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Doctor Who: The Trial Of A Time Lord, Part 10

Doctor WhoThe 651st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston and Honor Blackman guest star; Bonnie Langford debuts as new TARDIS traveler Melanie.

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Doctor Who: The Trial Of A Time Lord, Part 11

Doctor WhoThe 652nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston and Honor Blackman guest star; Bonnie Langford debuts as new TARDIS traveler Melanie.

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Doctor Who: The Trial Of A Time Lord, Pt. 12

Doctor WhoThe 653rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston and Honor Blackman guest star; Bonnie Langford debuts as new TARDIS traveler Melanie.

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star TrekDirected by Leonard Nimoy, who also has a hand in development of the story, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home premieres in theaters. Directly following up on events in the prior two movies, Star Trek IV closes out a trilogy, and by bringing the action to 20th century Earth, complete with fish-out-of-water comedy, becomes a solid hit with an embedded ecological message. The movie’s success caps off a year-long celebration of Star Trek’s 20th anniversary Read more

Doctor Who: The Trial Of A Time Lord, Pt. 13

Doctor WhoThe 654th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston and Honor Blackman guest star; Anthony Ainley appears as the Master. This is Robert Holmes’ final Doctor Who script completed before his death, and the last episode of the season must be completed by other writers under trying circumstances, including the controversial sudden exit of current script editor Eric Saward. Read more

Twilight Zone: Episode 29

The Twilight ZoneCBS airs the 29th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. David Greenlee (Beauty And The Beast) stars in The Toys Of Caliban, marking a single-story departure for a series that has thus far worked at least two or three stories into each episode.

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Doctor Who: The Trial Of A Time Lord, Pt. 14

Doctor WhoThe 655th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Lynda Bellingham, Michael Jayston and Honor Blackman guest star; Anthony Ainley appears as the Master. Though no one realizes it at the time of production, this is Colin Baker’s final appearance as the sixth Doctor before the BBC replaces him in the role. It’s also the final Time Lord story until well into the new series of the 21st century. The 23rd season of Doctor Who, and the trial storyline, concludes with this episode.

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Twilight Zone: Episode 30

The Twilight ZoneCBS airs the 30th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Joe Penny (Jake And The Fatman, Riptide) stars in George R.R. Martin’s The Road Less Traveled, directed by Wes Craven (A Nightmare On Elm Street).

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Galileo is go for VEEGA

VEEGAAfter the cancellation of the Centaur liquid-fueled propulsion module – considered too risky for use aboard the space shuttle, all aspects of which are now under a wide-ranging government review after the Challenger disaster – NASA/JPL’s Galileo Jupiter probe is to begin undergoing modifications for a long, looping trajectory developed by Dr. Roger Diehl and dubbed “VEEGA” – Venus/Earth/Earth Gravity Assist. (Another nickname for this new trajectory, the Solar Cruiser, doesn’t stick in acronym-happy NASA.) VEEGA will see Galileo taking an extra four years to reach Jupiter, getting gravity assists from the planets of the inner solar system during those additional years. Galileo must be modified because it was designed for outer solar system exploration, not exposure to solar heating and radiation within 1 AU of the sun. Since the primary high-gain antenna must be pointed away from Earth during some of this flight, NASA adds a medium-gain antenna to the spacecraft – a last-minute modification which will save the mission when the high-gain antenna fails to open on schedule. Galileo is scheduled for launch via space shuttle in 1989.

Soyuz TM-2 / Mir Expedition 2

Soyuz TM-2The Soviet Union launches Soyuz TM-2, the first manned launch of a newly uprated version of the Soyuz capsule. Cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Aleksandr Laveykin travel to the Mir space station, where Laveykin remains for 174 days before departing in July, but Romanenko sets a new space endurance record, remaining in orbit for 326 days. Romanenko’s return to Earth just before the end of 1987 marks the end of Expedition 2’s occupancy of Mir.

Amazing Stories: Family Dog

Amazing StoriesThe 40th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. This is the series’ only animated episode, written and directed by Brad Bird, and featuring the voices of Stan Freberg and Annie Potts. Bird will revive the concept as its own series in the 1990s.

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