The first episode of children’s science fiction series Aquila premieres on BBC1, starring Ben Brooks and Craig Vye. The series is adapted by Andrew Norriss from his own novel of the same name.
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The MST3K Info Club releases Clowns In The Sky II: The Continued Musical History of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a second volume of original songs written and performed by the show’s cast, all from the Sci-Fi Channel era. 
UPN airs the 101st episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The 185th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, and Annabeth Gish.
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The fifth episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series Masters Of Science Fiction, drawing on the genre’s literary greats and hosted by Professor Stephen Hawking, is broadcast. Kimberly Elise (Diary Of A Mad Black Woman) stars in a story written specifically for this series by novelist Walter Mosley (Snowfall, Star Trek: Discovery).
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BBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the fourth Doctor Who audio drama in the Demon Quest story cycle, starring Tom Baker, Richard Franklin, and Susan Jameson.
BBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the fifth and final Doctor Who audio drama in the Demon Quest story cycle, starring Tom Baker, Richard Franklin, and Susan Jameson. A third series of adventures will follow in 2011, prior to the fourth Doctor’s Big Finish audio debut in 2012.
The eighth episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Stephen Amell (Arrow) guest stars.
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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches the Hayabusa-2 unmanned space probe, intended to study and sample asteroid 162173 Ryugu in 2018. Mission plans call for the ion-engine-powered Hayabusa-2 to remain at Ryugu for a year before returning to Earth with its sample. Hayabusa-2 also carries a European-built lander and an explosive penetrator to expose the asteroid’s subsurface material (using the same principle as the Deep Impact mission to Comet Tempel 1 in 2005.
The 77th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Grant Gustin (The Flash) guest stars.
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Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 23rd episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
The 851st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 152nd episode since the series’ revival). Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill star. Sharon D. Clarke (The Singing Detective) and Kevin Eldon (Hyperdrive) guest star.
Dorothy Catherine Fontana, better known by her “indeterminate gender” pen name D.C. Fontana, dies at the age of 80. Originally setting out to be a novelist, she found herself drawn to the business of writing for the then-new medium of television, working her way from secretarial jobs to production assistant and script editor. Some of her earliest work, for TV westerns such as The Tall Man and Ben Casey, went out under her full name; by the time she sold scripts to The Wild Wild West, she found it easier to use a pseudonym (often “Michael Edwards” or “Michael Richards”). As the production secretary for a new series launched in 1963 called The Lieutenant, she was nominally working for executive producer Del Reisman, but often worked alongside the show’s creator, a junior producer named Gene Roddenberry. When The Lieutenant was cancelled after a single season, Roddenberry hired her to work on his next project, a sci-fi series called Star Trek, of which she became the story editor and a frequent scriptwriter, creating several critical points of the series’ backstory, especially involving Spock’s home planet of Vulcan. Work for such shows as Bonanza, Circle Of Fear, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land Of The Lost, and The Fantastic Journey followed; she was effectively the showrunner of the early 1970s animated revival of Star Trek, even though she was credited only as an associate producer. She served as story editor once again on the TV version of Logan’s Run, and, with fellow Star Trek writer David Gerrold, did significant work developing a modern (late 1970s) revival of Buck Rogers for television, only to see much of that work go unused by the eventual showrunner, Glen A. Larson. (She did still write a script for the series, however.) Between 1986 and 1987, she was one of numerous alumni of the original Star Trek to be brought aboard to develop the TV spinoff Star Trek: The Next Generation, but she found the working environment (dominated by Roddenberry’s attorney, Leonard Maizlish) to be stifling, and made no contributions past the first season. (She also had to fight for co-writing credit on the series premiere, Encounter At Farpoint.) Later writing assignments included War Of The Worlds, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Hypernauts, ReBoot, and the posthumously-produced Roddenberry series Earth: Final Conflict.
theLogBook.com releases the 19th episode of the Retrogram podcast, hosted by Earl Green, covering the following shows from the seventh season of Doctor Who aired in 1970:
Silva Screen Records digitally releases an album of music from Segun Akinola‘s soundtrack to Eve Of The Daleks, the first of the 2022 Doctor Who “specials” starring Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor. The album will get a physical release the following month.
The 875th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 176th episode since the series’ revival), starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate. The late Bernard Cribbins makes his final Doctor Who appearance and his final performance in this episode.
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