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Lakeshore Records digitally releases an album of selections from Stephen Barton and Frederik Weidmann‘s soundtrack to the third and final season of the streaming series Star Trek: Picard. 
Streaming service Paramount+ debuts the 18th episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, Evan Evagora, and Jeri Ryan. John de Lancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Ito Aghayere guest star.
The CW airs the 129th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Phil LaMarr guest stars.
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The CW airs the 76th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Brandon Routh, and Tala Ashe.
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The CW airs the 12th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. Celia Imrie (The Nightmare Man) guest stars in an episode directed by Rachel Talalay (Doctor Who).
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The 19th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Katie Cassidy (Arrow) guest stars.
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Big Finish Productions releases the 120th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy.
The pilot movie of the Battlestar Galactica spinoff series Caprica, a non-space-based tale of the creation of the Cylons over half a century before the events seen in Galactica, is released direct-to-DVD. Starring Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales and Alessandra Toressani, Caprica actually began its development as a non-Galactica-related pitch about the dawn of a society’s disastrous over-reliance on technology. The pilot will be broadcast nearly a year on Syfy, though its initial means of release reflects an end-of-decade spike in direct-to-DVD genre movies that includes two one-off Stargate SG-1 DVDs. 
8-Bit Weapon releases the EP Electric High.
The 730th episode of Doctor Who (the 32nd since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Hugh Quarshie (Star Wars Episode I) and Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) guest star. This is the first part of a two-part story.
Entertainment industry newspaper Daily Variety reports that J.J. Abrams, creator of Lost and Alias, and director/producer of Paramount’s heavily-promoted Mission: Impossible III, has signed a deal to produce and direct the eleventh Star Trek film, which has suddenly moved from “off the schedule” (following the cooling of the studio’s attitude toward the Trek franchise in the wake of the Star Trek: Enterprise cancellation) to a 2008 release date. Fellow Lost producers Bryan Burk and Damon Lindelof are also signed on as producers of the still-untitled movie, which is said to focus on the first mission for a young James T. Kirk and Spock. Mission: Impossible III (and former Xena/Hercules) writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are on board as scriptwriters.
The 70th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN.
The three members of the Expedition 9 crew arrive on the International Space Station, and the station promptly loses one of its three gyroscopes, which keep the station aligned in orbit. According to NASA, the station can remain stable with only two of the gyroscopes operating, and even if a second one should fail, the thrusters of the newly-arrived Soyuz capsule can keep it aligned. Departing in their Soyuz vehicle will be Expedition 8 crewmembers Michael Foale and Alexander Kaleri, along with ESA astronaut Andrè Kuipers, who arrived with the Expedition 9 crew to perform a week’s worth of experiments. Manning the station for the next six months will be Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke.
Big Finish Productions releases the eighth Dalek Empire audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7) and Sarah Mowat.
The 197th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, and Annabeth Gish. Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, and Dean Haglund guest star in an episode that provides a somewhat definitive finale to the short-lived Lone Gunmen spinoff series.
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Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 28th episode of Farscape, written by former Star Trek: The Next Generation writer Naren Shankar.
Big Finish Productions releases the seventh Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. Nicholas Briggs, future voice of Doctor Who’s 21st century TV Daleks, makes his first appearance as the voice of the Daleks.
Showtime airs the 117th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Mackenzie Phillips (One Day At A Time) and Colin Mochrie (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) guest star.
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The 31st 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. James Marsters, Juliet Landau, Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Meredith Salenger (Hollywood Heights) guest star.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 43rd episode of Xena: Warrior Princess.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 76th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Marjorie Monaghan (Space Rangers) guest stars.
A small but powerful tornado touches down near theLogBook.com’s home office in downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas shortly after 11pm. It traverses two more counties, and kills three people, before dissipating. This is part of a larger tornado outbreak that has plagued much of Oklahoma earlier in the day. The storm is later judged to be an F3 tornado.
Magic Bullet Productions, the makers of the Kaldor City audio series, release The Mark Of Kane, an unofficial audio drama continuation set in the world of Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7. Available on cassette tape, the story features Gareth Thomas as Blake and Brian Croucher as Travis; Peter Miles is also featured, but not in his role from the television series.
The seventh episode of the science fiction series VR.5 airs on Fox, starring Lori Singer (Fame), Michael Easton (Total Recall 2070), and Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy The Vampire Slayer). Robert Davi guest stars.
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Premium cable channel Showtime airs the fifth episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Bruce Davison guest stars.
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The 40th episode of the science fiction crime drama Super Force is broadcast in syndication in North America, starring Ken Olandt, Larry B. Scott, and Patrick Macnee (The Avengers). Musetta Vander guest stars.
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The 48th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs.
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NBC airs the fifth episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Terri Garber and Nick Cassavetes guest star.
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CBS airs the 39th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
The fourth episode of the American-made Max Headroom series premieres on ABC, starring Matt Frewer and Amanda Pays. (This is the the American-made drama series, not the music video/talk show series featuring the same character.) W. Morgan Sheppard and Concetta Tomei guest star.
Atari releases the home version of Missile Command as a cartridge for the Atari 2600. The manual included with the game explains the missile attack as the product of an alien invasion, not Reagan-era Cold War tensions. Though the cartridge is an instant best-seller, its programmer receives a reward that convinces him to look for work somewhere other than Atari.
Atari scores a direct hit on arcades everywhere with Missile Command, a game which reminds video game-obsessed youth that the Cold War is still on. (In the months it takes to develop the game, programmer Dave Theurer has recurring nuclear-war-themed nightmares.) Cementing the trakball as a viable controller for fast-paced, non-sports games, Missile Command inspires a popular home video game cartridge (which, in the interest of not giving young gamers nightmares, dispenses with the Cold War theme in favor of a science-fiction explanation of the missiles’ origin).
RSO Records releases a double LP of John Williams’ soundtrack from The Empire Strikes Back, a full month in advance of the movie’s release. The booklet-style album cover includes an extensive interview with Williams, as well as numerous notes on the making of a movie the public has yet to see.
ITV airs the fifth episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. Siobhan McKenna guest stars.
The eighth episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk premieres on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Julie Gregg (The Godfather), John Crawford (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, The Waltons), and Don Marshall (Land Of The Giants, Star Trek) guest star.
The 35th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. This episode concludes the second season.
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The ninth episode of the short-lived NBC series The Fantastic Journey premieres. The promise of shelter for the night turns into a waking nightmare (not to mention an episode that would’ve been ideal for a Halloween special).
The first of two one-hour Wonder Woman specials airs on ABC, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Christine Belford guest stars.
The third episode of the children’s science fiction series Sky airs on ITV, created and written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin (later the creators of K-9 for Doctor Who). David Jackson (Blake’s 7) guest stars.
The 346th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Prentis Hancock (Space: 1999) guest stars.
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BBC2 airs the 38th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by former Doctor Who producer John Wiles, the story stars Peter Copley and Maurice Roeves (The Nightmare Man). This episode, opening the series’ fourth and final season, no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The 30th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Roddy McDowall (Planet Of The Apes, The Fantastic Journey) guest stars as the Bookworm.
The 60th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Simon Oakland stars in an episode written by Serling.
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ABC airs the 14th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Maria Palmer and Robert Douglas guest star.
The 103rd episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
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The 70th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
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The 42nd episode of the syndicated science fiction Science Fiction Theatre airs on stations across the U.S. Hosted by Truman Bradley, the episode stars Bruce Bennett and David Alpert, and is directed by William Castle.
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