Flanigan Guests on ABC's "Women's Murder Club"

Joe Flanigan (Lt. Col. John Sheppard) filmed at least two episodes of ABC’s Women’s Murder Club before the Writer’s Guild of America went on strike back in November. His first appearance, in episode #9, “To Drag & to Hold”, was a brief one at the tail end of the story, but his second episode, “FBI Guy”, will probably feature him more as he’s playing the title character, FBI Agent John Ash.

Ash is meant to be the new love interest of Lt. Lindsay Boxer (played by Angie Harmon), but Flanigan said that the WGA strike prevented him from filming the episode in which he gets to kiss her. The role was supposed to be recurring and filmed during the seasonal hiatus so as not to interfere with his shooting new episodes of Stargate Atlantis in Vancouver. Flanigan reported at the recently-held Creation Con in Burbank, however, that Women’s Murder Club is now shut down and the crew is out of work due to the strike.

Flanigan didn’t mention which episodes he had filmed, so fans could only catch him if they watched the show in anticipation of his first appearance. “To Drag & to Hold” was shown on December 7, 2007, at 9pm Eastern on ABC. (Here’s a YouTube clip of his scene.) There was a break in new episodes, and now, fans can catch him this coming Friday, January 4, at 9:02pm Eastern on ABC in “FBI Guy” (this episode is the show’s first season finale). Please note this unusual starting time — 9:02pm.

The mid-season premiere of Stargate Atlantis, “Be All My Sins Remember’d” (spoilers), will also be showing the same night on the Sci Fi Channel at 10pm Eastern. Since there might be a two-minute overlap in the times, those watching and recording may need to prepare early for what they plan to do to support both programs. Sci Fi will show a repeat of the Atlantis episode at midnight.