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Stargate Atlantis

science fiction television series

TV series · TMDB

★ 8.0

With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to contact Earth, but their explorations unexpectedly reawaken the Ancients' deadly enemies, The Wraith, who hunger for this new prey. Now with the help of newfound local allies like Teyla Emmagan, the Atlantis Team sets about to uncover their new home's secrets even as their war of survival against the Wraith begins.

Aired: 2004–2009
Seasons: 5 · 100 episodes
Status: Ended
Created by: Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright
Network: Syfy
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama

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Genre: Action - adventure Science fiction
Created by: Brad Wright Robert C. Cooper
Based on: Stargate , by Roland Emmerich , Dean Devlin
Starring: Joe Flanigan Torri Higginson Rachel Luttrell Rainbow Sun Francks David Hewlett Jason Momoa Paul McGillion Amanda Tapping Jewel Staite Robert Picardo
Theme music composer: Joel Goldsmith
Countries of origin: Canada United States
Original language: English
Number span no of episodes: 100 ( list of episodes )
Executive producers: Brad Wright Robert C. Cooper Joseph Mallozzi Paul Mullie Martin Gero Carl Binder
Running time: 43 minutes
Production companies: Acme Shark Productions MGM Worldwide Television Distribution Sony Pictures Television , (2005–2006) , (season 2)
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Stargate Atlantis (abbreviated as SGA) is a military science fiction adventure television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. The show was created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper as a spin-off series of Stargate SG-1, which was created by Wright and Jonathan Glassner and was itself based on the feature film Stargate (1994). All five seasons of Stargate Atlantis were broadcast by the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States and The Movie Network in Canada. The show premiered on July 16, 2004; its final episode aired on January 9, 2009. The series was filmed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The story of Stargate Atlantis follows the events of Stargate SG-1's seventh season finale episode "Lost City" and eighth season premiere episode "New Order" in which the cast of that series discovered an Antarctic outpost created by the alien race known as the Ancients. In the pilot episode "Rising", Dr. Daniel Jackson discovers the location of Atlantis, the legendary city created by the Ancients, and Stargate Command sends an international team to investigate it.