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“Salem on My Mind”

Mary continues to meddle in her children’s lives in “Salem on My Mind.”

NEW

“Off the Deep End/Houseguest”

An aquatic creature is sought in Pennsylvania; claims about communicating with the dead via photographs are probed in Los Angeles.

NEW

“Unwanted Visitors; Strange Sightings”

The team explores more spooky viral video, from two creatures caught by a homeowner to a possible UFO encounter over Lake Havasu.

Repeat

“Spirits of Easter Island; The Moa”

The crew visits Easter Island in search of restless spirits; massive, flightless birds thought to be extinct are sought in New Zealand.

“Bhutan Yeti”

Josh seeks the yeti in Bhutan and Nepal.

Repeats

“Demon House”

Jay and Elke Yaple have been waging a ceaseless war against the unseen forces occupying their two hundred year old home.

One night Elke heard these words come over here baby monitor: “You are all going to die!” Soon after, the Yaples heard a loud crash come from their children’s bedroom. When they ran into the room they found bloody handprints on the baby’s crib. Incredibly, there were no signs of blood anywhere on the children.

Jay and Elke contacted CT Paranormal, who work closely with Father Bob Bailey, a priest and veteran demonologist. When they came to do an investigation Elke’s older dog, Mandy, went into convulsions — seemingly possessed. Father Bob ran over to the dog and began praying over it. The dog ceased shaking and returned back to normal as the prayers finished.

Father Bob then took on the entity, battling it with religion attempting to banish it from the home.

“Leave House”

When Laura Satterfield’s dogs were being frightened by something in her new house, the last thing she thought it could be was the spirit of someone who may have once lived in her home. But after Laura and her daughter were terrified by the apparition of a man in a military uniform, they became convinced there was something paranormal and evil in her house.

Fearing for her family, Laura sought help from a paranormal team who capture what they believe is a video of an actual ghost. Soon after, Laura and a team member are inexplicably burned on their backs, and they suspect it is this ghost trying to hurt them.

“The Door”

When Laza Denison and her daughters move into their new home, they are thrilled by its size and beauty. Their excitement quickly fades when they are terrorized by an unseen entity determined to run them out of the house. After their dog is kicked clear across the room by this invisible force, the family calls in a paranormal team to help them deal with their problem. What the team discovers convinces Laza that her house is indeed haunted and her family is in serious danger.

Not far from the Denison home, another family lives in fear that paranormal activity is killing all the animals on their farm.

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Shows not always in order.

For Complete listings see the Ghost TV Schedule Page.

Always check the Coundown Timer on side page for upcoming events. 

Ghost TV News

Destination Truth

“It’s official. The new season of DT begins on September 9th!” – Josh Gates 7/28/10

Network sources have confirmed season four of “Destination Truth” will launch Thursday, September 9 at 9:00/8:00c. See Post.
7/17/10

“Just finished 3 months of filming for DT 4.0. Sore, bruised, and tired, but headed out into the streets of Madagascar to celebrate!” – Josh Gates 6/21/10

Destination Truth..Third Season..Best Ever. See Ratings post below.

Season 4 of Destination Truth, currently in production on eight new episodes, is slated for a Fall 2010 premiere.

Ghost Hunters Academy

Adam Berry is the Winner of Ghost Hunters Academy. Jason told Adam he would be “Joining Us, the TAPS Team on Ghost Hunters.” Video interview.

Ghost Adventures

Ghost Adventures Season 4 Premieres on Friday, September 17th!!!
(Note date change)

“Get ready for the MOST POWERFUL Season of Ghost Adventures EVER!!!!!… September 2010!!!” – Zak

“The EVPs we are NOW getting, are blowing me away… we can’t wait to share this in September for our New Season’s Premiere!” – Zak

“ANNOUNCEMENT! Just wanted to officially announce that Ghost Adventures has a LONG-TERM agreement with ALL-NEW Episodes w/ Travel Channel!” – Zak

Ghost Hunters International

Karl Pfeiffer, one of two graduates/winners of the first Season of Ghost Hunters Academy, is only on one episode of Ghost Hunters International.

“I just did one episode,” Pfeiffer says, adding that episode is slated to be the premiere July 14th. “That’s what it turned out to be at this point.”

