The 650th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston and Honor Blackman guest star; Bonnie Langford debuts as new TARDIS traveler Melanie. 
The 650th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston and Honor Blackman guest star; Bonnie Langford debuts as new TARDIS traveler Melanie.
UK regional broadcaster TVS airs the eighth episode of Richard Cooper’s alternate-history series Knights Of God, portraying a struggle between oppressive government and rugged resistance fighters in a post-civil-war UK.
NBC airs the 13th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
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The 692nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Dinsdale Landen, Alfred Lynch and game show host Nicholas Parsons (in a rare dramatic role) guest star.
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The second episode 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). Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica) guest stars.
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The fifth episode of the superhero series The Flash, based on the DC Comics character, airs on CBS, starring John Wesley Shipp and Amanda Pays. Richard Belzer guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 158th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Majel Barrett Roddenberry guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 28th episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrne, and Philip Akin.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 26th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Wallace Shawn (The Princess Bride) guest stars.
After dropping his kids off at school, Star Wars creator George Lucas sits down with a box of pencils and a blank legal pad, and begins writing, in longhand, the script of what will become Star Wars Episode I (though at this point, the script draft is titled Star Wars: The Beginning). Having already amassed continuity notes on the original trilogy as well as story notes dating back to the early 1970s from the early “Journal of the Whills” drafts of the Star Wars storyline, Lucas knows only that the story will involve the early days of Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.
Atlantis Records releases the INXS compilation album Greatest Hits, covering the band’s career through the 1993 album Full Moon, Dirty Hearts.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 44th episode of Babylon 5, bringing the series’ second season to a close (thanks to the delay of the final four episodes, the third season begins airing a week later). Roy Dotrice (Beauty & The Beast) guest stars.
Varese Sarabande releases the first volume of Joseph LoDuca’s soundtracks from the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess.
Fox airs the 28th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks.
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Varese Sarabande releases Marty Simon’s soundtrack from the TV series Tales From A Parallel Universe (which will become better known by another name later: Lexx).
Simon & Schuster releases the audio play Star Trek: Spock vs. Q, starring Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek) and John de Lancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation), on cassette and CD. This is a rare foray into full-cast audio drama as opposed to the publisher’s usual standard audiobooks.
The 49th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Jayne Heitmeyer, Von Flores, and Richard Chevolleau.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 95th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Jennifer Sky guest stars.
BWD Press prints the non-fiction book The First Quarter: A 25-Year History Of Video Games by Steven L. Kent, chronicling the early history of the video game industry. This book will be reprinted at a later date under a different name, The Ultimate History Of Video Games.
UPN airs the 150th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Larry Drake guest stars.
Fox airs the sixth episode of Joss Whedon’s science fiction series Firefly, starring Nathan Fillion. Mark A. Sheppard and Larry Drake guest star.
Meco Monardo releases the instrumental cover album Star Wars Party (which will be reissued under various other titles in the years to come).
Television writer and producer Michael Piller, credited by many for the success of the revived Star Trek franchise (and co-creator of spinoff series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager) dies at the age of 57 after a prolonged battle with cancer. Piller, who had previously been a producer on Simon & Simon and the SF series Probe, joined Star Trek: The Next Generation as the head of the writing staff for the third season in 1990, replacing Maurice Hurley. Piller was generally credited with bringing a more friendly vibe to the show’s writing sessions and with finding new talent, such as fan writer Ronald D. Moore. Piller also wrote the popular two-part episode The Best Of Both Worlds and many others, and went on to create Deep Space Nine with Rick Berman and Voyager with Berman and fellow Next Generation veteran Jeri Taylor. Piller created the short-lived series Legend for UPN, starring Richard Dean Anderson (pre-SG-1) and John de Lancie, and later formed a production company with his son Shawn, where he developed the recent version of The Dead Zone for TV, as well as ABC Family Channel’s Wildfire, starring DS9 alumnus Nana Visitor.
ABC airs the 52nd episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost.
The University of Nebraska Press publishes Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story, a comprehensive history of the American Skylab space station program written by David Hitt and Skylab astronauts Owen Garriott, Joe Kerwin, and Alan Bean. The book is part of University of Nebraska Press’ Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight series.
The University of Nebraska Press publishes Ambassadors From Earth: Pioneering Explorations With Unmanned Spacecraft, a comprehensive history of American robotic outer solar system missions written by Jay Gallentine. The book is part of University of Nebraska Press’ Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight series.
The 42nd episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who).
The 60th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on UK cable/satellite comedy channel Dave. This is the fifth episode of Red Dwarf X, the first full season of the series since 1999.
The 813th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 114th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Michelle Gomez guest stars.
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The CW airs the 51st episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin.
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