Star Trek: Picard: Remembrance
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the first episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart as a retired Jean-Luc Picard encountering a mystery that forces him to come out of retirement, set over 20 years after the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.
The Flash: The Elongated Knight Rises
The CW airs the 79th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Pro wrestler Bill Goldberg guest stars.
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Barrie Ingham, actor, dies
Actor Barrie Ingham, one of the few actors to have played speaking parts in both the Doctor Who and Star Trek franchises, dies at the age of 82. Having appeared alongside William Hartnell in the 1965 Doctor Who story The Myth Makers, Mr. Ingham went on to play a more visible role as Alydon with Peter Cushing in the movie Dr. Who And The Daleks. He also appeared in the 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Up The Long Ladder as the leader of a throwback space colony.
Arrow: Trust But Verify
The 11th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Ben Browder (Farscape) and John Barrowman (Torchwood, Doctor Who) guest star.
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Torchwood: Sleeper
BBC2 premieres the 15th episode of Russell T. Davies’ science fiction series Torchwood, a more adult-themed spinoff of Doctor Who.
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Torchwood now streaming on HBO Max
Music for 2001: a space odyssey
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases the original recordings of Alex North’s lost music score for 2001: a space odyssey, conducted by North himself and recorded in 1968. (The previous release of the same music on another label is a re-recording.)
The Hello, Himalia!
NASA releases a photo taken by the Cassini space probe as it passed by Jupiter and its complex system of satellites in December 2000, showing the first-ever view of the tiny moon Himalia, taken from a distance of 2.7 million miles. Non-spherical in shape, but estimated to be roughly 100 miles across its widest face, Himalia is believed to be an asteroid permanently captured into an inclined orbit of Jupiter. It was discovered in 1904 from Earth-based telescopes. The New Horizons space probe will also attempt to image Himalia in 2007. The sixth largest satellite of Jupiter, Himalia is the first of the planet’s outer satellites beyond the orbit of Callisto to be photographed by a passing spacecraft.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Checkpoint
The 90th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Clare Kramer guest stars.
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The X-Files: Signs & Wonders
The 148th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Randy Oglesby and Tracy Middendorf guest star.
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The Outer Limits: Criminal Nature
Showtime airs the 62nd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Gary Cole (Crusade, Office Space) guest stars in the fourth season premiere.
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Stargate SG-1: Cor-Ai
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 15th episode of Stargate SG-1.
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UPN airs the TekWar
The TV movie TekWar, based on William Shatner’s cyberpunk novel series, premieres in syndication. The Canadian-made movie, intended to serve as the starting point for a potential series, stars Greg Evigan (My Two Dads), William Shatner (Star Trek), and Torri Higginson (Stargate Atlantis), and features Von Flores (Earth: Final Conflict), Barry Morse (Space: 1999), Sheena Easton, and Maurice Dean Wint (Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future). This movie is part of the Universal Action Pack syndication package (which will become better known for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess).
Lois & Clark: Illusions Of Grandeur
The 14th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Tracy Scoggins, Ben Vereen, Eve Plumb (The Brady Bunch), and Penn Jillette guest star.
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Voyager 2 and the clouds of Neptune
For the first time, images transmitted to Earth by NASA’s unmanned Voyager 2 space probe reveal visible cloud features in the atmosphere of Neptune, from a distance of 185,000,000 miles. This is a welcome relief to mission scientists who felt let down by a lamentable lack of any atmospheric detail in the clouds of Uranus, a planet visited by Voyager 2 in 1986. In the months ahead, even more detail will be revealed in Neptune’s upper atmosphere.
Star Trek: TNG: The Schizoid Man
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 31st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. W. Morgan Sheppard and Suzie Plakson guest star.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation now streaming on Paramount Plus
Blackadder II: Potato
The ninth episode of Black Adder airs on the BBC, starring Rowan Atkinson. Tom Baker (Doctor Who) and Simon Jones (Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) guest star.
Chocky: Episode 3
The third episode of Chocky airs on Thames Television, adapting the novels of John Wyndham into a television serial starring Andrew Ellams and James Hazeldine. Jeremy Bulloch (The Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi) guest stars. 
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Episode 10
The tenth episode of Douglas Adams’ breakthrough radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is first broadcast on BBC Radio, continuing the second series of the now-hit cult science fiction phenomenon. At this point, the story diverges into material that will not be repeated in later iterations of Hitchhiker’s Guide; Rula Lenska and John Le Mesurier guest star.
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Blake’s 7: Weapon
BBC1 premieres the 16th episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7. John Bennett and Scott Fredericks guest star; Brian Croucher takes over the role of Travis (though the obvious difference goes completely unnoticed by the other characters).
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Blake’s 7 now streaming on Britbox
The Next Step Beyond: The Love Connection
The week-long syndication window opens for the fourth episode of The Next Step Beyond, a revival of the 1950s/60s supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Michael Bell (better known for animation voice acting on G.I. Joe and Transformers) guest stars.
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Blake’s 7: Time Squad
BBC1 premieres the fourth episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7. This is the first episode filmed; Jan Chappell joins the regular cast as Cally.
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Blake’s 7 now streaming on Britbox
Six Million Dollar Man: Danny’s Inferno
The 72nd episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. John Hoyt and David Opatoshu guest star.
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The Questor Tapes
ABC premieres the made-for-TV movie The Questor Tapes, starring Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon and Majel Barrett. Created and co-written by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, The Questor Tapes is a promising series pilot, though no series based on it is ordered. (Years later, many observers will notice that Roddenberry transfers Questor’s personality and even some of his backstory to a new Star Trek character named Data.)
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Doctor Who: Terror Of The Autons, Part 4
The 282nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Katy Manning makes her first appearance as the Doctor’s new companion, Jo Grant. Richard Franklin joins the cast as new UNIT regular Captain Mike Yates, and the Master makes his first appearance in the series, as played by Roger Delgado. Michael Wisher guest stars.
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TIROS-M / ITOS
NASA and ESSA launch the ITOS satellite, also known as TIROS-M, a next-generation weather satellite intended to take over from the constellation of short-lived ESSA weather satellites. With a configuration that is, for the first time, significantly different from the TIROS/ESSA satellites, the TIROS-M design’s shakedown cruise is a short and bumpy one: after system failures force a shutdown of the satellite’s attitude control system, it is shut down in mid-1971.
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Sky’s On Fire
The 50th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. David J. Stewart guest stars.
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Doctor Who: All Roads Lead To Rome
The 55th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Romans.
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Adventures Of Superman: Perry White’s Scoop
The 45th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson. Steve Pendleton guest stars.
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Adventures of Superman now streaming on Amazon Prime