Year: 1996

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Sliders: The Young And The Relentless

  • June 7, 1996

SlidersFox airs the 20th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. Laura Harris (24) and Gordon Michael Woolvett (Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda) guest star.

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Young Indiana Jones: Travels With Father

  • June 16, 1996

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe feature-length 32nd episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on cable channel The Family Channel, starring Corey Carrier and Sean Patrick Flanery. Michael Gough (Batman, Doctor Who) guest stars. This is the final episode/TV movie of the series.

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The Outer Limits: Paradise

  • June 16, 1996

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 38th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Mel Harris (thirtysomething) and Geraint Wyn Davies (Forever Knight) guest star.

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Columbia Crewed Spaceflight Space Shuttle

STS-78

  • June 20, 1996

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle Columbia lifts off on the 78th shuttle mission, a Spacelab flight lasting nearly 17 days and devoted to the effects of microgravity on various forms of life. The crew also tests maneuvers under consideration for a future Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission which could safely boost Hubble’s orbit without damaging it. Aboard Columbia for her 20th flight are Commander Terence Henricks, Pilot Kevin Kregel, flight engineer Susan Helms, mission specialists Richard Linnehan and Charles Brady, and payload specialists Jean-Jacques Favier and Robert Thirsk.

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The Outer Limits: The Light Brigade

  • June 23, 1996

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 39th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Robert Patrick (Terminator 2, The X-Files) and Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.

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Sliders: Invasion

  • June 28, 1996

SlidersFox airs the 21st episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. This episode marks the first appearance of the Kromaggs, a recurring enemy that will persist for the remainder of the series.

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The Outer Limits: Falling Star

  • June 30, 1996

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 40th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Sheena Easton and John Pyper-Ferguson (Caprica) guest star.

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The Outer Limits: Out Of Body

  • July 14, 1996

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 41st episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Peri Gilpin (Frasier), Victor Garber (Alias, The Orville), and William B. Davis (The X-Files) guest star.

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The Outer Limits: Vanishing Act

  • July 21, 1996

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 42nd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Jon Cryer (Sueprgirl, Two And A Half Men) guest stars.

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The Outer Limits: The Sentence

  • August 4, 1996

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 43rd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) guest stars in the second season finale.

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New Horizons Uncrewed Spaceflight

All aboard the Pluto-Kuiper Express

  • August 16, 1996

PKEWith NASA/JPL’s Pluto Fast Flyby mission cancelled, a new mission is proposed by several scientists and engineers, including veterans of the Voyager program, to send a small spacecraft to Pluto. Originally named Pluto Express, and later Pluto-Kuiper Express, the unmanned spacecraft would be armed with a handful of scientific instruments (as opposed to Pluto Fast Flyby’s camera-only proposal). Plans call for launch via a Delta Heavy rocket or from the cargo bay of a Space Shuttle in 2004, a Jupiter gravity assist flyby in 2006, and a Pluto flyby in 2012. Though there are early talks with the Russian space program about including landers or penetrators, that element of the mission is dropped soon afterward.

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Crewed Spaceflight Mir Soyuz

Soyuz TM-24

  • August 17, 1996

Soyuz TM-24Soyuz TM-24 is launched from Russia, on a mission to dock with the Mir space station. Aboard are cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri, who stay aboard Mir for 196 days, and visiting French spationaut Claudie André-Deshays, the first French woman in space, who stays aboard Mir for 16 days before returning to Earth with the station’s previous crew aboard Soyuz TM-23. Korzun and Kaleri will return to Earth in March 1997.

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The Cape

  • September 9, 1996

The CapeThe first episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin. With cooperation from NASA, frequent location filming at Cape Canaveral, and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin as a technical consultant, and banking on the recent box office success of Apollo 13, the series focuses on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.

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Voyager: Flashback

  • September 11, 1996

Star Trek: VoyagerUPN airs the 43rd episode of Star Trek: Voyager. This episode airs three days after the 30th anniversary of the original Star Trek’s premiere, and guest stars original series cast members George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney in a storyline paying homage to the Kirk era (specifically, to the opening scene of the movie Star Trek VI). Michael Ansara appears as Kang.

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The Cape: In Friends We Trust

  • September 16, 1996

TimecopThe second episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin, and focusing on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.

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Atlantis Crewed Spaceflight Mir Space Shuttle

STS-79: fourth Shuttle-Mir mission

  • September 16, 1996

Space ShuttleAfter multiple delays, including the entire launch stack having to be rolled back into the safety of the Vehicle Assembly Building to protect it from two back-to-back hurricanes, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on the fourth mission to dock with the Russian Mir space station. Supplies are transferred to Mir, and numerous completed science experiments from Mir are loaded into the shuttle. Atlantis is flown by Commander William Readdy, Pilot Terrence Wilcutt, and mission specialists Thomas Akers, John Blaha, Jay Apt and Carl Walz. Blaha remains on Mir, taking the place of American astronaut Shannon Lucid, who has just set a new American space endurance record of 188 days in orbit; Lucid returns to Earth with the Atlantis crew.

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Neverwhere: Knightsbridge

  • September 19, 1996

NeverwhereThe second episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It, Doctor Who) guest stars.

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The Cape: No Fear

  • September 23, 1996

TimecopThe third episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin, and focusing on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.

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