{"id":9017,"date":"2010-03-13T16:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T20:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2018-01-10T06:58:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T14:58:27","slug":"walter-harriman-engages-chevrons-and-fans-at-los-angeles-stargate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/2010\/03\/13\/walter-harriman-engages-chevrons-and-fans-at-los-angeles-stargate\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Harriman Engages Chevrons and SGU SG1 SGA Fans at Los Angeles Stargate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Hey Stargate Fans,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"Click to visit Creation Entertainment\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7904\" title=\"Click to visit Creation Entertainment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CreationConventiontour-c.jpg\" alt=\"Click to visit Creation Entertainment\" width=\"155\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">What can we say except all our gratitude to <a title=\"Click to visit Gary Jones on IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0428104\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gary Jones<\/strong><\/a>, <a title=\"Click to visit Creation Entertainment!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creationent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Creation <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7696\" title=\"Click to visit Stargate on MGM-Dot Com!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MGM-Lion-035.jpg\" alt=\"Click to visit Stargate on MGM-Dot Com!\" width=\"166\" height=\"113\" \/>Entertainment<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 MGM and Stargate creators for Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman! Airman Harriman! Air<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">man! Sergeant Davis and acclaimed Starhole star. Here was the man who made the chevrons light up! LIVE at the Los Angeles Stargate 2009 convention! Gary Jones, the man who activated then lived to tell about the fabled seventh chevron and beyond. Even with the ninth chevron activated in Stargate Universe, Gary Jones performance Saturday November 7, 2009 is testimony to why he remains a Stargate legend to this very day!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LA Stargate 2009 - Gary Jones, Walter Harriman. Courtesy SciFiFanGirl616\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SciFiFanGirl616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9023\" title=\"LA Stargate 2009 - Gary Jones, Walter Harriman. Courtesy SciFiFanGirl616\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-01.jpg\" alt=\"LA Stargate 2009 - Gary Jones, Walter Harriman. Courtesy SciFiFanGirl616\" width=\"550\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Well folks it is all true, Gary\u2019s appearance at the Stargate convention Los Angeles in November 2009 was all that and more! Included is a news clip that highlights the fun we had as Gary Jones re-enacted his beloved role of Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman! For the uninitiated, the news video is a two and 1\/2 minute education of what Stargate is all about. Fans of Stargate, either at the convention or not, surely understand CMS Walter Harriman!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><script src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/tools.flashembed-1.0.4.min.js\"><\/script><a id=\"player00051\" style=\"width: 576px; display: block; height: 384px;\"><\/a><!-- third argument is flowplayer configuration --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[ flashembed(\"player00051\", \"http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/flowplayer-3.1.2.swf\", { config: { clip: { autoPlay: false, autoBuffering: true, bufferLength: 25, url: 'http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/video\/2010-Gary-Jones-Chevron-Tribute-Mar1310-Rev-002.flv' } } }); \/\/ ]]><\/script><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Of all the characters in Stargate, Gary\u2019s portrayal of the person who finally became Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman ranks high in the minds of fans and this author for his enduring role in the Stargate franchise. Dating back to the earliest episodes when he was referred to as just \u2018Airman\u2019 by General Hammond, it was then Gary shared that he began his quest for a name to his character (although that never officially took shape for many years to come).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -02\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9029\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-02.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -02\" width=\"576\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">As one of the longest lived non main characters of the Stargate series, his staid and steady performances spanned the entire Stargate series and the movies too. For me Stargate was not quite Stargate unless Walter was at the dialing computer! Although it took many years, who can forget the Stargate SG-1 episode \u20182010\u2019 when we heard General O\u2019Neill, Richard Dean Anderson, first utter the proper name of Walter? How many times did we hear Gary state \u201cChevron Seven Locked\u201d? According to a variety of sources, Gary stated the fateful words at least 100 times over the course of the Stargate franchise history.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -03\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9032\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-03.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -03\" width=\"304\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a>Where would we be without these fateful words \u2018Chevron 7 Locked!&#8217;? Nowhere that\u2019s where! That\u2019s right fans, without Chief Master Sergeant (CMS) Walter Harriman we might never have gone anywhere. It was Walter who knew the seventh chevron must be &#8220;locked&#8221; to engage the Stargate and Gary\u00a0 had helped make it all happen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">CMS Walter Harriman, aka Gary Jones entered the Creation Entertainment stage at the LAX Marriott and immediately mused that the audience looked like we were sitting in a game of musical chairs or bingo seats! The audience warmed up to Gary right away as many in the audience recalled from the evening before when Gary Jones and Dean Haglund had appeared in the Creation Entertainment Starhole Improvisation Theatre at the convention.