James L. Conway Movies
- 2005
Now in complete control of the "Book of Shadows," Zankou (Oded Fehr) prepares to take on the "Ultimate Powers" of the Shadow -- and, in the bargain, to absorb all the powers of the Charmed Ones. Meanwhile, Homeland Security agent Keyes (Glenn Morshower) begins putting two and two together regarding the mysterious deaths and disappearances of many of the girls' previous associates. As this final episode of Charmed's seventh season races to its climax, our heroines are faced with two dilemmas: they must vanquish Zankou without revealing themselves as witches to the suspicious Keyes -- and if they don't relinquish all of their powers immediately, they will die! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, (more)
- 2004
In the opening episode of Charmed's seventh season, benevolent witch Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and her Whitelighter husband, Leo (Brian Krause), are grieving over the loss of their "future son" Chris. To forget their problems, the couple attends a Hindu wedding ceremony -- only to end up as vessels for the powers of two very nasty Hindu gods. It is now up to Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) and Paige (Rose McGowan) to prevent the possessed Piper and Leo from allowing the gods to consummate their love, thereby unleashing unimaginable horror upon the world. In other developments, Phoebe has second thoughts about taking a leave of absence from her gossip column when she meets her temporary replacement, Leslie St. Claire (Nick Lachey); and Paige struggles to keep the magic school from shutting its doors permanently. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, (more)
- 2004
In the concluding half of Charmed's season-six finale (originally telecast as a single two-part episode), Whitelighters Leo (Brian Krause) and Chris (Drew Fuller), still trapped in a bizarre mirror world, must battle their evil alter egos in order to thwart Gideon's (Gildart Jackson) scheme to destroy little Wyatt. As for Wyatt's mother, Piper (Holly Marie Combs), she is just about to give birth again. But the occasion may not be a festive one: Piper is fated to be the future mother of Chris -- and woe be unto him if he doesn't return to the real world in time for his own birth! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Drew Fuller, (more)
- 2003
In the first part of Charmed's sixth-season opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), the Charmed Ones -- namely Piper (Holly Marie Combs), Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), and Paige (Rose McGowan) -- have no idea why their Whitelighter (guardian angel) Leo Wyatt (Brian Krause) -- who also happens to be the father of Piper's son, Wyatt -- has been plucked from their midst. Only novice Whitelighter Chris (Drew Fuller), who has been assigned to protect little Wyatt, seems to have the full story about Leo's disappearance -- and he's not telling. The complications begin to multiply when Piper is accidentally rendered amnesiac, Phoebe suddenly develops the powers of an empath (making her oversensitive to the pains of others), and Paige spearheads a desperate search for Leo. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Smash Mouth, Brian Krause, (more)
- 2003
In the conclusion of Charmed's sixth-season opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), the Charmed Ones have determined that their Whitelighter Leo (Brian Krause) is being held by magical bonds in the afterworld of Valhalla. In order to rescue Leo, the girls must transform themselves into Nordic-legend Valkyries -- a metamorphosis which wreaks unexpected consequences on the mortal population of San Francisco. In other developments, Piper (Holly Marie Combs) remains an amnesiac; Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) tries to stay away from her boss and lover, Jason (Eric Dane), until she is able to control her "empath" powers; Paige (Rose McGowan) encounters difficulties holding down a non-witch job; and a surprising amount of hostility is generated between Leo and novice Whitelighter Chris (Drew Fuller). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Drew Fuller, (more)
- 2003
After vanquishing a vicious Manticore demon, the Charmed Ones are obliged to care for the demon's cute little half-breed baby (human body, forked lizard tongue). Though they hope to alter the baby's ultimate destiny by raising it to do good rather than evil, Whitelighter Chris (Drew Fuller) exhorts them to destroy the infant before it is too late. Elsewhere, Jason (Eric Dane) is so taken aback when Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) tells him she loves him that he feels the need to leave the country, and Paige (Rose McGowan) makes the latest in a long line of magical blunders when she bestows a superpower upon Inspector Morris (Dorian Gregory) to help him defuse a hostage crisis. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, (more)
- 2003
