The 15th episode of the sci-fi crime series TekWar, based on William Shatner’s novel series, airs as part of the Universal Action Pack syndication package. Greg Evigan, William Shatner, and Maria del Mar star. (The series has already been cancelled at this point; Universal is burning off the remaining episodes into off-season time slots.)
BBC Radio 4 begins airing the five-part Doctor Who radio drama The Ghosts Of N-Space, starring Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, and Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier. Stephen Thorne and Sandra Dickinson (The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) guest star. The story is written by early ’70s Doctor Who showrunner Barry Letts. This is Jon Pertwee’s final performance broadcast before his death later in 1996. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 35th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Robert Trebor guest stars.
The 26th 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, and Vincent Schiavelli (Ghost) guest star.
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UPN airs the 104th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
In response to a NASA request for mission proposals a month earlier, Southwest Research Institute scientist Dr. Alan Stern and a group of other scientists and engineers who had been working on the now-cancelled Pluto-Kuiper Express mission submit a nearly-identical proposal to NASA for a Pluto/Kuiper Belt mission called New Horizons. Very much like Pluto-Kuiper Express, New Horizons calls for a single small spacecraft to launch early in the 21st century, and, after a gravity assist from a Jupiter flyby, a Pluto encounter 10-11 years after launch. Some of the program costs are streamlined in the new proposal to make this iteration of the long-delayed Pluto mission more appealing to NASA, although New Horizons would carry more scientific payload than any previously envisioned Pluto expedition. Another proposal, Pluto and Outer Solar System Explorer (POSSE), is also submitted to NASA.
The 186th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 33rd episode of Stargate Atlantis. Beau Bridges and Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) guest star.
Sci-Fi channel airs the 26th episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Colm Feore guest stars.
The tenth episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Wentworth Miller (Prison Break) guest stars.
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The 79th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Neal McDonough (Boomtown) guest stars.
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Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 25th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. This episode introduces a teenage Princess Leia Organa to the Rebels storyline. Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2) guest stars.
La-La Land Records releases a much-anticipated expanded edition of Mark Mancina’s soundtrack from the 1996 film Twister, now including the complete score from the movie.
Yugoslavian-born actress Mira Furlan, best known to genre fans as Ambassador Delenn from Babylon 5 (one of the few characters to appear in both the 1993 pilot movie and the 1998 series finale), and for her recurring role as Rousseau in Lost, dies at the age of 65. With her husband, director Goran Gajić, she escaped the Serbo-Croatian war and emigrated to the United States early in the 1990s, just in time to land the role of Delenn. She also continued film and stage appearances, as well as releasing an album titled Songs From Movies That Have Never Been Made, with lyrics in both her native tongue and English.
Streaming service Amazon Prime releases the 54th 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).
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the eighth episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman. Robert Beltran (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars.