Doctor Who: Journey’s End
The 753rd episode of Doctor Who (the 55th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Billie Piper, Elisabeth Sladen, Bernard Cribbins and Noel Clarke guest star. This episode brings back Dalek creator Davros for his first appearance in the series since 1988, and is the conclusion of the two-part season finale.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres Red planet rover, please come over
Sojourner, the original Mars rover, rides out on the Martian surface, getting close-up looks at nearby rocks and demonstrating technologies that are vital to upcoming Mars missions, including automatic hazard detection and avoidance. Sojourner’s ability to “see” obstacles and navigate around them without advice from ground controllers will be essential to later Mars rovers, since it takes seven minutes for a signal to reach Earth, and seven more minutes for instructions to return. The rover captures the public imagination and is even immortalized as a Hot Wheels toy.
RoboCop: Heartbreakers
The 17th episode of RoboCop: The Series airs in syndication, starring Richard Eden, Yvette Nipar, Blu Mankuma, and Andrea Roth.
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures: As The Dude Turns
Fox airs the second episode of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures, starring Evan Richards, Christopher Kennedy, and Rick Overton (playing the roles played in the 1989 movie by Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, and George Carlin, respectively). Kelly Rutherford (Melrose Place, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.) and Mark La Mura guest star.
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Voyager 2 and the lost moon of Neptune
First spotted by Earth-based telescope observations in 1981, Neptune’s fourth-largest natural satellite was so tiny and dark that follow-up observations to confirm the discovery were unsuccessful…at least until Voyager 2 sights it on approach to the eighth planet, finding a tiny moon whose orbit corresponds to the theoretical orbit of the body originally sighted in 1981. In 1991, the International Astronomical Union will name this moon Larissa.
Tales Of The Unexpected: There’s One Born Every Minute
ITV airs the 47th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Frank Finlay guest stars.
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Project UFO Sighting 4026: The Atlantic Queen Incident
The 24th 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. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. Morey Amsterdam guest stars.
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Vega 4: Dive Into Danger
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs the fifth episode of the science fiction series Vega 4, starring John Fassen (a veteran of ABC’s first genre series, The Stranger). This series is a follow-up to the 1966 series The Interpretaris.
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The Andromeda Breakthrough: Gale Warning
The second episode of the British science fiction series The Andromeda Breakthrough, created and written by John Elliot and astronomer Fred Hoyle as a follow-up to 1961’s A For Andromeda, is broadcast on the BBC, starring Peter Halliday, Susan Hampshire, John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back), and Mary Morris. Unlike A For Andromeda, this series exists in the BBC archives in its entirety.
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H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man: The Big Plot
The 26th and final episode of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, based on Wells’ story, airs on ITV; this episode will air in December 1959 in the U.S. on CBS. Barbara Shelley stars. The role of the invisible man himself, Dr. Peter Brady, has been played in voice-over by actor Tim Turner without on-screen credit in all 26 episodes.
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