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Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 28th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. 
The 82nd episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Neal McDonough (Boomtown) guest stars.
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The sixth episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Agent Carter, starring Hayley Attwell as Agent Peggy Carter, is broadcast on ABC. Ralph Brown (Star Wars Episode I, Lexx) guest stars.
La-La Land Record releases a remastered, expanded 2-CD edition of the soundtrack from Richard Donner’s 1984 film Ladyhawke, scored by Alan Parsons Project orchestral arranger Andrew Powell, and featuring most of Powell’s Project bandmates, including production by Parsons himself. Clocking in at over two hours, this edition of the soundtrack features more of the orchestral and choral pieces from the score than the prior CD release.
The 13th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Victor Garber (Alias, Legends Of Tomorrow), Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2), and Chase Masterson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.
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Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the third full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, and Sally Knyvette reprise their roles from the television series’ second season.
ITV premieres the first episode of the science fiction series Primeval. Starring Douglas Henshall, the series focuses on a combination of time travel and dinosaurs (with effects provided by the producers of the Walking With Dinosaurs documentary series).
Sci-Fi channel airs the 29th episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Dana Delany guest stars.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 36th episode of Stargate Atlantis. Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1) guest stars.
The 189th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks.
UPN airs the 107th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom) guest stars.
The 28th 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. James Marsters and Juliet Landau guest star.
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BMG Music releases Who’s Serious: The Symphonic Music of the Who, an album of orchestral covers of the Who’s greatest hits.
Merge Records releases the Neutral Milk Hotel album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 110th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Paul Dooley guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 38th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Hudson Leick guest stars.
The 16th 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. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who serves as the series’ technical consultant, makes an on-screen appearance as himself.
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Russian cosmonauts Vasili Tsibliyev and Aleksandr Lazutkin lift off aboard Soyuz TM-25 for an eventful mission aboard Russian space station Mir. Tagging along is German space traveler Reinhold Ewald, who will remain in space for 19 days before returning to Earth with Mir’s previous crew aboard Soyuz TM-24; Tsibliyev and Lazutkin will later be joined by American shuttle astronaut Jerry Linenger. Their 184-day stay is marred by numerous emergencies aboard the station, ranging from a fire in the station’s cramped quarters to a collision with an unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which Russian ground controllers are initially eager to keep quiet from the rest of the world.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 73rd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Walter Koenig (Star Trek) guest stars.
The 40th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and Mitch Pileggi. Peter Donat (Time Trax) makes his first guest appearance as Mulder’s father.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 112th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The 43rd episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Philip Michael Thomas (Miami Vice) guest stars in an episode written by Eisner Award-winning comic writers Mike Carlin (currently editor of DC’s Superman comics) and Andy Helfer.
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British label Legacy Records releases Starting Up, the fourth and final solo album of new material by Roy Wood (ELO, Wizzard).
Konami introduces the arcade game Circus Charlie in the United States. Patterned after the Olympic-themed Track & Field, Circus Charlie is a “multi-event” game based on circus tricks.
Activision releases the Pitfall II: Lost Caverns cartridge for the Atari 2600 home video game system, adding new adventures to Pitfall Harry’s resume and wowing players with sophisticated polyphonic music from a console infamous for its buzzes, bleeps and bloops. (The secret: the cartridge contains its own special audio chip.)
ABC airs the 21st episode of Stephen J. Cannell’s superhero comedy series The Greatest American Hero, starring William Katt, Connie Sellecca, and Robert Culp.
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The third episode of a vastly retooled Battlestar Galactica (or, depending on how you look at it, the show’s 24th episode) premieres on ABC, concluding a three-part storyline.
The 503rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1, continuing the Key To Time storyline. John Woodvine (Knights Of God) and Lalla Ward guest star. Valentine Dyall makes his first appearance as the Black Guardian. This is the final six-part Doctor Who story to be broadcast.
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Magnavox releases the video game cartridge Speedway! / Spin-Out! / Crypto-Logic! for the Odyssey² video game system. This is the pack-in game included with every system.
Having originally announced a programmable video game console in 1977 before almost cancelling the project, Magnavox launches its first cartridge-based video game console, the Odyssey². Though intended to compete with the Atari VCS, the Odyssey² is at a disadvantage thanks to its underpowered Intel processor and a limited graphics set.
The 29th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Joel Fabiani (Department S) guest stars.
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Just before Valentine’s Day, RCA kills its Studio II home video game console, whose blocky black & white graphics and library of “edutainment” cartridges have proven to be no competition for the more game-oriented, full-color consoles from Fairchild and Atari over the previous two Christmas shopping seasons. 120 employees directly involved with developing for or assembling the Studio II and related products are laid off from RCA’s facility in Swannanoa, North Carolina as a result. The company makes no further attempts to break into the video game business.
The second episode of the short-lived NBC series The Fantastic Journey premieres. Katie Saylor joins the cast as Liana, a character not included in the original series outline who helps the few holdovers from the pilot episode.
The sixth episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Keith Ashton. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975.
The 19th episode of the horror anthology series The Evil Touch airs on Australia’s Nine Network, hosted by Anthony Quayle (Strange Report). (The series will later appear in the U.S. and elsewhere in first-run syndication.) Vic Morrow (Combat!, Twilight Zone: The Movie) guest stars.
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The 336th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Jon Pertwee’s “Navy Lark” co-star Tenniel Evans guest stars, and making his first Doctor Who appearance is Ian Marter.
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The 17th episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. George Sewell and Phillip Latham guest star.
The 193rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This episode introduces Nicholas Courtney (who previously appeared in The Daleks’ Master Plan) as Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, leading the British Army’s fight against the Yeti in this story; the character will appear again as the commanding officer of UNIT, appearing alongside all seven of the original series Doctors. This story sees the return of the Yeti, now in the modern-day London Underground. Previously missing from the BBC’s archives, a copy of this episode was recovered in Nigeria in 2013.
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The 22nd episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series The Time Tunnel airs on ABC, starring James Darren and Robert Colbert. Robert Walker Jr., Whit Bissell and Lee Meriwether geust star.
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The tenth episode of Batman airs on ABC. Anne Baxter guest stars as Zelda the Great. (This is part two of a two-part story; each week’s story unfolds in two half-hour episodes on Monday and Tuesday.)
UK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the 20th episode of Gerry Anderson’s Supermarionation science fiction series Thunderbirds, featuring the voices of Shane Rimmer, David Graham, Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, and Peter Dyneley.
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ABC airs the 20th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Martin Landau (Mission: Impossible, Space: 1999) and Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H) star.
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The 53rd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Jonathan Harris (Lost In Space, Space Academy) stars in an episode written by Serling.
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The 19th episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan.
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ABC airs the fourth episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Chloris Leachman guest stars.
The 93rd episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
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