Retrogram #7152: 72 @ 50
theLogBook.com releases the 32nd episode of the Retrogram podcast, hosted by Earl Green, covering the following shows from the week of December 27, 1971:
- Night Gallery: The Different Ones / Tell David… / Logoda’s Heads
- Doctor Who: Day Of The Daleks Part 1
- Mission: Impossible: The Bride
The Woman Astronaut
Varese Sarabande releases Penka Kouvena’s soundtrack-style instrumental concept album The Woman Astronaut. A veteran orchestrator for game soundtracks to software titles that have sold a combined billion dollars, Kouvena’s semi-autobiographical concept mirrors her struggles for equality as a soundtrack composer.
Torchwood: Children Of Earth: Day Five
BBC1 premieres the 31st episode of Russell T. Davies’ science fiction series Torchwood. Peter Capaldi and Susan Brown guest star. The experimental five-episode season proves to bit a hit with critics and viewers, particularly in America, where it’s hailed as one of the television events of the year, imported or not.
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Torchwood now streaming on HBO Max
Eureka: Welcome Back, Carter
Syfy airs the 34th episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, and Joe Morton. Ty Olsson (Battlestar Galactica) guest stars in the long-delayed continuation of the third season, a side-effect of the 2007-2008 Writers’ Guild strike.
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Eureka now streaming on Amazon Prime
Eureka: Phoenix Rising
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 13th episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.) Tamlyn Tomita (Babylon 5, Star Trek: Picard) guest stars in the second season premiere.
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Eureka now streaming on Amazon Prime
Godzilla soundtrack
La-La Land Records releases David Arnold’s 2-CD complete soundtrack from the 1998 American-made version of Godzilla.
Witchblade: Legion
The fifth episode of Witchblade airs on cable channel TNT, based on the Top Cow comic book of the same name, starring Yancy Butler and David Chokachi. Roger Daltrey (Highlander: The Series) and Kim De Lury (Farscape) guest star.
The Outer Limits: Monster
Showtime airs the 79th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Harry Hamlin (Clash Of The Titans, L.A. Law), Nicole de Boer (Deepwater Black, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Robert Guillaume (Benson) guest star.
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Stargate SG-1: Prisoners
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 24th episode of Stargate SG-1.
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Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Paris, October 1916
The 22nd episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Ian McDiarmid (Return Of The Jedi, Star Wars Episode I) and Jacqueline Pearce (Blake’s 7) guest star in an episode written by Carrie Fisher (Star Wars).
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Star Trek: TNG: Peak Performance
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 46th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: DS9) guest stars.
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Friday The 13th: Pipe Dream
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 24th episode of Friday the 13th: The Series, starring John D. LeMay, Wendy Robie and Chris Wiggins. Michael Constantine (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) guest stars.
Tales From The Darkside: Hush
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 88th episode of George A. Romero’s Tales From The Darkside anthology series. Nile Lanning and Eric Jason guest star.
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Twilight Zone: Episode 34
CBS airs the 34th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Gina Gershon (Showgirls, Tripping The Rift, Riverdale), Martin Balsam (The Six Million Dollar Man), Jenny Agutter (Logan’s Run), Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager), and Dennis Haskins (Saved By The Bell) star in two half-hour stories combined to fill an hour time slot, as CBS has already cancelled the series (but will revive it under a different production team to produce more episodes to make the Twilight Zone revival viable for syndication).
Voyagers!: Jack’s Back
NBC airs the 20th and final episode of James D. Parriott’s time travel series Voyagers!, starring Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce. Julia Duffy guest stars as Nellie Bly, and Michael Ensign guests stars as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Warp Warp
Better known for making jukeboxes and speakers, Rock-Ola dips its toes into the video game industry by releasing Warp Warp in the United States. The arcade game, originated in Japan by Namco, features cute, colorful characters in a maze setting, not entirely unlike Pac-Man, but fails to catch on in American arcades.
Sapphire & Steel: Assignment One, Part 1
ITV premieres the first episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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UFO: Confetti Check A-O.K.
The 22nd episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. George Sewell and Shane Rimmer (Thunderbirds) guest star.
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UFO now streaming on Amazon Prime
The Guardians: The State Of England
London Weekend Television premieres the first episode of the alternate-future-history series The Guardians, starring Gwyneth Powell and Cyril Luckham. The series deals with a near-future Britain under the heel of a fascist regime, and a resistance movement attempting to undermine that government.
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Doctor Who: The Meddling Monk
The 79th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Time Meddler. This is the first time we meet another one of the Doctor’s people, with his own TARDIS, and the last Doctor Who story to be produced by the series’ original producer, Verity Lambert.
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Telstar
The first Telstar communications satellite is launched, the first attempt to forge a permanent trans-Atlantic telecommunications link with an satellite that both receives and actively retransmits signals. A multinational venture between communications companies and government agencies in America, England and France, Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television broadcast, bringing together the three major American networks of the time and the BBC for a one-of-a-kind joint news broadcast. Live intercontinental telephone calls and other TV broadcasts are also handled by Telstar. Though it’s an experimental satellite, Tesltar is expected to remain in service for some time, but its operational life is reduced to less than a year by, among other things, the effects of high-altitude nuclear weapons tests. Telstar shuts down in February 1963, but remains in orbit to this day.