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary commented on how much fun it was for him. He stated that really liked the special sound effects that all sounded like a screaming cat! The audience who were present the evening before roared with laughter at the fond memories of the Starhole Improvisation Theatre originally started years before by Gary and Dean at a convention in Germany known as FedCon. He and Dean Haglund had carried on the show all through 2009 at each Creation Entertainment convention in Vancouver, Chicago and here in Los Angeles. We hope to see more of Gary, Dean and Starhole in the future.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Many stars (in fact most people) sometimes have uncomfortable first moments on a stage. Not Gary Jones. His personality literally bubbles forth in such a humorous manner he quickly endeavors to put the audience at ease. It was a delight to observe his easy style before the fans of Stargate. From his deportment and presentation, it was clear Gary was a veteran of convention appearances and knew the \u2018workings\u2019 of an audience for maximum enjoyment for all present during his panel appearance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The next sequence that Gary related reminded me of a time I had purchas<a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -04\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9035\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -04\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-04.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -04\" width=\"252\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a>ed a battery powered drill while out of town in Austin Texas. I too had left a suspect item in my carry on baggage only to be confronted by overwrought security guards. Gary shared his own adventure about the time he was going home from a convention. \u201cI was going through security at the airport and I had purchased something for a friends young boy. I had left the toy in my carry on suitcase. The security guard was sitting there, and I placed the carry on bag to go through the scanner. Suddenly the security guard jumped up! The guard scanned the bag several times back and forth (on the conveyor belt). All of a sudden the security guard called a supervisor over. I noticed that they had a hushed conversation.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones continues: \u201cNext thing I knew the airport security staff supervisor comes over to me and says \u201cSir is this yours (referring to the bag)? Would you mind opening it for me?\u201d So I opened up the bag , and the toy is on the top of the items of clothing!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The supervisor asks \u201cExcuse me sir what is that (pointing to what appears to be a weapon)?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201dI responded respectfully &#8216;That is a Star Trek toy. It&#8217;s a Phaser&#8217;.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The security supervisor immediately looked over to the guard who called him and said \u201cI am going to kick his butt\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The audience immediately broke up in laughter<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary on a roll continued: \u201cIs everyone here was from Los Angeles?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">A few in the crowd nodded, including one fellow who said it only took him five minutes to get to the Creation Entertainment Stargate convention. Gary immediately ad-libbed and responded<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">\u201cOh you live at the Hilton Hotel? Very nice!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Continued: \u201cYou\u2019re in the penthouse suite, but you could not get a front row seat?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Another fan said they were from Australia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cThat does not count!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The crowd burst into laughter and Gary had succeeded in breaking the ice with the convention attendees. Gary then engaged another Australian fan asking where they were both from. Gary asked both if they knew where the other person was from? The fans responded in a humorous fashion. Both said yes. One indicated the other was south and the other fan said she was north!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary continued to heckle the audience as he searched for another audience member to \u201ctarget\u201d! It did not take him long. It quickly became obvious Gary was a professional in all aspects of interacting with his fans! Gary picked out a poor unsuspecting fan:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">\u201cSir are you pissed off? You have yours arms folded, or that is your normal look?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -05\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9037\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -05\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-05.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -05\" width=\"293\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a>Gary then inquired as to what the fan what he did (for a living) and then drove home the good natured banter with him: &#8220;Yes (pointing) you sir, I am not talking to the lady six rows behind you!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The audience was warming up to Gary quickly as many chuckled in their seats.The poor fan answered something \u201cFire Alarms Installer\u201d, but I did not catch the entire response,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary quickly quipped: \u201cIf you\u2019re going to talk to me don\u2019t use that accent. That\u2019s why your wife is here isn\u2019t it, she translates for you?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The crowd roared with laughter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary then teased the fan about his pronunciation of the Fire Alarm installer came out as Fiirre Alllarm IIIIInstaller\u201d. \u201cOh you didn\u2019t feel like putting your hand up when I asked where everyone was from?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The fan, in good humor, then told Gary he was from England.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary moved on from the good natured fan to tell us about the Saturday Creation Entertainment breakfast and that he met many people. Gary went on to mention that he had missed the Karaoke being busy with Starhole and that he did not even know that there was one!