Beset by domestic problems, Piper (Holly Marie Combs) finds herself unable to control her magical powers. In an effort to help her sister, Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) consults a marriage counselor -- but when the counseling session proves to be too slow and laborious for Piper, she impulsively casts a spell to speed up the proceedings. The result: Phoebe and Paige (Rose McGowan) are hurtled back in time, where they are forced to experience all the memories, both good and bad, of Piper and her husband, Leo (Brian Krause) -- enabling the series' producers to superimpose new footage upon clips from previous episodes! Complications ensue when a malevolent warlock hitches a ride on Phoebe and Paige's foray into the past. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, (more)
- 2003
In this appropriately titled 100th episode of Charmed, the semi-demonic Cole (Julian McMahon) realizes that he will never be able to win back the love of Phoebe (Holly Marie Combs) so long as he is opposed by her half sister, Paige (Rose McGowan). To remedy this situation, Cole links up with the Avatars to make a journey into the past, where he can establish an alternate reality in which Paige never makes the acquaintance of Phoebe and Piper (Holly Marie Combs), and thus never becomes a "Charmed One." The plot thickens when the demons of the past rear their ugly heads, and when Paige suddenly finds herself able to penetrate Cole's alternate reality thanks to a bad cold! ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, (more)
- 2003
In trying to figure out the extent of baby Wyatt's powers -- and, eventually, to take over those powers herself -- the Crone (Grace Zabriskie) imposes the Curse of the Monkey Totem on the Charmed Ones. As a result, each girl loses one of her senses: Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) is deaf ("Hear no evil"), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) is blind ("See no evil"), and Paige (Rose McGowan) is mute ("Speak no evil"). In addition to compounding the girls' domestic, professional, and personal problems, their afflictions also leave little Wyatt defenseless -- or so it seems. Despite being unable to speak throughout most of the episode, Paige manages to belt out a rendition of Peggy Lee's "Fever." ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, (more)
- 2002
As season five of Charmed gets under way, there is no shortage of activity in the San Francisco manor occupied by the Charmed Ones. Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano) is now gainfully employed as an advice columnist for "The Bay Mirror"; Phoebe's sister Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and her guardian-angel husband, Leo (Brian Krause), anxiously await the birth of their baby; and the Halliwell girls' half sister, Paige (Rose McGowan), has two vocations, as a social worker and full-time demon hunter. In the first half of the fifth-season opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), the girls use their bewitching powers on behalf of Mylie (Jaime Pressly), a former mermaid in danger of losing her immortality to a Sea Hag (Diane Salinger) -- who in turn is in league with Necron (Judson Scott), a demon forsworn to destroy the Charmed Ones. Meanwhile,Phoebe's ex-demon husband, Cole (Julian McMahon), escapes from his exile in limbo, hoping to win back Phoebe's confidence and save their marriage. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, (more)
- 2002
Guided by Whitelighter Leo (Brian Krause), Paige (Rose McGowan) journeys back to her high school days, hoping to confront and overcome her guilt over the accident that killed her adoptive parents. In the process, Paige recalls her first awareness of her special powers. Meanwhile, back in the present, Piper (Holly Marie Combs) must stop the marriage between Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) and Cole (Julian McMahon) -- or rather, the marriage between the evil spirits presently possessing Phoebe's and Cole's bodies! ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, (more)
- 2001
The fifth weekly TV series in the indefatigable Star Trek franchise, Enterprise took the viewer "back to where it all began" (or so read the promotional copy). Set 100 years in the future -- yet still 150 years before the "original" Star Trek series -- the new show charted the origins of the starship Enterprise, beginning with the first close encounter between humans and Klingons. Brought to Starfleet Medical after crash-landing in a rural area, the injured Klingon Klaang is treated with hostility by the attending Vulcan physicians, something that the earthling staffer cannot understand. Pioneering Starfleet pilot Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), skipper of the recently constructed Enterprise starship, volunteers to take Klaang back to his home planet of Kronos. The continuity proper begins when Klaang is kidnapped en route by the genetically enhanced Sulibans, prompting Archer and his crew to embark upon the first of many bold forays into "where no man has gone before." Much of the series' entertainment value was engendered by displays of "primitive" pre-Federation equipment and paraphernalia, with new technology being introduced with each passing week -- new, that is, to those three or four people who have never seen any of the various Star Trek incarnations. Featured in the cast were Jolene Blalock as Archer's somewhat condescending Vulcanian first officer, T'Pol; John Billingsley as brilliant Vulcan medical doctor Phlox; Linda Park as hyper-kinetic linguistics expert Ensign Hoshi Sato; Connor Trinnear as wisecracking good-ol’-boy engineer Trip Tucker ; Dominic Keating as weapons expert Malcolm Reed; and Anthony Montgomery as navigator Travis Mayweather. Making its much-anticipated UPN premiere as a two-hour special on September 26, 2001, Enterprise settled into its standard 60-minute weekly length thereafter. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1999
