Stargate Sg-1

Stargate SG-1

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

First Aired: 1997-07-27

Creator: Jonathan Glassner, Brad Wright

Cast: Richard Dean Anderson, Christopher Judge, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, Gary Jones, Teryl Rothery, Tony Amendola, Carmen Argenziano, Dan Shea, Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Morena Baccarin

Overview: Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. The television series was filmed in and around the city of Vancouver, Canada. The series premiered on Showtime on July 27, 1997; the final episode first aired on Sky1 on March 13, 2007. With 214 episodes over 10 seasons, Stargate SG-1 had surpassed The X-Files as the longest-running North American science fiction television series, a record later broken by Smallville.

The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori. The series draws upon Egyptian mythology, Norse mythology, and Arthurian legend.