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The 683rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. T.P. McKenna and Jessica Martin guest star in the final story of season 25.
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The 683rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. T.P. McKenna and Jessica Martin guest star in the final story of season 25.
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The 51st episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Terence Knox stars in Alan Brennert’s adaptation of the Tom Godwin short story of the same name.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 30th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Colm Meaney guest stars.
The 52nd episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Steve Kanaly (Dallas) stars.
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The 53rd episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Charles Haid (Hill Street Blues) stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 31st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. W. Morgan Sheppard and Suzie Plakson guest star.
For the first time, images transmitted to Earth by NASA’s unmanned Voyager 2 space probe reveal visible cloud features in the atmosphere of Neptune, from a distance of 185,000,000 miles. This is a welcome relief to mission scientists who felt let down by a lamentable lack of any atmospheric detail in the clouds of Uranus, a planet visited by Voyager 2 in 1986. In the months ahead, even more detail will be revealed in Neptune’s upper atmosphere.
The 54th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Damir Andrei and Deborah Raffin star in an episode written by J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah, Sense8).
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The Soviet Union’s unmanned Mars probe Phobos 2 successfully arrives in orbit around the red planet after over half a year of interplanetary travel (and after the loss of its identical twin, Phobos 1). Phobos 2 begins taking pictures of both Mars and Phobos and begins a series of orbital maneuvers that will eventually lead it to a very close approach to Phobos, where it is expected to release a pair of surface landers, the first of their kind to study a Martian moon.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 32nd episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Roy Orbison‘s final album, Mystery Girl, is released just weeks after the musician’s death on Virgin Records. With interest in Orbison riding high with the relatively recent success of the Traveling Wilburys, Mystery Girl sells better than most of his previous work.
The 55th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Esai Morales stars in a remake of a classic Twilight Zone episode written by George Clayton Johnson (Logan’s Run).
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 33rd episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The 56th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap) stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 34th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The 57th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Bruce Weitz (Hill Street Blues) stars in an episode written by J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah, Sense8).
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 35th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whoopi Goldberg and Madchen Amick (Twin Peaks) guest star.
The 58th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. John Beck (Dallas) stars in an episode written by J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah, Sense8).
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The 59th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Pamela Bellwood (Dynasty) stars in an episode written by Christy Marx (Jem And The Holograms).
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Actor Jake Lloyd, who will become famous (or, depending upon who you ask, infamous) as the face of the young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, is born in Colorado. His brief acting career is dominated by his role as the boy who will become Darth Vader, and he eventually gives up acting.
The 60th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Janet Leigh (Psycho) stars in an episode written by J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah, Sense8).
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Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on a nearly-five-day mission to take NASA’s third TDRS (Tracking & Data Relay Satellite) into orbit, among other smaller experiment packages, including IMAX filming. Aboard Discovery for the first shuttle flight of 1989 are Commander Michael Coats, Pilot John Blaha, and mission specialists James Bagian, James Buchli, and Robert Springer.
The 61st episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Karen Valentine (Room 222) stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 36th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Carolyn Seymour (Survivors) guest stars.
Former Split Enz frontman Tim Finn‘s self-titled third album is released in the United States by Capitol Records; presaging Finn’s merger with younger brother Neil Finn’s group Crowded House, the album is produced by Crowded House producer Mitchell Froom.
The 62nd episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Ben Murphy (Alias Smith And Jones, Gemini Man) stars.
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After three years of tinkering with the basics of the concept, and spending much of his downtime from the 1988 Writers’ Guild strike refining the idea, writer J. Michael Straczynski completes his first draft script and series bible for a new science fiction series, Babylon 5. In the coming months he will pitch it to several networks, studios, and broadcasters (including Paramount, which passes on it), finally finding a receptive ear in Chris-Craft Television executive Evan Thompson. Thompson, in turn, introduces Straczynski to Warner Bros. TV executive Dick Robertson, with whom Thompson is exploring the possibility of launching a new network.
The Soviet Union loses all contact with the unmanned Mars probe Phobos 2 during a close flyby of the inner Martian moon Phobos, where the vehicle had been programmed to deposit a pair of surface landers. Unable to reacquire communications with Phobos 2, Soviet ground controllers later discover a fatal error in the programming of the probe’s on-board computer, leading to a loss of attitude control similar to the incident that doomed Phobos 1 in 1988. Since delivery of the landers never occurs, the mission is deemed a failure.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 37th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The 63rd episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Wayne Robson (The Red Green Show) and Tony Franciosa (Search) star in an episode written by Harlan Ellison.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 38th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Images transmitted to Earth by NASA’s unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft, from a distance of 129,000,000 miles, reveal a consistent feature in Neptune’s atmosphere, an oval-shaped storm system near the Neptunian equator very similar in size and position to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. This storm, quickly nicknamed the Great Dark Spot, allows Voyager scientists to estimate Neptune’s rotational period much earlier than expected. At the distance between Voyager 2 and Neptune, the smallest features on the planet that can be seen are at least 2,400 miles across, meaning the newly detected storm system is gigantic.
The 63rd episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. David Naughton stars in an episode written by J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah, Sense8).
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The 64th and final episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Ed Marinaro stars in the concluding episode of the series; further revivals of The Twilight Zone will be attempted in the 1990s and the early 21st century.
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Tom Petty‘s solo album Full Moon Fever is released on MCA Records. (Though many of his Heartbreakers bandmates play on the album, the album is credited to Petty alone). Fellow Traveling Wilbury Jeff Lynne produces the album and co-writes some of the songs.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 39th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 40th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on a four-day mission to launch the long-delayed interplanetary probe Magellan, which is sent to Venus via an Interial Upper Stage booster module. For the first time, one of a shuttle’s five onboard computers fails and is replaced in an in-orbit repair procedure. Aboard Atlantis for this flight are Commander David Walker, Pilot Ronald Grabe, and mission specialists Norm Thagard, Mary Cleave and Mark Lee. The launch of Magellan, a mission originally conceived in 1972, marks the beginning of the first American interplanetary mission since 1977.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 41st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Guest starring John de Lancie and Whoopi Goldberg, this is the episode which introduces the Borg to the Star Trek universe.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 42nd episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.