Trivia: This episode pays homage to The X Files, even using the X Files theme tune for a ring tone. It also features Dean Haglund, playing Blaine Miller who owns the alien themed cafe. Haglund also played Langley, one of the lone gunmen from The X Files.
Jeff Walker
1st Feb 2010
Bones (2005)
16th Dec 2009
Fringe (2008)
The Arrival - S1-E4
Trivia: Michael Cerveris makes his first significant appearance in this episode as The Observer/Bald Man. However if you watch the series from the beginning, he makes fleeting appearances in every episode, sometimes on a tv screen.
5th Nov 2009
Bones (2005)
Trivia: The position of the bodies and in particular the arms of the two dead, corrupt FBI agents bear a remarkable resemblance to a full size painting that appears in Angela's throughout the first season and most of the second season of Bones - body upright, upper arms outstretched and forearms pointing down at a right angles.
27th Oct 2009
The Lost Symbol
Trivia: Throughout the book, the number 33 occurs as an important number within the Masonic Order - the best example being the highest rank of mason being a 33rd Degree. The book ends on Chapter 133, with what could be chapter 134 being an epilogue.
6th Sep 2009
Watchmen (2009)
Trivia: The war room in which Nixon is planning the first strike on the Soviet Union has a wonderful similarity to the war room in Dr. Strangelove.
19th May 2009
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Trivia: The transporter system in the Star Trek universe uses a Heisenberg compensator. This is to counter Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which pretty much eliminated the potential for transporters, given Heisenberg's assertion that it would be impossible to re-assemble all the components of an item transported.
24th Feb 2009
Stargate: Atlantis (2004)
Trivia: In the final episode, 'Enemy at the gates' Sam Carter says that the new ship is to be named the General George Hammond in memory of the character Hammond who had died of a heart attack. This is a tribute to Don S. Davies, who played Hammond, who sadly died of a heart attack in June 2008, shortly after filming Stargate Continium.
24th Feb 2009
Torchwood (2006)
Trivia: When the team arrive at the bar, Captain John Hart (played by James Masters) comments that there is no blond in the gang - perhaps a reference to Buffy, leader of the other gang Masters belonged to in Sunnydale.
10th Jan 2009
St. Trinian's (2007)
Trivia: The bust in the hall way of the school has a similarity to Alistar Sim, who played the Fritton sister (headmistress) and brother in the original films.
13th Dec 2008
Bones (2005)
27th Sep 2008
Stargate: Atlantis (2004)
Irresistible - S3-E3
Trivia: Richard Kind who plays Lucius Lavin in this episode also appears as Gary Meyers in the original Stargate movie.
27th Jul 2008
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Trivia: Sue Jones-Davies, who played Brian's girlfriend Judith Iscariot in the movie, is now Mayor of Aberystwyth, where the Life of Brian is still banned under a local bylaw.
1st Jul 2008
Doctor Who (1963)
Trivia: Throughout the whole of Doctor Who, the original series and the new series, the Doctor only refers to himself as 'Doctor Who' once - and this was a mistake by William Hartnell, who was getting frail. The end credits originally listed the actor playing the Doctor as 'Doctor Who', but this later changed to mainly using 'The Doctor'.
26th Jun 2008
The Lone Gunmen (2001)
Trivia: Not really trivia, but really spooky. The story line of this episode, broadcast in March 2001 revolves around a US Government agency plot to crash an airplane into the World Trade Centre. Six months later 9/11 happened.
20th May 2008
The Avengers (1998)
Trivia: Invisible Jones is voiced by Patrick Macnee, the original John Steed from the TV series, in a cameo role.
3rd May 2008
Doctor Who (2005)
Trivia: Bernard Cribbins, who plays Wilfred Mott, once appeared in a much earlier Doctor Who-related story - he played Tom Campbell in the feature film Dalek Invasion Earth 2050 AD, with Peter Cushing as the movie's alternate, human Doctor.
1st May 2008
Billy Elliot (2000)
Trivia: At one stage in the movie, Billy and his dance teacher travel across the Transporter Bridge, the only working cradle bridge in the world, which crosses the River Tees from Middlesbrough to Port Clarence, Stockton-on-Tees. At the time of the Miners Strike in 1984, when the film is set, neither Middlesbrough nor Stockton-on-Tees had an active coal field. Whilst the Transporter Bridge, now a grade 2 listed structure, is still working, it is not really a reguarly used entry or exit use from Teeside, if Billy and his teacher were going to an audition. Which raises the question as to why they were on the bridge, apart from giving the director the chance to show off a spectacular structure.
18th Feb 2008
Control (2007)
Trivia: Early on in the movie, when Ian Curtis (played by Sam Riley) enters his parents living room, there is a picture of the real Ian Curtis as a boy on the mantelpiece.
12th Jan 2008
Torchwood (2006)
Trivia: Eve Myles, who plays Gwen also plays the maid character Gwyneth in the Doctor Who (season one) episode "The Unquiet Dead."
18th Aug 2007
The Omen (2006)
Trivia: Harvey Stephens, Damien from the 1976 film makes a cameo role in this movie as a cameraman outside the US Embassy.
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