Stargate - Gate Builders: A (Mostly) Complete Watch List For Stargate’s Ancients
The Ancients are incredibly important to Stargate lore. It’s tailor-made for your next trip down memory lane, or if you are a newcomer who is looking for a list of key episodes for the gate builders.
At first the Ancients were just background material for the world of Stargate. They were responsible for building the gate network eons ago, but had long since disappeared. But as the show went on they became more and more prominent, as viewers discovered that the Ancients didn’t all die out but are actually still around. And when Earth sent an expedition to the lost city of Atlantis, the Ancients (known in the Pegasus Galaxy as “the Ancestors”) and all that they had left behind were a central focus.
In this list some of those earliest mentions of the Ancients. They weren’t exactly major players in those stories, but in these episodes they identify the gate builders — and their ancient alliance with other races — in ways that would prove to be fundamental to Stargate’s mythology.
Source: https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/09/gate-builders-mostly-complete-watch-list-stargate-ancients/
Total Episodes: 32
Viewing Time: 24.75 hours
Note: Rising is a double episode (sometime marked as S01E01E02)
At first the Ancients were just background material for the world of Stargate. They were responsible for building the gate network eons ago, but had long since disappeared. But as the show went on they became more and more prominent, as viewers discovered that the Ancients didn’t all die out but are actually still around. And when Earth sent an expedition to the lost city of Atlantis, the Ancients (known in the Pegasus Galaxy as “the Ancestors”) and all that they had left behind were a central focus.
In this list some of those earliest mentions of the Ancients. They weren’t exactly major players in those stories, but in these episodes they identify the gate builders — and their ancient alliance with other races — in ways that would prove to be fundamental to Stargate’s mythology.
Source: https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/09/gate-builders-mostly-complete-watch-list-stargate-ancients/
Total Episodes: 32
Viewing Time: 24.75 hours
Note: Rising is a double episode (sometime marked as S01E01E02)
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- DirectorJonathan GlassnerStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingDaniel Jackson discovers that the Stargate was activated in 1945 and a young professor went through, never to return. Together with his still living fiancée, the SG1 team discover the now aged professor, naked and trapped in a decaying fortress, containing the secrets of an Ancient alliance. Will they be able to rescue him and escape to earth in time?
- DirectorDavid Warry-SmithStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingSG-1 travels to a planet whose people are allies of the Asgard.
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael ShanksAmanda TappingCol. O'Neill and Teal'c realize they and their friends are trapped in a time loop.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeThe SG-1 team travels to the Antarctic science station when the scientists there discover an ancient body in the ice. The age of the ice core samples would indicate that the body predates mankind. As they thaw the body, it comes to life. It's a young woman who they call Ayiana. As Ayiana gains strength, those around her all fall ill having contracted an unknown virus which they believe Ayiana carried. The new arrival also shows healing powers and can seemingly cure any illness just by touch. As she does so however she weakens to the point of death. In the end, only Col. O'Neill remains untreated and SGC seeks the help of the Tok'ra who offer an unexpected solution.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeRiding in the elevator in the SGC, O'Neill is visited by Daniel Jackson who needs his help. Daniel tells him that Anubis is headed for Abydos to search for something called the Eye of Ra, a relic that would make Anubis all-powerful. It's essential that SG-1 go to Abydos and secure the Eye but no one has seen it - including Daniel - nor has anyone ever been able to find it. On the planet they see their old friend Skaara and with Daniel's help locate the Eye. They also find a tablet that speaks of a lost city of the ancients. When Anubis and his troops land in force there is little anyone can do to stop them. In the end it's left to Daniel to decide if he will try to stop Anubis - thereby breaking a cardinal rule of the Ancients.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeVice President Kinsey briefs Dr. Weir on the Stargate program before her meeting with the president. SG teams 1, 3, and 5 go off-world to attempt the extraction of a newly found Ancient repository device. Upon arriving at the location of the device, SG-1 comes under fire from Goa'uld ships. With no other way to disallow Anubis from claiming the knowledge for himself, Jack submits himself to the dangerous device.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeWith Jack having the knowledge of the Ancient repository once again in his mind, he and Daniel attempt to unearth the location of the Lost City of the Ancients. Bra'tac, bringing with him the news of an impending attack on the Tau'ri by Anubis, takes Teal'c to help him acquire ships and warriors for the defense of Earth. Dr. Weir attempts to cope with the overwhelming nature of her new job, while also dealing with the unrelenting ego of Vice President Kinsey.
- DirectorWilliam GereghtyStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeSG-1 is sent to warn Harry Maybourne that the Goa'uld System Lord Ares is coming to the planet where he was banished, and in the process they find what may be an Ancient time machine.
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeAfter a long absence, Jacob Carter returns to the SGC to tell Jack that the galaxy is under threat of takeover by the Replicators. The Goa'uld are under attack from the Replicators and are quickly being eliminated. Ba'al's armies are being destroyed and he arrives at SGC to suggest they work together to defeat their common enemy. Carter's doppelganger, RepliCarter, is leading the attack and she has kidnapped Daniel Jackson in the hope of learning of any weapons the Ancients may have created that could defeat them. Jackson gets help from an unexpected source - the Ancient, Oma Desala - or so he thinks.
- DirectorPeter DeLuiseStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeSam and Jacob are on the planet Dakara trying to configure the Ancient's device to destroy the Replicators once and for all, helped partly by Ba'al and Daniel, who succeeds in freezing the Replicators by manipulating Carter's duplicate.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsRichard Dean AndersonAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeDaniel finds himself in a strange time and place - a diner where Oma is working as a waitress. She gives him a clear choice - he can choose to die or to ascend but if it's the latter, he will not be able to help his friends fight Anubis, who has yet to be disposed of. He strikes up a conversation with another patron, Jim, who has his own take on the situation. Meanwhile, Sam decides the time has come for her fiancé to meet her father, Jacob. Jacob is not well, however, something he has kept from Sam for several weeks. After Pete surprises her - he thinks he's found the perfect house for them - Sam realizes she has to come to grips with her feelings for someone else. Teal'c and Master Bra'tac have information that Anubis may be gathering what remains of his forces for an attack on Dakara.
