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As Season Four draws to a close with episode 300 it seemed appropriate to invite Dr. Daniel Jackson himself, Michael Shanks, back to the program. We are excited to share more stories from the show and to give you an opportunity to ask him your questions!

We are privileged to welcome Brandy Ledford to Dial the Gate to share stories of her life and career and talk about her experience on both SG-1 and Atlantis!

In 2019 Gerard Plunkett sat down with David to discuss the roles of Tuplo of the Untouched ("The Broca Divide") and the Nem of the Oannes ("Fire and Water") for Dialing Home. Sadly the second season was never released. However, we are now proud to present this unaired episode on Dial the Gate to make his memories part of the oral history project!

We are privileged to get the opportunity to sit down with veteran musician and film, television and stage actor Blu Mankuma! In addition to playing "Sheriff Knox" in Stargate SG-1's "Nightwalkers" he was a close friend of Don S. Davis, and thus are eager to have him share memories of both his friend and his own career.

Aaron Craven has portrayed three different characters in Stargate, From Captain Kyle Rogers and Matar in SG-1 to a Wraith Commander in Atlantis. We are pleased to welcome him to Dial the Gate to discuss his experiences in the show and share stories about his career!

We are thrilled to welcome "Dr. Carolyn Lam" actress Lexa Doig to Dial the Gate to explore her career, filling the shoes of Stargate Command's chief medical officer, and putting up with Dr. Daniel Jackson on a daily basis!

Dial the Gate is pleased to welcome Rittenhouse Archives president Steve Charendoff to discuss the history of his industry as well as creating beautiful Stargate trading card collectibles!

Dial the Gate is privileged to welcome the return of Elyse Levesque to our show to explore "Earth Abides," her brand-new series on MGM+, as well as share more memories from the sets of Stargate Universe!

We finally got to see the Goa'uld System Lords and their full strength in SG-1's "Summit" and "Last Stand", and actor Kwesi Ameyaw was on full display as Olokun! We are privileged to sit down with the actor to talk about his career, this pivotal two-parter and his appearance in the Stargate Atlantis episode, "Outcast."

The Ori Priors were key to executing the final two seasons of Stargate SG-1, not to mention "The Ark of Truth." One in particular, the one-eyed Prior, was played by actor Doug Abrahams. This was his second role in SG-1, behind the Langaran Commander Hale, but he was unrecognizable under the makeup! The actor joins us to share some stories from the Stargate sets and discuss his love of coaching actors!

Dial the Gate is privileged to welcome the return of our friend, Colin Cunningham! We are delighted to welcome back the "Major Davis" actor to update us on his life and discuss his new film, "He Never Left!"

Welcome to the first annual episode of Dial the Gate dedicated to exploring fan creations of all shapes and sizes. We have scoured the internet in search of unique and creative ways fans have used Stargate to express themselves in creativity. Join us and discover some amazingly gifted people!

We are celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Stargate feature film with a special round of trivia hosted by Harry Maybourne himself, Tom McBeath! Join us LIVE and participate in the chat!

We rarely got to see glimpses into other SG units operating out of Cheyenne Mountain. By Season Two SG-11 was under the command of Captain Conner, played by actor Roger Cross. The Character was introduced in Season One's "The First Commandment." We are excited to sit down with him to discuss his career and explore the first two seasons of the series!

It is October 22, 1999. Apophis takes his helmet off, revealing his identity, at the end of "Jolinar's Memories." Darren Sumner had finally enough and decided to create a little Stargate Web site to keep track of the continuity. GateWorld is with us to this day. Join us as we celebrate 25 years of informing -- and entertaining -- the online Stargate community!

It is almost impossible to think that we are days away from the 30th anniversary of the Stargate feature film. We as fans have been influenced by this work of art. It's only fitting we sit down with the film's youngest star, Kelly Vint as a young Catherine Langford, to see how the movie influenced her.

For seventeen years Ryan Nixon (Known by the moniker "Stitch") has been creating custom-made, affordable military costumes based on Stargate uniforms. His screen-accurate work has won him fans the world over. We are pleased to bring him to Dial the Gate to share his story of a United States Navy veteran applying his trade for fans, and are going to geek out on some of the hardware that makes the shows look and feel real!

