The Flash: Armageddon, Part 1
The CW airs the 151st episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Brandon Routh (Legends Of Tomorrow) and Tony Curran (Defiance, Doctor Who) guest star in the eight season premiere.
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The Orville: Firestorm
Fox airs the tenth episode of the science fiction comedy-drama The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate Atlantis) guest stars.
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Arrow: Promises Kept
The 121st episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW.
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Arrow: Vigilante
The 99th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV, Masters Of The Universe, Universal Soldier) guest stars.
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STS-129
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on the 129th shuttle flight, an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. Equipment, supplies, and spare parts are delivered, enough to make in-orbit maintenance of the station possible for several years. Aboard Atlantis for her 31st flight are Commander Charles Hobaugh, Pilot Barry Wilmore, and mission specialists Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Robert Satcher and Randy Bresnik; ISS crewmember Nicole Stott returns to Earth via Atlantis, and is the last ISS crewmember to return home on a shuttle.
The Prisoner: Night 2
American cable channel AMC broadcasts the third and fourth episodes of its six-part remake of The Prisoner, starring Jim Caviziel as Number Six and Sir Ian McKellen as Number Two. With its more modern imagery and less ambiguous storytelling style, the remake proves to be controversial with fans of the original 1960s Prisoner.
Doctor Who: Time Crash
As part of its annual Children In Need telethon, BBC1 airs a Doctor Who “mini-episode”, Time Crash, starring David Tennant and Peter Davison. This is the first guest appearance of one of the classic series Doctors in the new series, which gets both the short and the charity a great deal of publicity. Ironically, the short is directed by Graeme Harper, who also directed Davison’s final regular episode in the role in 1984 – so Davison’s final Doctor Who director remains unchanged.
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Lost: The Other 48 Days
ABC airs the 31st episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Brett Cullen guest stars.
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Dark Angel: Some Assembly Required
The 28th episode of James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee’s cyberpunk series Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly, airs on Fox. Ashley Scott (Birds Of Prey, Jericho) guest stars.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Initiative
The 63rd episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head and Alyson Hannigan also star. James Marsters guest stars.
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E:FC: Fissures
The 29th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Lisa Howard, Von Flores, and Richard Chevolleau.
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Star Trek: DS9: The Siege Of AR-558
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 156th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Bill Mumy (Lost In Space, Babylon 5) guest stars.
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The X-Files: Unusual Suspects
The 100th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Richard Belzer guest stars as John Munch, his character from Homicide: Life On The Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, raising the unsettling (and perhaps unintentionally humorous) possibility of both shows existing in a shared universe with The X-Files.
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Babylon 5: The Geometry Of Shadows
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 25th episode of Babylon 5. Michael Ansara guest stars.
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Rhino Records releases Star Trek: TNG: The Quality Of Life
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 134th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Quantum Leap: The Great Spontini
NBC airs the 38th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Amy Steel (Friday The 13th Part 2, The Powers Of Matthew Star) guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol, Part 3
The 676th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Though not generally known outside of the inner circle of the cast and crew, this story is intended to be a surreal parody of the Thatcher administration.
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Star Trek: TNG: The Battle
The week-long national syndication window opens for the eighth episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This is the second Ferengi episode, and the first episode to delve into Captain Picard’s previous command, the U.S.S. Stargazer.
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Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen, Pt. 3
The 666th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Stubby Kaye and Don Henderson (Star Wars) guest star.
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Blake’s 7: Games
BBC1 premieres the 47th episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7. Jacqueline Pearce and Stratford Johns guest star.
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Astronauts: Episode 4
ITV premieres the fourth episode of the sitcom Astronauts, concerning a fictional British space station crew aboard Skylab.
Cosmos: Journeys In Space And Time
The eighth episode of Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking science documentary series Cosmos premieres 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).
Monkey: Monkey Goes Wild About Heaven
The first episode of the English-dubbed Japanese action series Monkey premieres on BBC2, starring Masaaki Sakai. The series is a translation and dub of a fancifully satirical Japanese adaptation of the Chinese novel “Journey To The West”, and quickly gains a cult following in the UK.
Saving Skylab?
NASA and its contractors mull over a report outlining an ambitious (and, considering the continuous delays to the first launch of the Space Shuttle program, overly optimistic) plan to reactivate and occupy the Apollo-era space station Skylab for use by shuttle crews. The plan involves outfitting the ailing station with new solar power panels and equipment, and performing repairs to make it habitable for future astronauts. Despite the best-laid plans, however, the shuttle’s first launch comes after Skylab tumbles back through Earth’s atmosphere.
Six Million Dollar Man: The Blue Flash
The 46th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson.
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You’re listening to Earth FM
The first transmission from Earth designed to be a message for interstellar listeners is broadcast from the newly-refurbished Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. Weighing in at 210 bytes, the message is a binary transmission that, when properly assembled, provides a graphical representation of Earth’s solar system, a human being, the makeup of human DNA and the elements from which it is constructed, and the population of Earth. Though the Arecibo dish is pointed in the direction of the M13 globular cluster at the time of the message’s transmission, that cluster will have moved in the 25,000 years it takes for the message to reach that location (and, in any case, Earth and its entire solar system will have moved in the 25,000 additional years it would take to receive a reply), so the message is more of an interstellar technology demo than a message in a bottle.
Shazam!: Little Boy Lost
The 11th episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne.
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Skylab 4
The third and final crew of the first American space station, Skylab 4, lifts off for an 84-day stay. The crew’s tasks include medical and biological experiments, solar observations (including the first space-based recording of solar flare origination), and observations of Comet Kohoutek. Crewmembers Gerald Carr, William Pogue and Edward Gibson have a frank discussion with ground controllers about their extremely busy work schedule (similar to heated discussions between Apollo 7’s crew and Houston) halfway through the nearly-three-month mission. Skylab is left powered down, but still habitable, at the end of the crew’s stay, in anticipation that future Space Shuttle crews will someday occupy Skylab.
Land Of The Giants: Chamber Of Fear
ABC airs the 35th 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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