Legends Of Tomorrow: Knocked Down, Knocked Up
The CW airs the 110th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Jes Macallan, Tala Ashe, and Olivia Swann. Though not intended to be, this is the last episode of the series.
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Batwoman: We Having Fun Yet?
The CW airs the 51st and final episode of Batwoman starring Javicia Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, and Meagan Tandy.
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Superman & Lois: Heritage
The CW airs the second episode of Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, and Alex Garfin.
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The Flash: All’s Wells That Ends Wells
The CW airs the 133rd episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. This is the long-delayed premiere of the series’ seventh season.
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Star Wars Rebels: Shroud Of Darkness
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 31st episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. James Earl Jones and Frank Oz reprise their roles from the original trilogy.
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Star Wars: Rebels: Fire Across The Galaxy
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 14th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. This episode closes the first season, and cements the story connections between Rebels and the previous Clone Wars animated series.
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NASA’s Dawn mission cancelled
Having been “on hold” since October 2005 pending an audit of technical and managerial issues related to the mission, NASA formally cancels the Dawn unmanned mission to the asteroid belt. The spacecraft had been intended to lift off in 2006, using an ion propulsion system to visit, orbit, and map not one, but two, of the largest bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, in the following decade. The mission is cancelled when NASA auditors find unresolved technical issues and project a budget overrun of 20%. Planners and managers for the Dawn mission plan to appeal NASA’s decision.
Doctor Who action figures, wave 1
British toymaker Character Options releases the first wave of 5-inch action figures based on characters from the new Doctor Who series, including the ninth and tenth Doctors, Rose and K-9. The figures are identical to those included in Character’s Dalek infrared battle set.
The Rosetta lifts off
After years of delays that forced a rewrite of the entire mission plan, the European Space Agency launches the Rosetta unmanned space probe on a looping, ten-year journey through the solar system that will hopefully take it to a rendezvous with Comet 67/P Churyumov–Gerasimenko in ten years. The mission plan calls for Rosetta to orbit the comet and release a small lander, Philae, to descend to its surface. In the intervening years, Rosetta will also have opportunities to study Mars and various asteroids as it passes by them. Rosetta’s mission profile is similar to that of NASA’s cancelled 1990s CRAF (Comet Rendezvous / Asteroid Flyby) mission.
Total Recall 2070: First Wave
Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the eighth episode of Art Monterastelli’s sci-fi series Total Recall 2070, starring Michael Easton and Cynthia Preston, very loosely based on the 1990 film Total Recall. The series will air on the American pay cable channel Showtime later in the year. Chad Allen (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) and Tara Rosling (Star Trek: Discovery) guest star.
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Star Trek: DS9: Change Of Heart
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 138th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Lois & Clark: Meet John Doe
The 79th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Lane Davies, Fred Willard, and William Christopher (M*A*S*H) guest star.
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Hypernauts: The Star Ranger
ABC airs the second episode of Hypernauts, created by Christy Marx (Jem) and Ron Thornton (the visual effects artist behind the CGI of Babylon 5), and starring Marc Daniel (Fast Track) and Carrie Dobro (Crusade).
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STS-67
NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on the longest flight of the shuttle program to date – over 16 and a half days – with the ASTRO astronomy experiment package mounted in the cargo bay. Some astronomical observations on this mission are conducted in tandem with the Hubble Space Telescope. Aboard Endeavour for her eighth flight are Commander Stephen Oswald, Pilot William Gregory, Payload Commander Tammy Jernigan, mission specialists John Grunsfeld and Wendy Lawrence, and payload specialists Ronald Parise and Samuel Durrance.
TekWar: Alter Ego
The sixth episode of the sci-fi crime series TekWar, based on William Shatner’s novel series, airs as part of the Universal Action Pack syndication package. Greg Evigan, Eugene Clark, William Shatner, and Torri Higginson star.
Babylon 5: Mind War
The week-long national syndication window opens for the sixth episode of Babylon 5. Walter Koenig (Star Trek) makes his first guest appearance as Bester, an untrustworthy telepathic Psi Cop.