Kathleen "Kate" Ritter, Stargate author and owner of the venerable RDAnderson.com, is joining Dial the Gate to share memories of meeting Richard Dean Anderson through MacGyver fandom, following his work to Stargate, and ultimately writing content for Stargate merchandise!

We are thrilled to welcome back Stargate Director and Producer, Martin Wood, to talk more Stargate history and update us on his latest projects!

Dial the Gate only had a few minutes with Sam J Jones at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, but we wanted to touch both on his appearance as Aris Boch in Stargate SG-1's "Deadman Switch" and the things which matter most to the actor! Here's hoping we can get him back for more!

Join our panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 as we look back on 30 years of the Stargate franchise and the fandom it inspired -- with a special introduction by Erick Avari!

So much happens behind the scene to create our favorite television shows. Cath-Anne Ambrose, Script Coordinator and Production Associate from Season Two to Seven of Stargate SG-1, joins Dial the Gate to share some of those details and update us on her world as an instructor!

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Stargate Atlantis, Dial the Gate is privileged to release David's interview with Torri Higginson from 2018. Originally filmed for Season Two of Dialing Home on Stargate Command, this interview encompasses much of the exact material he has since been covering with other guests. With a surprise or two along the way!

We are pleased to welcome the return of Tor Valenza to explore more stories from "Point of View" and "Past and Present" to "Urgo" and "Divide and Conquer!"

When Stargate SG-1 went into its ninth season it very nearly became Stargate Command. Executive Producer, Writer and Director Robert C Cooper is back to share that story and many others from the last two years of the show.

Stargate's believability is often defined by its visual effects. One of the key people responsible for 15 seasons of the franchise is Craig VandenBiggelaar. Join us as we talk creating Replicators, fully-CG Asgard and more!

From the son of Anubis to a Wraith hiding in Las Vegas, Neil Jackson has certainly made his mark in Stargate. But an actor's path isn't often a straight line. We are pleased to welcome him to Dial the Gate to share memories from the set and bring us up-to-date in his current world of fitness!

We are so excited to welcome the return of Tony Amendola LIVE to Dial the Gate! Having recently completed "Rough Magic" in which he plays William Shakespeare, we can't wait to discuss this role with him along with delving back into everyone's favorite Jaffa master.

He wrote for all three series and made an indelible imprint on our televisions with some of the more off-the-wall science fiction ideas. Dial the Gate welcomes writer Alan McCullough LIVE to the show to talk about his stories from each of the three Stargate series!

David has never been shy about Stargate SG-1's "Cor-ai" being his favorite Teal'c episode. We are privileged to sit down LIVE with the writer behind the show to discuss his original idea for the episode and how it ultimately evolved.

Stargate team members have a history of doing Replicators dirty, no matter what galaxy in which they live. We got closer than ever in bringing one of them to our side, as it were, with Niam. John O'Callaghan joins Dial the Gate LIVE to discuss this role along with his broader career!

We never felt we got enough of actor Christina Cox in Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis, mainly because she made such a mark with her three roles! We are excited to have her on LIVE to talk "T'akaya," "Kershaw," "Teldy" and more!

Robert Moloney has been one of the villains we really loved to hate, from the Aschen "Borren" in SG-1 to the duplicitous "Koracen" in Atlantis. We are delighted to have him on LIVE to talk about the complexity of these very different characters and discuss his life and career!

Dial the Gate is delighted to welcome the return of Heather E. Ash, Writer and Story Editor, Stargate SG-1! We got off to a great start in part one of our last discussion with two of her episodes, and now she returns LIVE to answer more fan questions and share stories from creating "New Ground," "Beneath the Surface" and "Rite of Passage!"

Would you steal medicine to protect a family member? What if your life was on the line, and you had unlimited resources? Adrian Conrad invited us to ponder those questions and actor Bill Marchant, who brought him to life, joins us LIVE to discuss his take on the character and his own career!

