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The Outer Limits: Cold Hands, Warm Heart

The Outer LimitsABC airs the 34th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. The episode is notable for a confluence of future Star Trek actors, including William Shatner, Malachi Throne, and Lawrence Montaigne.

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The Invaders: Valley Of The Shadow

The InvadersThe 21st episode of Larry Cohen’s science fiction series The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes and produced by Quinn Martin’s QM Productions, is broadcast on ABC. Nan Martin (A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors) and Ted Knight guest star.

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Soyuz T-10-A: launch pad disaster

SoyuzFor the first time in history, a launch abort escape system saves its crew from a doomed launch. When a fuel spill is ignited at the base of the launch vehicle for Soyuz T-10-A – an otherwise routine mission to Soviet space station Salyut 7 – the entire rocket catches fire, and ground controllers quickly discover that cables running from their bunker to the vehicle have been severed, preventing them from remotely activating the launch escape tower. A radio frequency backup system finally sends the signal, and the tower blasts the Soyuz capsule free of its doomed rocket just two seconds prior to a massive explosion on the pad. The capsule brings the crew to a safe, but rough, landing a few miles away, while the launch pad fire burns out of control for nearly a day.

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Star Trek Television

Star Trek: DS9: The Search, Part I

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 46th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode marks the beginning of Deep Space Nine’s third season and introduces the U.S.S. Defiant, a small starship designed to give the show’s characters the ability to leave the station. Salome Jens makes her first appearance as the female shapeshifter who leads the Dominion.

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Deadly Games: The End Of The Jackal

Deadly GamesThe fourth episode of science fiction series Deadly Games is broadcast on UPN, starring James Calvert, Cynthia Gibb, and Chrstopher Lloyd (Taxi, Back To The Future); Leonard Nimoy serves as the series’ executive producer.

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Neverwhere: Earl’s Court To Islington

NeverwhereThe third episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It, Doctor Who) and Stratford Johns guest star.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Buffy vs. Dracula

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 79th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Michelle Trachtenberg makes her first appearance as Dawn in the fifth season premiere.

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Star Trek Television

Star Trek: Enterprise: Broken Bow

EnterpriseUPN debuts the newest Star Trek spinoff, the prequel series Enterprise, with a two-hour pilot movie, Broken Bow. Created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, the series is set 100 years before the era of Kirk and Spock, with Scott Bakula starring as Captain Jonathan Archer, commander of the first warp-capable ship in the Earth’s Starfleet, predating the United Federation of Planets. James Cromwell guest stars. (This series begins its run without “Star Trek” as part of its title.)

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Maggie Stables, Doctor Who actress, dies

Doctor Who and A Town Called FortuneDoctor Who audio actress Maggie Stables, who originated the role of the first TARDIS traveler unique to the audio medium, dies after a lengthy illness. First appearing in a guest role in Big Finish Productions’ inaugural Doctor Who story, The Sirens Of Time, in 1999, Stables was quickly cast as Dr. Evelyn Smythe, a new companion for the sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) who defied the series’ convention of casting young actresses in such roles. Ms. Stables reprised the role intermittently, making her final appearance in a trilogy of stories released by Big Finish early in 2011; the character appeared in animated form in a 2002 webcast, but never appeared on television.