Superman & Lois: Uncontrollable Forces
The CW airs the 32nd episode of Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Michael Bishop, and Alex Garfin.
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Batwoman: Survived Much Worse
The CW airs the 28th episode of Batwoman starring Javicia Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, and Meagan Tandy.
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Star Trek: Discovery: The Red Angel
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 25th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Michelle Yeoh, Alan Van Sprang (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, The Tudors), Sonja Sohn (The Wire), and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star.
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The Orville: Lasting Impressions
Fox airs the 23rd episode of the science fiction drama-comedy The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl), Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager) and Norm MacDonald guest star.
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The X-Files: My Struggle IV
The 217th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Mitch Pileggi, Annabeth Gish, and William B. Davis guest star in the season eleven finale.
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The Flash: Duet
The CW airs the 63rd episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Melissa Benoist (Supergirl) and John Barrowman (Torchwood) guest star in a musical episode.
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Legends Of Tomorrow: The Fellowship Of The Spear
The CW airs the 31st episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. John Barrowman (Torchwood) and Neal McDonough guest star.
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Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol soundtrack
Silva Screen Records releases Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol. This is the first time in the revived series that a single episode has gotten an individual soundtrack release; Katherine Jenkins’ song “Abigail’s Song (Silence Is All You Know)” is inclucded.
Lost: The Man From Tallahassee
ABC airs the 60th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Mira Furlan (Babylon 5) and Nestor Carbonell guest star.
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Lost Season 1 soundtrack
Michael Giacchino’s soundtrack to the first season of Lost is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
The Strangerers: Angels
The sixth episode of the science fiction comedy series The Strangerers is broadcast on Sky One, created and written by Rob Grant (Red Dwarf), starring Mark Williams and Jack Docherty. Paul Darrow (Blake’s 7) guest stars.
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The Outer Limits: New Lease
Showtime airs the 54th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Jason Priestly (Beverly Hills 90210) guest stars and directs.
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Star Trek: TNG: Genesis
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 170th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This episode’s special makeup effects win an Emmy Award; it is directed by Gates McFadden.
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Star Trek: DS9: Blood Oath
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 38th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Guest starring are three actors who played Captain Kirk’s Klingon adversaries in various episodes of the original Star Trek: John Colicos (Battlestar Galactica) as Kor, Michael Ansara as Kang, and William Campbell as Koloth.
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RoboCop: Prime Suspect
The second episode of RoboCop: The Series airs in syndication, starring Richard Eden, Yvette Nipar, Blu Mankuma, and Andrea Roth. Chris Wiggins (Friday The 13th: The Series) guest stars.
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Space Station Fred
At the insistence of Congress, NASA submits a significant redesign of the long-overdue and over-budget Space Station Freedom for approval. Where previous design changes tried to retain a massive “dual keel” allowing for experiment modules and other activities that could be performed a safe distance away from the station’s habitation modules, the new Space Station Freedom clusters all of its modules together in one place and removes the dual keel structure permanently. Scoffing at the truncated new design, critics refer to the newly-submitted proposal as “Space Station Fred” instead of “Space Station Freedom”.
Red Dwarf: Meltdown
The 24th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2. This episode, delayed from earlier in the season to avoid being seen as a parody of the then-in-progress Persian Gulf War, closes the fourth season.
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Star Trek: TNG: Heart Of Glory
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 19th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This is the first episode of the series to focus on the Klingon race – a holdover from the original series and movies that series creator Gene Roddenberry had planned to avoid revisiting until co-producer (and fellow classic Trek producer) Bob Justman convinced him otherwise during pre-production, leading to the very late creation of a “Klingon Marine” named Worf.
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Red Dwarf: Me2
The sixth episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2. This concludes the first season, but the BBC rushes a second season into production due to the popularity of the first six episodes.
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Twilight Zone: Episode 21
CBS airs the 21st episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. William Peterson (CSI) and George Dzundza star in an episode comprised of two short stories, Need To Know and Red Snow.
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Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator
Segaa releases the arcade game Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator in American arcades. The vector graphics coin-op, simulating the “tactical views” seen on the Enterprise in the first two Star Trek movies, is the first officially licensed Star Trek video game. It also reflects some corporate synergy: Sega was, at the time, also owned by Paramount Pictures parent company Gulf + Western.
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Doctor Who: Logopolis, Part 4
The 553rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1, continuing a trilogy of stories themed around the Doctor’s regeneration and the reintroduction of the Master. Janet Fielding joins the cast as new companion Tegan. Anthony Ainley guest stars as the Master.
This is Tom Baker’s final episode as the Doctor.
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Search: Ends Of The Earth
NBC airs the 21st episode of Leslie Steven’s “spy-fi” series Search, starring Tony Franciosa and Burgess Meredith. Sebastian Cabot (Ghost Story) and Diana Muldaur (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.
Doctor Who: Ambassadors Of Death, Part 1
The 265th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. John Abineri and Ronald Allen guest star.
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The Invaders: The Ivy Curtain
The 11th episode of Larry Cohen’s science fiction series The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes and produced by Quinn Martin’s QM Productions, premieres on ABC. Jack Warden (Crazy Like A Fox) and Susan Oliver (Star Trek) guest star.
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Ranger 9
NASA launches the Ranger 9 lunar probe, built by Jet Propulsion Laboratory and intended to go directly to the moon, transmitting pictures of the surface back to Earth until it impacts the lunar surface. Despite NASA scientists’ insistence that the last Ranger probe carry scientific instruments and not just cameras, Ranger 9 is outfitted with cameras only; as a tradeoff, scientists get to nominate its target on the surface, selecting the crater Alphonsus, suspected to be a site of lunar volcanism. Ranger 8 functions flawlessly, sending live video back to Earth until impacting in the crater floor, and for the first time the terminal descent of one of the Ranger probes is broadcast live on TV. This concludes the Ranger program, as NASA now needs to switch its efforts to the unmanned Surveyor lunar landers to find out if the moon’s surface can support the weight of a manned lander. The basic architecture of the Ranger spacecraft is adopted as the heart of the ongoing Mariner planetary space probe series, up to and including the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn ’77 missions (later renamed Voyager) over a decade later.
The Avengers: Lobster Quadrille
British broadcaster ABC airs the 78th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. This, the series’ third season closer, is Blackman’s final appearance in The Avengers before departing the show to co-star in the James Bond film Goldfinger. This is also the last episode shot on videotape; future seasons will be shot on film after American reruns of this season turn The Avengers into an overseas hit.
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Doctor Who: Rider From Shang-Tu
The 18th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part five of the story now collectively known as Marco Polo. The entirety of this story has since been lost by the BBC archives.
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The Twilight Zone: I Dream Of Genie
The 114th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Howard Morris, Patricia Berry, and Jack Albertson star.
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One Step Beyond: The Room Upstairs
ABC airs the 86th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Lois Maxwell (the James Bond films’ original Miss Moneypenny) guest stars.
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