are posted.

Ken from Chicago...

What is this DOCTOR WHO of which you speak?

Tim Bruening...

The Doctor is a time traveler from Gallifrey who goes around in a machine
called a "TARDIS" that looks like an old fashioned blue London police box.

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GarondoMarondo...

If you add up all the Twilight Zone episodes there's over 300.

David Chapman...

There were 44 episodes of the 2002 version, 63 in the 80s and 153 in the
original series; that's 260. Not that it matters, because TZ wasn't a
drama. It was an anthology show, and it wasn't even always SF anyway.

GarondoMarondo...

Well, that's still more than 200. Epguides says the 80s version has
110. As for not all episodes not being SF did you miss the part in the
intro when Sterling says the Twilight Zone is in another dimension.

David Chapman...

As for all eps not being SF, did you *watch* the show? There's plenty
episodes whose connection with SF is tenuous at most.

GarondoMarondo...

But all the stories take place in another dimension, thus all stories
are SF.

Ken from Chicago...

What is this "London police box" of which you speak?

Tim Bruening...

It was a tall blue box about the size of a Porta Pottie. It had a phone on the
inside which people could use to call the police.

whodunit...

It is the Doctor's time/space travel machine, a living entity itself.
It's supposed to have this chameleon type ability to blend into whatever
environment they go to, but at some point it got stuck, and the Doctor
fancied it, and never fixed it. :-)

Andrew Venor...

Actually their was the one time when the Doctor tried to get the
chameleon circuit fixed, but the Master sabotaged the effort.

Ken from Chicago...

Why don't they just use their cell phones? They would be easier.

Tim Bruening...

Cell phones weren't around in the 1960s when the Doctor Who series began.

Wayland...

But Dr. Who is a time traveler. He could give them cell phones.

Invid Fan...

Lot of good that would do if there's no cell towers around, or they're
not signed up to the local service :)

Wayland...

Eh, I just ignore all those little details.

Wayland
...style in search of a subject.

Ken from Chicago...

If he can TRAVEL thru time, how hard is it to TRANSMIT thru time?

Forge...

The 9th Doctor (Eccleston) gave his Companion (Rose) an upgrade for her
phone that allowed her to call her Mum from whatever time she happened
to be stuck in.

Tim Bruening...

And risk changing the time line?

whodunit...

It what he does. ;-)

Ken from Chicago...

Risk has nothing to do with it. He DELIBERATELY changes timelines all the
time.

Wayland
...see and then you don't have those silly phone booths.
...I mean, Superman isn't in England, so what good are they?

The Duct Tape Avenger...

Are ya sure about that?

Anim8rFSK...

But the Doctor was from the fuuuuuuuuuutuuuuuuurrrre.

Mark Nobles...

... or the past. There's really no way to tell about a time traveler.

Beth...

Actually the phone was accessed from the outside - the inside was for
the coppers to put
the suspects until the paddy wagon came along.

The Duct Tape Avenger...

To me, title-credit narration doesn't count as plot. YMMV.

..
Garondo Marondo!