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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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The 17th episode of the syndicated Alexander and Ilya Salkind-produced Superboy series, starring John Haymes Newton and Stacy Haiduk, airs.
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Actor Jake Lloyd, who will gain fame 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 14th episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 airs on KTMA, an independent TV station in Minneapolis, starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh Weinstein. 
CBS airs the 34th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. John McMartin guest stars.
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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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The 18th episode of the syndicated Alexander and Ilya Salkind-produced Superboy series, starring John Haymes Newton and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa guest stars.
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The 15th episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 airs on KTMA, an independent TV station in Minneapolis, starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh Weinstein.
CBS airs the 35th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Christopher Neame guest stars.
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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 19th episode of the syndicated Alexander and Ilya Salkind-produced Superboy series, starring John Haymes Newton and Stacy Haiduk, airs.
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The 16th episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 airs on KTMA, an independent TV station in Minneapolis, starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh Weinstein.
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.
NBC premieres the first episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. As a high-concept mid-season replacement, the show’s first season is brief, but quickly finds a cult following.
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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.
EMI Records releases the compilation album A Message From The Country: The Jeff Lynne Years, 1968-1973, collecting highlights from Lynne’s work with Idle Race, The Move, and ELO.
CBS airs the 36th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Franc Luz guest stars.
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NBC airs the second episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Teri Hatcher (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) guest stars.
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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 17th episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 airs on KTMA, an independent TV station in Minneapolis, starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh Weinstein.
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.
CBS airs the 37th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. David Neidorf guest stars.
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NBC airs the third episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Guy Stockwell and Michelle Joyner guest star.
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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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