The week-long national syndication window opens for the 77th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 77th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The ninth Doctor Who New Adventures novel, “Love And War” by Paul Cornell, is published. A pivotal point in the young book series, “Love And War” sees the exit of TV companion Ace and the introduction of an older companion, archaeologist Professor Bernice Sumemrfield, for the seventh Doctor. Using a non-sequitur mention of the “Hoothi and their great gas dirigibles” from the television story The Brain Of Morbius as a starting point for this book’s enemy, author Cornell crafts a novel that forces the series to grow into more mature territory, with a truly unsettling adversary for the Doctor to fight. An audio version will be produced by Big Finish Productions 20 years later.
Fox airs the eighth episode of the sci-fi western, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, and Christian Clemenson. John Astin (The Addams Family) and Billy Drago (The Untouchables) guest star.
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The feature-length 29th episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on cable channel The Family Channel, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Allison Smith (Kate & Allie) guest stars.
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The 47th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Julian Stone guest stars.
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Fox premieres the fourth episode of the military science fiction series Space: Above And Beyond. Tony Amendola (Stargate SG-1) guest stars.
NASA/JPL’s interplanetary probe Cassini, with the European Space Agency-built Huygens Titan probe tagging along, lifts off on a Titan IV-B rocket. The voyage to Saturn will last seven years, during which Cassini does close flybys to receive gravity assists from Venus, Earth, Earth’s moon, and Jupiter en route to Saturn. It will operate in Saturn’s vicinity for over a decade and launch the Huygens probe, the first landing probe to visit a body in the outer solar system.
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 54th episode of Stargate SG-1.
The 91st episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Jayne Heitmeyer, Von Flores, Melinda Deines, Guylaine St. Onge, and Alan Van Sprang.
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The 126th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters and Alyson Hannigan also star.
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The 57th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN.
China becomes the third country to independently launch a crewed mission with the flight of Shenzhou 5, an orbital flight lasting almost 22 hours. Taikonaut Yang Liwei becomes the first Chinese citizen to leave Earth, though an American astronaut born in China had flown aboard space shuttle Challenger in 1985. Derived from Soviet-era Soyuz spacecraft, Shenzhou 5 comes in for a rough landing, causing Liwei some minor injuries upon impact.
The 77th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN, concluding the opening two-parter.
A week after the Genesis sample return mission tumbled back to Earth, slamming into the Utah desert floor at nearly 200 miles per hour after its parachutes failed to open, investigators find a likely cause of the crash. It appears that four gravity-sensitive switches, designed to sense the sudden deceleration of the Genesis capsule through Earth’s atmosphere and set off a timed sequence that would’ve opened the parachutes, had all been installed backwards. The four switches were designed to be redundant, so that if some failed the others could still carry out their assigned task…but this doesn’t do a lot of good if all of them are all installed incorrrectly. The investigation indicates that an erroneous schematic diagram of Genesis may be to blame. In the meantime, researchers begin to examine the surviving chunks of the broken collector plates containing particles of solar material.
The sixth episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures premieres on BBC iPlayer, the first half of a two-part storyline.
The 24th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). This is the third season premiere.
The Null Corporation releases former Nine Inch Nails members Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ soundtrack from the movie The Social Network.
A complete expanded edition of Dennis McCarthy’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: Generations is released on GNP Crescendo Records.
Intrada releases a 3-CD set of original episode scores from the first season of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, featuring music by series theme composer Stu Phillips, among others. This marks the first release for any soundtrack material from the show beyond the series pilot (already re-released by Intrada).
The 48th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow) and Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) guest star.
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Cable channel Disney XD airs the 39th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Robin Atkin Downes (Babylon 5) and Lars Mikkelsen (House Of Cards, Sherlock) guest star.
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the fifth episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Rainn Wilson (The Office) guest stars as Harry Mudd, a character originated in the original 1960s Star Trek series, and Jayne Brook (Chicago Hope) guest stars as Admiral Cornwell.
The 139th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. This is the premiere of the series’ seventh season.
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The 161st episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Susanna Thompson (Star Trek: Voyager) and John Barrowman (Torchwood, Doctor Who) guest star in the season eight premiere.
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The CW airs the 115th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes) guest stars.
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Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 30th episode of Star Trek: Discovery, opening the series’ third season, which has been delayed for the better part of a year due to the COVID-19 outbreak forcing an unexpected switch to remote post-production. David Ajala (Doctor Who) joins the series’ regular cast for the third season, which takes place in a future centuries beyond what has previously been chronicled in any prior Star Trek series.
Actress Joanna Cameron, perhaps best known for starring in the cult classic 1970s live-action kids’ superhero series Isis (a.k.a. The Secret of Isis), dies at the age of 70s after suffering complications from a stroke. Launching her career in 1969 at the behest of family friend Bob Hope, Cameron at one point held the Guinness World Record for the most commercial appearances for a single actor. Following her two-season stint as Isis, she moved on to TV guest roles in The Amazing Spider-Man, McMillan & Wife, and Switch, with her last TV credit in the appropriately titled 1980 made-for-TV movie Swan Song. After leaving Hollywood, she produced and directed promotional films for the U.S. Navy, and then moved into careers in health care and hotel marketing.
BBC Home Video re-releases the first four seasons (including seasonal specials) of the revived Doctor Who series on Blu-Ray, starring Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant as the Doctor. The content of this box set (apart from the final few specials starring Tennant, which were shot in high definition) was upscaled to HD, initially to include these seasons in a larger box set encompassing the entire revived series.