Star Trek: Picard Season 3 soundtrack
Lakeshore Records digitally releases an album of selections from Stephen Barton and Frederik Weidmann‘s soundtrack to the third and final season of the streaming series Star Trek: Picard.
The Flash: So Long And Goodnight
The CW airs the 129th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Phil LaMarr guest stars.
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Legends Of Tomorrow: Zari, Not Zari
The CW airs the 76th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Brandon Routh, and Tala Ashe.
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Legends Of Tomorrow: Last Refuge
The CW airs the 12th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. Celia Imrie (The Nightmare Man) guest stars in an episode directed by Rachel Talalay (Doctor Who).
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The Flash: Who Is Harrison Wells?
The 19th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Katie Cassidy (Arrow) guest stars.
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Caprica
The pilot movie 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, is released direct-to-DVD. Starring Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales and Alessandra Toressani, Caprica actually began its development as a non-Galactica-related pitch about the dawn of a society’s disastrous over-reliance on technology. The pilot will be broadcast nearly a year on Syfy, though its initial means of release reflects an end-of-decade spike in direct-to-DVD genre movies that includes two one-off Stargate SG-1 DVDs.
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Doctor Who: Daleks In Manhattan
The 730th episode of Doctor Who (the 32nd since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Hugh Quarshie (Star Wars Episode I) and Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) guest star. This is the first part of a two-part story.
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Abrams to be new Trek moviemaker
Entertainment industry newspaper Daily Variety reports that J.J. Abrams, creator of Lost and Alias, and director/producer of Paramount’s heavily-promoted Mission: Impossible III, has signed a deal to produce and direct the eleventh Star Trek film, which has suddenly moved from “off the schedule” (following the cooling of the studio’s attitude toward the Trek franchise in the wake of the Star Trek: Enterprise cancellation) to a 2008 release date. Fellow Lost producers Bryan Burk and Damon Lindelof are also signed on as producers of the still-untitled movie, which is said to focus on the first mission for a young James T. Kirk and Spock. Mission: Impossible III (and former Xena/Hercules) writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are on board as scriptwriters.
ISS Expedition 9 gets dizzying welcome
The three members of the Expedition 9 crew arrive on the International Space Station, and the station promptly loses one of its three gyroscopes, which keep the station aligned in orbit. According to NASA, the station can remain stable with only two of the gyroscopes operating, and even if a second one should fail, the thrusters of the newly-arrived Soyuz capsule can keep it aligned. Departing in their Soyuz vehicle will be Expedition 8 crewmembers Michael Foale and Alexander Kaleri, along with ESA astronaut Andrè Kuipers, who arrived with the Expedition 9 crew to perform a week’s worth of experiments. Manning the station for the next six months will be Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke.
The X-Files: Jump The Shark
The 197th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, and Annabeth Gish. Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, and Dean Haglund guest star in an episode that provides a somewhat definitive finale to the short-lived Lone Gunmen spinoff series.
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Farscape: The Way We Weren’t
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 28th episode of Farscape, written by former Star Trek: The Next Generation writer Naren Shankar.
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The Outer Limits: Down To Earth
Showtime airs the 117th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Mackenzie Phillips (One Day At A Time) and Colin Mochrie (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) guest star.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: I Only Have Eyes For You
The 31st episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. James Marsters, Juliet Landau, Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Meredith Salenger (Hollywood Heights) guest star.
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Xena: Ulysses
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 43rd episode of Xena: Warrior Princess.
Babylon 5: Racing Mars
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 76th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Marjorie Monaghan (Space Rangers) guest stars.
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Fort Smith, Arkansas Tornado
A small but powerful tornado touches down near theLogBook.com’s home office in downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas shortly after 11pm. It traverses two more counties, and kills three people, before dissipating. This is part of a larger tornado outbreak that has plagued much of Oklahoma earlier in the day. The storm is later judged to be an F3 tornado.
VR.5: Simon’s Choice
The seventh episode of the science fiction series VR.5 airs on Fox, starring Lori Singer (Fame), Michael Easton (Total Recall 2070), and Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy The Vampire Slayer). Robert Davi guest stars.
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The Outer Limits: White Light Fever
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the fifth episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Bruce Davison guest stars.
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Super Force: A Rainbow At Midnight
The 40th episode of the science fiction crime drama Super Force is broadcast in syndication in North America, starring Ken Olandt, Larry B. Scott, and Patrick Macnee (The Avengers). Musetta Vander guest stars.
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Superboy: The Haunting Of Andy McAlister
The 48th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs.
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Beauty and the Beast: Trial
CBS airs the 39th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
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Quantum Leap: Double Identity – November 8, 1965
NBC airs the fifth episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Terri Garber and Nick Cassavetes guest star.
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Max Headroom: Security Systems
The fourth episode of the American-made Max Headroom series premieres on ABC, starring Matt Frewer and Amanda Pays. (This is the the American-made drama series, not the music video/talk show series featuring the same character.) W. Morgan Sheppard and Concetta Tomei guest star.
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Missile Command
Atari releases the home version of Missile Command as a cartridge for the Atari 2600. The manual included with the game explains the missile attack as the product of an alien invasion, not Reagan-era Cold War tensions. Though the cartridge is an instant best-seller, its programmer receives a reward that convinces him to look for work somewhere other than Atari.
Missile Command
Atari scores a direct hit on arcades everywhere with Missile Command, a game which reminds video game-obsessed youth that the Cold War is still on. (In the months it takes to develop the game, programmer Dave Theurer has recurring nuclear-war-themed nightmares.) Cementing the trakball as a viable controller for fast-paced, non-sports games, Missile Command inspires a popular home video game cartridge (which, in the interest of not giving young gamers nightmares, dispenses with the Cold War theme in favor of a science-fiction explanation of the missiles’ origin).
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The Empire Strikes Loud
RSO Records releases a double LP of John Williams’ soundtrack from The Empire Strikes Back, a full month in advance of the movie’s release. The booklet-style album cover includes an extensive interview with Williams, as well as numerous notes on the making of a movie the public has yet to see.
Tales Of The Unexpected: The Landlady
ITV airs the fifth episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. Siobhan McKenna guest stars.
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The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas
The eighth 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. Julie Gregg (The Godfather), John Crawford (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, The Waltons), and Don Marshall (Land Of The Giants, Star Trek) guest star. 
Wonder Woman: The Murderous Missile
The 35th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. This episode concludes the second season.
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Fantastic Journey: Riddles
The ninth episode of the short-lived NBC series The Fantastic Journey premieres. The promise of shelter for the night turns into a waking nightmare (not to mention an episode that would’ve been ideal for a Halloween special).