Legends Of Tomorrow: Bishop’s Gambit
The CW airs the 88th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Jes Macallan, and Tala Ashe.
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Batwoman: Rebirth
The CW airs the 36th episode of Batwoman starring Javicia Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, and Meagan Tandy. Wallis Day guest stars as Kate Kane.
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The Expanse: Dandelion Sky
The 33rd episode of the science fiction series The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), is broadcast on cable channel Syfy.
Hayabusa comes home
Japan’s Hayabusa unmanned space probe releases a re-entry capsule containing samples of surface material it gathered from asteroid 25143 Itokawa in 2005. The capsule survives a punishing 25G re-entry and is recovered from the Australian outback, as planned, while Hayabusa itself burns up in Earth’s atmosphere. The sample payload – approximately 1500 grains averaging 10 micrometers in diameter – reveals that Itokawa has a composition virtually identical to a chondrite meteorite. A significant achievement in the history of the Japanese space program, the Hayabusa mission inspires no fewer than three movies, and a sequel of its own: the Hayabusa-2 space probe, approved in August 2010 and scheduled for launch in 2014.
Battlestar Galactica: Revelations
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 63rd episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) guest stars. Numerous factors – including a lengthy recent strike among members of the Writers’ Guild of America and Sci-Fi Channel’s scheduling decisions – controversially spread the last season out over two years; the series goes on hiatus until 2009.
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Logan’s Sanctuary
The CD Logan’s Sanctuary is released, a mostly-instrumental album billed as the soundtrack to a Logan’s Run sequel that was never filmed (though neither the title, nor the storyline in the liner notes booklet, corresponds to either of the sequel novels written by William F. Nolan). The album is the combination of the talents of Brian Reitzell and former Jellyfish member Roger Joseph Manning Jr.; fellow ex-Jellyfish member Jason Falkner also contributes.
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Pioneer 10 past Pluto
NASA’s Pioneer 10 unmanned spacecraft becomes the first human-made spacecraft to pass beyond the orbit of Pluto, the outermost known planet in the solar system. (Pioneer 10 merely crosses the planet’s orbital path; Pluto itself is in a different part of its orbit, nowhere near Pioneer at the time.) Launched in 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and observe the giant planet Jupiter at close range, blazing a trial for other outer solar system robotic exploration missions.
Tales Of The Unexpected: Pattern Of Guilt
ITV airs the 59th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Jennie Linden (Dr. Who and the Daleks) guest stars.
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Doctor Who: Inferno, Part 6
The 277th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Most of the regular and recurring cast members double as “fascist alternate universe” versions of themselves; Olaf Pooley and Christopher Benjamin guest star.
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Doctor Who: The Day Of Darkness
The 30th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Aztecs.
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One Step Beyond: Midnight
ABC airs the 94th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond. This episode is a repurposed 1950 episode of the anthology series Stars Over Hollywood, and as such is neither directed nor introduced by John Newland.
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Tales Of Tomorrow: All The Time In The World
The 37th episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, airs on ABC, with each episode’s opening titles proclaiming that the series is produced “in cooperation with the Science-Fiction League of America”, a collective of sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon among its members. This episode, written by Arthur C. Clarke (2001: a space odyssey), stars Esther Ralston and Jack Warden.
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