Legends Of Tomorrow: The Good, The Bad And The Cuddly
The CW airs the 51st episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and Tala Ashe. Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who), Matt Ryan (Constantine), Neal McDonough, and John Noble (Fringe) guest star in the third season finale.
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Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead
The 701st episode of Doctor Who (the third since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Simon Callow guest stars as Charles Dickens; future Torchwood star Eve Myles also guest stars.
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Enterprise: Judgment
The 44th episode of the Star Trek prequel spinoff Enterprise premieres on UPN. J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and John Vickery (Babylon 5) guest star.
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The X-Files: All Things
The 156th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Stacy Haiduk (Superboy, seaQuest DSV) guest stars in an episode written by Gillian Anderson.
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Lexx: Battle
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 34th episode of Lexx. Nigel Bennett (Forever Knight) guest stars as Prince.
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Farscape: Throne For A Loss
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the fourth 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: The Chasm
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 67th episode of the science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, and Charlie O’Connell.
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Lexx: Brigadoom
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 22nd episode of Lexx. Unusually, much of the episode is a stage musical (complete with stage).
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UPN airs the STS-59
NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on an 11-day mission to carry the Space Radar Laboratory experiment into orbit. The radar systems map sites on Earth and test other applications for orbital radar. Aboard Endeavour for her sixth flight are Commander Sidney Gutierrez, Pilot Kevin Chilton, Payload Commander Linda Godwin, and mission specialists Jay Apt, Michael Clifford and Thomas Jones.
Alien Nation: Gimme Gimme
Fox Network premieres the 20th episode of Alien Nation. Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
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Time Pilot ’84
Konami introduces the arcade game Time Pilot ’84 in the United States, dragging the popular Time Pilot style of game play two years into the future. (In many respects, it’s the same game with a new graphics set.)
I.R.S. Records releases Wizards and Warriors: Skies Of Death
CBS airs the fifth episode of the fantasy/comedy series Wizards and Warriors, starring Jeff Conaway (Grease, Babylon 5), Walter Olkewicz, Duncan Regehr, and Julia Duffy (Newhart).
Tales Of The Unexpected: A Passing Opportunity
ITV airs the 70th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Bryan Marshall guest stars in the sixth season premiere.
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Buck Rogers: Testimony Of A Traitor
NBC airs the 32nd episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. William Sylvester (2001: a space odyssey) guest stars.
Soyuz 35
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 35 en route to space station Salyut 6 for a long-duration stay. Cosmonauts Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin set a new space endurance record with their 185-day stay, lasting until October 1980. Ryumin had been a member of the last Salyut 6 crew as well, having stayed on the station for six months in 1979, and was not originally scheduled for this mission, rotated into the prime crew due to the illness of the originally assigned crew member. Four other crews visit Salyut 6 during the Soyuz 35 crew’s stay. By the end of this mission, Ryumin holds a personal record for the most time accrued in space by a human being – 352 days, barely two weeks short of a full year of spaceflight experience.
Project UFO Sighting 4007: The Forest City Incident
The seventh 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. Skip Homeier (The Interns, Star Trek) guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Hall Of Dolls
The 112th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Celestial Toymaker. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Pathfinders To Venus: The City
British broadcaster ABC airs the sixth 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. This is a rare instance of an episode of the Pathfinders saga not directed by Guy Verney; Reginald Collin (The Edward Woodward Hour, Callan) directs.
This is the last episode of the Pathfinders series to be broadcast before humans have actually gone to space.
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Science Fiction Theatre: Beyond
The first episode of the syndicated science fiction Science Fiction Theatre premieres on stations across the U.S. Unusually for its day, the series is filmed in color (Ziv’s way of future-proofing the show with the widespread adoption of color TV roughly a decade away). The episode stars William Lundigan, the future star of another Ziv-produced science fiction series, Men Into Space.
Hook echo: first tornado detected by radar
Using a World War II-era aviation radar system, Illinois State Water Survey electrical engineer Donald Staggs makes the first radar-based detection of a nearby tornado, part of a tornado outbreak striking in and near Champaign, Illinois. The “hook echo” is the distinctive radar signature of a rapidly evolving small-scale cyclone developing from the larger radar signature of its parent thunderstorm. Continued observations confirm that this is the “radar shape” of a forming tornado, an invaluable piece of information for forecasters on the forefront of severe weather prediction.