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The Outer Limits: Birthright

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 20th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Perry King (Riptide, NPR’s Star Wars radio adaptation) and Mimi Kuzyk (Hill Street Blues) guest star.

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Soyuz TM-28

Soyuz TM-28Russia launches Soyuz TM-28 on a mission to the Mir space station, with cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Sergei Avdeyev and Yuri Baturin aboard. Padalka spends 198 days aboard Mir, conducting further repairs to the station damaged by a 1997 collision with a Progress cargo vehicle, while former politician Baturin remains aboard for 11 days before returning to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-27 with Mir’s previous crew. Avdeyev is aboard Mir for the long haul, spending just over a year in space and not returning to Earth until August 1999.

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The Outer Limits: Starcrossed

The Outer LimitsShowtime airs the 106th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Louis Ferreira (Stargate Universe) and Nathan Fillion (Firefly) guest star.

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Kenny Baker, actor, dies

Kenny BakerBritish actor Kenny Baker, whose long career as a circus performer and comedian took a sharp right turn when he first stepped into the “costume” of R2-D2 in 1977’s Star Wars, dies at the age of 81 due to complications from a respiratory ailment he had suffered for several years. Even though the continuing march of technology meant that Artoo was increasingly played on screen by real remote-control robots, Baker did at least some work inside the droid costume in all seven Star Wars movies that had been released at the time of his death, one of a very few performers to span all three trilogies. He had also appeared in Time Bandits, Flash Gordon, and The Elephant Man, among other TV and film appearances.

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