Year: 1999

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Television

Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade cancelled

  • January 30, 1999

CrusadeWord leaks onto the internet that TNT, the network that salvaged Babylon 5 from syndication, has decided to cut its losses on the Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade and cancel the show before even a single episode has aired. Series creator J. Michael Straczynski confirms that production has halted as Warner Bros.’ television executives are shopping the show around to new venues, with a strong hint that the Sci-Fi Channel could be a likely new home for the show. TNT will air the 13 produced episodes later in 1999.

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Total Recall 2070: Self-Inflicted

  • February 2, 1999

Total Recall 2070Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the fourth episode of Art Monterastelli’s sci-fi series Total Recall 2070, starring Michael Easton and Cynthia Preston, very loosely based on the 1990 film Total Recall. The series will air on the American pay cable channel Showtime later in the year. Vanessa Williams guest stars.

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Galileo Uncrewed Spaceflight

Galileo and the atmosphere of Callisto

  • February 4, 1999

CallistoNASA reveals recent findings from the unmanned Galileo orbiter touring Jupiter and its moons, including the discovery of a tenuous atmosphere surrounding the outermost large moon of Jupiter, Callisto. The thin layer of carbon dioxide surrounding Callisto completes the set: Galileo has detected an atmosphere of one kind or another around each of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, some of which are large enough to be planets. As for how the atmosphere is sustained in the extremely hostile environment around Jupiter, scientists speculate that the CO2 could be emitted from beneath Callisto’s own crust.

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: Two Fathers

  • February 7, 1999

The X-FilesThe 128th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Veronica Cartwright (Alien) and Nick Tate (Space: 1999) guest star.

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Total Recall 2070: Allure

  • February 9, 1999

Total Recall 2070Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the fifth episode of Art Monterastelli’s sci-fi series Total Recall 2070, starring Michael Easton and Cynthia Preston, very loosely based on the 1990 film Total Recall. The series will air on the American pay cable channel Showtime later in the year. Monika Schnarre (Beastmaster) guest stars.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Bad Girls

  • February 9, 1999

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 48th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse) and Alexis Denisof (Angel) guest star.

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The Outer Limits: The Grell

  • February 12, 1999

The Outer LimitsShowtime airs the 91st episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Ted Shackelford (Space Precinct) and Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.

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The X-Files: One Son

  • February 14, 1999

The X-FilesThe 129th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Veronica Cartwright (Alien) guest stars.

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Babylon 5 episodic soundtracks, wave 4

  • February 16, 1999

Babylon 5Christopher Franke’s fourth and final wave of “episodic” soundtracks from the series Babylon 5 is released by Sonic Images Records. Individual CDs with the complete scores from the episodes Falling Toward Apotheosis, Darkness Ascending, Objects At Rest and the series finale Sleeping In Light are released. The score from the episode And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place also becomes available, but only through Babylon 5 Magazine; a general release follows in 2001.

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