1. Pilot

Guest Stars:
	Linda Henning  1	Mrs. Mallory
	Joseph A. Wapner  2	Commissar Wapner
	Doug Llewelyn  2	Comrade Llewelyn
	Garwin Sanford  3	Doc
Featuring:
	Roger R. Cross		Wilkins
	Yee Jee Tso  4		Wing
	Frank C. Turner  5	Crazy Kenny
	Gary Jones		Michael Hurley
	John Novak		Ross J. Kelley/Interrogator
	Don MacKay  6		Artie Feld
	Alex Bruhanski  7	Pavel Kurlienko
	Jay Brazeau  8		Shadowy [KGB] Colonel*
	Andrew Kavadas		Vendor
	Sook Yin Lee		Pat
	Wayne Cox		PBS Spokesman
	Raoul Ganee  9		Sentry [Lt. Karpov]
	Tom Butler  10		Michael Mallory

Uncredited:
	Larry Musser		Jake
	Sara Walker		Nan [Zachery]
	Jim Byrnes		the Announcer [for baseball games]
	Harry Shearer		Day Tripper [Dee Jay]	
	Jason Gaffney  11	[Conrad] Bennish [Jr.]**
	Rusty Burrell		"People's Court" Bailiff
	Also uncredited are Montague, the two executives in the computer store, 
the dim-witted construction worker in the Ross J. Kelley commercial, the angry 
driver who chastizes Quinn, Remmy's back-up singers on the music video, 
Rembrandt's prison guard and the man in the trenchcoat who demands to see the 
sliders' papers.

Filmed scenes but do not appear:
	Judith Maxie		City Official
	Lillian Carlson		Old Lady
	Melanie Pearson		Stephanie

In science circles, there is some confusion as to the origin of Einstein-Rosen-Pudalski Bridge because the bridge is more commonly known as the Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

"[The Pudalski part] was something that [co-creator and executive producer] Bob Weiss insisted on and we later found out that he was kind of confused," Tracy Torme says with a chuckle. "There were actually some arguments at the time and the director [Andy Tennant] was convinced that it was Einstein-Rosen and Bob was convinced it was Einstein-Rosen-Pudalski and Bob, being the executive producer, won the argument.

"I think it was actually a mistake," Torme admits, "and then we sort of stuck with it so it's almost like a running joke."

Torme says he came up with the idea of Quinn's video diary to serve as a kind of prologue to give the audience some insight as to what has been happening in the Mallory basement for the last few months.

"The video diary was really a device that I created to try to get the technical back story into the viewers' head as quickly, and hopefully, as visual as possible."

According to the September video diary, Quinn created the bulky timer prototype on September 13 -- which also happens to be the birthday of Tracy Torme's father, singer Mel Torme.

"I tend to do that in a lot of my scripts," Torme admits. "I always put little things, names, characters, whatever, into them that have some meaning for me."

Other inside character names include Bennish, named after Torme's friend since the second grade who has a lot of the same hippie-like characteristics.

"He's not a physicist, but he's a smart guy," he says. "And that was funny because his mother saw the show and called up and said 'Oh my God, my son's a drug addict!' and freaked out. It was great."

Reportedly, the character of Michael Hurley is based on former Star Trek: The Next Generation producer-writer Maurice Hurley whom Torme worked with during ST: TNG's first and second seasons. When asked about the connection, Torme chuckled and said only "you'll have to use your imagination with that one."

Also, the name [Ross J.] Kelley pays homage the popular Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly who helped Torme write the song "Cry Like a Man."

Two classic out-takes that regularly makes an appearance in the office blooper tape have to do with John Rhys-Davies trying to perform his own stunt work.

"John decided in the pilot that he was going to do his own stunts," Torme says. "One [blooper occurred] when we were running, you know that shot that we use a lot where they're coming across the bridge and they're silhouette and we use it [in the opening credits] of the show and there's a lot of smoke and stuff. They ended up diving into the wormhole near the statue of Lincoln in the park and John just landed ... I mean, John dove into this flower bed [beside the statue] like an anvil ... and, uh, we were like 'Oh no!' and he dusted himself off. He was a total trooper.