- DirectorBrad TurnerStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeDaniel and Vala have used the Ancient device to inhabit the bodies of people in the Alterans' home galaxy. They have been taken by a Prior of the Ori to meet the Doci, one who speaks with the Ori, their gods. Daniel surmises that the Ori are what the Alterans who became the Ancients left behind and have ascended in a similar fashion, but without the restrictions.
- DirectorWilliam WaringStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeWhile Daniel and Vala search for Merlin's anti-Ori weapon in Atlantis' library, Mitchell, McKay and Carter try to to dial the Ori Supergate in the Milky Way.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeDuring their quest for the Sangraal, SG-1 must join forces with their enemy and face a real-life dragon.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeThe SG-1 team hadn't counted on a real dragon as a guardian until one flies out, breathing fire. However, Daniel thinks the Sangraal probably is a hologram. They escape, but the dragon follows them outside. Ba'al admits not to know its secret name, while Daniel believes that the name probably holds power over it. While they guess, Cam thinks of luring the dragon to blow it up, but the C4 barely impresses its digestion. Daniel makes it disappear by using Morgan le Fay's name in Ancient, Ganos Lal. They find it had guarded the frozen 'grave' of the realm's arch-magician, Merlin (or rather, Myrrdin). Vala accidentally triggers a mechanism which revives Merlin when she approaches an Ancient repository device. In the meantime, the team is transported to another planet via the obelisk by the gate outside. Sam surmises that the gate and obelisk are programmed to dial automatically every few hours and transport them to a set of planets that are cut off from the rest of the gate system. Unfortunately, they can't dial out to any other planets either while the program is operating. When he comes to, Merlin seems to confuse the team and Ba'al, with Arthurian characters, but once convinced they are on the same side, he goes to work with the Ancient device to create the Sangraal. Merlin dies at the device, wishing them good luck and referring to one last task. Ba'al's stargate programming skills now seem their only chance. Daniel tries the Ancient repository device himself, but is knocked unconscious. Meanwhile, Adria keeps searching for them via the stargate dialing program on different planets- each time a bit quicker- being one planet behind them. While she is searching, the team is once again transported to another planet, minus Merlin's body. Daniel awakens with valuable memories from Merlin and tries to construct the Sangraal using the repository device again, in exhaustingly intense phases, and finds it also gives him telekinetic powers. It also messes with Daniel's mind, having two different personalities and memories present (his own and Merlin's). Before he can finish the work, Sam and Ba'al disengage the dialing device, just as Adria's Ori troops arrive, allowing SG-1 to escape. Adria is able to capture Daniel before he can escape as well.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeDaniel Jackson, who was left behind fighting off Adria while the other SG-1 members escaped through the Stargate, is found working as a Prior: the best in the business, who doesn't need to use any threats to talk people into conversion to Origin. Hoping there is still some of his personality left, the team (plus General Jack O'Neill) kidnaps him. Daniel explains how he temporarily has Merlin's personality and knowledge in himself, and had deliberately allowed Adria to turn him into a Prior, while delaying to finish Merlin's weapon she'd wanted, and hoping to get an Ori ship for Earth's side. But time is running out since the team took unexpectedly long to rescue him. Still, the generals, Carter, and Vala are most reluctant to go along with releasing him and opening the wormhole he needs to bring the weapon through. Even the White House wants to kill Daniel, or at best, keep him in stasis until he is reverted to his human nature by Merlin's genetic manipulation. But then his plan is wasted - unless the others can be trained to do it in his place (so only they are at risk, not the entire galaxy in case Daniel is Adria's Trojan Horse). After giving them the necessary information, Daniel suddenly frees himself while Richard Woolsey is with him and takes control of a space ship after beaming up Jack too, just after the others have undertaken their mission to Adria's lair, where Daniel, about to be genetically reverted, arrives just in time to tip the balance in their favor.
- DirectorRobert C. CooperStarsBen BrowderAmanda TappingChristopher JudgeSG-1 search for an Ancient artifact called the Ark of Truth to finally defeat the Ori. However, the Ark is in the Ori's galaxy.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellA team of scientists think they have found the location of the long lost city of Atlantis. It can be reached by a Stargate address that leads to the Pegasus galaxy.
- DirectorMario AzzopardiStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellA team of scientists, including McKay, Zelenka and Ford, are exposed to a deadly virus. Sheppard goes after one of the scientists trying to escape.
- DirectorJames HeadStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellSheppard invites a priestess, who claims to not know about a weapon protecting her planet from the Wraith, to Atlantis to discuss asylum for refugees.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellIt's Elizabeth's birthday and she gets a very special gift: a woman who has been in stasis in an Atlantis' laboratory for 10,000 years and is actually herself.
- DirectorMartin WoodStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellMcKay finds an Ancient warship adrift in space. Sheppard finds out they are carrying a communique that mentions a weakness in Wraith technology.
- DirectorAndy MikitaStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe Atlantis expedition encounters a highly advanced race, the Asurans. They initially believe them to be the Ancients. However, this new race is just a new face of an old nemesis.
- DirectorBrad TurnerStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe Atlantis expedition must turn to an old friend for help as the Asurans prepare to invade the city.
- DirectorBrad TurnerStarsJoe FlaniganTorri HigginsonRachel LuttrellThe team returns to Atlantis in an attempt to regain control of the city.