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Only a few minutes into his stage appearance, the Los Angeles convention fans began to migrate to the microphones to ask questions. Naturally the first question had to do with how Gary finally got his name \u2018Walter Harriman\u2019 on Stargate SG-1. Having read many interviews on this subject, I expected the story to be essentiality the same. What I did not expect was the animated nature in which Gary related the now legendary tale of how his character evolved over the many years of Stargate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -06\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9040\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -06\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-06.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -06\" width=\"576\" height=\"767\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cIt was completely at the whim of the producers of the show. My character went through so many changes over the 10 years that I became a completely different \u2018person\u2019 from the original who started out as a technician, Norman Davis in the script.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">\u201cBut here is what Stargate fans need to know. I was never referred to as Sergeant Davis in the early shows. My character was always referred to as \u2018technician\u2019 or even \u2018hey you\u2019 especially when Don Davis used to say \u201cOpen the iris\u201d.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary digressed for a moment: \u201cDon Davis was the best!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"Lost City Beloved Don S. Davis as General George Hammond\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0204493\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9053\" title=\"Lost City Beloved Don S. Davis as General George Hammond\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004-Lost-City-General-Hammond-576x321.jpg\" alt=\"Lost City Beloved Don S. Davis as General George Hammond\" width=\"576\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The audience went silent and also observed a brief moment of silence for the now deceased Don S. Davis, the much loved George Hammond of Texas and always remembered as the \u201cGeneral\u201d of Stargate!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cMy character was referred to as Norman Davis for the longest time. Then one day the producers said to me \u201cHey you\u2019re Sgt Norman Davis\u201d I said great and asked are if they were going to call me Norman in the lines? The response was quick: \u201cNo, but that is who you are!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The audience chuckled as Gary continued: \u201cThis went on for years until one day during filming of 2010, <a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - 08. Courtesy Kenn Weeks\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9056\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - 08. Courtesy Kenn Weeks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-08.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - 08. Courtesy Kenn Weeks\" width=\"340\" height=\"538\" \/><\/a>Richard Dean Anderson ad-libbed the famous \u201cWalter\u201d question when struggling to remember my name. Richard was just winging it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">After the shooting sequence had stopped I said [deadpan] \u201cbut my name in the script is Norman\u201d. The script person said \u201cThat\u2019s right his name is Norman\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cRichard (Dean Anderson) looked at me and said\u201d \u201cNorman? Not anymore, now you are Walter!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The audience roared at Gary\u2019s impersonation of RDA!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cSo due to Richard Dean Anderson, after 4 or 5 years I was finally going to have a first name! Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman. All thanks to Richard Dean Anderson winging [ad-libbing] it on the set one day. But I was not there yet!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Editors Note: As mentioned I have read many reports on Gary Jones \u2018name evolution\u2019, including a fine report by PlayItGrand. However it is the acting talent Gary brings to the stage that truly makes his story come to life right before your eyes. When Gary \u201cplayed\u201d RDA acting out on stage, one can just imagine RDA knowing he had the perfect shoot and not wanting to change anything, simply named Gary \u201cWalter\u201d on the fly.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones mocked himself: \u201cBefore that I was always referred to as \u2018Airman\u2019 in all the episodes because I was supposed to be in the Air Force. \u2018Airman\u2019, \u2018Airman\u2019, \u2018Airman\u2019! Hey \u2018Airman\u2019!\u201d [Gary growls a fake order at the \u2018Airman\u2019 of Stargate SG-1]. AIRMAN! After a time it somehow morphed into Harriman as actors quickly spoke the lines in the scripts instead of saying Airiman\u2026.. it often came out Harriman! I remember actors also saying what sounded like Harriman several times on set. One of the directors and Richard said \u201cWhere did that come from\u201d \u201cHarriman?\u201d \u201c A discussion ensued about Airman, Harriman and how it was written in the script as Airman. DA asked \u201cWhy did you keep calling him something else? Harriman? \u201d Then the next thing I knew RDA was saying: \u201cHey! Let\u2019s just call him [Walter] Harriman\u201d At that point I had a real name in the series and I thought to myself \u2018they could not get rid of me, they cannot replace me, I have a name\u2019!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary suddenly gestured to a friend who entered the auditorium, it was a person named Michael, the creator of special sound effects for the Starhole Improvisation Cabaret the night before. Gary asked for a round of applause, which was quickly answered by the fans who had attended the show.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cMike I just want to say [imitating the sound of a screeching cat in several tones of voice] RMeoooooww, or was it Rrrrrrrroewwwwww, or maybe you said it Meowrrrrrrr. Oh so funny. Thank you Mike!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -10\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9060\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-10.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -10\" width=\"537\" height=\"871\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The audience roared once again at Gary and his delightful performance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones continues the \u201cname\u201d story chuckling: \u201cSo OMG, that\u2019s what happened. They had named me and couldn\u2019t kill me of or kick me off! Although I did die in the show. But it had gotten to the point where you know, [Walter] is a secondary character so I said to myself \u2018You WILL read the scripts so you can do your scenes\u2019. I remember one time there was one script [Avatar] where I did not read it and I showed up on set. I knew I was on that day, kind of flipped through the script, saw a line or so, and did not read the rest of the script. So just then the make-up lady says to me \u2018So how do you feel about dying?