Pfeiffer says he’s not sure if he’ll be cast for any more episodes. “There’s a possibility, but they really haven’t told me much at this point,” he says. “I’m not really too sure. They’ve been juggling a lot of different cast members for the show.”

New episodes return July 14. In the premiere episode, the team travel to the famous town of Nottingham, England and search for the Sherriff of Nottingham’s Ghost at the Galleries of Justice. Other countries on their global adventures will include, Wales, Norway, Poland, Ukraine, Estonia and many more.

The team includes, Robb Demarest, Barry FitzGerald, Brandy Green, Ashley Godwin, Paul Bradford, new cast member Scott Tepperman as well as GHA winners, Susan Slaughter and Karl Pfeiffer.

The Haunted

Chris Fleming reports that he is “Currently filming the Season Finale for Animal Planet’s “The Haunted” and it’s great stuff!” 6/28/10

The Haunted has been announced as a “Returning Series” on the Animal Planet! No date on when Season Two will Premiere. 4/8/10

See The Haunted Post below for more.

Psychic Kids

Filming episode 3/Season 3. “YOU ARE GONNA BE AMAZED BY THESE KIDS!!!” – Chip Coffey 7/15/10

“Episode 2 / Season 3 of Psychic Kids is complete.”
Chip Coffey 7/9/10

“The episode of Psychic Kids that we just taped in Florida was BEYOND INCREDIBLE! I was there and still can’t believe all that happened! The New Season of Psychic Kids will begin in the Fall on A&E…probably October. I’ll keep everyone posted.” – Chip Coffey 6/26/10

Psychic Kids has been announced as a “Returning Series” on A&E! Season 3 will have 7 one hour episodes and premieres in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Most Haunted

Yevette Fielding has announced she is leaving Most Haunted.
View Post here.

Ghost Hunters

Ghost Hunters has been renewed for a seventh season, 25 all new episodes to debut in 2011. New episodes of Season Six will return August 25. See announcement post here.

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Celebrity Ghost Stories returns for a second season featuring 18 one-hour episodes on Saturday, July 17 at 10 PM ET/ 11 PM PT.

See Announcement post with list of celebrities including Marilyn Manson here.

Paranormal State

“After 70 episodes of PS, I got to hop in the director’s seat to direct the opening shot of PS today!!” – Ryan Buell 6/30/10

“Wrapped up the first investigation for season five!! Great work to the new crew and team!” – Ryan Buell 6/20/10

“Man, do we have some AMAZING cases lined up for “Paranormal State Season 5!!” – Ryan Buell

After appearing on 30 episodes, Chip Coffey reports he will not be on any upcoming episodes of the new season. Michelle Belanger has been added as a permanent cast member.

Paranormal State has been announced as a “Returning Series” on A&E! Season 5 will have 20 thirty minute episodes and premiere in the fourth quarter of 2010.

“I officially just finished the edits for my 1st book. I am DONE!!! It hits bookshelves everywhere in September!!” – Ryan Buell

Pre-Order from Amazon now!

Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files

It appears that “Paranormal Investigators” which was a “working title”, has been changed to “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files”.

Syfy has ordered a new series named “Paranormal Witness”.

“From Dimitri Doganis and Bart Layton, the acclaimed creative team behind Locked Up Abroad, this tense, cinematic, high-octane drama-documentary series brings to life the stories of people who have lived through paranormal experiences that defy explanation; from poltergeists to alien encounters.

Using the mixture of intimate first-hand testimony and gritty realistic drama that the producers are known for, Paranormal Witness will take the audience into a world turned upside-down by extraordinary and terrifying events.”

My Ghost Story

Based on the success of the pilot, BIO has commissioned eight one-hour episodes of “My Ghost Story.”

The series features true and unbelievable stories of the paranormal told by the people who lived through them – and actually captured their hauntings on tape. From moving furniture to dark apparitions to violent poltergeists, these harrowing eye-witness accounts of the unexplainable are transformed into more than tales with terrifying visual evidence, viewers will have no choice but to believe their eyes.

There will be 8 one hour episodes and the Series premieres Saturday, July 17.

Ghost Lab

Ghost Lab Returns For Season Two, see Video announcement.

Paranormal Cops

Paranormal Cops reports they have yet to hear anything about their future regarding a second season.

