Legends Of Tomorrow: Guest Starring John Noble
The CW airs the 50th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and Tala Ashe. Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who), Neal McDonough, and John Noble (Fringe) guest star.
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Blue Origin NS-4
Commercial spaceflight operator Blue Origin, owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, launches its fourth New Shepard flight. The uncrewed (but human-rated) capsule and its single-stage suborbital booster come in for soft landings near Blue Origin’s Texas launch facility. This is the third flight for the second New Shepard reusable capsule, as well as the third flight for the second New Shepard reusable booster; both will be flown again later in 2016.
Arrow: Deathstroke
The 41st episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Summer Glau (Firefly, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow) guest star.
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Star Trek: First Contact soundtrack
A complete expanded edition of Jerry and Joel Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: First Contact is released on GNP Crescendo Records.
Soyuz TMA-18
Part of the 23rd full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-18. Aleksandr Skvortsov, Mikhail Korniyenko and Tracy Caldwell Dyson take up residence on the ISS for 164 days, becoming part of the Expedition 23/24 crews. All three return to Earth in September 2010 aboard the same vehicle.
Doctor Who: The End Of The World
Just a week after the series’ revival, the 700th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Zoe Wanamaker and Yasmin Bannerman guest star.
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The Clone Wars: Chapter 16
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the 16th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
The The X-Files: Chimera
The 155th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Michelle Joyner guest stars.
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Lexx: Garden
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 33rd episode of Lexx. Nigel Bennett (Forever Knight) guest stars as Prince.
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Farscape: Exodus From Genesis
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the third episode of Farscape. (Early episodes of this series are aired out of the producers’ preferred story order or, for that matter, production order.)
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Sliders: My Brother’s Keeper
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 66th episode of the science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, and Charlie O’Connell. Malcolm Jamal-Warner (The Cosby Show, Jeremiah) guest stars.
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The Outer Limits: Blank Slate
Showtime airs the 95th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Dale Midkiff (Time Trax) guest stars in an episode directed by Lou Diamond Phillips.
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Lexx: The Net
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 21st episode of Lexx.
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Lois & Clark: Target: Jimmy Olsen
The 40th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Charles Napier, Erick Avari, and Michelle Phillips guest star.
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Star Trek: TNG: Captain’s Holiday
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 66th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Jennifer Hetrick and Max Grodenchik (Star Trek: DS9) guest star.
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Lock ‘n’ Chase
Data East releases the arcade video game Lock ‘n’ Chase in the United States. Though bearing some distinctive differences from Pac-Man, the game gets lost in a glut of Pac-Man knock-off coin-ops also in circulation.
Microsoft Z80 Softcard
Microsoft enters the computer hardware business with a Z80 processor card for the Apple II computer. This peripheral allows the Apple II to run the CP/M operating system and Microsoft BASIC (the Apple II is well on its way to dominating the home computer market at this point). Selling it for nearly $350 is responsible for bringing in the bulk of Microsoft’s revenue between now and the introduction of Microsoft DOS for the IBM PC.
Salvage 1: Operation Breakout
The ninth episode of the series Salvage 1 airs on ABC, starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, and Trish Stewart. Richard Jaeckel (Spenser For Hire) and Moses Gunn (Shaft, Father Murphy) guest star.
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Project UFO Sighting 4006: The Nevada Desert Incident
The sixth 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 and Caskey Swaim star. Scott Hylands (Night Heat, V) and Brian Tochi (Space Academy) guest star.
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Doctor Who: Talons Of Weng-Chiang, Part 6
The 453rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. John Bennett, Trevor Baxter and Christopher Benjamin guest star. This episode brings Doctor Who’s 14th season to an end.
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2001: a space odyssey
The product of a four-year collaboration between visionary SF writer Arthur C. Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick, MGM’s 2001: a space odyssey premieres, delighting fans of hard SF and bewildering audiences and critics. It is released alongside Clarke’s novel of the same story, which both clarifies some of the more inscrutible story points (such as the reason for the behavior of HAL, the ship’s computer) and confuses others (the book depicts a mission to Saturn; the movie depicts a mission to Jupiter). Many critics and science fiction writers regard the movie as an instant classic of the genre, one which continues to be hugely influential in the years and decades to come.
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It’s About Time: The Stowaway
The 26th episode of the time travel sitcom It’s About Time, created by Sherwood Schwarz (I Dream Of Jeannie) and starring Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, and Imogene Coca, is broadcast on CBS. This episode, the final one shown, is left over from the original formulation of the series premise, in which the astronauts were stranded in the stone age.
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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toyroom
The 111th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as The Celestial Toymaker. The first story of the series under the stewardship of its third producer, Innes Lloyd, this episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Zond 1
The Soviet Union launches the space probe Zond 1 toward Venus, a more sophisticated version of the Venera 1 vehicle sent to that planet in 1961. Thanks to an electrical short within the Zond space probe, ground controllers lose all contact a month after it leaves Earth; by the time it swings past Venus at over 60,000 miles months later, Zond 1 has shut down completely.
Luna 4 loses the landing
An unmanned Soviet lunar lander, Luna 4, is launched from the USSR’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. Unlike Luna 2, which intentionally crashed into the moon with no attempt to slow its approach, Luna 4 is the first atempt at a vehicle intended to survive its descent to the lunar surface and make observations from the ground. A failed course correction engine burn leaves the 3,000-pound vehicle in a wide, looping orbit around the Earth, unable to reach the moon at all. The Soviet Union, after several more attempts, will eventually achieve the first unmanned soft landing on the surface of the moon three years later.
Pathfinders To Venus: The Venus People
British broadcaster ABC airs the fifth episode of Pathfinders To Venus, a follow-up series to Pathfinders In Mars, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. George Colouris and Gerald Flood (City Beneath The Sea) star; the script is written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all eight episodes will be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
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