\u2019 I was <a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Courtesy Creation Entertainment\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9059\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -09\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-09.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -09\" width=\"368\" height=\"772\" \/><\/a>absolutely silent you know, but [faked it] saying \u2018Yeah, yeah [stumbling] I mean you know \u2026 I am okay with all that\u2019. I rushed to read the script and said to myself \u2018What the hell\u2019. So I am going through and through it, scanning and scanning and then I see where it says \u2018Walter Harriman falls over backwards, DEAD!\u2019 Because I had not read the whole script, I am like \u2018Dying? I\u2019m dying?\u2019. Then I saw Martin Wood and we were talking and went like \u2018so Martin what\u2019s with Harriman dying?\u2019 Martin said \u2018that\u2019s the way it in the computer game simulation is you dumb bell!\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">During this sequence Gary acted out like he had missed the script references, only read about the dying part, acting out his role playing of both Martin Wood while feigning his begging to Martin for an answer only to be blind-sided with Martin Wood\u2019s response. The audience erupted each time Gary morphed into yet another character impersonation on stage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones continues: \u201cBOY I SHOULD HAVE READ THAT STUFF TOO before asking Martin Wood! I then read the script to you know find out what was really going on, that it was in a computer game sequence in the Gate Room where \u2026 \u2026 Dan Payne, you remember the super soldier [Kull Warrior] kills me? Oh this is a favorite of mine. Dan is just a massive guy, dressed up all in black and is coming in to kill everybody. This is the episode directed by Peter [Deluise] also one of the producers. And Peter comes in and says \u2018Dan Payne is going to come in and just waste everybody in the control room. You know just like walk in and [Gary imitates sounds of Kull Warrior weapons fire] just blow everybody away. He motions to the [other] technicians, you know you guys are just working away on the computers, and you turn around and see the Kull Warrior and get hit all over the place.\u2019 So I asked, what do I do? He responded \u2018 You just sit in your chair and die!\u2019 So all I have to do is sit in this chair and\u2026? Peter said \u2018just swivel [in the chair] and just DIE!\u2019 But I said to myself \u2018In the chair when there is the sound of machine gun fire in the room, and I just die in my chair?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Once again Gary\u2019s smooth acting skills played out the role of a defeated actor told to \u2018simply die in his chair\u2019. The audience roared as he recreated his inner emotions to the fact of his characters now found out to be \u2018simulated death\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cSo yeah, I was told \u2018 just swivel around to see who was firing a machine gun and then DIE!\u2019 I was like everybody else, flung around the room, riddled with machine gun fire, and all I get to do is swivel around to see who is firing and die and \u2018just fall backwards!\u201d I asked like I was checking e-mail and logged out and then swiveled in the chair?\u2019 Peter said \u2018no just swivel and die!\u2019 So I thought to myself over the years of being in the control room chair in Stargate I would \u2018Live by the chair, die by the chair! So there I was confronted with my fate of the \u2018chair\u2019!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -11\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9061\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-11-250x384.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -11\" width=\"311\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a>Gary Jones continued: \u201d So to die in the chair, they wire you with [fake bullet wounds] called squibs, that is the technical stage term for it. So they go \u2018 hey you are going to have like 10 squibs on you\u2019. So when they fired on me the all just go off at once and you are dead! But it takes a whole lot of time just to set that up. During the filming we did it several times when Peter said \u2018Let\u2019s do that again\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary completed his improvisation skit with sound effects and by acting out all of the roles replete with machine gun fire, screams of death, Kull Warriors and ending with his own humble \u2018place of death in the chair\u2019! The audience howled at his antics on stage! Gary was a one man show of sheer humorous entertainment! His sequence was elongated some eight or nine minutes with the gesticulating Gary all over the stage. The crowd was hooting and hollering so loudly it was hard capture every word. I for one in the crowd belly-laughed until my sides figuratively split.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201dThe other thing I think about is an action figure of me, or should I say [from chair death experience] an INACTION figure of me?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary acted out swiveling in the chair, knees bent like an action figure going to an ignominious death one more time to the delight of the clapping and cheering audience.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201dThe action figure comes with me looking at the control room sheet of Plexi-glass. Yeah, that\u2019s right with a little recording saying Chevron One encoded .. Chevron Seven LOCKED! I spent so much time in front of that glass [in the control room] it was hilarious. I like thought that everyone was laughing after eight seasons of me saying Chevron One encoded .. But they never did. It got to the point where my character did not say it much anymore and cast members would come up to me and ask \u2018Please say Chevron Seven LOCKED\u2019 one more time. You do it the best! No one can say it like you, no body. Please say it again! So I did just because I happened to be the guy!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -12\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9063\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-12.