Stargate SG-1 (season 1)

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Stargate SG-1 Season 1

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Country of origin Flag of the United States United States, Flag of Canada Canada
Network Showtime
Original run July 27, 1997 (Showtime) – March 6, 1998 (Showtime)
No. of episodes 21
DVD release date Region 1: May 22, 2001
Region 2: October 21, 2002
Region 4: March 1, 2004
Next season Season 2

Season one of Stargate SG-1, an American-Canadian television series, began airing on July 27, 1997 on Showtime. The first season concluded after 21 episodes on March 6, 1998 on Showtime. The series was developed by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, who also served as executive producers. Season one regular cast members include Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Don S. Davis.

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[edit] Main cast


[edit] Episodes

# # Title SG Wiki Directed by Written by Original airdate
1 101A "Children of the Gods (Part 1)"  SG Wiki Mario Azzopardi Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright July 27, 1997 (Showtime)
The Stargate Program is revived when Apophis, an alien of the same race as Ra, comes to Earth through the gate seeking hosts. Jack O'Neill and new recruit Samantha Carter are sent to Abydos to locate, and bring back, Daniel Jackson. 
2 101B "Children of the Gods (Part 2)"  SG Wiki Mario Azzopardi Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright July 27, 1997 (Showtime)
O'Neill and Jackson befriend Apophis' first prime Teal'c, a Jaffa (one who is an incubator to a larval Goa'uld), and Teal'c joins their side. He helps SG-1 return to Earth, though they cannot save Daniel's wife Sha're and his friend Skaara, who have been taken as hosts. 
3 102 "The Enemy Within"  SG Wiki Dennis Berry Brad Wright August 1, 1997 (Showtime)
After being infested by a Goa'uld parasite in the previous episode, Major Kawalsky shows signs of possession. In the meantime, Teal'c is questioned by several members of the Pentagon about the Goa'uld. Once Stargate Command discovers that Kawalsky has a Goa'uld in him, they call upon the expertise of medical experts to remove it. Teal'c allows medical staff to perform controlled experiments on the larval Goa'uld to find a way to help Kawalsky, but the Goa'uld has already bound itself irreversibly to Kawalsky's brain. The possessed Kawalsky overpowers Teal'c and attempts an escape through the Stargate. In the ensuing struggle between Teal'c and Kawalsky, the symbiote and Kawalsky are killed. These events prove Teal'c worth, allegiance and honour to the SGC, and he is assigned as the fourth member of SG-1 on O'Neill's recommendation. 
4 103 "Emancipation"  SG Wiki Jeff Woolnough Katharyn Michaelian Powers August 8, 1997 (Showtime)
SG-1 visits a planet where women are severely repressed, and Carter ends up being 'sold'. However, when Carter beats a chieftain in hand-to-hand combat, the team changes the tribe's opinions about the rights of women. 
5 104 "The Broca Divide"  SG Wiki Bill Gereghty Jonathan Glassner August 15, 1997 (Showtime)
The team finds a planet divided into 'Light' and 'Dark' sides, where the dark side is infected with a deadly plague that turns people into savages; and the SGC is locked down when SG-1 brings it home. Dr. Fraiser manages to synthesize a cure for both peoples. 
6 105 "The First Commandment"  SG Wiki Dennis Berry Robert C. Cooper August 22, 1997 (Showtime)
As SG-9 is off-world, and long overdue, SG-1 is sent after them to find out what has happened to them. They soon discover that the commander of SG-9 has set himself up as a God on the planet. 
7 106 "Cold Lazarus"  SG Wiki Kenneth J. Girotti Jeff F. King August 29, 1997 (Showtime)
By the work of a strange blue crystal, a duplicate of Jack O'Neill returns to the SGC in his place. When the real Jack returns, they locate the alien, who, they discover, was only trying to heal Jack's pain over the loss of his son. 
8 107 "The Nox"  SG Wiki Charlie Correll Hart Hanson September 12, 1997 (Showtime)
When SG-1 meet a Jaffa patrol on an alien world, they and a Jaffa soldier are killed. Once revived by the Nox, SG-1 tries to persuade them to aid them. But the Nox are pacifists and send SG-1 and the Jaffa home in safety. 
9 108 "Brief Candle"  SG Wiki Mario Azzopardi Katharyn Michaelian Powers September 19, 1997 (Showtime)
