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“Off-brand” Star Wars toys taken off market

Star WarsA California judge sides with 20th Century Fox and Kenner Toys in a million-dollar lawsuit against Hong Kong-based toymaker Arco Industries. At issue in the suit is Arco’s “Spacewar” line of action figures, clearly meant to barely resemble such Star Wars characters as Darth Vader, C-3PO and stormtroopers without actually securing the licensing to do so. Kenner contends that the knock-off toys have been eating into its profits, and Arco is far from the only company to suddenly release generic space figures with designs and sculpts that are suspiciously close to elements of the Star Wars universe.

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Television

Project UFO Sighting 4016: The Pipeline Incident

Project UFOThe 16th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. Rudolph Mantooth (Emergency!) guest stars.

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Cosmos: One Voice In The Cosmic Fugue

The second episode of Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking science documentary series Cosmos premieres on PBS. A popular history of science and scientific theory vs. tradition and superstition, segueing into Sagan’s field of expertise (astrophysics), Cosmos is a major milestone in American documentary filmmaking and the popularization of science and the scientific method (and makes an instant celebrity out of Sagan).

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Challenger Crewed Spaceflight Space Shuttle

STS-41G

ChallengerSpace Shuttle Challenger lifts off on an eight-day mission, the first shuttle mission with a seven-person crew, which also happens to be the first American shuttle crew with two women on board. A satellite to study radiation around the Earth is deployed, along with an experiment to study the feasibility of refueling empty satellites to extend their service life. Challenger’s crew for this flight consists of Commander Robert Crippen, Pilot Jon McBride, mission specialists Kathryn Sullivan, Sally Ride, David Leestma and payload specialists Marc Garneau and Paul Scully-Power.

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Star Trek Television

Star Trek: TNG: The Naked Now

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the second episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This episode becomes an immediate lightning rod of criticism since it almost duplicates a popular episode of the original Star Trek (and even points this out in the course of its story). Data also shows Lt. Yar that he is fully functional.

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Doctor Who Television

Doctor Who: Remembrance Of The Daleks 1

Doctor WhoThe 670th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Michael Sheard, Simon Williams and Terry Molloy guest star in the opening story of the 25th season. The Daleks make their first appearance since 1985, and this is the final original series story to feature them. This episode also marks a major shift away from the comedy-oriented stories of the 1986 and 1987 seasons.

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Quantum Leap: The Leap Home, Part 2

Quantum LeapNBC airs the 32nd episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Andrea Thompson (Babylon 5), Tia Carrere (Relic Hunter), and Patrick Warburton (The Tick) guest star.

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Super Force

Super ForceThe pilot movie of the science fiction crime drama Super Force is broadcast in syndication in North America, starring Ken Olandt, Larry B. Scott, and Patrick Macnee (The Avengers). All future episodes will be 30 minutes long (with commercials), and in future reruns, the two-hour premiere will be broken up into four episodes: parts one and two of A Hero’s Welcome, and parts one and two of Too Late The Hero.

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