Day: December 14, 2021

The Flash: Armageddon, Part 5

The FlashThe CW airs the 155th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Tony Curran (Defiance, Doctor Who) guest stars.

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Chang’e 3: China’s lunar lander

Chang'e 3China successfully lands the unmanned lunar lander Chang’e 3 on the surface of the moon, only the third country on Earth to achieve a controlled lunar landing (and the first soft landing of a man-made space vehicle on the moon since the 1970s). With Chang’e 3 confirming that its solar panels have properly deployed, preparations are made to deploy its robotic lunar rover, Yutu, the first lunar rover since 1973, breaking a four-decade drought in exploring the surface of the moon.

Farscape Classics Volume 1

SoundtracksLa-La Land Records releases the first soundtrack CD in the Farscape Classics series. The CD contains Guy Gross’ music from the episodes Revenging Angel and Eat Me.

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Dark Angel: Medium Is The Message

Dark AngelThe 30th 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: Hush

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 66th 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. Doug Jones (The Shape Of Water, Star Trek: Discovery) guest stars.

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The X-Files: Emily

The X-FilesThe 104th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Sheila Larken guest stars.

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Highlander: Family Tree

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 11th 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. Peter DeLuise guest stars.

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Dune

StarstruckThe long-awaited, long-delayed feature film adaptation Dune premieres, based on the best-selling SF novel by Frank Herbert. Starring Kyle McLachlan (Twin Peaks), Sean Young (Blade Runner), featuring Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Sting (lead singer of The Police), and directed by David Lynch (The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks), the movie meets with very mixed reviews, compressing many of the book’s events into a narrative that viewers not already familiar with the book find confusing.

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Cosmos: Encyclopaedia Galactica

The 12th 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).

RCA Studio II

Studio IILaunched just prior to Christmas 1976 (so late, in fact, that most consumers aren’t aware of its existence until early ’77), RCA takes its only step into the video game world with the underpowered Studio II console. With its black-and-white graphics and all-in-one design forcing both players to sit directly in front of the console, Studio II is behind the times from the moment it’s introduced, despite being the second cartridge-based programmable video game (or, as RCA labels it, “television programmer”) to hit the market. Studio II fails to make a significant dent in the sales of Fairchild’s Video Entertainment System – the dominant cartridge-based game of the day – and RCA retreats from the video game business in just 14 months.

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Six Million Dollar Man: Clark Templeton O’Flaherty

Six Million Dollar ManThe 49th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Louis Gossett Jr. (Enemy Mine) guest stars.

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Shazam!: The Gang’s All Here

Shazam!The 15th episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. This episode concludes the first season.

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Strange Report: Report 7931: Sniper – When Is Your Cousin Not?

Strange ReportITV airs the 12th episode of the mystery/spy-fi series Strange Report in the U.K., starring Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, and Anneke Wills (Doctor Who). (The series is an international co-production and airs in the United States on NBC.)

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Land Of The Giants: Land Of The Lost

Land Of The GiantsABC airs the 39th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Nehemiah Persoff guest stars.

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Fantastic Voyage: The Barnacle Bombs

Fantastic VoyageABC broadcasts the 14th episode of the Filmation animated series Fantastic Voyage, based on the 1966 movie of the same name. Marvin Miller, Ted Knight, and Jane Webb lead the voice cast.

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Doctor Who: The Invasion, Part 7

Doctor WhoThe 226th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Kevin Stoney guest stars as Tobias Vaughn, and Nicholas Courtney returns as the freshly-promoted Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, head of the newly created UNIT. This is the last Cybermen story until 1975.

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Lost In Space: Wreck Of The Robot

Lost In SpaceThe 42nd episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris.

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The Avengers: Two’s A Crowd

The AvengersBritish broadcaster ABC airs the 90th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. Julian Glover guest stars.

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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Ghost Of Moby Dick

Voyage To The Bottom Of The SeaThe 14th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. June Lockhart (one of the stars of Allen’s latest series Lost In Space) guest stars.

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The Avengers: Don’t Look Behind You

The AvengersBritish broadcaster ABC airs the 64th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.

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Doctor Who: The Firemaker

Doctor WhoThe fourth episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The Firemaker is part four of An Unearthly Child, taking the time travelers back to the struggle surrounding the discovery of fire.

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Mariner 2 visits Venus

Mariner 2NASA’s unmanned Mariner 2 probe is the first unmanned spacecraft to successfully reach and take measuresments of another planet in the solar system. Passing by Venus at a distance of 25,000 miles, Mariner 2 detects a cool atmosphere with a blistering hot surface underneath it – quickly dispelling any hopes of finding life there. Mariner 2 isn’t equipped with any cameras, which is just as well: unless any cameras had ultraviolet filters, they would have seen nothing but featureless clouds at Venus. Mariner 2 continues on into a solar orbit, shutting down early in 1963.