If you want more Paranormal Cops write to A&E at AE.VIEWERRELATIONS@AETN.COM and let them know!

It could be your email that brings us more shows.

If there was any way to monitor TV ratings in the afterlife, the Travel Channel series “Ghost Adventures” would probably make a killing.

The show, which starts its fourth season in September, is not only one of the cable network’s most popular, but series stars Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin are becoming as well known in the netherworld as they are in the real one.

“A lot of people think that this, because it’s on television, is entertainment, and we’re out there yelling and screaming for no reason,” Bagans told AOL News. “We live with things that follow us constantly. This ‘door’ has been open so long that it just constantly keeps getting wider and wider. So when we go places, it’s almost like we’re known in the spirit world.

“We go places that we haven’t even been yet, and they call our names. They say, ‘Zak! Nick, come in!’ all the time.”

Bagans, Groff and Goodwin, on a promotional tour for their series, were in San Diego recently to meet their living fans at Comic-Con, but graciously gave any ghostly groupies a chance to say hello as well by agreeing to be interviewed in Room 3327 at the Hotel Del Coronado, a world-famous hotel with a world-famous ghost by the name of Kate Morgan.

Morgan has been scaring up business since 1892 when she reportedly took her own life after spending five lonely and lovesick days at the hotel waiting for a man who never arrived.

Although the hotel has hosted such living luminaries as Bill Clinton, “Weird” Al Yankovic and the cast of “Baywatch,” Morgan is the most famous permanent resident. Her hotel room is popular with guests, many of whom report having strange paranormal experiences while staying there.

In other words, the perfect place for an interview with ghost experts like these guys, right?

In fact, Bagans says he, Groff and Goodwin prefer to stay in haunted hotels whenever possible.

“It’s what we live in,” he says. “This is our environment, so to be around it, personally, makes me more comfortable.”

Groff agrees.

“We’ve been doing this for so long that usually when we walk in, we can pick up stuff right away,” he says.

At that moment, a water bottle suddenly flies out of the hand of the show’s publicist, Diane McNamara, and lands seven feet away at my feet. The suddenness freaks out McNamara, causing her to leave the room and stay away for the remainder of the interview.

“I felt immense sadness in that room,” she says teary-eyed after the interview. In another interview, a day later, she adds, “It’s actually been that way since we checked in. I keep asking to have my room changed.”

Groff, on the other hand, is used to encounters like this.

“That’s the kind of weird stuff that happens just like that,” he says.

McNamara is quick to add that she has never had any paranormal encounters before. Bagans and Groff are just as quick to add that they’ve never seen her as agitated as when her water bottle flew out of her hand.

Considering what has just happened, it seems an investigation is in order. Groff takes out a digital recorder to record any possible sound impressions. Sometimes a recording in a silent room can reveal strange messages, presumably from spirits.

The trio requests a moment of silence for the mini-investigation. Before turning on the recorder, Groff warns all those in the room that if they have to say something, they should not whisper, lest it be confused as a message from the afterlife.

“OK, we’re in Kate Morgan’s room; Zak, Nick, Aaron, David, Carrie Ann [the Hotel Del Coronado's publicist],” Groff says.

Bagans, who works as the lead investigator, steps in to make contact with whatever entity might be in the room.

“This is Zak,” he says. “Can I ask you a question? I just saw one of our friends act in a way that we’ve never seen before, and I clearly saw a bottle taken out of her hand without any movement on her part whatsoever and fly about seven feet. I want to ask you, Are you angry with us? Or were you just trying to get our attention? ‘Cause you really, really frightened her, and I know you weren’t trying to do that. But can you give us a sign now? Can you shut this door for me? Can you just do that? Or would you rather appear in this mirror? Might be easier.”

Groff adds his two cents.

“Kate? Are you here with us? If you are, can you throw something or move something so we know you’re there?”

Bagans then asks the mysterious spook why it pushed the bottle out of McNamara’s hand and says offhand to Groff, “It f—ing flew!”

Groff agrees, saying, “Yeah, it flew” before turning back to the ghost. “Kate, can you tell us right here why you threw that?”

Bagans: “I’m starting to feel something.”

Groff continues the line of questioning. “Were you mad that she was in here?”

