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Published On: July 9, 2009

BBC1 premieres the 30th episode of Russell T. Davies’ science fiction series Torchwood. Unlike previous seasons, this season – subtitled Children Of Earth – is only five episodes long, broadcast at a rate of one installment per night, with the implication that the story is unfolding more or less in real time. Peter Capaldi and Paul Copley guest star.

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Farscape: Till The Blood Runs Clear

Published On: July 9, 1999

Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 11th episode of Farscape. (Early episodes of this series are aired out of the producers’ preferred story order or, for that matter, production order.)

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Stargate SG-1: Fair Game

Published On: July 9, 1999

Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 46th episode of Stargate SG-1.

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Pete Conrad, astronaut, dies

Published On: July 9, 1999

Pete Conrad, spacewalking Pete Conrad, the Apollo 12 commander who was the third human to walk on the moon, dies at the age of 69 from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident. Conrad went to the moon in November 1969, and flew two earlier Gemini missions, one of which was a new human endurance record at the time. Conrad later went on to set a new record for time spent by a human in space (28 days, unprecedented at the time) in 1973 as a member of the first Skylab crew. Conrad and fellow Skylab astronaut Joseph Kerwin performed an extended and very hazardous spacewalk to repair the station, which had been heavily damaged during launch a few weeks before its crew arrived.

Tron

Published On: July 9, 1982

Tron Disney’s Tron – the first movie to pay homage to the ’80s video game craze and the first movie to arrive with video game tie-ins already in the works – premieres in theaters. Starring Bruce Boxleitner and Jeff Bridges, the film establishes of the most distinctive visual idea of the decade, that of a person being “sucked into” the digital world, where glowing body armor is worn.

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Electric Light Orchestra – Time

Published On: July 9, 1981

ELO Electric Light Orchestra‘s ninth album, the science fiction/time travel concept album Time, is released, featuring the singles “Hold On Tight”, “Here Is The News” and “Twilight”. For the first time, almost all of the album’s string parts are played on keyboards.

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Survivors: Something Of Value

Published On: July 9, 1975

The 12th episode of Terry Nation’s post-apocalyptic series Survivors, Something Of Value premieres on the BBC.

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The Tomorrow People: The Vaniishing Earth, Part 1

Published On: July 9, 1973

The tenth episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV. Kevin Stoney (Doctor Who) and John Woodnutt (Knights Of God) guest star in the first part of a four-part serial.

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Doctor Who: The War Machines, Part 3

Published On: July 9, 1966

The 125th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first complete story to take place in modern day England since An Unearthly Child.

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