Day: October 17, 2017

The Flash: Mixed Signals

The FlashThe CW airs the 71st episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin.
Dominic Burgess (Doctor Who, Star Trek: Picard) guest stars.

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Legends Of Tomorrow: Freakshow

ArrowThe CW airs the 35th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Franz Drameh, and Victor Garber. Billy Zane guest stars.

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Arrow: Honor Thy Father

ArrowThe second episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Susanna Thompson (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars.

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Special Unit 2: The Years

Special Unit 2UPN broadcasts the ninth episode of the supernatural crime comedy series Special Unit 2, starring Michael Landes (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman) and Alexondra Lee (Party Of Five). Jonathan Togo (CSI: Miami) guest stars.

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Dark Angel: Flushed

Dark AngelThe third episode of James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee’s cyberpunk series Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly, airs on Fox. John Savage guest stars.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Out Of My Mind

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 82nd episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Amber Benson guest stars.

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Highlander: The Raven: Immunity

Highlander: The RavenThe fourth episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series.

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Neverwhere: As Above, So Below

NeverwhereThe sixth episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It, Doctor Who) and Freddie Jones (Children Of The Stones, Dune) guest star in the series finale.

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Deadly Games: The Practical Joker

Deadly GamesThe seventh episode of science fiction series Deadly Games is broadcast on UPN, starring James Calvert, Cynthia Gibb, and Chrstopher Lloyd (Taxi, Back To The Future); Leonard Nimoy serves as the series’ executive producer. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars in an episode directed by Adam Nimoy.

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Star Trek: Voyager main theme remixes

album coverGNP Crescendo Records releases a CD single featuring Jerry Goldsmith‘s Star Trek: Voyager theme and several remixes/remakes by his son (and future Star Trek: First Contact co-composer) Joel Goldsmith.

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Forever Knight: Faithful Followers

Forever KnightThe 28th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Jody Racicot (Flash Gordon) guest stars.

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Lois & Clark: Requiem For A Superhero

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of SupermanThe fifth episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. John Shea (Mutant X) guest stars.

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The Flash: Watching The Detectives

The FlashThe third episode of the superhero series The Flash, based on the DC Comics character, airs on CBS, starring John Wesley Shipp and Amanda Pays. Richard Belzer (Homicide: Life On The Street) and Dick Miller (Gremlins) guest star.

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Coleco ships Adam home computer

ColecovisionHaving claimed from the start that a computer add-on for its Colecovision console would be forthcoming, Coleco delivers on the promise with the first shipments of Adam home computer systems. Compatible with Colecovision games, Adam proves to be an immediate setback to the company due to serious technical problems and product failures, leading to a startling fourth-quarter shortfall at the end of 1983.

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Track & Field

Track & FieldKonami introduces the arcade game Track & Field in the United States, a multi-event game built around a summer Olympic theme. Due to the nature of the game’s control scheme, the Track & Field coin-ops take a huge amount of abuse as players pound the action buttons to determine the “intensity” of their on-screen athletes’ movement.

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Gateway To Apshai

Gateway To ApshaiThe third and final game in Epyx’s “Apshai trilogy” is released for various home computer platforms. Gateway To Apshai continues the trend of pushing traditionally turn-based computer RPGs toward real-time action games, a trend that will culminate in the smash success of the unrelated NES game The Legend Of Zelda years later.

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Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends: 7 Little Superheroes

Spider-Man And His Amazing FriendsNBC airs the sixth episode of the Marvel animated series Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, starring the voices of Dan Gilvezan (Transformers), Kathy Garver (Family Affair), and Frank Welker (Scooby-Doo, Transformers, The Smurfs).

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Raven: Episode 5

RavenITV airs the fifth episode of Raven, starring Phil Daniels (Quadrophenia) and Shirley Cheriton (EastEnders).

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Logan’s Run: Man Out Of Time

Logan's RunCBS airs the fifth episode of the TV adaptation of Logan’s Run. Mel Ferrer guest stars in an episode directed by future Cheers star Nicholas Colasanto.

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Six Million Dollar Man: The Most Dangerous Enemy

Six Million Dollar ManThe 61st episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Ina Balin guest stars.

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The Invaders: The Spores

The InvadersThe 24th episode of Larry Cohen’s science fiction series The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes and produced by Quinn Martin’s QM Productions, is broadcast on ABC. Gene Hackman (The French Connection, The Poseidon Adventure, Superman: The Movie) guest stars.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Cyborg

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 36th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Victor Buono (Batman, Man From Atlantis) and Brooke Bundy guest star.

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The light-emitting diode

Nick HolonyakWorking at General Electric’s New York R&D lab, scientist Nick Holonyak fires up the first working visible-spectrum light-emitting diode, producing a single small red light. (Texas Instruments had already created infrared LEDs the year before.) Too expensive to mass-produce initially, LEDs will become commonplace in calculators and other electronic devices in the 1970s, though more modern variants in the 1990s will lead to a revolution in lighting and display technology, resulting in flat-screen computer monitors and televisions and spinoff technology such as tablet computers and portable telephones with LED-based touchscreens – all unimaginable in 1962.

A For Andromeda: The Miracle

A For AndromedaThe third episode of the British science fiction series A For Andromeda, created and written by John Elliot and astronomer Fred Hoyle, is broadcast on the BBC, starring Esmond Knight and Julie Christie. Despite being considered a seminal early British science fiction series, much of A For Andromeda, including this episode, no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.

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Adventures Of Superman: Shot In The Dark

The Adventures Of SupermanThe 31st episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson. Vera Marshe guest stars.

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