At this moment, Bagans mentions the sound of leaves rustling outside the window and explains that the crew always notes these noises when doing a digitally recorded investigation so they don’t overreact to the noises during playback.

Then he returns his attention back to whatever entity may have made the water bottle fly across the room.

“Kate, is that you or somebody else?” he asks. “Did you follow us here? Are you a male?”

He pauses for a moment and visually scours the room. Then he focuses his attention on the backpack on the bed.

“My red tag just moved,” he says quickly to the others. “Were you watching that?”

Groff uses this as an opening.

“Do you not like that backpack on the bed?” he asks.

Bagans follows up the questioning.

“Is it because it’s mine? Are you trying to get my sacred chrism out of there?” he asks, later explaining that the chrism is a special anointing oil he uses to protect himself from the occasional evil entity. In passing, he mentions that he has a really good exorcist on speed dial.

Throughout this, Goodwin, who is often set up as “ghostly bait” by Groff and Bagans, continues to visually scour the room, mostly checking for cracks, drafts and any signs for strange energy, such as sudden cold or hot spots in a room.

He and Groff then lead Bagans over to a spot near the closet that fits the bill.

“It feels cool on my arm,” Goodwin says.

Despite this feeling, and a general tingly feeling, no more experiences occur. Bagans says this is common.

“A lot of times, just like that, they can just be here for a fraction of a second, and then they’re just gone,” he says. “It’s as if they’ve left through some kind of doorway. It always seems like our world and their world are like two pieces of Swiss cheese that are constantly moving, and occasionally the holes match up for just a second.”

Bagans has been documenting his ghost hunting since 2004. He, Groff and Goodwin have come to believe that what we consider to be ghosts fall into three types:

• Residual energy of people who had shocking experiences, such as being murdered
• Intelligent beings capable of answering questions from humans
• Demonic beings that mimic the sounds of children.

Groff’s experiences have convinced him that evil people give off a very powerful energy.

“You have good people in this world, and you have bad people,” he says. “We go to a lot of pretty vicious prisons. At the end of the day, you realize these are some pretty vicious people — rapists and murderers — and you wonder what happens to their energy when they die.

“Well, that energy still lingers. And when we go to these jails where they don’t want you there, they can harm you or do something to you or make you feel like your equilibrium is thrown off.”

Another discovery that Groff has made in the three seasons that “Ghost Adventures” has been on the air is that evil is very hot.

“We just captured an amazing piece of evidence on a thermal cam,” he says. “We felt a piece of really really warm heat right before we captured something on our thermal camera, and we’re learning that the warm presences are actual evil entities, bad spirits. So I think bad spirits give off more of a warm energy.”

So how do the guys keep the bad energy away from them?

Well, they each have different ways, but Bagans swears by his sacred chrism, an olive oil version of holy water that he uses to anoint his body at key moments.

“I don’t leave home without it,” he says.

It’s a good thing too. During one encounter in the coming season, Bagans says he was surrounded by such evil that the oil itself created a burning sensation on his forehead, unlike any other he has experienced.

It might get tough at times, but Bagans believes he is following a path of destiny. His paranormal passion was stoked by a face-to-face encounter with the spirit of a suicidal woman who haunted his old apartment building in Trenton, Mich.

“My life was very bad at one point until I had this huge experience with this ghost, and it changed my life for the better,” he says.

At that moment, the impromptu investigation is deemed over, but Bagans, Groff and Goodwin agree that they need to come back to the hotel to investigate further. Bagans also admits that while he’s sympathetic toward McNamara’s skittish reaction at the encounter, he has a different reaction.

“To know somebody who’s not trying to put herself in this position, to see how uncomfortable she was walking down the hallway, to see a bottle fly from her hand seven feet. It’s frightening to her, but it puts a smile on my face,” he says.

AOL News

Network sources have confirmed season four of “Destination Truth” will launch Thursday, September 9 at 9:00/8:00c followed by newcomer “Beast Legends” at 10:00/9:00c.

“Legends” is billed as an “investigative adventure series” in which “we join a globetrotting animal doctor, a Harvard professor of evolutionary biology, a gifted illustrator, and a mythology maven as they explore the truth behind some of the world’s most renowned creatures.”