Armin Shimerman has always been an integral part of Stargate canon as one of the Nox, and as a sci-fi fan in his own right he understands how important it is for humanity to explore big ideas. We are thrilled to welcome him back to Dial the Gate to discuss science fiction's role in exploring humanity's goals and dreams, Quark's significance in Deep Space Nine, and finding meaning in the texts of Shakespeare!

We have been huge fans of Anne Marie DeLuise since her initial appearance as "Farrell" in Stargate SG-1's "The Other Side," and were delighted when she returned as "Amy Vandenberg" in "Bounty." We are tremendously excited to get to catch up with her, along with her husband -- and Stargate Writer/Producer/Director -- Peter DeLuise, LIVE!

Dial the Gate is privileged to sit down with two of Stargate Atlantis's finest, and a couple of fan favorites! Torri Higginson and Rachel Luttrell are going to catch us up on their careers and reflect on (nearly) twenty years of Stargate memories.

You can count on one hand the number of NID agents trusted by Stargate Command. The gem of the bunch, Agent Malcolm Barrett, was played by Peter Flemming. He joins us to share stories from the show and his career!

Yes, you read that right, we now have information on the episodes of Season Six which were (very) loosely outlined but never filmed. Click the link below for Joseph Mallozzi's outline and follow along in our read-through!

Your two favorite Stargate siblings are coming your way for double-trouble in this very special Dial the Gate interview! David Hewlett and Kate Hewlett, Meredith McKay and Jeannie Miller, respectively, will take your questions LIVE... while trying not to cause trouble.

We have been long overdue for another episode of Trivia! This time we are pleased to welcome Rainbow Sun Francks as our host. Join us LIVE and participate in the chat, because this is going to be a good time!

He only appeared in one episode of Stargate, but many fans suspect a great deal of Ancient technology can be attributed to Janus. He was portrayed with tremendous depth by Gildart Jackson, and now, Dial the Gate is delighted to have the actor on to discuss his role in the franchise, his career, and the magic of oral storytelling through his program, Fireside Reading.

Dial the Gate is privileged to celebrate 250 episodes and the return of Stargate Executive Producer and Writer Joseph Mallozzi, who paved so much of this road with us. Are their questions that we have yet to ask him? And what are his thoughts on Amazon and Stargate? Tune in LIVE to find out!

No one can imagine stepping into a series nine years in to fill the shoes of its lead. Instead, Ben Browder, as Cameron Mitchell, helped to make the show more of an imminent ensemble, and took the franchise in new directions for two seasons and two movies! He joins us to discuss those memories as well as crossing the finish line in Antarctica!

We don't know what Stargate mythology would be without the Four Great Races, and one of those Races, the Nox, was represented early on in the show's run in an episode of the same name. Ray Xifo, "Opher" of the Nox, and a close friend of his Nox co-star Armin Shimerman, joins Dial the Gate LIVE to discuss his career and his experience as a member of this enigmatic race.

Before she was the President of the 32nd Century United Federation of Planets, she was piloting USAF ships in the Milky Way, as well as other roles in Stargate! We are so pleased to welcome Chelah Horsdal to Dial the Gate to discuss some of her most recent work, and to take us back to the days of the SG franchise.

Why, look, everybody! David's got Coombs with him! Whether or not you worship at the altar of Roddenberry, we're sure you will enjoy our LIVE interview with John Billingsley. Not only will we be discussing SG-1 Season Six's "The Other Guys" but also Enterprise, The Man From Earth and John's further career.

Before he became Carl "Helo" Agathon in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, one of Tahmoh Penikett's early roles in television was as the Replicator Third in SG-1 Season Six's "Unnatural Selection." We are delighted to welcome him to our show to talk about his brief time on Stargate, as well as his broader career in some of the best television ever created.

Douglas McLean, Stargate SG-1 Art Director From Season One to Season Five, joins Dial the Gate in a PRE-RECORDED interview to reveal insights into some of the franchise's most iconic sets (including some rarely-seen original set photography)!

For nearly every season of Stargate on television, Norman John Smith was quietly working away to make sure production never stopped moving on the franchise. We are proud to host the executive producer on our show and to hear stories from making SG-1, Atlantis and Universe on-time and on-budget -- as well as the story for how the Continuum Arctic shoot became a reality!