Year: 1999

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Babylon 5: A Call To Arms

  • January 3, 1999

Babylon 5Cable channel TNT premieres A Call To Arms, the fourth and final Babylon 5 TV movie produced for TNT. The movie features a mixture of familiar Babylon 5 characters as well as new characters who would later appear in the spinoff series Crusade; A Call To Arms is effectively a two-hour pilot for Crusade, which would premiere later in 1999.

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Total Recall 2070: Machine Dreams, Part 1

  • January 5, 1999

Total Recall 2070Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV premieres the first episode of Art Monterastelli’s sci-fi series Total Recall 2070, starring Michael Easton and Cynthia Preston, very loosely based on the 1990 film Total Recall. The series will air on the American pay cable channel Showtime later in the year, with parts one and two aired as a single movie-length episode. Though the series’ inspiration was based on a Philip K. Dick story, Dick is not acknowledged in the credits.

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Total Recall 2070: Machine Dreams, Part 2

  • January 12, 1999

Total Recall 2070Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the second episode of Art Monterastelli’s sci-fi series Total Recall 2070, starring Michael Easton and Cynthia Preston, very loosely based on the 1990 film Total Recall. The series will air on the American pay cable channel Showtime later in the year, with parts one and two aired as a single movie-length episode. Though the series’ inspiration was based on a Philip K. Dick story, Dick is not acknowledged in the credits.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Gingerbread

  • January 12, 1999

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 45th episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.

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Music

Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack

  • January 13, 1999

Star Trek: The Motion PictureSony Records releases a 2-CD set featuring Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, now with a few additional tracks. The second disc is not part of the soundtrack, but instead provides the first-ever CD pressing of the 1976 spoken-word album Inside Star Trek, featuring recorded live appearances by Gene Roddenberry, William Shatner, Isaac Asimov and others. This set is billed as the “20th anniversary edition” of the soundtrack.

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Doctor Who Lost Episodes Television

Missing Doctor Who episode recovered

  • January 18, 1999

Doctor WhoPart one of the classic William Hartnell-era Doctor Who four-parter The Crusade is recovered by the BBC, thanks to a fan who obtained it cheaply from a film collectors’ sale. The film is handed over to BBC’s unofficial Doctor Who Restoration Team. There’s initially no word on any possible video release of this segment of The Crusade, since parts two and four are still missing.

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Television

Total Recall 2070: Nothing Like The Real Thing

  • January 19, 1999

Total Recall 2070Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the third episode of Art Monterastelli’s sci-fi series Total Recall 2070, starring Michael Easton and Cynthia Preston, very loosely based on the 1990 film Total Recall. The series will air on the American pay cable channel Showtime later in the year. Peter Firth guest stars.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Helpless

  • January 19, 1999

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 46th episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Dominic Keating (Star Trek: Enterprise) guest stars.

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The Outer Limits: Alien Radio

  • January 22, 1999

The Outer LimitsShowtime airs the 88th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix) guest stars in the fifth season premeire, written by A.L. Katz (Tales From The Crypt).

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Zeppo

  • January 26, 1999

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 47th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse) guest stars.

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