The pair will take over for recently launched occupants “Mary Knows Best” and “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files,” which wrap their respective seasons on August 19.

Mary Occhino

Mary Occhino was a definite character. Her grown children had their hands full. I felt badly for her daughter Jackie… Mary’s heavy handed matchmaking attempts would have embarrassed any single adult daughter. Much worse than the time an employee tried to set me up with the UPS guy. Mary O already has grandchildren via her son Carol. Why not leave Jackie alone?

Her son Chris… eccentric would be the kind term. He seems to alternate between end of the world survivalist planning and trying to be some sort of new age guru in the making. His statements “I have no room for failure in my life. I am running out of time” and “I am just bugging out right now” pretty much summed up how he was presented in the pilot episode.

I was more than a little worried when Mary kept repeating that “I am never wrong” She finally toned it down a bit and said her accuracy was between 85 and 90 percent. Nobody is always right. Ever.

Mary’s impressions of an old house she and her journalist son Carl walked through was proven to be impressively on track. She picked up on a private family Cherokee graveyard, underground railroad activity and the first name of a past owner. All these bits of information were confirmed by her son Carl at a local historical society.  Mary said there was an accident, which was probably the car accident that killed former owner Earnest Tuttle. I would have liked to have known more about the bodies she saw laid out in front of the house. I think an entire family perished due to a rampant disease such as scarlet fever or typhoid. I would also add booze smuggling to the history of the house.

I saw the bodies, two adults and three children. The bodies were strangely bloated. Perhaps they were not found right away? Got an image of boxes of bottles secreted in the cupboards in the upper floors of the house. I heard the cries of the baby born and who passed in the front room of the house. The rest of it I didn’t pick up on but Carl found factual backup for her claims.

Mary stated all three of her grown children were also paranormally gifted but only son Chris acknowledged it.

On the spot readings as she went about her daily life… such things do happen, but I doubted everyone would be receptive to having their life stories pried open at the supermarket, bakery or dry cleaners.

I did enjoy the snippets from Mary’s radio show. The difference there was people self selected, chose to call in and requested spot readings on the air.

The purpose of a reality show is to entertain and Mary O certainly provided that.

Blessings,

Lynne

Lynne Olson can be contacted for private readings at: angelzhands@yahoo.com

 

A Message From Yvette Fielding

Dear All

As you all know, Most Haunted has been not only my baby but a serious passion of mine since Karl and I came up with the idea. We sold just about everything and got a huge loan to make the pilot. We fought so hard to get it on the screens. We didn’t let the constant knock backs stop us until eventually it was taken up by Living (UK Living as it was known then) and the rest is history. A history you have helped make.

The show has won awards here in the UK, in New York and sold around the world. It has been parodied by the legendary Saturday Night Live in the USA, French and Saunders here in Bughty and even watched by Royalty. It was cited as having a pivotal role in Living winning “Broadcast Channel Of The Year” and constantly returning the channels highest ratings. It is the most successful Paranormal Show in history and something we are very proud of. No other show has been copied, parodied and plagiarized so much. If it is true that imitation is highest form of flattery, we consider ourselves very flattered.

The success of the show is purely down to a great team, the odd ghost and you, the fans who have given me so much support and encouragement over the years. It is because of you that I have managed to continue through some very hard times and difficult decisions. The highs have been truly high and the lows very trying but we made it through and came out with a show that I can stand by confidently and say I did my best.

At the start I wanted to bring Paranormal Investigations to a wider audience, making them more acceptable and with the ever growing amount of groups that have started since Most Haunted began, I feel that has been achieved.

It has been a great 10 years. However, after a lot of thought and soul searching over the past year, I have come to a decision. It is now time for me to hang up my long black coat, move on and leave Most Haunted as it’s presenter, in order to purse other projects. I hope that the Brand will continue for years to come as it will always be dear to me.

As well as continuing with ITV2’s “Ghosthunting with…” which grows from strength to strength and with some great celebrity guests coming up, it is much watch TV. I will be carrying on my quest to find paranormal activity on other channels taking investigations further than ever before and expanding on what I have already done.

I have felt for some time that I wanted to move Paranormal Investigations to the next level. This is in no small part to the 1000’s of letters and emails I get asking to go further and move forward. So in answer to you the fans of the Paranormal, that is what I am doing.

