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Welcome to the SciFi Rewind: Star Wars Holiday Special!

We are sorry to put you through this, but in this episode we are rewinding the infamous Star Wars: Holiday Special complete with commercials...  Hear us dissect the TV Special, share trivia, groans many times, and go on tangents. Happy Holidays to you!



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Category:SciFi Diner Podcast -- posted at: 12:31pm EDT
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Dirk Maggs is renowned for his numerous audio dramas with such credits as Superman: Doomsday, Spider-Man, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to his credit.  Jay Smith (HG World) got the opportunity to sit down and talk with Maggs via Skype over a year ago.  Jay offered the interview to The Chronic Rift and it's an excellent discussion on audio drama production today, the good and the bad.  We want to thank Jay for sharing this interview with us and for hosting this episode.

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Dirk Maggs' BBC Career included stints as a producer in BBC Television and a Senior Producer in BBC Radio Light Entertainment. He has won national and international awards including Sonys, Talkies and Audies. Dirk was among the first ever nominees for the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement in his field.

Dirk was responsible for writing and directing the hugely successful 2003-5 radio renaissance of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - its late author Douglas Adams having specifically asked him to produce the conclusion to the saga in its original medium. In 2012 Dirk adapted the entire five-novel Hitchhiker’s epic into a stage show featuring the original cast which delighted thousands of theatregoers.

In Spring 2013 Dirk adapted, co-directed (with Heather Larmour) and sound designed Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere for BBC Radio 4/4 Extra, a critically acclaimed production with an all-star cast including Benedict Cumberbatch and James McAvoy.

Dirk's Television work includes Bob The Builder and The Animated Mr Bean, in Film The Magic Roundabout Movie. For BBC Radio, Dirk created epic 'audio movies' featuring Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Judge Dredd.

Dirk's Voice Directing for Games has included Revolution Software's Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon and Broken Sword: The Angel Of Death.

Dirk has directed many outstanding artists, including James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Leslie Nielsen, Christian Slater, Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Stevenson, Jim Broadbent, Maureen Lipman, Johnny Vegas, Ricky Tomlinson, Harry Enfield, Jim Carter, Steve Coogan, Alison Steadman and Spike Milligan.

Dirk has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the University of Winchester for his work in the dramatic arts and is a Guest Lecturer at the Universities of Westminster, Bournemouth and Winchester. He has also been involved with creative Native American projects at Native Voices at the Autry Center in Los Angeles, California and Native American Public Television in Lincoln, Nebraska.

 

Direct download: Spotlight_-_Dirk_Maggs.mp3
Category:The Chronic Rift Spotlight -- posted at: 11:48am EDT
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Disney rules the roost at the box office, but will it be a short-lived victory as there is a new installment of The Hobbit trilogy premiering this weekend.  Plus, there's plenty of TV on DVD releases this week, including "The Day of the Doctor" Doctor Who 50th anniversary special.

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Category:The Weekly Podioplex -- posted at: 8:00pm EDT
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Steve is injured on a mission and in need of bionic surgery.  While recovering he spots a woman who looks like Jaime.  But Jaime's dead.  Steve watched her die on the operating table.  What kind of sick game is Oscar and Rudy playing on him?!?

The good news - Jaime is alive.

The bad news - Jaime doesn't remember Steve or any part of her life before she came back to life.

To make matters worse, the young doctor who came up with the revolutionary technique that allowed Rudy and his team to save Jaime is falling for her and she for him.  Can Steve keep it all together and finally be reunited with his childhood sweetheart?

TO BE CONTINUED...

Stay tuned as part two of this look at the third season premiere of The Six Million Dollar Man will be released in less than two weeks.

Joining John and Paul to discuss this episode are James Sherrard of Bionic Woman Files and Betsy Dodd of The Bionic Blonde.

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Bionic Wiki entry

Bionic Blonde entry

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James Sherrard is a first generation fan of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. A collector of all things Bionic as a child, his interest in the shows was reignited when the first Bionic reunion movie was produced in 1987.The following year he met stars Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson for the first time through Lindsay Wagner’s Official Fan Club. In 1998, James reworked the Bionic Woman episode guide booklet that he had produced for the club into The Bionic Woman Files website…the longest running Bionic Woman site on the web! Over the years, James has contributed his Bionic knowledge to various books, articles, websites, and television productions. He has also amassed an amazing collection of Bionic memorabilia, from common toys to one-of-a-kind production items. Most recently, James has contributed to the 2010 DVD releases of The Bionic Woman Season One and The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Collection. James resides in New York where he is employed by a non-profit organization.


From Betsy Dodd's page: 

Growing up in a one-TV household, I had 3 brothers who surrounded me in age—who often teased me for being a “sissy”—and who usually controlled the voting majority for which channel to watch. Back in the 70s, our whirling TV dial was pretty much destroyed because we fought over it so often. One night while the substitute pliers were pointed to their choice of The Six Million Dollar Man(again), suddenly there was OMG ...cue angelic chorus... Jaime Sommers, the world’s first Bionic Woman. Yes!!! Score one for us sissies! I was totally hooked. And the love story between Jaime and Steve was the best. Ever. But then they killed her the following week.