Tipped off by a man (Billy Jayne) whose fiancée has been killed in a grisly manner, Andy (T.W. King) teams with FBI agent Fallon (Jocelyn Seagrave) to hunt down the Wendigo, a vicious creature who tried to attack Piper (Holly Marie Combs). Alas, it soon develops that the hunted beast is a lot closer than Andy had ever imagined. Meanwhile, Prue's (Shannen Doherty) efforts to keep the auction house afloat may be jeopardized by one of Phoebe's (Alyssa Milano) most unsettling visions -- this one involving a "dead" kidnap victim who may still be alive. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jocelyn Seagrave, Billy Jayne, (more)
- 1996
Season Five of Deep Space Nine got under way with this episode, which orignally aired September 30, 1996. Acting upon Odo's suspicion that Klingon leader Gowron (Robert O'Reilly) is really a Changeling impersonator, Sisko is given the go-ahead by Starfleet Command to expose the phony (if indeed he is a phony). With the help of Dr. Bashir, Sisko, Odo, and O'Brien disguise themselves as Klingons, then, accompanied by Worf, infiltrate a Klingon ceremony in the Hall of Warriors, where Gowron is to be the guest of honor. As is often the case on this series, everything boils down to a personal matter of honor, or lack of same. "Apocalypse Rising" was written by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1996
As the Klingon/Cardassian conflict grinds on, a much-needed shipment of replicators is targetted for hijacking by the Maquis terrorist group. Making his job all the more difficult, Sisko learns that there may be a Maquis smuggler on board DS9. Worse yet, the smuggler appears to be Sisko's current amour, Cassidy Yates (Penny Johnson). First broadcast May 6, 1996, "For the Cause" was scripted by Ronald D. Moore from a story by Mark Gehred-O'Connell. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1996
The alternate universe introduced in the 1995 episode "Through the Looking Glass" figures prominently in this episode, which originally aired April 22, 1996. Felecia Bell reprises her role as the duplicate image of Sisko's late wife Jennifer, who crosses over from her mirror universe into the reality of DS9. But it isn't a social visit; Jennifer kidnaps Sisko's son Jake, forcing Sisko to cross over himself. The climax finds Sisko commandeering a rebellion against the tyrannical Alliance, led by a villainous Worf. "Shattered Mirror" was written by Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1995
Deep Space Nine inaugurated its fourth season with this two hour nail-biter. The story begins as a group of visiting Klingon warriors swarm through DS9, harrassing the passengers and obstructing the crew. Sisko hits upon an idea to solve the dilemma: Assign former Next Generation regular Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn), a Klingon himself, to quell the disturbances. But though he has proven his loyalty to the Federation again and again, Worf is troubled by the notion of turning against his own people. Written by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe, "The Way of a Warrior" was telecast on October 2, 1995. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1995
A shuttle malfunction causes Quark, Rom, and Nog to crash-land on Earth. Normally, this would be a minor inconvenience: This time, however, the shuttle has passed through a timewarp, depositing the three travellers in Roswell, New Mexico, on that fateful day in 1947. As if the U.S. Air Force wasn't threat enough for our heroes, they are taken captive by a band of genuine alien invaders. Originally slated for telecast on November 13, 1995, "Little Green Men" was shown one week earlier on November 6. The episode was scripted by Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe from a story by Toni Marberry and Jack Trevino. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1993
After an assault on Quark, a long-unsolved murder case is reopened. As had been the case five years earlier, Odo is put in charge of the investigation, but he wishes that he wasn't. If the existing evidence proves to be reliable, it will be Odo's unenviable task to charge Kira with the murder. Marc Alaimo once again appears in the role of Gul Dukat. Originally telecast on November 13, 1993, "Necessary Evil" was written by Peter Allan Fields. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
