The 646th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston, Nabil Shaban and Brian Blessed guest star. 
The 646th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston, Nabil Shaban and Brian Blessed guest star.
The 11th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2. Charles Augins guest stars. Stop shirkin’ and start workin’!
The 688th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Ian Hogg and Sylvia Sims guest star. This is the last story filmed for the original series, though it’s broadcast as the second story of the season.
Virgin Records releases the Simple Minds compilation album Glittering Prize 81/92, a career retrospective covering from the band’s label debut (1980’s Empires and Dance) through their 1991 album (Real Life).
A decade after the premiere of the most recent Star Wars theatrical film (and a couple of years into a burgeoning new wave of Star Wars marketing whose most visible components are new original novels, a new action figure line, and popular role playing and computer games), George Lucas quietly announces in Daily Variety that he plans to produce – but not direct – a trilogy of prequel movies set prior to Star Wars. Though the announcement excites the Star Wars fan base, it’s one of many such announcements in the pages of Variety, many of which concern projects that never make it to the screen.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 154th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Ben Vereen guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 24th 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.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 21st episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Frank Langella, Louise Fletcher and Philip Anglim guest star. This is the second part of a three-part story.
Fox airs the 25th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. Corey Feldman (The Goonies, The Lost Boys) guest stars, reuniting with former Stand By Me co-star Connell.
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The 74th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Peter Donat (Time Trax) and Roy Thinnes (The Invaders) guest star in the fourth season premiere.
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Big Finish Productions releases the second Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range (though the range is not yet monthly, a frequency that will be determined by sheer audience demand). Peter Davison and Mark Strickson star in a story written by Mark Gatiss, who also guest stars.
The 45th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Jayne Heitmeyer, Von Flores, and Richard Chevolleau. Lisa Howard (Highlander) and Janet Kidder (Continuum, Star Trek: Discovery) guest stars in the third season premiere.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 92nd episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Ted Raimi and Kevin Smith guest star.
UPN airs the 146th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, kicking off the show’s seventh and final season. Susanna Thompson guest stars as the Borg Queen.
NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey probe reaches Mars and settles into an orbit which will gradually be corrected by aerobraking (using the friction of the planet’s atmosphere to slow the vehicle down). Unlike the Mars Surveyor mission, Odyssey does not contain a landing probe, but will instead look at the planet from orbit. Another unique feature of Odyssey’s mission plan is the fact that it won’t be shut down when its scientific investigation has come to an end; it will be left in Mars orbit to serve as a communications relay satellite for future missions.
Fox airs the third episode of Joss Whedon’s science fiction series Firefly, starring Nathan Fillion. Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) guest stars.
Privately-owned experimental space vehicle SpaceShip One makes its second qualifying flight into suborbital space, exceeding Mach 3 (the first privately owned vehicle to do so) and reaching an altitude of 112 kilometers. Brian Binnie pilots SpaceShip One for its third trip into space and earns the second set of FAA commercial astronaut wings as a result. A fourth trip is considered, but then cancelled to avoid any damage to the history-making vehicle. By this point, Virgin has already hired SpaceShip One designer Burt Rutan to build SpaceShip Two, a suborbtial passenger spacecraft which will take paying customers into space as part of the company’s “Virgin Galactic” service, based on the design of SpaceShip One. Rutan and investor (and Microsoft co-founder) Paul Allen also claim the $10,000,000 Ansari X Prize.
RealWorld Records releases Afro-Celt Sound System‘s fifth album, Anatomic.
ABC airs the 48th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost, opening the show’s much-anticipated third season. Deep analysis of clues of the show’s backstory has now become a popular pastime, not simply an internet phenomenon. Elizabeth Mitchell (V), Michael Emerson, and Henry Ian Cusick join as series regulars; William Mapother and Brett Cullen guest star.
Silva Screen Records releases a 2-CD set of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2009 Doctor Who specials. For the first time, a Doctor Who soundtrack from the new series spans two discs, presenting most of the music recorded for David Tennant’s final five special episodes.
The 49th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). Sinead Michael joins the cast.
The 56th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on UK cable/satellite comedy channel Dave. This is the beginning of Red Dwarf X, the first full season of the series since 1999.
The 809th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 110th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.
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The CW airs the 47th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. This is the series’ third season premiere.
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Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the first episode of Short Treks, a series of 15-20 minute short stories set in the Star Trek universe (in this instance, aboard the U.S.S. Discovery from Star Trek: Discovery). Mary Wiseman stars.