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Episode of the Week: ‘Double Jeopardy’

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

SG-1: Season Four
First Aired: February 16, 2001

SG-1 must rescue an alien world from the Goa’uld — with help from an unexpected source. Teal’c seeks revenge on the System Lord Cronus for the murder of his father.

“Double Jeopardy” Facts:

“Double Jeopardy” has the distinction of being written like a sequel to an earlier episode that was never made. SG-1 is well familiar with the people of Juna, who they rescued from enslavement to Heru’ur on a prior mission … but it was never actually shown or previously mentioned on the series.
It’s the final bow for actor Ron Halder as Cronus — at least until he returns in the SG-1 movie Stargate: Continuum, alive and well in an alternate timeline. (Halder also had a brief role as a priest in the SGU episode “Human.”)
Jay Brazeau reprises his beloved role of Harlan, from the Season One episode “Tin Man.” He would return to play the Lord Protector in the Atlantis episode “The Tower.”
This episode has the first use of the term “Pel’tac” to describe the bridge of a Goa’uld mothership.
“Double Jeopardy” is the directorial debut of Stargate‘s own Michael Shanks. Since then he has also directed an episode of his current series, Saving Hope — but otherwise stayed mostly in the acting game.

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majorsal says:

October 13, 2014 at 5:52 pm

the only issues i had with the ep is that these robot versions didn't feel like 'our' sg1, like they did in season 1's 'tin man'.

i really would have liked to have went down the 'what if' road of what it was like for the robot versions to go on... *really* know. they were sad.
Dawesstategate says:

October 14, 2014 at 5:07 pm

I love this ep and have no real issues with it all the actors did a great job and I have watched it 30 times over the last 14 years.
Steve B says:

October 15, 2014 at 10:53 pm

I really liked this episode. The native guy was a bit naive and it was funny to watch. I wish we could've seen this storyline touched on again in some way. Definitely a fun episode to watch.