In leaving, I want to say a huge thanks to a great team of investigators that have turned the show into a household name. The tech crew who have been on the show and to Living for broadcasting the show over the past 10 years.

But my biggest thanks is to you the viewers. Most Haunted owes you a true debt of gratitude. I truly can’t thank you enough.

Carry on Ghost findings, as for me that’s not so much Goodbye as..See you on the other side!

Antix Productions

You’ve watched Jason, Grant and the rest of the TAPS family investigate the paranormal from Rhode Island to Romania. Now YOU have a chance to join one of our Ghost Hunters teams!

The SYFY network and Pilgrim Films and Television invite you to apply for a position as an investigator, researcher, team leader or tech expert on one of our Ghost Hunters franchises.  You have knowledge and experience that could make you the perfect ghost hunter. So contact producers now!

Simply send an email to GhostHuntersCasting@gmail.com with the following information:

1. Your name
2. Your best phone number(s)
3. Your city/state
4. A clear, recent photograph of yourself
5. A brief description of why you’d be perfect for Ghost Hunters International or Ghost Hunters Academy.  

We hope as we progress in our knowledge of the field and gain expertiese with various instruments and methods these documentaries will be a learning tool for other investigators and people interested in the field.

Brandon Alvis of APRA with GhostTVblogs’ Karen Lambert
at the GAC/Darkness Radio Eastern State Event (6/2010)

New Episodes of Season 6 will premiere August 25 @ 9 PM.

Ghost Hunters, Syfy’s hugely successful reality series, has been renewed for a triumphant seventh season. After inspiring two spin-offs, creating the hottest paranormal franchise in cable, Ghost Hunters has set the standard for paranormal investigating and has cemented its place as a destination for spine-tingling entertainment! Its reign will continue with 25 all-new episodes, slated to premiere on Syfy in 2011.

Since the series debuted in 2004, viewers have flocked to Syfy on Wednesday nights to catch the latest hair-raising cases from the files of TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society), led by Rhode Island plumbers Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.

The first half of season six (airing spring 2010), averaged a 1.9 Household rating, 2.6 million total viewers, 1.6 million Adults 18-49 and 1.6 million Adults 25-54. Syfy was the #1 cable network in Ghost Hunters’ 9pm timeslot for the spring season.

Before season seven debuts, viewers can enjoy new episodes from the entire Ghost Hunters franchise all summer and fall. The new class of ghost hunting hopefuls are currently in training under the watchful eyes of Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango on the new season of Ghost Hunters Academy, now airing Wednesday nights at 9pm.

Ghost Hunters International will debut a new slate of episodes on Wednesday, July 14 @ 9pm, and the rest of Ghost Hunters season six will premiere Wednesday, August 25 @ 9pm.

Celebrity Ghost Stories” returns for a second season featuring 18 one-hour episodes on Saturday, July 17 at 10PM ET/ 11PM PT.

“Celebrity Ghost Stories” is told completely through first-person narrative by notable actors, musicians and models who believe they have experienced the other side. The hit series features descriptive, personal accounts that deliver a compelling, surprising and downright chilling look into the world of the paranormal.

In the second season premiere, Michael Imperioli meets a tormented spirit at the legendary Chelsea Hotel; Joan Collins enrages a vengeful ghost during a dinner party in Venice; a young Donna D’Errico befriends a little girl who’s not what she seems; and a spirit gets Corey Feldman’s life back on track.

Celebrities this season include: Marilyn Manson, Billy Baldwin, Joan Collins, Alice Cooper, Haylie Duff, Corey Feldman, Deborah Gibson, Tracey Gold, Jermaine Jackson, Shirley Jones, Christopher Knight, Laura Prepon, Eric Balfour, Tempest Bledsoe, Donna D’Errico, Fred Dryer, Kathryn Erbe, Dave Foley, Willie Garson, Michael Imperioli, Diane Ladd, Kimberley Locke, Carol Alt, Tracy Nelson, Chazz Palminteri, Joey Pantoliano, Paulina Porizkova, Matthew Settle, Karina Smirnoff, Connie Stevens, Michael Urie, Dick Van Patten, Lindsay Wagner, Mykelti Williamson, and Marissa J. Winokur.