The CW airs the 31st episode of Batwoman starring Javicia Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, and Meagan Tandy.
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Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 29th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, closing out the series’ second season and marking Anson Mount’s final appearance as a series regular in this particular Star Trek spinoff. Tig Notaro, Rebecca Romjin (X-Men, The Librarians), Michelle Yeoh, and Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You) guest star.
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The fourth episode of Jordan Peele’s revival of Rod Serling’s science fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone streams on CBS All Access. Steven Yuen (The Walking Dead) stars in a script written by Glen Morgan (The X-Files).
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The 25th episode of the science fiction series The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), is broadcast on cable channel Syfy. Raven Dauda (Star Trek: Discovery) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost, V) guest star.
The third SpaceX Dragon unmanned resupply mission to the International Space Station lifts off, testing a new version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster rocket which incorporates landing legs and an attitude control system designed to return the booster’s first stage safely to Earth for possible reuse. The attitude control system succeeds in cancelling out the booster’s roll and brings the first stage down for a controlled splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. The Dragon capsule goes on to dock with the ISS two days later.
UK cable channel Disney XD airs the ninth episode of K-9. The Australian-made series features no Doctor Who-related characters other than K-9.
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the 56th episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Richard Hatch and Dean Stockwell guest star.
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ABC airs the 64th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost.
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UPN airs the 165th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Dwight Schultz guest stars.
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UPN broadcasts the second 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).
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The 135th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. John Hawkes (Deadwood) and Nestor Serrano (Witchblade, 24) guest star.
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Pay cable channel Showtime airs the first movie-length episode of Lexx (under the alternate title “Tales From A Parallel Universe”). The series is a Canadian/German co-production, and guest stars Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Megaforce).
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 39th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Bernie Casey guest stars in an episode which introduces some of the background elements of the upcoming spinoff series Star Trek: Voyager.
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The sixth episode of RoboCop: The Series airs in syndication, starring Richard Eden, Yvette Nipar, Blu Mankuma, and Andrea Roth.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 21st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Merritt Butrick (Star Trek II & III) and Judson Scott (The Phoenix) guest star.
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In contrast to 1977, where no toy licensee had a lock on the right to make Star Wars toys until weeks after the movie’s premiere, Kenner rolls out the first toys for The Empire Strikes Back nearly a month ahead of the movie; kids (and their long-suffering parents) make the first wave of figures an immediate sell-out, despite not knowing anything about the movie’s plotline.
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Students and seasoned weather researchers at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma embark on the Tornado Intercept Project (TIP), a concerted effort to gather film footage of developing or active tornadoes in an effort to study wind and debris patterns. Though believed by some to be of limited scientific value, TIP is the beginning of “storm chasing” and yields major breakthroughs in scientific understanding of the formation of tornadoes just one year later.
The 269th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. John Abineri and Ronald Allen guest star.
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The 15th episode of Larry Cohen’s science fiction series The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes and produced by Quinn Martin’s QM Productions, premieres on ABC. Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible) and Joanne Linville guest star.
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The 22nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Keys Of Marinus. Geroge Colouris guest stars.
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The 117th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Pat Hingle and Nan Martin guest star.
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The 29th episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, airs on ABC, with each episode’s opening titles proclaiming that the series is produced “in cooperation with the Science-Fiction League of America”, a collective of sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon among its members. This episode stars Sylvia Sidney.
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