Issue #171 • ships from Dec 31 2003
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Charmed
• Head writer and Executive Producer Brad Kern explains all about the three parts of Season Six, while Eric Dane, who plays the millionaire Jason Dean, talks to us about his exciting role as Phoebe’s new boss – and love interest…

Firefly
• Creator Joss Whedon explains what he feels went wrong with his Sci-Fi Western and talks about the show's imminent afterlife in the form of a DVD release.

Doctor Who at 40
• We conclude with Seasons Twenty-Five and Twenty-Six, as Sylvester McCoy’s Doctor faces his silver nemesis and the show reaches its journey’s end
for now…

Flashback:
The Lord of the Rings
• Middle-earth has been recreated on radio many times. Join us on a two-part journey through the audio realizations of Tolkien’s imagination.

Babylon 5
• J Michael Straczynski continues his memoirs with the first part of his Season Five memories, which was overshadowed by cast confusion and crucial ideas being thrown out…

Primetime: Angels in America
• We look at the screen adaptation of one of the best plays of the 20th Century. This epic two-part, six-hour mini-series stars Emma Thompson, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Justin Kirk.

Retro
• Our history of television continues in the Sixties with a look at Dr Kildare, Ben Casey and Cain’s Hundred, amongst others…

Deep Thought
• Continuing our search to find Cult TV’s ultimate questions. This issue we look at gay, Asian and religious stereotypes and ask if Homer Simpson is offensive to Americans.

• Happy Who Year
  
  
• Tru called up for full season
  
  
• Don’t miss Missing, Believed Wiped
  
  
• The Great Farscape… returns
  
  
• Life beyond bars for Fletch
  
  

• 24 Season 3
  
  
• Alias Season 3
  
  
• Andromeda Season 4
  
  
• Angel Season 5
  
  
• Carnivàle Season 1
  
  
• Charmed Season 6
  
  
• Jeremiah Season 2
  
  
• Mutant X Season 3
  
  
• Smallville Season 3
  
  
• Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3
  
  
• Tarzan Season 1
  
  

• Babylon 5
  Season 3, DVD
  
  
• Doctor Who
  Big Finish story, h/bk
  Exile, CD
  Inflatable Dalek
  Wormery, CD
  Zagreus, CD
  
• Star Trek
  Deep Space Nine: Prophecy and Challenge, p/bk
  Deep Space Nine: Season Six, DVD
  The Lost Era: Well of Souls, p/bk
  
  
• Miscellaneous
  Cult TV Crosswords, p/bk
  
  
• Secret Army Season 1, DVD
  Complete Book of Gerry Anderson’s UFO, p/bk
  
  

• What's on to watch from 12th December 2003 to 9th January 2004

• Your views, your say. Send your comments for our letters page to: tvzone@visimag.com

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: 20th Century Fox, BBC

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2004. Not for reproduction

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