On the planet Argos, the inhabitants live only 100 days by the work of a long-gone experimenting Goa'uld. Jack becomes infected with the responsible nanites, but they are all deactivated by Sam. 
10 109 "Thor's Hammer"  SG Wiki Brad Turner Katharyn Michaelian Powers September 26, 1997 (Showtime)
SG-1 goes to the planet Cimmeria in search of allies against the Goa'uld. Upon arrival, Jack and Teal'c are trapped in a labyrinth, where the only exit is through Thor's Hammer, a device to destroy Goa'uld, but preserve the host. Daniel Jackson must destroy the device that could someday have saved his wife in order to free his friends. 
11 110 "The Torment of Tantalus"  SG Wiki Jonathan Glassner Robert C. Cooper October 3, 1997 (Showtime)
SG-1 recovers Dr. Ernest Littlefield, who went through the Stargate in 1945 and never returned. Daniel nearly stays behind to study a 'book' detailing the meaning of human existence, left behind by the Four Great Races. 
12 111 "Bloodlines"  SG Wiki Mario Azzopardi Jeff F. King October 10, 1997 (Showtime)
Teal'c's son Rya'c is to be implanted with his first Goa'uld larva on Chulak, so SG-1 goes to prevent it. However, Rya'c falls ill and can only be saved by a symbiote; Teal'c donates his own, and receives a stolen one for himself. 
13 112 "Fire and Water"  SG Wiki Allan Eastman Katharyn Michaelian Powers October 17, 1997 (Showtime)
SG-1 has been given a false memory of Daniel's death by his alien abductor, who wishes Daniel to give him certain knowledge. Ultimately, Daniel remembers the obscure fact, and is allowed to go home. 
14 113 "Hathor"  SG Wiki Brad Turner Jonathan Glassner October 24, 1997 (Showtime)
The Goa'uld Hathor (one of the mothers of all Goa'uld), brainwashes the men of the SGC with pheromones, and nearly makes Jack host to a larval Goa'uld conceived with Daniel. She flees after the unaffected women of Stargate Command retake the facility. 
15 114 "Singularity"  SG Wiki Mario Azzopardi Robert C. Cooper October 31, 1997 (Showtime)
SG-1 rescues a small girl who turns out to have had an inoperable Naqahdah bomb put in her by Nirrti to destroy the SGC. Ultimately the girl is given to the care of Janet Fraiser, the SGC medic, after they discover that the bomb will dissolve if she is kept away from the Stargate. 
16 115 "Cor-ai"  SG Wiki Mario Azzopardi Tom J. Astle January 23, 1998 (Showtime)
A once-enslaved planet condemns Teal'c for the atrocities he once committed under Apophis. He is sentenced to death. However, when the Goa'uld attack, Teal'c saves his accuser's life and proves he is a changed man. 
17 116 "Enigma"  SG Wiki Bill Gereghty Katharyn Michaelian Powers January 30, 1998 (Showtime)
SG-1 rescues a group of highly advanced Tollan. The military and the NID take an interest in their technology, and attempt to imprison them for research purposes before Daniel helps them take refuge with the Nox. 
18 117 "Solitudes"  SG Wiki Martin Wood Brad Wright February 6, 1998 (Showtime)
Sam and Jack are stranded on an icy planet when the Stargate malfunctions on their return journey to Earth. However, it turns out that they have merely been redirected to a second Stargate in Antarctica. 
19 118 "Tin Man"  SG Wiki Jimmy Kaufman Jeff F. King February 13, 1998 (Showtime)
Without their knowledge, robotic duplicates of SG-1 are made, and are mismatched for the originals. When this is discovered, the androids must accept that they will stay offworld, and the real SG-1 returns home. 
20 119 "There But For the Grace of God"  SG Wiki David Warry-Smith Robert C. Cooper February 20, 1998 (Showtime)
Daniel accidentally finds himself in an alternate universe after encountering a strange alien mirror, and, before he returns, learns that Apophis will attack Earth in ships from a certain Stargate address. 
21 120 "Politics"  SG Wiki Martin Wood Brad Wright February 27, 1998 (Showtime)
Senator Robert Kinsey shuts down the Stargate program (as the gate represents a global risk), despite Daniel's warnings that Apophis will attack Earth, and that the Stargate may be Earth's only defense. 
22 121 "Within the Serpent's Grasp (Part 1)"  SG Wiki David Warry-Smith Jonathan Glassner March 6, 1998 (Showtime)
SG-1 uses the Stargate to go to the address Daniel discovered, which turns out to be Apophis' ship, where they find that Skaara has been made host to Apophis' son Klorel. The ship reaches Earth, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance. 

