The Flash: Death Of The Speed Force
The CW airs the 127th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin.
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Legends Of Tomorrow: Mr. Parker’s Cul-de-Sac
The CW airs the 74th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Brandon Routh, and Tala Ashe. Neal McDonough guest stars.
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Legends Of Tomorrow: Night Of The Hawk
The CW airs the eighth episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber.
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Battlestar Galactica: Lay Down… Part 2
Sci-Fi channel airs the 33rd episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap) guest stars. This episode concludes the show’s second season.
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The X-Files: Providence
The 192nd episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, and Annabeth Gish. Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, Twister) guest stars.
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The Outer Limits: Simon Says
Showtime airs the 115th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Joel Grey (Cabaret, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins) guest stars.
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Stargate SG-1: Nemesis
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 65th episode of Stargate SG-1, introducing a new enemy in the form of the Replicators and bringing season three to an end.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer arrives on TV
The first (Welcome To The Hellmouth) and second episodes (The Harvest) of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, premieres on the WB network. The series is based loosely upon the 1992 comedy movie of the same name, also written by Whedon, but represents a major rethink of the character of vampire-killing cheerleader Buffy Summers, as well as addressing modern topics facing teenagers in the 1990s. Anthony Stewart Head, Alyson Hannigan, and David Boreanaz also star.
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Lois & Clark: Forget Me Not
The 61st episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Larry Poindexter guest stars.
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The X-Files: Død Kalm
The 43rd episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and Mitch Pileggi. John Savage (Dark Angel) guest stars.
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VR.5
The first episode of the science fiction series VR.5 premieres on Fox, starring Lori Singer (Fame) and Michael Easton (Total Recall 2070). The short-lived series, dealing with advanced virtual reality, is aired out of order, with some plot-critical episodes skipped by the network altogether. David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, The Invisible Man, NCIS), Louise Fletcher (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate Atlantis), Adam Baldwin (Firefly), and Penn Jillette guest star in the pilot.
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Discs Of Tron
Midway releases the arcade game Discs Of Tron in American arcades. The second coin-op game based on the movie Tron, this game was originally devised as an additional “stage” of the original Tron coin-op until designers split it off into its own game. The “environmental” cabinet, allowing players to stand inside the brightly black-lit game, becomes a legend of arcade architecture.
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Disco No. 1
The Stateside arm of Japanese video game maker Data East releases the arcade game Disco No. 1 in the United States, having apparently missed the memo announcing that disco is dead.
Space Invaders invade homes
Atari releases the home version of Space Invaders as a cartridge for the Atari 2600, the first time that a video game company has licensed another company’s game for home play. (All of Atari’s arcade ports up to this point have been home versions of Atari arcade games.) It turns out to be an astute move: Space Invaders is the “killer app” of the VCS, becoming so popular that the cartridge boosts sales of the system needed to run it.
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Blake’s 7: Ultraworld
BBC1 premieres the 36th episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7. This episode is written by novelist Trevor Hoyle, who has already penned two Blake’s 7 tie-in novelizations during the series’ first season.
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Wonder Woman: A Date With Doomsday
The 53rd episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Donnelly Rhodes (Battlestar Galactica) guest stars.
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Quark: The Good, The Bad, And The Ficus
The fourth episode of Buck Henry’s science fiction spoof Quark premieres on NBC. This episode parodies the “evil twin from an alternate universe” sci-fi chestnut.
The Incredible Hulk: Final Round
The third episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk premieres on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Martin Kove guest stars. Following on from the ratings success of the two TV movies before it, this is the beginning of the weekly series proper.
Wonder Woman: Seance Of Terror
The 32nd episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Rick Jason (Combat!) guest stars.
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Fantastic Journey: A Dream Of Conquest
The fifth episode of the short-lived NBC series The Fantastic Journey premieres. John Saxon guest stars, and a model of the space shuttle with its external tank and solid rocket boosters is referred to as a spaceship from the distant future.
The Rings of Uranus
A team of MIT astronomers, flying in a plane modified to serve as an airborne high-altitude telescope, plans to observe the planet Uranus as it eclipses, or “occults”, a star. But the team observes more occultations than expected both before and after the planet itself passes in front of the star. The inevitable conclusion is that Uranus has rings, made of material too dark to be detected by existing Earthbound telescopes. Further observations are given top priority: NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe, due to lift off later in 1977, may last long enough to reach Uranus, and the newly discovered rings must be taken into account when planning its flyby trajectory.
The Changes: The Cavern
The tenth and final 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. Oscar Quitak (Brazil) guest stars. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975; an entire generation of young viewers will go on to consider the short series a seminal event in UK genre TV.
The Evil Touch: The Voyage
The 22nd 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.) Leslie Nielsen (Police Squad, Airplane!) guest stars.
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Doctor Who: Frontier In Space, Part 3
The 340th 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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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Attack!
The 107th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Skip Homeier guest stars.
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Time Tunnel: Attack Of The Barbarians
The 26th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series The Time Tunnel airs on ABC, starring James Darren and Robert Colbert. John Saxon, Whit Bissell, and Lee Meriwether geust star.
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Batman: Holy Rat Race
The 18th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Malachi Throne guest stars as False Face. (This is part two of a two-part story; each week’s story unfolds in two half-hour episodes on Monday and Tuesday.)
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