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -12\" width=\"565\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">In fact Gary was a self propelled action figure of real life human proportions all by himself! It is difficult to describe the detailed acting Gary engaged in, but all of these answers came from asking just one simple question. Seeing Gary on stage was equivalent to the many soothing years of what we all knew: That CMS Walter Harriman was in fact always in the control room saying Chevron Seven Locked sending ever more SG Teams on their missions! Now as an aide in Stargate Universe to General O\u2019Neill in the Pentagon, Gary Jones was integral to the feeling of Stargate family at the convention. Without prompting for another question:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cIt was always cool to open the gate. There was once when I opened the Gate, it was in the first season where we are all sitting around a table with the early scripts before a lot of concepts were being worked out. The table meetings ended as the series took off, but anyway here we were all sitting around a table reading the script and it got to the point where I started reading chevrons, you known Chevron 1 ..2 \u2026 3 encoded&#8230; When Michael Greenburg asks me \u2018Now is it supposed to be Chevron Seven Encoded or Chevron Seven Locked?\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones continues: \u201cI was amazed because for this guy this stuff was quite real. I said \u2018I liked it when it was written \u2018Locked\u2019 .. Chevron Seven Locked\u2019,. Martin looked at me with a twinkle in his eye and said \u2018Okay, okay, Locked, Yes that\u2019s perfect for the Stargate\u2019. I looked at him again and then said to myself \u2018I know it\u2019s not real, it\u2019s Stargate it is not really real!\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -13\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9064\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-13.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -13\" width=\"551\" height=\"716\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">So with that we learned how the phrase stuck with Gary\u2019s alter ego Walter Harriman all these years. It was a very entertaining rendition of the fabled story. Now some 20 minutes into a 45 minute panel, what was amazing was how well the crowd had sync\u2019d with Gary, myself included. Gary then noticed that there were fans at the microphones and engaged the bravest of Stargate fans; those brave enough whom dare to stand toe to toe with the quick witted Gary Jones! Gary then recognized the first person at the microphone as a fan he referred to as Teal\u2019c from his appearance on stage as the audience member who played the Teal\u2019c character in the Starhole Cabaret the previous evening. Gary gave him a round of applause as did the audience. Many remembered the fun of the Starhole Improvisation Cabaret.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cHey. Good to see you! What is your name?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Fan Teal\u2019c: \u201cHi Gary my name is Martin. I heard that Chevron 7 locked is your favorite line. It is also my favorite Stargate line. Did you ever have to practice different ways of saying it?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cI once tried \u2018Seven Locked Chevron\u2019, but no, I could not really do much of anything with that line.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Fan Teal\u2019c: \u201cIt seemed to me that you always put always put so much emphasis on the word \u201clocked\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cLocked. Well yes I guess I did do that. I wanted to give it something. It was like \u2018we are away\u2019 [the Stargate] is happening! That\u2019s really what I bring t it. Fans have mentioned to me that Chevron Seven Locked brought something to them that was related to the opening of the gate. I used to ask \u2018You relate me to the opening of the Gate, how?\u2019 I later realized what my performance was doing and thought \u2018Okay, I get [know] what I am doing.\u2019 I did not realize it before. It was only when I saw myself [later] doing it that I really got it. Okay, okay I see it. I got it! I realized it was for people like an everyday job, like changing the air filter in a car. You know like tightening down the bolts, that is what I did for Stargate fans, the real everyday Stargate job. I tried to treat the listing of the chevrons the same way.\u201d<a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -14\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9065\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-14-491x384.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -14\" width=\"403\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones continues: \u201cBut actually your question reminds me of my first audition. When I first auditioned, that was all there was, the listing of the chevrons, no other dialogue. I knew I had to make a good impression, [Gary goes off reciting the chevrons to the chuckles and giggles in the audience] but I did not even know what the chevrons were. I was clueless. I had been told to watch the Stargate movie, so I watched the film, but I still did not get it. I read the script and saw that Chevron Seven was the big thing in the lines. I say \u2018Okay that\u2019s the big one\u2019. But my background had been mostly in comedy, I was working with Second City back in Toronto so when I got the Stargate audition it was a bit of an anomaly with my comedy background. I mean to be in an action SciFi sounded cool, but not having a clue as to what had been going on being away for like ten years. So at the audition, my agent said \u2018bring something to the table, show up with something\u2019 and I said well I\u2019ll be funny, that is what I do, I\u2019ll be funny. Can you imagine? Right like here I am kind of leering \u2018chevron one encoded, chevron two encoded \u2026 \u2018 while someone is reading Daniel Jackson lines \u2026 \u2018chevron three encoded \u2026\u2019 by this time I am putting a little spin on it \u2018chevron four encoded \u2026\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary continued the story with a new series on improvisations about audition day. We have tried to capture the essence in still photography, but the real fun was watching Gary share his comedic background in every subtle gesture and facial expression.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cI acted becoming upset as I continued \u2018chevron five ENCODED\u2019 until I got to the big one and let loose with a [comedic] holler \u2018CHEVRON SEVEN LOCKED\u2019. I swear, I looked over at the directors table and they were all laughing hard, heads down pounding the table. I thinking \u2018 Hey cool yeah this is a good sign.