Showtime the Trilogy, Part 2 – Series Regular – Agent Jack

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Credit info for Showtime the Trilogy, Part 2

Title: Showtime the Trilogy, Part 2
Role: Series Regular – Agent Jack
Director: Jon D. Fondy
Production Company: Ohana Media Productions
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4901104/

My acting scene(s) in Showtime the Trilogy, Part 2

Agent Jack is the focus of this episode, Showtime The Trilogy, Part 2. His mental state is questioned.

My favorite moments are when I scratch my head with the barrel of the gun and when I’m hitting my chest with it. And, of course, the final 2 seconds!

Showtime the Trilogy, Part 2

In this Sci-Fi series episode, the M.A.G.I.C. Team traces a strange transmission to a mysterious cave where they encounter a dangerous and life threatening traitor.

Behind the Scenes images from Showtime the Trilogy, Part 2

 

Author

Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 – c. November 6, 1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of “Paratime” alternate history tales.

He wrote under the name H. Beam Piper. Another source gives his name as “Horace Beam Piper” and a different date of death. His gravestone says “Henry Beam Piper”. Piper himself may have been the source of part of the confusion; he told people the H stood for Horace, encouraging the assumption that he used the initial because he disliked his name. On a copy of “Little Fuzzy” given to Charles O. Piper, Beam’s cousin and executor, he wrote “To Charles from Henry.”

Paratime

A much shorter series of alternate history stories is Piper’s Paratime sequence, collected in Paratime, followed by the novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. These stories concern the Paratime Police, a law enforcement outfit from a parallel world which has learned how to move between timelines. They jealously guard the secret, even as they mine other worlds for their resources. Notably, it appears that humans are in fact Martian refugees who escaped a calamity on their home planet and migrated to Earth.

Unlike many alternate histories, these stories tend to focus on points of divergence far back in the past. For instance, Lord Kalvan involves a police officer who is accidentally transported to a world where the ancestors of modern Europeans failed to move into Europe. Instead, the nomadic tribes migrated across Asia and into North America. The people living on the eastern coast of North America in this novel settled the area from the west, and still live in a medieval society.

Many readers point towards the short story “Genesis” (anthologized in The Worlds of H. Beam Piper) to suggest that the Terro-Human Future History universe is in fact an alternate world in the Paratime universe, where the Martians’ escape from Mars resulted in their forgetting their heritage and having to start over. However, in several letters to friends and in an article published in a fan magazine, Piper himself listed the true Paratime stories, and he never identified “Genesis” as one. On the other hand, “He Walked Around The Horses” is referenced in “Police Operation” so that is a sidebar story to the series.

By the same token, in spite of Piper’s lack of explicit stipulation, “Omnilingual” (1957) — which concerns a near-future scientific expedition to Mars under the aegis of an international Earth government — may also be a Paratime story. The scientists and scholars involved in this effort are found in medias res excavating the ruins of the advanced human civilization which had been gradually destroyed on the fourth planet some 50,000 years before. It should be noted that in “Omnilingual” there is no mention of the northern hemisphere’s thermonuclear devastation as a result of the NATO/Communist “cold war” kindled into an orgy of extermination by the impact of an antimatter meteorite, which was detailed by Piper in his story “The Answer” (1959). Throughout the Terro-Human Future History, that conflict and the destruction wrought across the nations of the First and Second Worlds is pervasive as an explanation of the precise manner in which the home planet’s culture (by way of South America, Australia, and South Africa in particular) comes to influence the planets of Piper’s Federation and Empire.

Thank Yous

Thank you to Director Jon D. Fondy for molding my performance. Thank you to Writer Claude Miles and John J. Robinson for giving me such great words to say and actions to do.

I look forward to working with you all again SOON!

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Author: Chris Rogers

SAG-AFTRA Actor, WordPress Presenter, Public Speaker, Coach, Emcee & Host

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