WandaVision: The Series Finale
Streaming service Disney Plus releases the ninth and final episode of WandaVision, created for TV by Jac Schaeffer and starring Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, and Kathryn Hahn. The series sets up both a spinoff for Hahn’s character, as well as a lead-in to future feature film Doctor Strange And The Multiverse Of Madness, to be released in 2022.
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Star Trek: Picard: Nepenthe
Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the seventh episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis reprise their Star Trek: The Next Generation characters, Will Riker and Deanna Troi.
The Flash: King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd
The CW airs the 106th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin.
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Star Wars: Rebels: A Fool’s Hope and Family Reunion And Farewell
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 70th and 71st episodes of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Lars Mikkelsen, Ian McDiarmid (Star Wars Episode III), Gina Torres (Firefly), and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockword Orange, Star Trek: Generations) guest star in the series finale.
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Legends Of Tomorrow: No Country For Old Dads
The CW airs the 46th 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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Arrow: The Promise
The 38th 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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Hubble spots a Space Invader
To allay public fears that the next level might not be reached, NASA offers an explanation for an enigmatic 2010 image from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing a galaxy cluster, Abell 68, approximately 2,000,000,000 light years away. In the middle of that cluster, however, is what appears to be an alien from the video game Space Invaders. NASA explains that it’s a visual artifact of gravitational lensing caused by the gravity influence of the foreground galaxies upon the light of galaxies further away in the image. Earth breathes easy once more.
X-37B OTV-2
The U.S. Air Force launches a second unmanned X-37B spacecraft into Earth orbit atop an Atlas V rocket. Designated USA-226, this is the second Boeing-built X-37B to reach orbit, and is the first to remain in orbit for over a year, re-entering the atmosphere and successfully conducting an automated landing in June 2012. This X-37B also features a solar panel array that is deployed from its cargo compartment, allowing it to generate constant power during its classified 15-month mission.
Caprica: Know Thy Enemy
The sixth 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. James Marsters (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel) and Patton Oswalt guest star.
Torchwood: Something Borrowed
BBC2 premieres the 22nd episode of Russell T. Davies’ science fiction series Torchwood, a more adult-themed spinoff of Doctor Who. Nerys Hughes guest stars.
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Jars Of Clay: The Eleventh Hour
The Jars Of Clay album The Eleventh Hour is released, featuring the single “I Need You”.
Electric Light Orchestra: First Light
The first Electric Light Orchestra album is re-released in the UK in an expanded, remastered form, featuring numerous previously unreleases mixes and other curiosities. This two-disc edition is a British exclusive, though copies inevitably make their way across the Atlantic to die-hard fans.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Hell’s Bells
The 116th 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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Prowse paralyzed
An unusual paralyzing condition strikes actor David Prowse, first leaving one of his arms paralyzed and then his back, robbing him of his ability to walk. Prowse, who portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has made numerous other larger-than-life appearances (including a brief guest shot as the legendary Minotaur in a 1972 episode of Doctor Who), and has lately been a frequent guest on the convention circuit. A spokesman for Mr. Prowse says that doctors have ruled out a stroke as the cause of his condition, but still have yet to identifty what exactly has happened.
Lexx: Gondola
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 29th episode of Lexx. Nigel Bennett (Forever Knight) guest stars as Prince.
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Stargate SG-1: 1969
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 42nd episode of Stargate SG-1.
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Lexx: Twilight
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 17th episode of Lexx. Louise Wischermann guest stars as Lyekka.
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What Clementine found
Though its extended mission was cut short by a mishap in 1994, NASA’s ill-fated Clementine lunar orbiter returned data with significant implications for further manned visits to the moon. NASA announces that craters near the north and south poles of Earth’s moon may harbor enough water ice to allow long-term colonization, and could also be used to create propellant on-site. While this promising announcement occurs as the 30th anniversary of the first manned moon landing approaches, any further manned visits exist strictly on paper.
Red Dwarf: Terrorform
The 27th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2. Boy, am I glad to see you.
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Jake Lloyd, future Star Wars actor, born
Actor Jake Lloyd, who will become famous (or, depending upon who you ask, infamous) as the face of the young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, is born in Colorado. His brief acting career is dominated by his role as the boy who will become Darth Vader, and he eventually gives up acting.
Wizards and Warriors: The Kidnap
CBS airs the second 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. 
Venera 14 lands on Venus
The Soviet Union’s unmanned Venera 14 space probe successfully lands on the planet Venus, its landing module enduring almost an hour in temperatures of nearly 900 degrees Fahrenheit and air pressure nearly 100 times that experienced at sea level on Earth. A soil sampling experiment is thwarted by an unforseen problem, namely the lens cap of Venera 14’s camera popping off and landing precisely where its sampling arm was designed to gather Venusian soil for testing.
NBC airs the Beyond Westworld: Westworld Destroyed
Attempting to build a TV franchise onto the 1973 hit movie Westworld, the first episode of Beyond Westworld airs on CBS, starring Jim McMullan and James Wainwright. Cassandra Peterson (later better known as Elvira) guest stars. Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast
Salvage 1: The Bugatti Treasure
The sixth episode of the series Salvage 1 airs on ABC, starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins (Silver Spoons), and Trish Stewart. Richard Jaeckel (Spenser For Hire) and Severn Darden (Battle For The Planet Of The Apes) guest star.
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Voyager 1 at Jupiter
The unmanned NASA/JPL space probe Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to the giant planet Jupiter, a little over 200,000 miles away. While Voyager’s higher-resolution cameras trump any of the Pioneer images of Jupiter, the real revelation proves to be Jupiter’s four largest moons, revealing a smooth-but-cracked icy surface on Europa, craters on Ganymede and Callisto, and the colorful mountains of Io, whose biggest secret goes undiscovered until a few days after Voyager 1’s closest flyby.
Landsat 3
NASA launches Landsat 3, the latest in a constellation of satellites derived from the design of the experimental Nimbus weather satellites. This is the last Landsat to use the Nimbus framework, and the last to be managed exclusively by NASA; Landsat 3 remains in service through 1983.
Score Wars
At Anvil Studios in Denham, England, John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra convene for the first recording session for the Star Wars soundtrack. Over the course of the next 11 days, and with director George Lucas in attendance in the recording booth, all of the music for Lucas’ movie is rehearsed and recorded. Williams and Lucas had been introduced by their mutual friend Steven Spielberg, with whom Williams had worked on 1975’s Jaws (whose score had gone on to win Williams his second Oscar); Lucas’ original plan was to “score” Star Wars entirely with classical pieces. The first scene scored by Williams and the LSO is the rapid-fire chase through the Death Star, culminating in Luke and Princess Leia swinging across a chasm; other pieces recorded on the first day include the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the iconic theme music.
Future Cop: Fighting O’Haven
The first weekly episode of Future Cop airs on ABC, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times), based on a successful pilot movie aired in May 1976.
Doctor Who: Talons Of Weng-Chiang, Part 2
The 449th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. John Bennett, Trevor Baxter and Christopher Benjamin guest star.
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