\u2019 Then they tell me what the show is like \u2018you are a serious technician\u2019 \u2018we are looking for a little different emphasis on the phrase Chevron Seven Locked\u2019 I looked over and there was Richard Dean Anderson, you know, like McGuyver.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary then went off again with a dead pan, \u2018poke fun\u2019 impersonation of Richard Dean Anderson.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones continues as RDA: \u201cHey could we focus a little on me here please?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The crowd erupted once again in laughter as Gary poked at RDA in good fun.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -15\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9069\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-15.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -15\" width=\"345\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a>Gary Jones continues: \u201cSo I left the first day with nothing, really started thinking there were a lot of other ways to say Chevron Seven Locked. I got a call-back and thought I had better do almost the same thing. But the director was a different guy The first guy had directed me in Outer Limits saying that I would be great for the role in Stargate. Saying I was \u2018in\u2019. So when I got the call back I got this new director who did not say anything and looked like he had been drugged! And he is sitting next to the new producer, Jonathon Glassner! Both are like Stonehenge. No emotion or nothing, not moving at all! When Jonathan finally spoke he said \u2018now just read the lines, NOT with any of that stuff like you did before\u2019. Panic. I was thinking \u2018wow I got to do something!\u2019 I was stuck. I figured I would hold back until I got to like chevron four, then I let it go. So I started out \u2018Chevron one encoded, chevron two encoded, chevron three \u2026\u2019 Before I got to the end the director said \u2018We\u2019re signing, that\u2019s it we\u2019re signing!\u2019 I went like to myself \u2018Wow, I am so doing this, rushed through all the chevrons including eight, was told there was no eighth chevron [yet], did not even get to do my chevron four gig and I got the part\u2019. So there you go. That is how it happened. It was a nightmare audition you know, but the rest is history.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Stargate fans applauded loudly for their beloved Gary Jones, CMS Walter Harriman!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">New Fan Questioner: \u201cWhere there any love interests for Walter?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones chuckles : \u201cAny love interests? Well\u2026 Errrr .. it was really hard to get any girlfriends into the control room, so no, there were love interests for Walter.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The audience howled at the answer imagining Walter with a girlfriend in the Stargate control room.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cI did have the hots for Amanda for Carter, but uh she\u2019d always do that thing where she show <a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -16\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9070\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -16\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-16.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -16\" width=\"303\" height=\"526\" \/><\/a>up and I would think ahhhhhh [drooling], she would say her line \u2018Have we contacted the planet yet?\u2019 And I\u2019d think ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, then have to say my line like \u2018No we have no communication with the planet\u2019 or it\u2019s all broke down or something like that. And she\u2019d be Amanda and I\u2019d go like \u2026 bing! Then I\u2019d realize she was working her ass off and we would sit and go over it with her saying there you go Walter. I respected her.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary then turned to the next fan questioner: \u201cDo you have a question?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Next Fan Questioner: \u201cI do. It has to do with the fate of the Seventh Chevron!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary cocked his head sideways and the audience howled when he said teasingly: \u201cWe talked about the seventh chevron, we really cannot have any more chevron questions sir!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Same Fan Questioner: \u201cAs a character and an actor, how excited were you when they were dialing the Gate to Atlantis to talk about an eighth chevron and now the ninth chevron in Stargate Universe?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The audience howled at the question which took Gary a little by surprise since he was expecting a standard seven chevron question! The fan and audience continued the laughter for nearly thirty seconds. Everyone was obviously delighted that the fan had caught Gary flat footed! Gary rolled right with the punches with his quick retort.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cWell obviously not as excited as you!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The crowd howled again as Gary and the fan pleased with the exchange, continued.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Same Fan Questioner [pressing the moment]: \u201cAlso when Jack got his brain downloaded with the Ancient knowledge and you dialed the eighth chevron, your only line was \u2018chevron seven encoded\u2019?!?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cDid I really say that? Oh, I think I was just excited to get paid! You know the Stargate checks always came through the Gate, they never bounced. But seriously, how excited was I when the eighth chevron became known? Well no matter what happened I was always excited to be on the show. What was very cool about Stargate was because I was on the show for so long. After a while I got to know the actors and the producers. I mean it was a long haul, over the ten years they gave me more stuff to do which was fun because in the beginning I was just delivering information like an expositional character. But over the course of the years I was part of the whole docking and entry crew, and I got to say \u2018Open the Gate\u2019 \u2018Close the Gate\u2019 that sort of thing. And what else, well that is pretty much it, it was the writers mocking me! And when I read about the eighth chevron I laughed so hard because I would get to say it, I could not wait to do it. I am going to love this! It was great! And Peter [Deluise] was there and he was laughing so hard when I said \u2018yeah that\u2019s all I do! Yeah that\u2019s it! With his eyes rolling saying \u2018Walter\u2019s eighth chevron Stargate\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">A fan who came late asked Gary if he had already talked about his Stargate Airman \u2013 Harriman name change.