Retrogram #7130/7131: Apollo 15, Part 2
theLogBook.com releases the 11th episode of the Retrogram podcast, hosted by Earl Green, covering the following shows from the weeks of July 25th and August 1st, 1971:
- Ace Of Wands: Seven Serpents, Sulphur, And Salt Episode 2
- Ace Of Wands: Seven Serpents, Sulphur, And Salt Episode 3
This episode had been released at an earlier date to the site’s Patreon supporters.
Missions: Season 1
French streaming service OCS releases the complete first season of the science fiction mystery series Missions, involving a conspiracy behind a European manned mission to Mars and a possible discovery of alien life. Hélène Viviès, Mathias Mlekuz, and Arben Bajraktaraj star. Despite the vast majority of the series’ dialogue being in French, American streaming service Shudder picks up the series and subtitles it for English-speaking audiences, and helps to finance a second season.
The Orville: If The Stars Should Appear
Fox airs the fourth episode of the science fiction comedy-drama The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. James Morrison (Space: Above And Beyond) guest stars, and Liam Neeson (Star Wars Episode I) makes an unannounced, uncredited cameo appearance.
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The Orville now streaming on Amazon Prime
Break Out: How The Apple II Launched The PC Gaming Revolution
Schiffer publishes David L. Craddock’s non-fictional collection of essays on the stories and creators behind Apple II computer games, “Break Out: How The Apple II Launched The PC Gaming Revolution “. The book profiles the creators and the stories behind such popular titles as Ultima, The Oregon Trail, Pinball Construction Set, Wizardry, Zork, Lode Runner, and more.
Michael O’Hare, Babylon 5 actor, dies
Michael O’Hare, who starred in the 1993 pilot movie and the first full season (1994) of the science fiction series Babylon 5, dies of complications from a heart attack he suffered the week before. An accomplished stage actor who made infrequent forays into television, O’Hare had been out of the public eye (including the science fiction convention circuit) for several years.
Lost: Adrift
ABC airs the 26th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Henry Ian Cusick, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Saul Rubinek guest star.
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Lost now streaming on Amazon Prime
OK Connery soundtrack
The soundtrack of the 1967 movie OK Connery is released, with music by Ennio Morricone. The movie is better known to fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Operation Double 007.
Brian Wilson: Smile
The Brian Wilson album Smile, based on songs and concepts from an unfinished Beach Boys album, is released.
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Episode 14
The 14th episode of the radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is broadcast on BBC Radio, continuing Dirk Maggs’ adaptation of Douglas Adams’ novel Life, The Universe, And Everything with most of the original radio cast. Real-life BBC cricket commentators Henry Blofeld and Henry Trueman appear as themselves.
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Dark Angel: Designate This
The 22nd episode of James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee’s cyberpunk series Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly, airs on Fox. John Savage, Nana Visitor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Yee Jee Tso (Doctor Who) guest star in the second season premiere.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Earshot
The 56th episode of Joss Whedon’s 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. Alexis Denisof (Angel) guest stars. This episode, written prior to the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999, is not the fourth season premiere, but is instead a third season episode aired out of sequence due to some of the eerie similarities between the episode’s plotline and that real world event.
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Welcome To Paradox: Alien Jane
The seventh episode of the Sci-Fi Channel original series Welcome To Paradox airs, a loosely-connected anthology of science fiction stories set in Betaville, a utopian future city whose incredible technology has frequently unintended side-effects. Mayim Bialik (Blossom, Big Bang Theory) stars in a story co-written by Kelley Eskridge.
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Star Trek: DS9: Image In The Sand
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 149th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode is the beginning of Deep Space Nine’s seventh and final season, and introduces new series regular Nicole de Boer (Mission Genesis, The Dead Zone) as Ezri Dax, the Dax symbiont’s new host body. Brock Peters and James Darren guest star.
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Star Trek: TNG: Realm Of Fear
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 127th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team) guest stars.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation now streaming on Paramount Plus
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Somme, Early August 1916
The eighth episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Jason Flemyng (Primeval, Pennyworth) guest stars.
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Highlander: The Gathering
The week-long national syndication window opens for the first episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Christopher Lambert, star of the original 1986 Highlander film, and Richard Moll (Night Court) guest star.
Quantum Leap: The Leap Home, Part 1
NBC airs the 31st episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. David Newsom guest stars in the third season premiere.
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Friday The 13th: The Inheritance
The week-long national syndication window opens for the first episode of Friday the 13th: The Series, starring John D. LeMay, Wendy Robie and Chris Wiggins. Gordon Michael Woolvett (Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda) guest stars. The series has no story connections to the movie franchise of the same name, and was originally developed under the title The 13th Hour.
Star Trek: TNG: Encounter At Farpoint
The national syndication window opens for the two-hour premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Encounter At Farpoint. Written by Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and original series story editor D.C. Fontana, this episode introduces the fan favorite nemesis Q, as played by John de Lancie. Though it’s not tied to any network, some of the stations carrying TNG in syndication – including major-market stations – air TNG in prime-time in place of their usual network programming.
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Doctor Who: Time And The Rani, Pt. 4
The 659th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. The 24th season also opens the era of the seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy. Kate O’Mara guest stars as the Rani.
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Doctor Who now streaming on Britbox
Droids: A Race To The Finish
ABC broadcasts the fourth episode of the animated Star Wars spinoff series Droids, featuring the voice of Anthony Daniels as C-3PO. This episode marks the first appearance of a movie character other than the droids themselves.
Blake’s 7: Rescue
BBC1 premieres the 40th episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7, the first episode of the series’ fourth season. Due to a last-minute pickup by the BBC, the series has to reboot from this point with a new ship, new sets, costumes, props, and a new direction decided on without significant input from series creator Terry Nation. Jan Chappell provides a voice-over for Cally, who doesn’t appear in person. Glynis Barber is introduced as new series regular Soolin.
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Blake’s 7 now streaming on Britbox
Cosmos: The Shores Of The Cosmic Ocean
Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking science documentary series Cosmos debuts on PBS. A popular history of science and scientific theory vs. tradition and superstition, segueing into Sagan’s field of expertise (astrophysics), Cosmos is a major milestone in American documentary filmmaking and the popularization of science and the scientific method (and makes an instant celebrity out of Sagan).
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Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast
Star Blazers: Episode 20
The 20th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
Project UFO Sighting 4017: The Devilish Davidson Lights Incident
The 15th 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. Jared Martin (The Fantastic Journey, War Of The Worlds) guest stars.
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Six Million Dollar Man: The Price Of Liberty
The 38th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Chuck Connors (The Rifleman, Werewolf) guest stars.
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Shazam!: The Lure Of The Lost
The fourth episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne.
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Shazam now streaming on Amazon Prime
Star Trek animated: Albatross
The fourth episode of the animated Star Trek‘s second season, Albatross, premieres on NBC.
Land Of The Lost: Downstream
The fourth episode of Land Of The Lost premieres on NBC. This episode, written by SF novelist Larry Niven, guest stars Walker Edmiston, though not in the role he will play for much of the remainder of the series.
Luna 19
The Soviet Union launches unmanned space probe Luna 19 toward the moon, a return to orbital-only missions. Over the course of a year, Luna 19 conducts an extensive mapping campaign of the lunar surface, as well as measuring gravitational anomalies in lunar orbit.