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Stargate

The 1994 film starts the story and the series quietly rewrites parts of it, and two of the shows were built to be watched in parallel.

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Where to start with Stargate

Start with the film, then SG-1, and pick Atlantis up in the middle of SG-1 rather than after it. The two shows shared a production and a broadcast slot for three years and occasionally hand things to each other, so running them in parallel is the order they were made for.

  1. 1
    Stargate, the 1994 film Stargate

    Two hours that explain the gate, Abydos and Ra, all of which the series treats as history you already have. The series contradicts details of it but never replaces it.

  2. 2
    Stargate SG-1, season 1 Stargate SG-1

    Opens by going back to Abydos for the characters the film left there, with a new cast. Twenty two episodes, including a two hour pilot.

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    SG-1, season 8, first two episodes Stargate SG-1

    Watch the two part opener New Order before touching Atlantis, because the Antarctic outpost story it finishes is what sends the expedition to another galaxy.

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    Stargate Atlantis, season 1 Stargate Atlantis

    Its premiere continues straight out of SG-1's Lost City and New Order, and it aired in the same weeks as the rest of SG-1 season 8. New cast, new galaxy, new enemy.

Then what? Carry on in parallel: SG-1 season 9 with Atlantis season 2, SG-1 season 10 with Atlantis season 3, a block of one then a block of the other is close enough. SG-1's tenth season stops without finishing the Ori story, so The Ark of Truth comes next, then Continuum, and both sit inside the run of Atlantis seasons 4 and 5 rather than after them. Finish Atlantis, then Universe, which is two seasons and stops mid story because it was cancelled. Origins is a ten part prequel best treated as an afterthought if at all.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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