Retrogram #7636: Things To Watch While Landing On Mars
theLogBook.com releases the 22nd episode of the Retrogram podcast, hosted by Earl Green, covering the following shows from the week of August 29th, 1976:
- Star Maidens: Escape To Paradise
- Doctor Who: The Masque Of Mandragora Part 1
- Space: 1999: The Metamorph
Arrow: Taken
The 84th 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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Star Wars Rebels: The Honorable Ones
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 30th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
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Agent Carter: Valediction
The eighth 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 in the first season finale.
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Harold Ramis, Ghostbusters star/writer, dies
Writer, director and actor Harold Ramis dies after several years of battling vascular disease. An SCTV comedy veteran who went on to co-write Stripes, Animal House and Caddyshack, Ramis gained genre fame in 1984 for co-writing Ghostbusters, and starring in it as Dr. Egon Spengler, the brains of the ghostbusting operation. He did both again for the less successful Ghostbusters II in 1989, but went on to write and direct such films as Groundhog Day and Analyze This. Ramis was 69.
STS-133: Discovery’s final flight
Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the 133rd shuttle flight, a 13-day mission add a new (but familiar) module to the International Space Station. One of the logistics modules that has flown in the cargo bay of seven prior shuttle missions is attached to the ISS permanently, adding nearly 2,500 cubic feet of storage space to the facility. Also delivered to the station is Robonaut 2, an experimental robot designed to assist with routine tasks as well as spacewalks. Discovery’s 39th and final crew is Commander Steve Lindsey, Pilot Eric Boe, and mission specialists Alvin Drew, Nicole Stott, Steve Bowen and Michael Barratt.
ITV premieres the 
Sci-Fi channel airs the Voyager: The Disease
UPN airs the 110th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Charles Rocket guest stars.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Passion
The 29th 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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The Cape: Enemy Within
The 18th 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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Xena: For Him The Bell Tolls
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 40h episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Ted Raimi, Karl Urban and Alexandra Tydings guest star.
Star Trek: DS9: Doctor Bashir, I Presume
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 112th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars.
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Babylon 5: Atonement
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 75th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
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Star Trek: DS9: Accession
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 87th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Richard Libertini guest stars.
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The X-Files: Fearful Symmetry
The 42nd episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and Mitch Pileggi. Lance Guest (The Last Starfighter) guest stars.
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The Star Trek: TNG: Power Play
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 114th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Michelle Forbes guest stars as Ensign Ro.
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Superboy: Escape To Earth
The 45th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Stuart Whitman, Salome Jens, Britt Ekland, and George Lazenby guest star.
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Beauty and the Beast: The Outsiders
CBS airs the 33rd episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Anthony James and Armin Shimerman guest star.
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Supernova 1987A
Astronomers both amateur and professional glimpse the first supernova to occur in the age of modern science. Given the name Supernova 1987A, the huge burst of light – visible to the naked eye in Earth’s southern hemisphere by the early summer months of 1987 before it begins fading out – is a collapsing star on the edge of the Tarantula Nebula. The star previously seen in that location is a blue supergiant, which wasn’t a likely candidate to go nova according to the existing theories of stellar evolution at the time. In the 1990s, the slowly expanding ring of debris rushing outward from Supernova 1987A becomes a favorite observation target for the Hubble Space Telescope. The supernova is more than 150,000 light years away from Earth’s solar system in the direction of the Large Magellenic Cloud.
Doctor Who: Planet Of Fire, Part 2
The 618th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Anthony Ainley appears as the Master, and Peter Wyngarde guest stars. Otherworldly location filming has been done at Lanzarote in the Canary Islands for this story.
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The Greatest American Hero: The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
ABC airs the 23rd 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 Empire Strikes Home
Released a couple of years after the movie that inspired it, Parker Brothers’ The Empire Strikes Back for the Atari VCS is the very first Star Wars video game to hit the market. Though games inspired by the movies have been appearing since the first film was still in theaters, this is the first game officially licensed by Lucasfilm. It pits players against an endless onslaught of Imperial Walkers (and unlike the movie’s rebels, the player has no chance of surviving indefinitely).
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Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor, Part 6
The 505th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. John Woodvine (Knights Of God) and Lalla Ward guest star. Valentine Dyall makes his first appearance as the Black Guardian. This story concludes the 16th season and the Key to Time storyline, and marks the end of Mary Tamm’s single season as the Doctor’s companion, Romana.
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Fantastic Journey: Children Of The Gods
The fourth episode of the short-lived NBC series The Fantastic Journey premieres. The travelers find a futuristic city where orphaned children have taken over and gone mad with their newfound power. 
The Changes: Lightning!
The eighth 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. Tom Chadbon (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7) guest stars. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975.
The Evil Touch: Kadaitcha Country
The 20th 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.) Leif Erickson (The High Chaparral) guest stars.
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Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries: The Furnished Room
The 26th and final episode of Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries is broadcast on Anglia Television, starring Clarence Williams III (The Mod Squad) and Irene Worth. Unusually, Orson Welles narrates throughout, rather than introducing and delivering a coda for the story as usual.
Doctor Who: Frontier In Space, Part 1
The 338th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the last story featuring Roger Delgado as the Master before the actor’s untimely death in June 1973. Madhav Sharma (Moonbase 3) guest stars.
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