A WICKED GOOD TIME

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TV GUIDE PROMO
WHERE HAVE I SEEN YOU BEFORE?
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PROMO TRANSCRIPTION
A COVEN OF WITCHES HAS EVERYONE A LITTLE CRAZED.
(Iolaus breaks through Lilith's door with a rake.)
IT SPELLS TROUBLE--
(Hercules deflects two lightning bolts thrown by the possessed Haleh.)
Possessed Haleh (to Hercules): This is gonna hurt you more than it's gonna hurt me.
(Hercules takes a lightning bolt to the gut.)
ON AN ALL NEW HERCULES!

ON AN ALL NEW HERCULES--
A COVEN OF WITCHES HAS HERCULES SPELLBOUND--
(Hercules stares at his hand.)
(Iolaus, with hair combed and a rose between his teeth, plays the finger cymbals.)
AND IOLAUS A LITTLE CRAZED.
(Iolaus breaks through Lilith's door with a rake.)
Iolaus (to Lilith): If I can't have you, nobody can!
NOW, THE SON OF ZEUS--
(Hercules deflects two lightning bolts thrown by the possessed Haleh.)
WILL HAVE TO PUT AN END TO THEIR POWERS--
Hercules (to possessed Haleh): Don't play a game you can't win, Haleh.
BEFORE THEY END HIM.
(Hercules jumps at the possessed Haleh, but is forced back by her powers.)
Possessed Haleh (to Hercules): This is gonna hurt you more than it's gonna hurt me.
(Hercules takes a lightning bolt to the gut.)
ON AN ALL NEW HERCULES!

TV GUIDE PROMO
Discord bands together a group of highly impressionable teenagers.

The wicked Haleh seduces the daughter of Hercules' friend into joining her coven of witches.

A witch in training frames Hercules as an evil warlock and casts a love spell on Iolaus.

Discord plots with two witches-in-training to frame Hercules as a warlock. H

aleh, a power hungry witch-in-training, frames Hercules to look like an evil warlock and casts a love spell on Iolaus.

WHERE HAVE I SEEN YOU BEFORE?

By Xorys.

And who was who in A Wicked Good Time?

Meighan Desmond has played the role of Discord previously in the HTLJ eps Two Men And A Baby, If I Had A Hammer, Porkules, One Fowl Day, Love On The Rocks, and Fade Out, and in the X:WP eps The Deliverer, and Takes One To Know One, and regularly on Young Hercules. Apart from this, her only other credit that I am aware of is as Lulu Chatfield on the New Zealand soap Shortland Street, which so *many* Xenaverse denizens have frequented.

Susan Brady who played the grown up Lilith originated this role in the ep The Academy. Susan hasn't played any other Xenaverse roles.

She too did a stint on "Shortland Street", as Hilary Sturgess.

Susan was also in the TV series Marlin Bay, which also featured Katie Wolfe (Arciana in Be Deviled) and Mark Ferguson (Krykus in H&H and RN, Dagnine in OOW and PI, John Smythe in TXS, Prometheus in Hercules And The Circle of Fire, Hades in Hercules In The Underworld, Craesus in As Darkness Falls).

Lilith's (and Jason's) 'difficult' daughter Cesca was played by Jodie Rimmer, who was a regular on Young Herc as the young Lilith (i.e. the character played by Susan Brady in this ep, in her youth - adding especial point to Cesca's irritated comment "you were a wild one, mom"). Of course we first saw Jodie as that *really* irritating blonde Seraphin in the X:WP ep Sacrifice. She also co-hosted a NZ TV show called Behind The Wheel, and appeared in an Australian TV movie called The Rogue Stallion (also known as Wildfire), which also featured Stephen Hall (seen as the warlord Therax The Terrible in The Play's The Thing) and Margaret Blay (the rather bad witness in Locked Up And Tied Down). I hear that Jodie has a hot new movie coming up which will be hitting the film festivals - it's called "I'll Make You Happy"... Jodie stars, Michael Hurst & Jennifer Ward-Lealand co-star, and there's even a guest appearance by one Lucy Lawless, so I gather...