"Then there was a scene where they're escaping the Soviet prison and John has to roll underneath a truck and come up on the other side. And I was watching on the monitor. This was like [at] three in the morning in Vancouver on like a freezing night and there's John, he's dressed as a KGB general, and he starts to roll under the truck and I hear this horrible clang. Then he comes up on the other side with a gash, and [he was] bleeding. He hit a pipe or something when he was rolling."

Torme gives some insight into the genesis of the classic scene in which Remmy, getting ready for his big comeback, comes out of the bathroom sporting numerous 'cause' ribbons on his lapel.

"I saw the character ... as a guy who was really out of touch with the world," Torme says. "He had been a big star [but] as soon as he left his group they had 13 number one singles and now he's like playing bar mitzvahs on the side and [the anthem] is going to be his big comeback, you know? So, originally, when he stepped around the corner and he was wearing a red ribbon ... and the deal was that he didn't know what the red ribbon meant. He had just seen all these people wearing at thought 'Oh, this is cool,' you know 'I'm back!' Well that, of course, caused a big problem [with the network]. That was one battle we could never win because they thought we were going to offend the gay audience or offend people woo were into the AIDS issue and all that. So then we put eight ribbons on him. That was the solution to that."

At a Fox press conference on Jan. 14, 1995, Robert K. Weiss told television reporters that he might like to bring the Judge Wapner and Doug Llewelyn back for another cameo in the future. "I mean, we've even talked about situations where we might return to the "People's Court" and this time Rusty the bailiff is the judge and Judge Wapner is the interviewer outside and Doug Llewelyn is the bailiff," he said.

Torme, however, adds that the network really didn't understand the subtle humor in the "People's Court" segment.

"... [it] really horrified them because they thought, you know, 'You're going to do this sort of comedy thing right in the middle of a sci-fi show. You're going to lose the audience, and everyone in Cincinnati is going to turn the set off the second this happens.' [But] I really fought them for this ... and just said 'It's gonna work, trust me.' So we got to shoot the Judge Wapner stuff with the attitude basically they had that they'll probably cut it out and it's probably not going to work, but they'll at least let us shoot it. And so we shot it and it was one of the most popular things that we did."

One scene that didn't make it to the final cut, was a scene where Remmy dreams he's singing the national anthem at Candlestick Park.

"We did shoot [that scene]," Torme says. "We went up to Candlestick Park in San Francisco, and in fact, the Atlanta Braves were playing here, and 40,000 people were attending and Cleavant went out to the pitcher's mound, we all stood out next to him. It was really exciting. He sang his version of the national anthem before the game and with the cameras on him and his version is hilarious, it's like an eight minute version. And the people in the stands had no idea what we were doing but they loved it. They just gave him a huge ovation afterwards. And we had planned to use that in a scene where he's in jail in communist America and he's daydreaming [about] singing the national anthem in Candlestick Park. And that was not in the [episode] because that was an editorial decision. That kind of slowed the story down a little bit at that point."

Tracy Torme made an appearance in this, one of his favorite episodes. Didn't see him? Don't worry, you're not alone.

"I had a cameo ... as one of the American underground revolutionaries but it ended up on the cutting room floor," he says.

Fox had originally planned to rebroadcast the entire two-hour pilot on December 27, 1996 but changed its mind at the last minute and decided to re-air "Invasion" and a repeat of Millennium instead.

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Song Lyrics:

"Cry Like a Man"
By Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown
Written By: Tracy Torme & Paul Kelly
Arranged By: Hummie Mann

My friends ask me why I cry
It's cause I feel like I wanna die
These tears fall from my eye
Ever since you said goodbye

(chorus):
I'm gonna cry like a man
Hard as I can
And if you had a heart
Maybe you'd start 
to understand

See me walking down the street
And everybody I meet
They say hello, goodbye
And tears spring from my other eye
	(chorus repeated)

"The Comrade Rap"
Written by: Tracy Torme

Comrade, comrade, get on down
Get that grain right into town
Serve the state and feed your people
'Cause the in-div-id-u-al is evil.

Comrades, comrades, get on down
Get that grain right into town
I gotta serve the state and feed the people
'Cause the in-div-id-u-al is evil.

Comrade, comrade, get on down
Get that grain right into town
Serve your state and feed your people
'Cause the in-di-vid-u-al is evil.

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