seaQuest DSV: The Complete Series
Universal Studios releases the seaQuest DSV: The Complete Series Blu-Ray box set, featuring all 57 episodes of the Steven Spielberg-produced science fiction series that ran from 1993 through 1996.
Emirates Mars Mission sends Hope to Mars
The United Arab Emirates launch their first uncrewed interplanetary mission, the Emirates Mars Mission, from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center atop a Japanese H-IIA rocket. Expected to arrive at Mars in February 2021, the Hope orbiter will study Martian weather from orbit, not only serving as a true weather satellite for the red planet, but also gathering data on the factors leading to Martian atmosphere loss. The project, initiated in 2014, is intended not only to study Mars, but to attempt to gather a base of talent that could eventually build an Arab space industry.
Retrogram 7409: Houston, We Have Quite A Large Number Of Problems
theLogBook.com releases the sixth episode of the Retrogram podcast, hosted by Earl Green, covering the following shows from the week of February 24th, 1974:
- Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries: The Furnished Room
- The Tomorrow People: The Blue And The Green Episode 4
- The Six Million Dollar Man: Doomsday And Counting
- Doctor Who: Death To The Daleks Part 2
- TV movie: Houston, We’ve Got A Problem
Enterprise re-retired
Having already been donated to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in 1985, Space Shuttle Enterprise, a test vehicle not built to spaceflight specs, is removed from the custom-made hangar at the Smithsonian and prepared for re-gifting. With NASA donating the space-flown shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian, Enterprise will now become a major display at New York City’s Intrepid Museum, based on the retired aircraft carrier U.S.S. Intrepid. For the first time in nearly 20 years, Enterprise is loaded onto one of the modified Boeing 747s from which it made its in-atmosphere test flights in 1977 and is transported to New York.
Hyperdrive: Artefact
The eighth episode of the science fiction sitcom Hyperdrive premieres on BBC2, starring Nick Frost, Miranda Hart and Kevin Eldon. Geoffrey McGivern (The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) and Montserrat Lombard (Ashes To Ashes) guest star.
Jeremiah: Things Left Unsaid, Part II
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 19th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah, bringing the first season to a close. The second season does not air until over a year later.
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace
Cable channel TNT premieres Thirdspace, the second Babylon 5 TV movie produced as part of the network’s rescue of the former syndicated series. Though it airs second, Thirdspace was filmed first to utilize the standing Babylon 5 sets before they were struck to make way for new sets used in the previous movie, In The Beginning. Shari Belafonte guest stars.
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures: Hunka Hunka Bill And Ted
Fox airs the fourth episode of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures, starring Evan Richards, Christopher Kennedy, and Rick Overton. Hiro Kanagawa (Altered Carbon, Star Trek: Discovery) guest stars.
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Astronauts: Episode 8
ITV premieres the eighth episode of the sitcom Astronauts, concerning a fictional British space station crew aboard Skylab. This episode is the beginning of the slightly shorter second (and final) season of Astronauts.
Tales Of The Unexpected: A Glowing Future
ITV airs the 49th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Joanna Pettet guest stars.
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Project UFO Sighting 4014: The Wild Blue Yonder Incident
The 26th 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. This is the final episode of the series to air, with ratings falling over the course of the second season. Project UFO is the last television series to be produced by Jack Webb’s Mark VII Productions prior to Webb’s death in 1982.
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Sapphire & Steel: Assignment One, Part 4
ITV airs the fourth episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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Ace Of Wands: The Meddlers, Part 1
ITV airs the 27th episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, and introducing new cast members Petra Markham and Roy Holder. This episode is the beginning of the series’ third and final season.
Vega 4: Day Of Destruction
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs the seventh and final episode of the science fiction series Vega 4, starring John Fassen (a veteran of ABC’s first genre series, The Stranger). This series will be followed up in 1970 by a sequel, Phoenix Five.
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Star Trek: the second pilot
Filming begins on a nearly-unprecedented second pilot episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek at the request of NBC, which saw promise (but not enough action) in The Cage. When Jeffrey Hunter declines to return to the role of Captain Christopher Pike, the character is renamed (Captain James R. Kirk) and recast (in the person of well-regarded Canadian actor William Shatner). The first edit of the new episode, Where No Man Has Gone Before, features a completely different musical theme (again by Alexander Courage) and other oddities, such as Quinn-Martin-Productions-style “Act” and “Tonight’s Episode” banners at the top of each act of the show, as well as evidence that the names of the characters played by George Takei and James Doohan had yet to be decided.
The Andromeda Breakthrough: Storm Centres
The fourth 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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Operation Overcast
After Germany’s surrender, ending the European hostilities in World War II, American military forces embark on a program to recruit captured German scientists, particularly those involved in the development of rockets and missiles, to perform further research and development in these areas for the United States, especially with the Pacific war between the United States and Japan still very much an active concern. The German scientists are also interrogated to find out if any of their technology has been shared with Japan. Numerous German rocket scientists, notably Wernher von Braun and Eberhard Rees, are identified as possible assets to the American war effort despite their past affiliations with Germany’s Nazi regime.