Star Trek: Discovery: Context Is For Kings
Streaming service CBS All Access premieres the third episode of Star Trek: Discovery, starring Sonequa Martin-Green (The Walking Dead) and Jason Isaacs (the Harry Potter movies’ Lucius Malfoy). Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica) guest stars.
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Star Wars Rebels: Holocrons Of Fate
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 37th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Tom Baker (Doctor Who) and Sam Witwer (Battlestar Galactica) guest star.
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Doctor Who: The Wedding Of River Song
The 785th episode of Doctor Who (the 87th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Alex Kingston, Frances Barber and Simon Callow guest star. This episode brings the revived series’ sixth season to a close.
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SJA: Eye Of The Gorgon, Part 1
CBBC premieres The Sarah Jane Adventures‘ fourth episode, the first half of a two-part storyline.
Soyuz TMA-7 / ISS Expedition 12
The twelfth full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-7. Valery Tokarev and William McArthur take up residence on the ISS for 189 days. Arriving with them on the ISS for a nine-day stay is space tourist and entrepreneur Gregory Olsen, who personally funded his own trip aboard the Soyuz and returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-6 with the Expedition 11 crew.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Beneath You
The 124th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star.
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E:FC: Unearthed
The 89th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Jayne Heitmeyer, Von Flores, Melinda Deines, and Alan Van Sprang. This is the fifth season premiere.
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Sliders: Heavy Metal
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 83rd episode of the science fiction series Sliders, starring Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, Robert Floyd, and Tembi Locke.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual
Pocket Books releases the “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual”, written and illustrated by the series’ art and design staff members.
Honor Harrington: Echoes Of Honor
Baen Books publishes the eighth novel in the Honor Harrington series, “Echoes Of Honor” by David Weber.
UPN airs the Lois & Clark: Contact
The 46th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Patrick Labyorteaux (JAG, Little House On The Prairie) guest stars.
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Space: Above And Beyond: Farthest Man…
Fox premieres Farthest Man From Home, the second episode of Space: Above And Beyond. French Stewart (Third Rock From The Sun) guest stars.
Honor Harrington: Field Of Dishonor
Baen Books publishes the fourth novel in the Honor Harrington series, “Field Of Dishonor” by David Weber.
The X-Files: Conduit
The fourth episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, and guest starring Michael Cavanaugh (Starman).
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Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.: Riverboat
Fox airs the sixth episode of the sci-fi western, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, and Christian Clemenson. Kelly Rutherford (Melrose Place) and Xander Berkeley guest star.
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Star Trek: TNG: Family
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 75th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whoopi Goldberg, Theodore Bikel and Jeremy Kemp guest star in an episode that, for the first time in the Star Trek franchise, has no scenes on the bridge of the Enterprise.
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Dr. Mario
Nintendo releases the Dr. Mario cartridge for the Nintendo Entertainment System, giving everyone’s favorite Mushroom Kingdom plumper a medical degree and pitting him against viruses and germs, Tetris-style.
Superman: Episode 3
CBS airs the third episode of the animated series Superman, starring the voices of Beau Weaver and Ginny McSwain, and comprised of two stories: By The Skin Of The Dragon’s Teeth and At The Babysitter’s.
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Twilight Zone: Extra Innings
The 37th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Marc Singer (V) stars.
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The Oregon Trail reborn
The Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation releases a new version of the perennial favorite educational computer game The Oregon Trail for the Apple II computer. Now featuring more action-based sequences than purely textual interactions, this version of The Oregon Trail is the most recognizable iteration of the game, which will be ported to numerous other computer systems.
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends: The Education Of A Superhero
NBC airs the 19th episode of the Marvel animated series Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, starring the voices of Dan Gilvezan, Kathy Garver, and Frank Welker.
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The Powers Of Matthew Star: Daredevil
The third episode of the science fiction series The Powers Of Matthew Star airs on NBC, starring Peter Barton and Louis Gossett Jr. Bill Daily (I Dream of Jeannie) guest stars.
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Berzerk
Atari releases the home version of the arcade hit Berzerk as a cartridge for the Atari VCS home video game system. Almost a dead ringer for the graphically simple arcade game, the console port is only missing the distinctive Cylon-esque voice synthesis of the coin-op. The second issue of the Atari Force comic from fellow Warner Communications subsidiary DC Comics is packed-in with Berzerk.
Pac-Man Fever
A musical ode to video gaming starts climbing the charts as Buckner & Garcia issue their single Pac-Man Fever (a full album, filled out with other video game tribute songs, will follow in 1982). Shortly before the album’s release, the “Pac-Man Fever” single peaks in the Billboard Hot 100 at #9, having sold over a million copies.
Star Blazers: Episode 21
The 21st episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
Activision founded
Fed up with Atari’s refusal to grant them bylines on the best-selling games they’ve been designing and programming for the Atari VCS, Atari employees Alan Miller, David Crane, Larry Kaplan and Bob Whitehead quit their jobs and form the first third-party video game software house, Activision, with former music executive Jim Levy aboard as the new company’s CEO. Infuriated, Atari files a raft of lawsuits alleging theft of trade secrets, but is ultimately unable to get an injunction preventing Activision from releasing games for the VCS.
Battlestar Galactica: Lost Planet Of The Gods
The third episode of Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Battlestar Galactica airs on ABC. Part two of a two-part story, this is one of a handful of two-part episodes that hint toward Larson’s original preference toward occasional miniseries events rather than a weekly series. Jane Seymour guest stars.
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The Bionic Woman: Fembots In Las Vegas Part 2
The 40th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. James Olson (The Andromeda Strain) and Melinda Fee (The Invisible Man) guest star.
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Star Wars tops the charts
Produced in the wake of Star Wars mania, Meco Menardo’s disco cover of John Williams’ music from Star Wars tops the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks. A shortened, radio-friendly single is the song certified as #1, although the album version (titled Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk) is an extended suite lasting over 15 minutes and covering most of the movie’s major music themes. Meco would continue to ride the Star Wars train, disco-style, for years to come.
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