The week-long national syndication window opens for the 157th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 157th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Warner Bros. releases the soundtrack from the movie Man On The Moon, featuring both songs and instrumental underscore by R.E.M.
The 64th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head and Alyson Hannigan also star. David Boreanaz (Angel) guest stars.
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Big Finish Productions releases the third Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. Peter Miles guest stars.
Mary Whitehouse, known for many years for her insistent outcries against sex and violence on British television – including a years-long war of words with various producers of BBC-TV’s Doctor Who – dies at the age of 91 (coincidentally, on the 38th anniversary of Doctor Who’s first broadcast). Many a Who producer has quietly echoed the thoughts of John Nathan-Turner, who has been known to say that he’d pray at night that Ms. Whitehouse would protest loudly about a recent episode of the show because it would draw public attention (and maybe ratings). Ms. Whitehouse is survived by three sons.
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on the 112th shuttle flight, a two-week mission to resupply and exchange crews at the International Space Station. Another structural tress to dissipate excess heat into space is assembled and attached. Aboard Endeavour for her 19th flight are Commander James Wetherbee, Pilot Paul Lockhart, mission specialists Michael Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington, and ISS Expedition 6 crewmembers Kenneth Bowersox, Nikolai Budarin and Don Pettit. Returning to Earth aboard the shuttle are Expedition 5 crewmembers Valeri Korzun, Peggy Whitson and Sergei Treschev.
This is the last successful shuttle mission for over two years.
Big Finish Productions releases the 50th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann. This story, which unites many past stars of TV Doctor Who in unusual roles, celebrates 40 years of Doctor Who.
Big Finish Productions releases the 51st Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Katy Manning.
ABC airs the 32nd episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Francois Chau guest stars.
ABC premieres the ninth episode of Shaun Cassidy’s sci-fi/horror series Invasion, starring William Fichtner (Contact), Eddie Cibrian, and Lisa Sheridan.
The internet-based fan film Star Trek: Phase II releases its third full-length episode, To Serve All My Days. Walter Koenig guest stars as Chekov in a new script written by original Star Trek TV story editor D.C. Fontana.
The first episode of Adrian Hodges’ 21st century remake of Terry Nation’s post-apocalyptic series Survivors airs on BBC1, starring Julie Graham. Shaun Dingwall and Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who) guest star.
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama box set The Lost Stories: The First Doctor, containing audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. William Russell and Carole Ann Ford star in a story originally intended for the first season of Doctor Who.
The 801st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 103rd episode since the series’ revival). This is the show’s 50th anniversary special, starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, and John Hurt, with past Doctors putting in appearances via archive footage; Tennant’s co-star Billie Piper also appears, though not as Rose Tyler. This is the first episode since 1976 to feature the shape-shifting Zygons, and it adds a major plot twist to the Time War.
Commercial spaceflight operator Blue Origin, owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, launches its second New Shepard flight. The uncrewed (but human-rated) capsule and its single-stage suborbital booster come in for soft landings near Blue Origin’s Texas launch facility, after refinements are made to the system of aerodynamic fins designed to keep the booster upright as it returns to the ground for a survivable landing. This is the first intact return of a space-flown booster to Earth. This is the first flight for the second New Shepard reusable capsule, as well as the first flight for the second New Shepard reusable booster; both will be reused again.
The first episode of the science fiction series The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), premieres on cable channel Syfy.
The 122nd episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Michael Emerson (Lost) and Teryl Rothery (Stargate SG-1) guest star.
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The CW airs the 152nd episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Cress Williams (Black Lightning), Kandyse McClure (Jeremiah, Battlestar Galactica), and Tony Curran (Defiance, Doctor Who) guest star.
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