And what about the wicked (and slinky) witch herself, Haleh? Familiar? She played this role very differently from her previous appearances (way *younger* for one thing)... but she certainly should have run a bell. Perhaps Katrina Browne's most memorable previous appearance was as Thelassa, the deformed beauty who went for a career change in the X:WP ep Locked Up And Tied Down. She also played Mendala, the warrior wife of Vercinix in the X:WP ep When In Rome, and Siri, an Amazon who was central to the plot in the HTLJ ep Prodigal Sister.

Katrina also appeared in quite a few eps of Young Hercules as the Amazon Queen Cyane.

Katrina also appeared in the NZ TV series City Life, together with Donogh Rees (Chi'ah in Them Bones, Them Bones, Frigga in Norse by Norsevest and Somewhere Over Rainbow Bridge, the voice of Mnemosyne in Let There Be Light), Lisa Chappell (Daughter #1 in Hercules And The Circle of Fire, Lydia in Pride Comes Before A Brawl, Dirce in The King Of Thieves and The Wedding Of Alcmene, Princess Melissa in War Brides, Queen Melissa and Dirce in Hercules On Trial, and Melissa Blake in Yes Virginia There Is A Hercules and For Those Of You Just Joining Us), Peter Muller (Deric in As Darkness Falls, The Outcast and The Wedding Of Alcmene, Dustinus Hoofmanus in The Play's The Thing), and Charles Mesure (Mercer in The Price, Darnelle in TDHD and Johnny Pinto in Yes Virginia There Is A Hercules).

Another TV series in which Katrina can be seen is the NZ made The Legend of William Tell, in which she plays Aruna, alongside Kieren Hutchison (Talus from the X:WP ep Death In Chains) in the title role, Beth Allen (Vanessa / Pilee from Daughter Of Pomira) as Princess Vara, Nathaniel Lees (Cheiron, the Blue Priest, Manus in Dreamworker, Niklio the healer) as Leon, and Andrew Binns (Hippocrates) as Xax.

Katrina can also be seen, mainly screaming a lot, in the NZ horror movie about a serial killer, "The Ugly", which is currently on video store shelves. This movie also features Beth Allen (Vanessa/Pilee in Daughter Of Pomira), Jennifer Ward-Lealand (Boadicea in The Deliverer, Zera in The Play's The Thing, Voluptua in The King Of Thieves), Rebecca Hobbs (Woman #1 in Ares, Elora in The Siege At Naxos, Katrina in Doomsday), Paul Glover (Menticles in The Price, Josephus in What's in A Name, Brontus in Let the Games Begin, Roberto Orci in Yes Virginia There is A Hercules, Danaeus in Descent), Christopher Graham (Toxeus in Death In Chains and Mortal Beloved, Slave Boss in Remember Nothing, Colchis in Porkules), Jon Brazier (Walsim in The Dirty Half Dozen, Tarsis in Vanishing Act, Mercenary #2 in The Vanishing Dead, Jakar in The Outcast, Slave Trader in The Fire Down Below, Trinculos in A Star to Guide Them), Michael Dwyer (Theodorus in The Warrior Princess, Ruffian #1 in The Quest, Thug #2 in The Festival of Dionysus), and Darien Takle (Cyrene, Xena's mom)... so, another one with a *lot* of familiar faces for Xenites.

The *extremely* stupid and annoying Magistrate (an IQ in single figures and a foul disposition seem to be required qualifications for the job in the Xenaverse) was played by Stig Eldred. Where do you think you've seen him before? Most recently Stig appeared as the dastardly casino owner Titus in the X:WP ep King Con. He has also played the roles of the Minion Leader in Hercules In The Underworld, Belus in The March To Freedom, and Maceus in Cast A Giant Shadow.

Stig appears as Steve Sawyer in a film that should be known to all Xenites - 1992's "The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior". This film, of course, features Lucy Lawless in a pre-Xena role, and many others who later brought to life inhabitants of the Xenaverse can be seen in it: Stephen Hall (Hector in SOTP, Thelonius in TQIM, the Captain in Tsunami, Therax in The Play's The Thing, Purces in The Fire Down Below), Alison Bruce (Melosa in H&H, Postera in Gladiator), Mark Ferguson (Krykus in H&H and RN, Dagnine in OOW and PI, John Smythe in TXS, Prometheus in Hercules And The Circle of Fire, Hades in Hercules In The Underworld, Craesus in As Darkness Falls), Nigel Harbrow (Koulos in TBW, Basculis in LM, Patrol Centurion in AGD, Turkos in Gladiator), Donogh Rees (Chi'ah in Them Bones, Them Bones, Frigga in Norse by Norsevest and Somewhere Over Rainbow Bridge, the voice of Mnemosyne in Let There Be Light), Simon Prast (Nemos in COH, First Soldier in What's in A Name, Patronius in The Wedding of Alcmene), John Sumner (the Sheriff in this ep, the Inn Owner in Hercules And The Lost Kingdom, Broteas in The Road To Calydon, Domesticles in Once A Hero and The Wedding Of Alcmene, the Judge in Hercules On Trial, Lord Clairon in Here She Comes...Miss Amphipolis) and (naturally) Bruce Allpress.

