NBC airs the 31st episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. David Newsom guest stars in the third season premiere. 
NBC airs the 31st episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. David Newsom guest stars in the third season premiere.
The eighth episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Jason Flemyng (Primeval, Pennyworth) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 127th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the first episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Christopher Lambert, star of the original 1986 Highlander film, and Richard Moll (Night Court) guest star.
Continuum publishes Tom Stempel’s non-fiction book Storytellers To The Nation: A History Of American Television Writing, chronicling the craft of writing for television from the medium’s inception through the end of the 1980s.
Windham Hill releases new age musician Ray Lynch‘s fourth and final album, Nothing Above My Shoulders But The Evening.
The seventh episode of the Sci-Fi Channel original series Welcome To Paradox airs, a loosely-connected anthology of science fiction stories set in Betaville, a utopian future city whose incredible technology has frequently unintended side-effects. Mayim Bialik (Blossom, Big Bang Theory) stars in a story co-written by Kelley Eskridge.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 149th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode is the beginning of Deep Space Nine’s seventh and final season, and introduces new series regular Nicole de Boer (Mission Genesis, The Dead Zone) as Ezri Dax, the Dax symbiont’s new host body. Brock Peters and James Darren guest star.
The 56th episode of Joss Whedon’s 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. Alexis Denisof (Angel) guest stars. This episode, written prior to the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999, is not the fourth season premiere, but is instead a third season episode aired out of sequence due to some of the eerie similarities between the episode’s plotline and that real world event.
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The 22nd episode of James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee’s cyberpunk series Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly, airs on Fox. John Savage, Nana Visitor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Yee Jee Tso (Doctor Who) guest star in the second season premiere.
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The 14th episode of the radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is broadcast on BBC Radio, continuing Dirk Maggs’ adaptation of Douglas Adams’ novel Life, The Universe, And Everything with most of the original radio cast. Real-life BBC cricket commentators Henry Blofeld and Henry Trueman appear as themselves.
The Brian Wilson album Smile, based on songs and concepts from an unfinished Beach Boys album, is released.
The soundtrack of the 1967 movie OK Connery is released, with music by Bruno Nicolai and Ennio Morricone. The movie is better known to fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Operation Double 007.
ABC airs the 26th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Henry Ian Cusick, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Saul Rubinek guest star.
ABC premieres the second episode of Shaun Cassidy’s sci-fi/horror series Invasion, starring William Fichtner (Contact), Eddie Cibrian, and Lisa Sheridan. Cirroc Lofton (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
The eighth webisode of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a serialized story set immediately prior to the third season of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel’s website.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 61st episode of Stargate Atlantis. Amanda Tapping moves Stargate SG-1’s Colonel Carter to Atlantis in the fourth season premiere.
Film Score Monthly releases Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Ron Jones Project, a mammoth 14-CD box set containing nearly all of the episode scores Ron Jones scored during the first four seasons of the series. The score conspicuous by its absence is the fan favorite The Best Of Both Worlds, originally released by GNP Crescendo in 1991 and contractually locked to that label. Jones’ scores for the computer games Starfleet Command and Starfleet Academy are also included, along with unused cues from TNG.
Michael O’Hare, who starred in the 1993 pilot movie and the first full season (1994) of the science fiction series Babylon 5, dies of complications from a heart attack he suffered the week before. An accomplished stage actor who made infrequent forays into television, O’Hare had been out of the public eye (including the science fiction convention circuit) for several years.
Schiffer publishes David L. Craddock’s non-fictional collection of essays on the stories and creators behind Apple II computer games, “Break Out: How The Apple II Launched The PC Gaming Revolution “. The book profiles the creators and the stories behind such popular titles as Ultima, The Oregon Trail, Pinball Construction Set, Wizardry, Zork, Lode Runner, and more.
French streaming service OCS releases the first episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year.
French streaming service OCS releases the second episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year.
French streaming service OCS releases the third episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year.
French streaming service OCS releases the fourth episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year.
French streaming service OCS releases the fifth episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year.
Fox airs the fourth episode of the science fiction comedy-drama The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. James Morrison (Space: Above And Beyond) guest stars, and Liam Neeson (Star Wars Episode I) makes an unannounced, uncredited cameo appearance.
theLogBook.com releases the 11th episode of the Retrogram podcast, hosted by Earl Green, covering the following shows from the weeks of July 25th and August 1st, 1971:
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