What is "blast from the past"

n. Something or someone that returns after an absence, especially the broadcasting of an oldie record that has not been aired for some time.

Blast from the Past may refer to:

• Blast from the Past (film), a 1999 romantic comedy film
• Blast from the Past (novel), a 1998 suspense novel by Ben Elton
• " Blast from the Past", a 1997 James Bond short story by Raymond Benson
• "Blast from the Past", a 2001 song by Quiet Riot from Guilty Pleasures
• Blast from the Past (album), a 2000 album by Gamma Ray
• "Blast from the Past" (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode), 1989
• "Blast from the Past" (Veronica Mars), 2005
• " A Blast From the Past" (Diagnosis: Murder), 1995
• "Blast from the Past", a segment in the Hamish & Andy Show
• "Blast from the Past" (column), a column that is published every Sunday in The Hindu
• "Blast From the Past", an episode of NCIS

Blast from the Past is a 1999 American romantic comedy film based on a story and directed by Hugh Wilson, and starring Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek and Dave Foley.

"Blast from the Past" is the fifth episode of the second season of the American mystery television series Veronica Mars, and the twenty-seventh episode overall. Written by Phil Klemmer and Cathy Belben and directed by Harry Winer, the episode premiered on UPN on October 26, 2005.

The series depicts the adventures of Veronica Mars ( Kristen Bell) as she deals with life as a high school student while moonlighting as a private detective. In this episode, Veronica helps Jackie Cook ( Tessa Thompson) deal with her purported credit card fraud. Meanwhile, the Sheriff's race heats up, and Wallace ( Percy Daggs III) faces the complicated aftermath of learning that Nathan Woods ( Cress Williams) is actually his father.

Blast from the Past is a 1998 novel by Ben Elton, published by Bantam Press and later adapted into a stage performance by the West Yorkshire Playhouse. The plot centres on Polly Slade, an ordinary woman with a highly unordinary past, whose world is thrown into turmoil when the two men in her life show up at her front door in the middle of the night: Jack, a general in the United States Army with whom she had a short-lived affair as a teenager; and Peter, an obsessive stalker who has been terrifying her for the past two years. Themes of the novel include obsession, rape, the morality of war, gender politics, and whether one can ever hope to return to the past and find that everything is just as one remembers it.

Blast from the Past is a two CD compilation album that contains re-recordings of older Gamma Ray material from the Ralf Scheepers era, with Kai Hansen singing the vocals, and remasters of more recent tracks. All instruments for old songs were also re-recorded, with new arrangements, by the then current members of the band.

The songs from each era to be included in the compilation were chosen by the band's fans.