In 1996 Stig appeared in a NZ TV movie called Return To Treasure Island which was well stocked with Xenaverse regulars - Stig played Long John Silver himself, and young Jim was played by Dean O'Gorman (young Iolaus, Homer, Rune). Also featured were Gilbert Goldie (the Town Elder in Locked Up And Tied Down, Nevus in Hercules And The Lost Kingdom), Simone Kessell (Havetia in We'll Always Have Cyprus, Kayla in Love Amazon Style, Jana in Hercules And The Amazon Women, Rena in What's In A Name, Miss Mesini in Here She Comes...Miss Amphipolis), and William Kircher (the Prison Overseer in Locked Up And Tied Down).

On a more international note, Stig played the deformed villain Shoulders in the 1990 Warren Beatty film Dick Tracy (the one that featured Madonna as Breathless Mahoney).

Stig also appeared the 1989 TV spy thriller Brotherhood of the Rose, along with Norman Forsey (King Lias in W.P and W.P.T1, Casca in BTDT, Megas the old prisoner in Key To The Kingdom, Tiresias in The Road To Calydon, The Festival Of Dionysus and The Outcast, Old Merlin in Once Upon A Future King).

Stig has made guest appearances on the series High Tide, as have Stephen Lovatt (Galen the Vampire Hunter in Darkness Visible) and Simone Kessell, and on The Ray Bradbury Theatre, as have many other Xenaverse actors, including Lucy Lawless.

The Magistrate's obnoxious son Magnus was played by Michael Hallows. If you can tell me which two previous episodes you've seen Michael in, without any hints, then you definitely deserve some kind of medal for Xenaverse trivia diligence.

In fact Michael previously appeared in two X:WP eps, playing a "tall villager" in the ep Callisto, and Tig (the guy who got rescued by Cecrops along with Gabrielle, and then jumped into the water) in Lost Mariner.

Isoceles, the young A student who Herc saved from bullying, was played by Damien Lay. Damien hasn't appeared in the Xenaverse before, at least not in a speaking role. He was in Avondale Dogs, a black and white short made in NZ, along with Stephen Hall (Hector in SOTP, Thelonius in TQIM, the Captain in Tsunami, Therax in The Play's The Thing, Purces in The Fire Down Below), Alison Bruce (Melosa in H&H, Postera in Gladiator).

Magnus' sidekick in nastiness, Shamus, was played by Eli Sharplin. Eli hasn't been credited before, but I did wonder if perhaps he was related to Clint Sharplin (Opakas in Sky High, Kenickus in Regrets I've Had A Few, and a Celtic Villager in Resurrection).

The third witch, Sariah, was played by Kelly Addis, for whom I could find no prior credits.

The ep was written by Vanessa Place and Liz Friedman, who previously wrote Hercules, Tramps And Thieves as a team. I'm afraid I don't know anything else about Vanessa Place, but Liz Friedman is of course well known to us as a long standing member of the production team. Liz also has previous writing credits for co-writing Lost City with Robert Bielak, and for co-writing the X:WP ep A Family Affair with Chris Manheim.

The ep was directed by Adam Nimoy, who is the son of Leonard (I Am Not Spock... or perhaps I Am) Nimoy. Adam hasn't worked on HTLJ or X:WP before, but he has a very substantial record as a TV director, including episodes of Vengeance Unlimited, VIP, Ally McBeal, The Practice, Nash Bridges, Murder One, The Outer Limits, Sliders, Babylon 5, NYPD Blue, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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DISCLAIMER

Discord was a Basket Case during the production of this motion picture.