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones replied: \u201cYeah I have already talked about that. Is there something else you would like to ask?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Fan Questioner: \u201cI was wondering if you would ever take Starhole to a Northern California convention?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones [jokingly]: \u201cWell as soon as I get the trucks and crews and limo\u2019s like Creation Entertainment has. Seriously I would like to, I enjoy doing the show for Creation Entertainment If they would ever ask us to do so it would be fantastic.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Next Fan Questioner: &#8221; Was wondering since you were on the show for such a long time, did you ever do a prank on another cast member or did they ever do any pranks on you?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones replied: \u201cUm \u2026 well \u2026. yeah.. People will tell you about practical jokes. I was not so much part of that, but I\u2019ll tell you I just loved it since the first time and later when I am settling into this family and one time Don Davis was standing behind me and Peter Deluise told me to just improvise for a simple quick <a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -17\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9073\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -17\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-17.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -17\" width=\"308\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a>scene he needed. [Doing a General Hammond impersonation \u2018Open the Iris\u2019] Don was going like contact the planet and I was like dialing the Gate, like a super simple scene, and everything was fine. Then Peter Deluise comes up to me after shooting had completed and says let\u2019s do it again but with some improvisation, kind of tell Don \u2018screw himself\u2019 with a Captain Kirk characterization. And I go \u2018really, are you kidding me?\u2019 I had never done anything like that, it was my first time and I asked again \u2018Are you sure?\u2019 Peter goes \u2018it will be hilarious, just do it!\u2019 I was like okay and next thing I knew Peter was calling Don back saying \u2018we have to do it again\u2019 even though crew people were saying, hey I thought we \u2018had that one\u2019 [meaning a perfect shoot]. Peter harrumphed and said \u2018No he made a mistake, something was missing and we needed to do it again\u2019 So I am thinking wow, filming costs like [exaggerating] two million dollar a minute, and here I was playing practical jokes with the producers with like a hundred people on set! And of course Don is not told what is happening, so the setup prank scene goes forward with Don [Gary again does a General Hammond impersonation \u2018Open the Iris\u2019]. So we get to the scene, [pauses] now I am going to swear so cover your ears if you are offended. So Don says \u2018Open the Iris\u2019. I turned to him as if to say \u2018yes sir\u2019 but instead I said \u2019Hey, why don\u2019t you open your own F__KING IRIS?\u2019 I continued to rant for the stunt going on about \u201cOpen the Iris, Close the Iris and with this character I can\u2019t take it anymore! Like I said why don\u2019t you open your own f__king iris!\u2019 I had gone off on stage for like a two minute rant with Peter laughing and Don looking at me going \u2018Oh my god\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cLater as I continued, Peter in a prank would have me do so many of my scenes but as [William] Shatner, like Captain Kirk. I went OMG! OMG! It\u2019s like SC-TV again since I had played Kirk in the comedy show. Peter always saying it would be funny, just do it. So one day I walked up to Don Davis after his line with my best character impersonation of Captain Kirk and said \u2018General Hammond we seem to have lost contact!\u2019 We often caught Don, but he was a good about it. So the fun went on with the Captain Kirk stuff to the point where the crew and everyone would know what was coming. We all had a lot of laughs.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones continued: \u201cBut that was nothing compared to what they wanted to do on the very first day of <a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -19\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9075\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -19\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-19-272x384.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -19\" width=\"324\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a>shooting with Beau Bridges. I said \u2018Now wait a minute, Beau is a movie star, let\u2019s not do this\u2019 But Peter was persistent and we went ahead with the prank with me saying \u2018General Lamdry, that\u2019s one f__king planet, you are no General O\u2019Neill, buh, buh, buh pa buh, like yelling orders \u2018this is getting a little old my man\u2019 At which point I raised up paper sheets with the chevrons printed on them and went through them handing him one at a time and then called \u2018cut\u2019 [like a regular shoot]. Peter nodded and Beau just stood there dumbfounded looking like this [Gary makes a blank expression for the howling audience]. Beau was like staring at me like \u2026 \u2018What?\u2019 He just looks at me like I was running the show. I got up and walked over to him and said \u2018Just go with it Beau, just go with it! Beau continued to look stunned when Peter came by and Beau said \u2018Oh I see that\u2019s how it was on this show.\u2019 It was fun.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Next Fan Questioner: \u201cThis young lady over here wants to know if you were aware that Walter was compared to Walter \u2018Radar\u2019 O\u2019Reilly [from MASH]?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cYes. That was like such a coincidence because way back when Richard Dean called me Walter he did not have that in mind, but then cut to like season eight when it was like his last full season, yeah season eight, he was going to be the General and said \u2018 if I am going to be General, I will be on the base much more often and I want Gary to have a relationship like Radar from MASH has with the General. Where he was like helping me, appearing in doorways, that kind of stuff.\u2019 So it turned out to be a total coincidence not originally thought out that way. So even if I was not called Walter, I would still have that \u2018Radar\u2019 like personality. It was so much fun to play that character because Stargate SG-1 was so tongue in cheek with Richard Dean\u2019s personality being sarcastic, you know like in your face kind of cracking lines. He was like that and basically added that to our relationship experience with sayings like \u2018I am going to have some fun, so wait for me!