[edit] Production

  • "The First Commandment" was the first Stargate SG-1 episode written by Robert C. Cooper, who would later become an executive producer and co-creator of the spin-off series Stargate Atlantis.
  • Paul McGillion, who played young Ernest Littlefield in "Torment of Tantalus", would go on to play the recurring and later main character Dr. Carson Beckett in Stargate Atlantis.
  • The outside scenes of "Solitudes" were filmed at Pemberton Icefield.[1] The rest of the episode was filmed in the studio, which was filled with fake snow and ice and kept at a low temperature.

[edit] Cultural references

  • During the production of "Solitudes", a joke was played on Richard Dean Anderson. Whilst filming, when O'Neill asks how Carter is getting along with unearthing the Stargate's DHD, Carter starts ranting at O'Neill for being completely "MacUseless" even though he spent seven years on MacGyver, referring to Richard Dean Anderson's role in both shows. The prank was organized by Tapping in cooperation with the director.[1]
  • "Politics" contains a scene that references uploading a virus to an alien mothership, alluding that the solution to the movie Independence Day will not work in this situation.
  • "Within the Serpent's Grasp" contains the only scene produced especially for Showtime, not shown on the syndicated versions. When seeing a floating metal ball, Teal'c explains "It is a Goa'uld long-range visual communication device, somewhat like your television, only much further advanced." In the Showtime version, O'Neill says "Think it gets Showtime?" While this scene remains in the DVD versions of the episode, syndication runs have O'Neill instead say, "Think it gets cable?"

[edit] Broadcast and reception

  • The original airing of "Children of the Gods" on Showtime featured full frontal nudity during the scene showing the possession of Sha're (Vaitiare Bandera) by Amonet. This has never been repeated and future airings have had the nudity cut out for syndication. The DVD version, however, retains this scene. Likely because of the nudity, this episode is the only one in the series to be rated by the MPAA (it is rated R), while in the UK the episode is rated 18 by the BBFC (all other episodes have generally been rated PG, or 12, very occasionally 15). It is rated M in Australia, recommended for (but not restricted to) viewers 15 and older.
  • "Hathor" was heavily criticized,[citation needed] and the series' writers themselves acknowledged that the episode's weakness.[2]. Later, in the Season 7 episode "Heroes (Part 1)", Dr Fraiser is discussing Jack with the film crew and mentions "the whole Hathor incident, which we were never supposed to speak of again".
  • "Politics", the series' first clip show, it is widely regarded as one of Stargate SG-1's weakest episodes.[3]

[edit] DVD releases

DVD Name Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
Stargate SG-1 Season 1 May 22, 2001 October 21, 2002 March 1, 2004
Volume 1 – "The Best of Season 1"
N/A
 January 14, 2000
N/A

[edit] Awards

  • "Children of the Gods" was nominated for a Golden Reel Award in the category "Best Sound Editing - Television Movies of the Week".[4]
  • "The Nox" was nominated for an Emmy in the category "Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)".[4]
  • "Within the Serpent's Grasp" was nominated for a Gemini Award in the category "Best Visual Effects".[4]
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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Gibson, Thomasina (2001) Stargate SG-1 The Illustrated Companion Seasons 1 and 2. Published by Titan Books. ISBN 1-84-023-354-0
  2. ^ Audio Commentary for "Citizen Joe", Season 8
  3. ^ GEOS - Stargate SG-1 - Politics (II) - Statistics
  4. ^ a b c "Stargate SG-1" (1997) - Awards

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