Atari releases the Adventure cartridge for the Atari VCS home video game system. Designed and programmed by Warren Robinett, Adventure is the first of its kind – a VCS game with a playing field larger than the TV screen, mapped out in the program’s memory – but later becomes better remembered for one “room” in the game’s maze which contains the programmer’s name, one of the earliest video game “Easter eggs.” 
The third episode of The Black Adder airs on the BBC, starring Rowan Atkinson. William Russell (Doctor Who) and Arthur Hewlett guest star.
Under much scrutiny due to the success of the group’s debut album, Crowded House releases its second album, Temple Of Low Men. This album includes the singles “Better Be Home Soon” and “Into Temptation”.
Four years after the band’s formal breakup, CBS Records releases (with cooperation from frontman Jeff Lynne) a three-CD Electric Light Orchestra box set, Afterglow. Serving primarily as an elaborate greatest hits collection, the primary draw is the third disc, featuring many previously unheard songs that were “orphaned” when the group’s 1983 album Secret Messages was cut down from a double album to a single LP shortly before publication.
Elektra Records releases The Best of Howard Jones, a career retrospective covering through Jones’ 1992 album, featuring a cover of Donald Fagen’s “I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)” as a new single.
The 16th 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 24th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, bringing the show’s successful first season to a close.
The fourth episode of Return To Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Sonia Todd (Home And Away) and David Wenham (The Lord Of The Rings trilogy).
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the 52nd episode of the science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, Cleavant Derricks, and Kari Wuhrer. Walter Olkewicz (Wizards & Warriors) guest stars.
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Zang Tung Tumb releases the Art Of Noise‘s fifth album, The Seduction of Claude Debussy, the first new material from the pioneering electronic group in a decade. Among the many guest appearances are rapper Rakim, film composer Henry Jackman, Sally Bradshaw, and actor John Hurt (!).
Volcano Records releases the Weird Al Yankovic album Running With Scissors, featuring the Star Wars Episode I-inspired single “The Saga Begins”.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 138th episode of The Outer Limits. Geraint Wyn Davies (Forever Knight) and William B. Davis (The X-Files) guest star.
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Pay cable channel Showtime airs the 88th episode of Stargate SG-1. Carmen Argenziano and Peter Williams guest star in the fifth season premiere.
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Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 53rd episode of Farscape.
Big Finish Productions releases the 45th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker, Maggie Stables, and Sylvester McCoy.
Actor Don S. Davis, best known for his long stint in the role of General George Hammond on Stargate SG-1, dies of a heart attack at the age of 65. Though his film and TV career didn’t begin in earnest until the early 1980s, by that time he had earned a doctorate in theater arts and had spent a decade sharing those skills with others as a teacher. One of his early gigs was standing in for Dana Elcar on the set of MacGyver, where he met future SG-1 co-star Richard Dean Anderson. He originated the character of Hammond in the premiere episode of Stargate SG-1, and his final appearance in the role is in the upcoming direct-to-DVD movie Stargate Continuum, due in late July. In addition to reprising his SG-1 role on sister series Stargate Atlantis, he has appeared on such series as The Dead Zone, Highlander, The Outer Limits, The X-Files and Twin Peaks.
The CW airs the 147th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin.
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Virgin Galactic launches the Galactic 01 suborbital spaceflight aboard the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity. The flight is piloted by Michael Masucci and Nicola Pecile, with Italians Walter Villadei, Pantaleone Carlucci, and Angelo Landolfi, and British citizen Colin Bennett, as the passengers. Some research objectives are carried out on this flight, which was delayed from a 2021 launch date.
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the 13th episode of the Star Trek prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet. Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries) guest stars.