Why did I idolize Jaime Sommers so much? Just as the final season was being released on DVD in the fall of 2011, I stumbled onto some internet bionic fan forums and started posting these offbeat episode reviews. I’m not sure, but when some members encouraged me to go start my own blog, I think it may have been the equivalent of being politely shunned by the Bionic Amish community— puritans of the franchise. (Really, I’m kidding. They’re all fun people and super nice. And they even let me use electricity to sign onto the internet.) Once about ten years ago, I belonged to an online fan “cult” that was framed in a similar style of farcical humor about The X-Files, so to me, this is all a completely normal approach to a television drama.

These days, I am a freelance copywriter, graphic designer and video editor living in Tennessee. No, I am not a blonde, but I am threatening to become one soon if these little gray hairs don’t stop surfacing. I must confess I also did not actually keep a diary in the 70s, but wish now that I had, so I could remember the real reason why I missed so many episodes of my favorite 70s show. For now, I’m blaming my brothers. For everything.


Direct download: 041-_Cyborgs_-_The_Return_of_The_Bionic_Woman_part_1.mp3
Category:Cyborgs: A Bionic Podcast -- posted at: 8:00pm EDT
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Clay and Debby are back in the car and on the road again.  This time around, they talk about Wurstfest, a ten day celebration of all things sausage in Texas.  (There's such a great joke there, but we'll be good.)  Listen in as they share their experiences at the best Wurstfest ever.

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Direct download: tnt_wurst_final.mp3
Category:This and That With Him and Her -- posted at: 9:13am EDT
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Ah, the romance of the outlaw -- dashing and fearless, living a life of danger and adventure. Except when they're greedy sociopaths leaving a trail of corpses in their wake.

NARCO CULTURA looks into the world of the Mexican drug cartels and how it has spawned a culture that romanticizes and celebrates the bloody exploits of the men behind it. Photojournalist and filmmaker Shaul Schwarz -- leveraging his experience working in such conflict zones as Haiti and the Gaza Strip -- focuses in both on the real-life horror witnessed by Richi Soto, a crime scene investigator in Juarez, Mexico, who has to deal with the terror, corruption, and intimidation spawned by the cartels, and on the cultural impact via the viewpoint of Edgar Quintero, a Los Angeles narcocorrido songwriter and singer, who's acquiring a growing fandom for his odes celebrating the cartels' violent lifestyle.

I was able to sit down with Schwarz for an in-depth glimpse into the motivations for this project and risks encountered in actually bringing it to the screen. Click on the player to hear the show.

WEBSITE LINK: http://narcoculture.com/

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Direct download: MMP728_Shaul_Schwarz_on_NARCO_CULTURA_v01.mp3
Category:Mighty Movie Podcast -- posted at: 8:29pm EDT
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We continue our series of recorded panels from this year's Dragon Con with one that Keith participated in.  From the American Sci-Fi Classics track, this panel took a look at the genre movies and television of 1983.  If you would like to learn more about Dragon Con, check out the link below in these show notes.


The panelists include:


Show Links

Direct download: Roundtable_-_1983_Geek-A-Mania_in_TV_and_Movies.mp3
Category:The Chronic Rift Roundtable -- posted at: 8:19pm EDT
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As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Doctor Who, Keith weighs in with one of his contributions to the Time Lord's universe in the form of prose.  He reads from Decalog 3, a short story collection from Virgin publishing that also features a story from current show runner, Steven Moffat.  Keith's story is "UNITed we Stand".

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Category:Dead Kitchen Radio -- posted at: 12:28pm EDT
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Tonight’s Diners: Scott, MilesM, Dayton, and John


Welcome to the Diner

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Welcome to our Holiday Special!

We are counting down our top Christmas gifts.... so if you have some extra cash...well, hey, we'd love to help you out with that.   Especially Dayton. He's always hustling for cash.....he'll do anything.  I mean ANYTHING...even come on the SciFi Diner podcast....

Dayton's List:

1. Officially licensed street legal 1966 Batmobile

2. Death Star wall blocks

3. Larry Nemecek's "Stellar Cartography"

4. Original Art Edition of Heavy Metal

5. Star Wars Original Trilogy Score

John's List:

1. Original Voyager Console Prop w/Okudagram included

2. Firefly The Game

3. Enterprise Ring Ship Hand-Made Artisan Replica

4. Quantum Mechanix Star Trek TNG Communicator Pin

5. Star Trek The Next Generation Season 5 on Blu Ray

M's List:

1. Rogan

2. 3D Printer for Fashion

3. Stovetop Vacuum Coffee Maker

4. Livescribe 3 Smartpen Standard Edition for Tablets and Smartphones

5. PS4

Mile's List:

1. A New Kindle

2. The Ladies of Firefly poster set from Think Geek

3. Amazon Gift Cards

4. Star Trek The Next Generation pajama set

5. Star Trek Into Darkness on Blu Ray (From Target)

Scott's List:

1. Lifesize Landspeeder

2. Google Chromecast HDMI Streaming Media Player

3. Star Wars Frames

4. From History's Shadow by Dayton Ward

5. Doctor Who TARDIS Door Cling (Think Geek)


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The Hunger Games satisfied more hungry movie goers this past Thanksgiving weekend making it once again, the number one movie at the box office.  It's another lean week for movie and DVD releases, plus there's only one real news item that dominated Hollywood this week.  Michael Falkner has it all on an all new The Weekly Podioplex.

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Direct download: Podioplex120313.mp3
Category:The Weekly Podioplex -- posted at: 9:09am EDT
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