CBS airs the 14th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Elliott Gould, Robert Carradine, and Hamilton Camp star in an episode comprised of three short stories.
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The 13th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Mabel King (What’s Happening!!) and Seth Green guest star.
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The seventh episode of Black Adder airs on the BBC, starring Rowan Atkinson. This episode, the long-delayed premiere of the show’s second season, introduces new series regulars Miranda Richardson and Stephen Fry.
The 11th episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. John Schuck (Holmes & Yoyo, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home) guest stars.
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Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on a six-day satellite deployment mission, and is also the first spaceflight to include a sitting member of the US Congress among its crew. The SATCOM KU-I satellite is launched, but another payload designed to observe Halley’s Comet (which is rapidly approaching its closest approach to Earth) malfunctions and collects no data. Columbia’s crew for this mission consists of Commander Robert Gibson, Pilot Charles Bolden, mission specialists Franklin Chang-Diaz, Steven Hawley, George Nelson, and payload specialists Robert Cenker and Congressman Bill Nelson.
This is the final successful shuttle flight until 1988.
The 14th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Charlie Sheen and Ray Mancini guest star.
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Label X releases two volumes of new recordings of classic Star Trek soundtrack music. Volume 1 features music from the episodes Is There In Truth No Beauty? and The Paradise Syndrome, while Volume 2 premieres music from The Enemy Within, The Conscience Of The King, The Spectre Of The Gun, and I, Mudd. Both releases are timed to coincide with the beginning of Star Trek’s 20th anniversary year.
The eighth episode of Black Adder airs on the BBC, starring Rowan Atkinson.
The 12th episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. Andrew Masset (Generations, Days Of Our Lives) guest stars.
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The 15th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. James Cromwell (Star Trek: First Contact, Babe) and Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix) guest star.
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Electric Light Orchestra‘s eleventh album, Balance Of Power, is released, featuring the single “Calling America”. This is the final release by ELO before Jeff Lynne officially disbands the group, as well as the final album containing anything remotely resembling the lineup of ELO’s ’70s heyday. Drummer Bev Bevan later recuits new musicians and other former ELO members to form ELO Part II.
The ninth episode of Black Adder airs on the BBC, starring Rowan Atkinson. Tom Baker (Doctor Who) and Simon Jones (Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) guest star.
CBS airs the 15th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Ralph Bellamy and Adam Arkin star in an episode comprised of three short stories, including one inspired by a Theodore Sturgeon short story.
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Voyager 2 visits the third planet on its grand tour of the outer solar system, becoming the first and only man-made spacecraft to visit Uranus. Since the blue-green planet and its moon are tipped over, Voyager has fewer opportunities to gather images of the moons of Uranus, but a close pass by its innermost large satellite, Miranda, yields pictures of one of the stranger surfaces in the solar system: a moon that was ripped apart and melted back together in the distant past. The atmosphere of Uranus reveals almost no details to Voyager 2’s cameras in the scant visible light available this far from the sun, but ten new moons are discovered, and the planet’s elusive dark rings are captured in several images. With no other missions to Uranus in the pipeline, Voyager 2’s brief flyby remains the primary source of most of our knowledge of the seventh planet from the sun. It will now take Voyager 2 three years to reach Neptune, its final target.
73 seconds after liftoff, Space Shuttle Challenger explodes when a rubber O-ring designed to be a tight seal between solid rocket booster segments allows flames from the booster to breach the shuttle’s external fuel tank, causing the tank’s highly flammable contents to ignite. The shuttle is destroyed with all hands aboard. Later analysis reveals that frigid cold temperatures in the nights leading up to the launch allowed the booster’s O-rings to become brittle enough to break – a possibility that NASA had been warned of by engineers at Morton-Thiokol, the contractor responsible for the solid rocket boosters.
Lost in the explosion are Commander Francis R. Scobee, Pilot Michael Smith, mission specialists Judy Resnik, Ellison Onizuka and Ronald McNair, and payload specialists Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe, the highly-publicized first “teacher in space.”
The Space Shuttle program is grounded for over two years during an investigation and an extensive review of safety and launch procedures.
CBS airs the 16th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Robert Prescott and David Birney star in an episode comprised of three short stories, including one written by Ray Bradbury.
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The 13th episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. Liam Sullivan (The Monroes) guest stars.
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The 16th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Mark Hamill (Star Wars), David Rappaport (Time Bandits) and Forest Whitaker (Rogue One) guest star.
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The tenth episode of Black Adder airs on the BBC, starring Rowan Atkinson.
CBS airs the 17th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Gerrit Graham and Scott Wilson star in an episode comprised of two short stories.
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The 14th episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. Diane Civita (V) guest stars.
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NASA informs the project managers of the Galileo and Magellan interplanetary probes – both of which were due to be launched via space shuttle – that their planned launches are obviously off the schedule due to the destruction of space shuttle Challenger and her crew. Further changes in the shuttle program in the wake of the tragedy will have far-reaching effects, including the cancellation of propulsion modules that would have allowed, for example, Galileo to be put on a direct trajectory toward Jupiter. The Galileo mission plan will undergo significant changes, including the loss of a planned visit to asteroid 29 Amphitrite, and both missions will eventually begin from the cargo bay of space shuttle missions in 1989.
The 11th episode of Black Adder airs on the BBC, starring Rowan Atkinson. Hugh Laurie (House M.D.) guest stars.
CBS airs the 18th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Martin Balsam and Larry Poindexter star in an episode comprised of three short stories, including a Harlan Ellison adaptation of an early Stephen King short story.
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The 17th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Bruce Davison (Harry And The Hendersons) and Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager) guest star.
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The Soviet Union launches the first module of its new Mir space station, a new modular station design building on the Soviets’ years of experience with the Salyut stations. One end of this “core” module is a six-sided structure, with docking ports on five sides; this design will allow new modules to be added onto Mir in all directions, and will potentially allow for several Soyuz or unmanned Progress cargo vehicles to be docked simultaneously, a design element which will later be carried forward to the International Space Station.
The 12th episode of Black Adder airs on the BBC, starring Rowan Atkinson. Hugh Laurie (House M.D.) guest stars in the final episode of the show’s second season.
CBS airs the 19th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Steve Railsback (Lifeforce) stars in an episode comprised of two short stories, including an adaptation of the Greg Bear short story Dead Run.
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The 15th episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. Vic Polizos (Harlem Nights, Jericho) guest stars. NBC cancels the series due to falling ratings (after scheduling the series opposite the hit prime time soap Dallas); a final episode will be “burned off” later in the year.
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The 18th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Joe Seneca (The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh) and Lane Smith (V, Lois & Clark) guest star.
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