Day: February 26, 2021

WandaVision: Previously On

WandaVisionStreaming service Disney Plus releases the eighth episode of WandaVision, created for TV by Jac Schaeffer and starring Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, and Kathryn Hahn.

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Star Wars: Rebels: Wolves And A Door and A World Between Worlds

Star Wars: RebelsCable channel Disney XD airs the 68th and 69th episodes of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Lars Mikkelsen, Ian McDiarmid (Star Wars Episode III), Adrienne Wilkinson (Xena: Warrior Princess) and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockword Orange, Star Trek: Generations) guest star.

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Legends Of Tomorrow: The Curse Of The Earth Totem

ArrowThe CW airs the 45th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and Tala Ashe. Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who) and Neal McDonough guest star.

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Bill Paxton, actor, dies

Bill PaxtonActor Bill Paxton, who played both starring and supporting roles in movies such as Aliens, The Terminator, Predator 2, Weird Science, Apollo 13, Twister, and Tombstone, dies at the age of 61. Paxton worked behind the scenes in the early years of his career, alternating between working for legendary B-movie director Roger Corman, and playing small roles on screen. He directed the film clip for the Barnes & Barnes song “Fish Heads” (which was co-written and performed by Bill Mumy). Paxton died from complications that arose during heart surgery.

Arrow: Time Of Death

ArrowThe 37th 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) and Alex Kingston (Doctor Who) guest star.

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Star Trek VI soundtrack

Star Trek VISoundtrack specialty label Intrada Records releases a 2-CD set featuring Cliff Eidelman’s soundtrack from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The set includes the complete soundtrack (presented for the first time) as well as the custom-scored trailer music coveted by Star Trek music fans over the years.

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Caprica: There Is Another Sky

CapricaThe fifth episode of the Battlestar Galactica spinoff series Caprica, a non-space-based tale of the creation of the Cylons over half a century before the events seen in Galactica, premieres on cable channel Syfy.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: As You Were

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 115th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star.

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E:FC: Atonement

Earth: Final ConflictThe 83rd episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Jayne Heitmeyer, and Von Flores.

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Sci-Fi Channel passes on Babylon 5 spinoff

CrusadeBabylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski reveals online that the Sci-Fi Channel has decided to pass on the B5 spinoff/sequel series Crusade for budgetary reasons, effectively ending any chance that the show will bounce back from its cancellation by cable network TNT. Warner Bros. continues to try to find a new home for the series, which has yet to air a single episode, but with actors’ contracts expiring with the halt of production and Stracynzski considering offers to write and produce other projects, Crusade never progresses past its 13 completed episodes. TNT schedules those episodes for a summer run.

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The Outer Limits: Joyride

The Outer LimitsShowtime airs the 93rd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series.

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Babylon 5: Point Of No Return

Babylon 5The week-long national syndication window opens for the 53rd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Star Trek) and Vaughn Armstrong (Star Trek: Enterprise) guest star.

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Lois & Clark: The Return Of The Prankster

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of SupermanThe 36th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Bronson Pinchot guest stars.

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Quantum Leap: A Song For The Soul

Quantum LeapNBC airs the 67th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Harrison Page (Supertrain, Sledge Hammer!), T’Keyah Crystal Keymah (In Living Color), and Eriq La Salle (ER) guest star.

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Beauty and the Beast: Fever

Beauty and the BeastCBS airs the 18th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. James Avery (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) guest stars.

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GOES-7 goes up

GOES-7NOAA’s GOES-7 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral into a geosynchronous orbit now designated GOES-EAST to monitor weather patterns over the United States. Originally intended for a 1986 launch, GOES-7 has been kept on the ground by the investigation into the destruction just after launch of its predecessor, GOES-G. GOES-7 will become the first of the GOES satellites to operate in both the GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST orbits, and will be retired from active weather-watching duty in 1999, becoming a communications relay satellite until it is decommissioned in 2012.

Wizards and Warriors: The Unicorn Of Death

Wizards and WarriorsCBS premieres the first episode of the fantasy/comedy series Wizards and Warriors, starring Jeff Conaway (Grease, Babylon 5), Walter Olkewicz, Duncan Regehr, and Julia Duffy (Newhart). Tim Dunigan (Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future) guest stars. Read more

Reactor

ReactorGottlieb introduces the arcade game Reactor in the United States, a unique trackball-driven game with thumping synthesized hard rock musical accompaniment.

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Salvage 1: The Haunting Of Manderley Mansion

Salvage 1The fifth episode of the series Salvage 1 airs on ABC, starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins (Silver Spoons), and Trish Stewart. Richard Jaeckel (Spenser For Hire) guest stars in an episode that is decidedly more sci-fi than most of the series.

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Project UFO Sighting 4002: The Joshua Flats Incident

Project UFOThe second episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. William Jordan (Beyond Westworld) and Caskey Swaim star. BarBara Luna (Star Trek, Buck Rogers In The 25th Century) guest stars.

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Doctor Who: The Sea Devils, Part 1

Doctor WhoThe 312th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.

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The Sixth Sense: Can A Dead Man Strike From The Grave?

The Sixth SenseThe sixth episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. William Shatner (Star Trek) guest stars.

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ESSA-9

ESSAThe recently-rechristened Environmental Sciences Service Administration launches, with the help of NASA, ESSA-9, the latest in a constellation of weather satellites. ESSA-9 is the last weather satellite to carry the ESSA designation, as the government reorganizes ESSA into a new agency, NOAA, the following year. ESSA-9 remains in service until 1972.