What If…?: What If…Thor Were An Only Child?
Disney+ streams the seventh episode of the Marvel animated series What If…?, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tom Hiddleston (Thor, Loki), and Natalie Portman (Thor, Star Wars Episode III).
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Red Dwarf: Twentica
The 62nd episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on UK cable/satellite comedy channel Dave, the beginning of Red Dwarf XI, the first full season of the show since its 2012 return. Kevin Eldon (Hyperspace) guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Power Of Three
The 790th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 92nd episode since the series’ revival). Mark Williams guest stars as Brian Williams; Jemma Redgrave appears as UNIT’s new scientific advisor, Kate Stewart.
Pluto-Kuiper Express mission scuttled
After four years of ballooning costs and launch weight, NASA brings work on the proposed Pluto-Kuiper Express mission to a stop, citing cost overruns and angering planetary scientists. The scientific community protests that, if a mission is not launched to reach Pluto by the year 2020, the tiny planet’s atmosphere will undergo a kind of reverse sublimation process, transitioning from a gas to a solid that rains down to Pluto’s surface. But with mission plans calling for a half-billion-dollar mission (originally budgeted for only $350 million), NASA pulls the plug, announcing that it will solicit new mission designs and plans from scientists around the world, even as advocates for the Pluto-Kuiper Express mission rally around the cancelled proposal.
Stargate SG-1: The Curse
Pay cable channel Showtime airs the 78th episode of Stargate SG-1. Anna-Louise Plowman (Doctor Who: Dalek) guest stars.
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Voyager: Equinox, Part 2
UPN airs the 120th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the show’s sixth season premiere. Rick Worthy and John Savage (Dark Angel) guest star.
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Star Trek: Voyager now streaming on Paramount Plus
Doctor Who action figures, wave 3
Welsh toy company Dapol announces the release of the first wave of new Doctor Who action figures since the late 1980s, this group including the third Doctor, the Master, a Sea Devil, two different Silurians, and four variants on a “Gallifrey High Councillor”.
Timecop: A Rip In Time
The first episode of Mark Verheiden’s science fiction series Timecop premieres on ABC, starring Ted King and Don Stark, loosely based on the 1994 movie of the same name (also co-written by Verheiden). W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom) guest stars.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Some Assembly Required
The 14th 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.
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Lois & Clark: Lord Of The Flys
The 66th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Simon Templeman, Justine Bateman, and J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star in the fourth season premiere.
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The X-Files: The Blessing Way
The 50th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Peter Donat (Time Trax), Nicholas Lea, William B. Davis, Jerry Hardin, and John Neville guest star in the third season premiere.
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Forever Knight: Dead Air
CBS airs the tenth episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. David Hewlett (Stargate Atlantis) guest stars.
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Quantum Leap: Lee Harvey Oswald
NBC airs the 75th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. The two-hour fifth season finale is Bellisario’s response to the recent Oliver Stone movie JFK.
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ALF: Pilot
The first episode of ALF airs on NBC, centering around Paul Fusco’s puppet creation of a furry, wisecracking alien marooned on Earth. Francis X. McCarthy (NYPD Blue, The Practice, Altered States) guest stars.
Amazing Stories: The Wedding Ring
The 25th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Danny DeVito (Taxi) and Rhea Perlman (Cheers) guest star in the second season premiere, directed by DeVito.
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Jason Of Star Command: Frozen In Space
CBS airs the 18th episode of the Space Academy spinoff series Jason Of Star Command, starring Craig Littler, Sid Haig, and Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones).
Doctor Who: Destiny Of The Daleks, Pt. 4
The 509th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. The Daleks return for the first time in four years, along with Davros; Lalla Ward takes over the role of Romana, while David Brierly takes over as the voice of K-9.
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Wonder Woman: My Teenage Idol Is Missing
The 36th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Michael Lerner and Leif Garrett guest star in the third season opener.
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Man From Atlantis: Melt Down
The first episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Victor Buono (Batman) and Dee Wallace Stone (E.T.) guest star. This is the beginning of Man From Atlantis’ single season as a weekly hour-long TV series, following on from four TV movies that had already aired earlier in 1977.
Star Maidens: The Proton Storm
The fourth episode of the British-German science fiction series Star Maidens premieres on ITV in the UK.
The Bionic Woman: The Return Of Bigfoot Part 2
The 15th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Lee Majors and Martin E. Brooks appear as their characters from The Six Million Dollar Man in the second season premiere, which is also a heavily promoted crossover event, part one of which was the season premiere of The Six Million Dollar Man. John Saxon, Ted Cassidy, Sandy Duncan, and Stefanie Powers guest star.
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The Invisible Man: Man Of Influence
NBC airs the third episode of The Invisible Man, starring David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, Colditz), Melinda Fee, and Craig Stevens. John Vernon (Dirty Harry) and Loni Anderson (WKRP In Cincinnati) guest star.
The Starlost: Voyage Of Discovery
After months of preparation and contentious saber-rattling by series creator Harlan Ellison, who demands to have his name replaced with a pseudonym after quitting the series he devised, The Starlost premieres in Canada and the United States with the episode Voyage Of Discovery, showcasing an intriguing (but ultimately under-utilized) series premise with a shockingly low-budget, shot-on-video look. It’s the first science fiction series produced in Canada with the intention of broadcast in the United States, which would become a common practice in the 21st century. It runs for only a single, truncated season, and for many years is much-maligned as “the worst TV sci-fi series ever”; Ellison’s complaints about the treatment of his own creation in the years to come does little to dispel this opinion.
Ghost Story: The Concrete Captain
NBC airs the third episode of the supernatural anthology series Ghost Story, produced by 1960s horror movie mogul William Castle and starring Sebastian Cabot. Gena Rowlands guest stars in a script based on a short story by Elizabeth Walter, and directed by future Superman movie director Richard Donner. (This series will be retitled Circle Of Fear in 1973.)
Ace Of Wands: The Eye Of Ra, Part 1
ITV airs the 23rd episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. Oscar Quitak (Brazil) guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: Episode 8
NBC airs the eighth episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Serling himself. Vincent Price, E.G. Marshall, Imogene Coca, and Desi Arnaz Jr. guest star.
Land Of The Giants: The Crash
ABC premieres the first episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall.
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Star Trek: Who Mourns For Adonis?
The 31st episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek premieres on NBC. The Enterprise once again trumps mythology with technology after encountering a powerful entity who gives the Enterprise a big hand.
Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before
The third episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H) and Gary Lockwood (2001) guest star. This is the second pilot, and shows numerous noticeable differences in casting and costumes, but NBC and Desilu Studios elect to air it anyway, giving the production team time to complete more new episodes.
Adam Adamant Lives!: The League Of Uncharitable Ladies
The 13th episode of the spy-fi series Adam Adamant Lives! airs on BBC1, starring Gerald Harper and Juliet Harmer. This episode is one of the earliest directing credits for Ridley Scott (Alien).
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