Year: 1999

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Television

Total Recall 2070: Infiltration

  • February 16, 1999

Total Recall 2070Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the sixth 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. Peter Firth guest stars.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Consequences

  • February 16, 1999

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 49th 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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Red Dwarf: Back In The Red, Part I

  • February 18, 1999

Red DwarfThe 45th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2. The first part of a three-part story opening the eighth season, this episode brings back Chris Barrie as Rimmer on a full-time basis, though in an attempt to reboot the show, neither Rimmer nor the rest of the Red Dwarf crew are holograms. Norman Lovett also rejoins the cast full-time as Holly.

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Crewed Spaceflight Mir Soyuz

Soyuz TM-29: last call for Mir

  • February 20, 1999

Soyuz TM-29Russia launches Soyuz TM-29 to the Mir space station, carrying an international crew. Cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev, French spationaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré, and Slovakian cosmonaut Ivan Bella are aboard. Afanasyev and Haigneré take up residence aboard Mir for 188 days, while Bella returns to Earth with Mir’s previous crew aboard Soyuz TM-28 after one week. When Afanasyev and Haigneré return to Earth in August 1999, they bring home cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev, who by that point has served a full year in orbit aboard Mir. This is the last flight to Mir sponsored by the Russian government, which is now throwing its weight behind the International Space Station, and Mir is left unmanned when Soyuz TM-29 returns to Earth.

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: Agua Mala

  • February 21, 1999

The X-FilesThe 130th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Jeremy Robert (Star Trek VI) and Darren McGavin (Kolchak: The Night Stalker) guest star.

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Total Recall 2070: Rough Whimper Of Insanity

  • February 23, 1999

Total Recall 2070Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the seventh 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. Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (The Mandalorian) guest stars. (The episode title, also used by the earlier UPN series Nowhere Man, is an anagram of “information superhighway”.)

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Doppelgangland

  • February 23, 1999

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 50th 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), Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Alexis Denisof (Angel) guest star.

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Sci-Fi Channel passes on Babylon 5 spinoff

  • February 26, 1999

CrusadeBabylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski reveals online that the Sci-Fi Channel has decided to pass on the B5 spinoff/sequel series Crusade for budgetary reasons, effectively ending any chance that the show will bounce back from its cancellation by cable network TNT. Warner Bros. continues to try to find a new home for the series, which has yet to air a single episode, but with actors’ contracts expiring with the halt of production and Stracynzski considering offers to write and produce other projects, Crusade never progresses past its 13 completed episodes. TNT schedules those episodes for a summer run.

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: Monday

  • February 28, 1999

The X-FilesThe 131st episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Carrie Hamilton (Fame) guest stars.

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Total Recall 2070: First Wave

  • March 2, 1999

Total Recall 2070Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the eighth 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. Chad Allen (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) and Tara Rosling (Star Trek: Discovery) guest star.

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