\u2019 So that was how I got to be like Radar.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">At this point the Creation staff gestured to Gary and we knew we had only a few minutes left with this wonderful performer. Gary nodded and motioned to the next questioner in line.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Next Fan Questioner: \u201cDid they [creators] ever just use the same symbols over and over and over again?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -20\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9076\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -20\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-20-211x384.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -20\" width=\"289\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a>Gary Jones: \u201cNo. They were quite serious about that. OMG they were so on it. When I used to see it for each show on the set, the computer displays were all different. In fact they wrote an entire other language for the show. Everything was different for each episode. It was amazing. Shaking his head and facing the fan [as if to answer question] No. They were very much on top of those exact reasons, what the fans were patriotic and wanted [unintelligible]. so no there was no way. They didn\u2019t do that [re-use the symbols]. Another question?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Next Fan Questioner: \u201cWho has the puppet version of you?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones [sincerely]: \u201cMy wife.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The audience howled at Gary&#8217;s perfectly timed humor, yet with proper deference and respect to his wife.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones [continues]: \u201cWell you know it was done for the 200 th episode by the same people that did the Team America stuff? They did all the puppets for Stargate. We shot for them in Vancouver and in locations, then voice over, and shipped it all down so I never really saw the puppets so I do not really know. I guess someone has the puppet version of me out there somewhere. Hey sorry but I guess that\u2019s it. My god I need like two hours to catch up with you guys.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">This was in fact true as the audience had warmed to the point where perhaps a dozen or more fans were still in line at the microphone stands.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Gary Jones: \u201cWell hey thank you all so much. Feel free to say hello if we see each other in the halls and I\u2019ll be seeing you all tonight for the midnight cocktail buffet. Thank you, you are all awesome!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -18\" href=\"http:\/\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9074\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -18\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-18.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -18\" width=\"574\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">And with that Gary Jones was whisked off the stage, signing the convention banner near his photographs and then Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman disappeared off stage to a roaring round o<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">f applause and the theme music from Stargate SG-1!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -21\" href=\"http:\/creationent.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9080\" title=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -21\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009-LA-Stargate-Gary-Jones-Walter-Harriman-21.jpg\" alt=\"2009 - LA Stargate Gary Jones - Walter Harriman -21\" width=\"564\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">We knew we would see him later briefly at each table of the cocktail dessert party, but it was like an old trusted friend saying good bye for now. Thanks Gary for a great convention appearance! For those who may have missed it, catch our<a title=\"Click to watch interview Gary Jones @ Dragon*Con 2009 \" href=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/?p=2623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> WHR interview with Gary Jones at DragonCon 2009<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Best Regards,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Kenn<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"Click to visit WR_Systems (Kenn) on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WR_Systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8225\" title=\"Click to visit WR_Systems (Kenn) on Twitter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kenns-twitter-icon-3241.jpg\" alt=\"Click to visit WR_Systems (Kenn) on Twitter\" width=\"116\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Stargate Fans, What can we say except all our gratitude to Gary Jones, Creation Entertainment,\u00a0 MGM and Stargate creators for Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman! Airman Harriman! Airman! Sergeant Davis and acclaimed Starhole star. Here was the man who made the chevrons light up! LIVE at the Los Angeles Stargate 2009 convention! Gary Jones,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/2010\/03\/13\/walter-harriman-engages-chevrons-and-fans-at-los-angeles-stargate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Walter Harriman Engages Chevrons and SGU SG1 SGA Fans at Los Angeles Stargate!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,71,177,3],"tags":[325,11,12,326,327,328,329,155,330,156,331,332,98,188,21,333,261,1850,334,1861,181,1851,93,335,336],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creation-entertainment-creators","category-gary-jones-celebs","category-los-angeles-stargate-2009-convention-coverage-in-2009-by-wormholeriders","category-stargate","tag-airman-davis","tag-amanda-tapping","tag-beau-bridges","tag-captain-kirk","tag-chevron-seven","tag-chevrons","tag-chief-master-sergeant","tag-creation-entertainment","tag-don-s-davis","tag-gary-jones","tag-general-hammond","tag-general-hank-landry","tag-jack-oneill","tag-los-angeles-stargate-2009","tag-mgm-studios","tag-michael-greenberg","tag-peter-deluise","tag-richard-dean-anderson","tag-second-city-tv","tag-stargate-sg-1","tag-starhole-sg-1-5","tag-syfy","tag-walter-harriman","tag-walter-radar-oreilly","tag-william-shatner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28522,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions\/28522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/stargate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}