Team Knight Rider: Choctaw L-9

Team Knight RiderThe sixth episode of the sequel series Team Knight Rider airs in syndication, starring Brixton Karnes, Christine Steel, Duane Davis, and Nick Wechsler. Jesse Corti guest stars.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Tabula Rasa

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 108th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star.

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Doctor Who: The Scream Of The Shalka

Doctor WhoA new animated Doctor Who adventure, Scream Of The Shalka, premieres on BBCi, the BBC’s web site, starring Richard E. Grant as the ninth Doctor, Sophie Okonedo, and Sir Derek Jacobi. Written by popular Doctor Who novelist Paul Cornell, this story is heavily promoted well in advance with the announcement that Richard E. Grant is the official ninth incarnation of the Doctor; BBCi is unaware of the behind-the-scenes negotiations elsewhere in the BBC with Russell T. Davies. (The BBC’s unexpected announcement of Doctor Who’s imminent return as a live action series invalidates Shalka before its premiere.) Read more

Philae: first soft landing on a comet

Philae on Comet 67PLaunched in 2004, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta space probe, orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the outer solar system, releases the Philae robotic lander to descend to 67P’s surface. The lander’s harpoon anchoring system doesn’t work entirely as expected, and Philae bounces off the surface and goes spaceborne again for two hours before coming to rest on the comet once more. Though Philae is able to gather scientific data and the first-ever pictures from a comet’s surface, the nearby geography prevents its solar panels from keeping its batteries at a full charge; ESA ground controllers are only able to intermittently contact Philae.

Alan Parsons Project: The Turn Of A Friendly Card (35th anniversary edition)

The Turn Of A Friendly Card (35th anniversary edition)Sony / Legacy releases an expanded 2-CD edition of the Alan Parsons Project‘s 1980 album, The Turn Of A Friendly Card, for the 35th anniversary of the original album’s release, including work-in-progress versions of such familiar songs as “Games People Play” and “Time” and numerous other outtakes. Read more

Jeff Lynne’s ELO: Alone In The Universe

Alone In The UniverseColumbia Records releases the album Alone In The Universe by Jeff Lynne’s ELO (effectively a Jeff Lynne solo record branded as the revived Electric Light Orchestra to much fanfare), featuring the single “When I Was A Boy”. Unusually, the often studio-bound Lynne launches a major tour to support the album. Read more

Hayabusa-2 now departing Ryugu

RyuguJapan’s Hayabusa-2 uncrewed spacecraft, carrying samples of material from asteroid 162173 Ryugu, begins its long trip home after spending nearly a year and a half in Ryugu’s orbit, where it deposited autonomous robotic landers and fired a projectile into Ryugu’s surface to loosen material for capture and return to Earth. First launched in 2014, Hayabusa-2’s return trajectory to Earth is expected to bring the samples of asteroid material home to a safe landing in Australia in late 2020.