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Disney Music digitally releases Dan Levy‘s soundtrack for the Star Wars: Visions short Sith. 
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the first episode of the Star Trek prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet. Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp) guest stars in the series premiere.
The CW airs the 131st episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. This episode is directed by Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1).
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The CW airs the 78th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Brandon Routh, and Tala Ashe.
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The CW airs the 14th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. Emily Bett Rickards (The Flash) guest stars.
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Japanese synthesizer pioneer Isao Tomita dies of heart failure at the age of 84. A classically trained composer, Tomita had composed music for such early anime series as Kimba The White Lion, and such live action series as Mighty Jack, prior to importing (at no small expense) a Moog III synthesizer. He experimented with all-synth interpretations of classical music with albums like Snowflakes Are Dancing and The Planets, which quickly became his primary career track as these albums became successful worldwide. He eventually resumed his film/TV scoring career in the 1990s, contributing music to The Twilight Samurai and Welcome Home, Hayabusa. He was working on a new stage musical at the time of his death.
Lakeshore Records releases the complete, remastered soundtrack from the 2015 documentary film Journey To Space by Cody Westheimer.
The 21st episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2) guest stars.
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Michael Giacchino’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
Varese Sarabande releases Harry Gregson-Williams‘ soundtrack from the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases Arthur B. Rubenstein’s soundtrack from the 1983 “hacking” thriller movie WarGames. This is the movie’s first soundtrack release on CD, and the first presentation of the complete score.
The 732nd episode of Doctor Who (the 34th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen) guest stars.
The 72nd episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN.
The 199th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, and Annabeth Gish. Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, Twister) guest stars.
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Showtime airs the 119th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Tate Donovan, Victor Garber, and Jack Klugman guest star.
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UPN airs the 116th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Sony Classical releases John Williams‘ soundtrack for the eagerly anticipated upcoming movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, complete with track titles that constitute major story spoilers.
The 32nd episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Wentworth Miller (The Flash), and Shane West (Nikita, Salem) guest star.
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Atlantic Records releases Tori Amos‘ fourth album, from the choirgirl hotel, featuring the singles “Spark” and “Raspberry Swirl”.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 118th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 45th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Tony Todd guest stars.
The 19th episode of The Cape airs in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen and Adam Baldwin, presenting a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.
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The ninth episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head and Alyson Hannigan also star. Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 78th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
The 64th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Justine Bateman guest stars.
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Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 35th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Costas Mandylor and Colm Feore guest star.
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The 47th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and Mitch Pileggi. Tony Shalhoub (Galaxy Quest, Monk) guest stars.
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The ninth episode of the science fiction series VR.5 airs on Fox, starring Lori Singer (Fame), Michael Easton (Total Recall 2070), and Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy The Vampire Slayer). Markie Post (Night Court) guest stars.
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Premium cable channel Showtime airs the seventh episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Josh Brolin and David Warner guest star.
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NBC airs the 95th and final episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Bruce McGill, Susan Diol, and W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom) guest star in the series finale, for which alternate endings were filmed in the event that the series was picked up for a sixth season. Some in the show’s fanbase are unsatisfied with the ending imposed by NBC on the show. A follow-up series would premiere in 2022, but without the participation of Bakula or Stockwell (who died in 2021). Susan Diol does, however, reprise the role of Beth Calavicci in the 2022 series.
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CBS premieres the first episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher (X-Men, War Of The Worlds), Nigel Bennett (Lexx), and John Kapelos, involving a police detective who lives a double life as a vampire. The concept was previously piloted in 1989 as Nick Knight with Rick Springfield in the lead role. Nicole de Boer (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars. The series airs as part of a late-night “Crime Time After Prime Time” programming block.
The 42nd episode of the science fiction crime drama Super Force is broadcast in syndication in North America, starring Ken Olandt, Larry B. Scott, and Patrick Macnee (The Avengers).
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The 50th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Gilbert Gottfried guest stars in the framing story for a clip show.
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CBS airs the 41st episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Brian Bloom guest stars.
The sixth episode of the American-made Max Headroom series premieres on ABC, starring Matt Frewer and Amanda Pays. (This is the the American-made drama series, not the music video/talk show series featuring the same character.) W. Morgan Sheppard and Concetta Tomei guest star. This is the last episode aired until fall 1987.
Atari releases the arcade video game The Empire Strikes Back, based on the movie of the same name; this is a conversion kit allowing arcade operators to freshen aging Star Wars coin-ops with new levels and game elements.
The third episode of Richard Carpenter’s fanciful retelling of the Robin Hood legend, Robin Of Sherwood, airs on ITV, starring Michael Praed, Mark Ryan, Judi Trott, and Nickolas Grace. John Abineri (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7) guest stars as Herne the Hunter.
Mere weeks before Return Of The Jedi arrives in theaters, Atari releases the arcade game Star Wars in the United States, in both upright (standing) and cocktail (sit-down) models, complete with almost-intelligible sample voices from the movie of the same name. Players strafe the Death Star at lightning speeds (thanks to vector graphics, which can draw faster than full-screen raster graphics) after fending off TIE fighters. The Force is with us… for 25 cents. 
ITV airs the seventh episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. Wendy Hiller, Joseph Cotten, and Phil Brown (Star Wars) guest star.
A group of veteran session musicians working under producer Alan Parsons and songwriter Eric Woolfson releases its debut album, The Alan Parsons Project – Tales Of Mystery And Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe. The “group” becomes known, somewhat unintentionally, as the Alan Parsons Project, though that was intended to be part of the album title. Themed around the works of Poe, the album becomes a prog rock cult classic and sells well enough that Parsons and Woolfson begin planning a more futuristic project…
The 11th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Christopher Stone, Spencer Milligan (Land Of The Lost), and Martin E. Brooks (The Six Million Dollar Man) guest star.
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The fifth episode of the children’s science fiction series Sky airs on ITV, created and written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin (later the creators of K-9 for Doctor Who).
The 348th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999) guest stars.
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The 34th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Burgess Meredith guest stars as the Penguin in the final episode of the show’s wildly successful first season.
At the 1962 Open House held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a student programming project is unveiled on the school’s new DEC PCP-1 computer. In an attempt to demonstrate the machine’s real-time processing power in a context that can be understood by the general public, Steve Russell and his cohorts allow visitors to play the first computer game, Spacewar. The product of months of design and hundreds of man-hours of coding, Spacewar allows two players to navigate their way around the gravity of a sun while trying to blow each other to bits (as displayed on a round oscilloscope). Never patented or copyrighted, Spacewar goes on to “inspire” countless copies, including one of the earliest coin-operated arcade video games, Computer Space.
Alan B. Shepard, aboard the Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, becomes the first American in space when he is launched on a fifteen-minute suborbital flight from Cape Canaveral, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean. The Mercury spacecraft offers its pilot more maneuverability than the Soviet Vostok vehicle, which is almost entirely controlled from the ground.
The 62nd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Dennis Weaver and Harry Townes star in an episode written by Charles Beaumont.
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CBS broadcasts the fifth episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. Daniel Petrie (Cocoon: The Return) directs.
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ABC airs the 16th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Olive Deering and Luana Anders guest star.
The 72nd episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
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