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Forever Knight: Love You To Death
CBS airs the 22nd episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Andrea Roth (RoboCop: The Series, Rescue Me) guest stars in the first season finale. CBS drops the series from its schedule, but due to the series’ popularity internationally, production of a second series goes forward; that season will return in first-run syndication in the U.S. in late 1994.
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Quantum Leap: Goodbye Norma Jean
NBC airs the 91st episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Susan Griffiths, an actress specializing in portraying Marilyn Monroe, appears in that role here, as she also would in other series such as Dark Skies and Timecop.
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Star Trek: TNG: Ethics
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 115th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Super Force: Tales Of Future Past
The 19th 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). Wrestler Steve “Sting” Borden guest stars.
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Amazing Stories: Dorothy And Ben
The 18th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Joe Seneca (The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh) and Lane Smith (V, Lois & Clark) guest star.
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Doctor Who: The Two Doctors, Part 3
The 637th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines return as the second Doctor and Jamie, and the Sontarans appear for the first time since the Tom Baker era. Jacqueline Pearce (Blake’s 7) guest stars. This is Patrick Troughton’s final Doctor Who episode, and the last original series appearance of the Sontarans.
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Doctor Who: Planet Of Fire, Part 4
The 620th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Anthony Ainley appears as the Master, and Peter Wyngarde guest stars. Mark Strickson makes his final appearance as TARDIS traveler Turlough, and this episode also sees the end of Kamelion, a robot intended to be played by a real robot later beset by mechanical issues in the wake of its designer’s death.
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Exporting the Compact Disc
For the first time, Compact Disc players and pre-recorded CDs appear in the English-speaking world (having been available in Japan since late 1982. The first label to embrace the new digital format is CBS Records, which publishes 16 existing titles on CD ranging from classical to rock. The technology has been developed jointly by Philips and Sony since the 1970s.
Doctor Who: Enlightenment, Part 2
The 597th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Valentine Dyall appears as the Black Guardian with Cyril Luckham reprising the role of the White Guardian. This concludes the 20th season’s “Guardian/redemption of Turlough” trilogy.
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Kosmos 1443
The Soviet Union launches an unmanned module, Kosmos 1443, on a trajectory that will bring it to the Salyut 7 space station for an automated docking. Once connected to Salyut 7, Kosmos 1443 provides extra habitable space for experiments and storage. A hardware holdover from the abandoned Almaz military space station program of the early 1970s, Kosmos remains docked to Salyut 7 through August 1983, at which time it is undocked and jettisoned, falling out of orbit and burning up in Earth’s atmosphere in September.
Doctor Who: Black Orchid, Part 2
The 571st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Many fans of the series consider this the “last pure historical story” – the Doctor and his companions are merely witnesses to events that have no other science fiction influence.
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Pac-Man defeats K.C. Munchkin
In a federal court hearing in Chicago, Atari and Midway – as the American licensees of Pac-Man – are victorious over Magnavox, whose Odyssey2 cartridge K.C. Munchkin was alleged to infringe on Pac-Man. The court ruling, which results in an injunction forcing Magnavox to pull K.C. Munchkin off the market, says it “captures the ‘total concept and feel’ of, and is substantially similar to, Pac-Man,” and that Magnavox “jeopardized the substantial investments of Midway and especially Atari.” Beaten but defiant, Magnavox releases a K.C. Munchkin sequel later in the year.
Soyuz 28
The Soviet Union launches the Soyuz 28 mission, the first manned flight in its Interkosmos series of international space missions. Cosmonaut Vladimír Remek is the first Czech in space, as well as the first space traveler not born in the Soviet Union or the United States; along with Soyuz 28 mission commander Alexei Gubarev, Remek visits the Salyut 6 space station for several days, though is presence is purely political showmanship; Remek later reveals that he had few actual functions to perform during the flight. Soyuz 28 spends a total of nearly eight days in space before returning to Earth.