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Disney Music releases Joseph Shirley’s soundtrack from the final three episodes of The Book of Boba Fett streaming series. 
The CW airs the 124th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) guest stars.
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The CW airs the 71st episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Brandon Routh, and Tala Ashe.
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The 151st episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW.
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Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 15th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Michelle Yeoh, Jayne Brook (Chicago Hope), James Frain, Clint Howard (Star Trek, Space Rangers) guest star in the season finale, which offers this series’ first glimpse of the Enterprise, leading into the second season’s storyline.
The CW airs the fourth episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber (Alias).
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The 59th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow) guest stars.
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Big Finish Productions releases the 170th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford.
Big Finish Productions releases the ninth Doctor Who audio drama in its Fourth Doctor Adventures range, starring Tom Baker and Mary Tamm. Hayley Atwell and David Warner guest star in the first part of a two-part story.
Actor Roy Scheider, best known for his portrayal of Chief Brody in the 1975 megahit Jaws and its 1978 sequel, dies at the age of 75. Well-known for his mainstream roles, he also starred in some fondly-remembered genre projects, including the movies Blue Thunder and 2010: The Year We Make Contact, and a two-year stint as Captain Nathan Bridger on seaQuest DSV. He was twice nominated for an Oscar, for The French Connection and All That Jazz.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 47th episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Bruce Davison (X-Men, Harry & The Hendersons) guest stars.
BBC Radio 7 airs the seventh episode of a new series of Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor, with Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller. The new eighth Doctor adventures are produced by, and will later get a CD release from, Big Finish Productions.
Sci-Fi channel airs the sixth episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica.
The 88th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN. Jeffrey Combs guest stars.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 13th episode of Stargate Atlantis.
The 167th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
The 66th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN.
The 136th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters and Alyson Hannigan also star. Ashanti guest stars.
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The 102nd episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Jayne Heitmeyer, Von Flores, Melinda Deines, Guylaine St. Onge, and Alan Van Sprang.
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The 173rd episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and Robert Patrick. Penny Johnson-Jerald (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Orville) guest stars.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 61st episode of Stargate SG-1. Tom McBeath guest stars.
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on the 97th shuttle flight, and the only one on the 2000 launch schedule not devoted to construction of the International Space Station. Instead, Endeavour carries out an 11-day radar topography mission, though the 200-foot radar mast deployed from the cargo bay changes Endeavour’s center of mass and necessitates an unusually high usage of the orbiter’s fuel to keep the vehicle and payload properly oriented. Endeavour’s 14th crew is Commander Kevin Kregel, Pilot Dominic Gorie, and mission specialists Janet Kavandi, Janice Voss, Mamoru Mohri and Gerhard Thiele.
Showtime airs the 111st episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Brad Johnson (Soldier Of Fortune Inc.) and Michael Shanks (Stargate SG-1) guest star.
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Clearspot Records releases the second album by Umajets, Swollen And Tender.
in joy music releases the Ralf Illenberger solo album The Kiss: Five Waves Of Bliss.
UPN airs the 82nd episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 92nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. The episode breaks the record-setting string of consecutive episodes of American television written by a single writer, with series creator J. Michael Straczynski having written the previous 52 episodes (53 if the series finale, filmed at the end of the fourth season, is included). Straczynski writes this one as well, but shares a story credit with Harlan Ellison.
Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on a ten-day mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Over 30 hours of spacewalks are conducted to repair and upgrade Hubble with new parts, and the shuttle engines are fired in short, steady bursts to raise the telescope’s orbit by over eight miles before it is released again. Aboard Discovery on her 22nd flight are Commander Kenneth Bowersox, Pilot Scott Horowitz, and mission specialists Mark Lee, Steven Hawley, Gregory Harbaugh, Steven Smith and Joseph Tanner.
Christopher Franke’s second soundtrack from the TV series Babylon 5 is released on Sonic Images Records; this is the second compilation soundtrack from the popular science fiction series.
Fox premieres the 15th episode of the military science fiction series Space: Above And Beyond.
The 58th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Fred Willard, Beverly Garland, Harve Presnell, and Brad Garrett guest star.
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The 37th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Claire Rankin guest stars.
The 16th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, and guest starring Jerry Hardin and William B. Davis.
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Fox airs the 19th episode of the sci-fi western, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, and Christian Clemenson. Clyde Kusatsu and Kenneth Tigar guest star.
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The 36th 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). Tristan Rogers (General Hospital) and Janet Gunn (Silk Stalkings) guest star.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 87th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whoopi Goldberg guest stars as Gloria. From Cleveland.
Cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Aleksandr Balandin lift off from the Soviet Union aboard Soyuz TM-9, on their way to a stay aboard the Mir space station. Upon arriving at the station, an inspection of their spacecraft reveals that some of the Soyuz’ thermal blankets detached themselves during launch, though ground controllers decide against such drastic measures as cutting the mission short or launching Soyuz TM-10 early as a rescue mission. Solovyev and Balandin remain aboard Mir for 179 days, greeting the station’s next crew in August and returning to Earth without incident.
The 40th episode of the horror anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares is broadcast in syndication in North America, hosted by Robert Englund in character as Freddy Krueger. Clayton Landey guest stars.
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The 15th episode of the horror anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares is broadcast in syndication in North America, hosted by Robert Englund in character as Freddy Krueger.
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The 14th episode of the syndicated Alexander and Ilya Salkind-produced Superboy series, starring John Haymes Newton and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Stuart Whitman 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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The 56th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap) stars.
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The 12th episode of Chocky airs on Thames Television. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999), Jeremy Bulloch (The Empire Strikes Back) and Ed Bishop (UFO) guest star in the second season closer. The series will return in late 1986 under the title Chocky’s Challenge.
The 15th episode of the science fiction series The Powers Of Matthew Star airs on NBC, starring Peter Barton and Louis Gossett Jr. Richard Herd (V, T.J. Hooker) guest stars.
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Midway releases the arcade video trivia game Professor Pac-Man, a quiz game tenuously connected to the company’s string of Pac-Man sequels. Few cabinets are produced due to very low early sales, so Professor Pac-Man is a rare find.
BBC1 premieres the 32nd episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7. Colin Baker (Doctor Who) and Valentine Dyall guest star.
The sixth episode of Watermark Radio’s syndicated sci-fi radio drama Alien Worlds is broadcast across the U.S., created by Lee Hensen and starring Roger Dressler, Linda Gary, and Corey Burton (Star Wars: The Clone Wars).
The 475th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Milton Johns and John Arnatt guest star.
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The 52nd episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Helen Hunt (Mad About You, Twister) guest stars.
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The 15th episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV.
In advance of the Viking and Voyager interplanetary missions, which will need more powerful boosters to heft heavier spacecraft into deep space, NASA conducts a test launch of the Titan IIIe/Centaur launch stack, an experimental combination of the venerable Titan rocket and a liquid-fueled Centaur upper stage. Previous Centaur upper stages were attached to wider Atlas rockets, so the unusual bulb-shaped payload shroud of the Centaur is of concern when placed atop the Titan, which has a more narrow diameter; if successful, however, this configuration could launch payloads three times larger than an Atlas/Centaur combination. The test flight, originally scheduled for January 24th, actually fails – a loose part causes the Centaur stage to fizzle rather than fire – and the rocket is destroyed in mid-air. However, with worries about the large Centaur payload atop the narrow Titan rocket laid to rest, NASA approves the Titan IIIe/Centaur for flight, beginning with the launch of a joint American/German science satellite, HELIOS-1, later in 1974.
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