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NBC airs the 75th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. The two-hour fifth season finale is Bellisario’s response to the recent Oliver Stone movie JFK.
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After months of build-up and publicity (and not very many cable systems signing up to carry it), USA Network’s genre-specific offshoot Sci-Fi Channel launches on American cable TV. Its early schedule is comprised entirely of reruns of such series as Doctor Who, Dark Shadows, and several series from Gerry Anderson’s Century 21 Productions, as well as genre movies. In the years to come, Sci-Fi Channel begins originating its own programming (primarily by entering co-production deals with the makers of Canadian-made and other foreign-made genre series). A protest from a small but vocal number of industry figures and science fiction writers, all of whom object to the “derisive” term “sci-fi,” fails to convince the network’s Florida-based founders to change its name to “SF Network.”
Silva Screen Records releases the soundtrack from the 1988 Doctor Who story The Greatest Show In The Galaxy, composed and performed by Mark Ayres. 
The eighth episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Jason Flemyng (Primeval, Pennyworth) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 127th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the first episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Christopher Lambert, star of the original 1986 Highlander film, and Richard Moll (Night Court) guest star.
Continuum publishes Tom Stempel’s non-fiction book Storytellers To The Nation: A History Of American Television Writing, chronicling the craft of writing for television from the medium’s inception through the end of the 1980s.
CBS airs the 11th episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Rachel Luttrell (Stargate Atlantis) guest stars.
NBC airs the 76th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Brooke Shields guest stars.
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Peter Gabriel releases the solo album Us through his own RealWorld label, including the singles “Digging In The Dirt” and “Steam”. The album reflects Gabriel’s past experiences with primal scream therapy.
Virgin Records releases the Simple Minds compilation album Glittering Prize 81/92, a career retrospective covering from the band’s label debut (1980’s Empires and Dance) through their 1991 album (Real Life).
The ninth episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Jason Flemyng (Primeval, Pennyworth) and Sean Pertwee (Gotham) guest star.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 128th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Warner Bros. Records releases R.E.M.‘s eighth album, Automatic for the People, featuring the singles “Drive”, “Everybody Hurts”, and “Man On The Moon”.
CBS airs the 12th episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Natalie Radford (TekWar) guest stars.
NBC airs the 76th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Michael Boatman (China Beach, Spin City) and Jennifer Aniston (Friends) guest star.
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The Pioneer Venus Orbiter, launched into orbit around Venus in 1978 and now the only surviving component of the Pioneer Venus mission, enters the cloudy planet’s dense, toxic atmosphere and disintegrates, its fuel supply too exhausted to keep it in orbit any longer. Originally intended to orbit Venus for only a year, Pioneer Venus has survived, fully functional, for nearly 14 years in Venusian orbit, continuing to study the planet and taking readings not only Venus but such objects as Halley’s Comet.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the second episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name.
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The tenth episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Terry Jones (Monty Python) and Timothy Spall (Sweeney Todd, Red Dwarf) guest star in an episode directed by Jones.
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Alternative Software releases the side-scrolling shoot-’em-up game Dalek Attack for PC-compatible computers, a game set in the universe of Doctor Who.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 129th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. James Doohan guest stars as Scotty in the last major original series callback during TNG’s run.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the third episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Soon-Teck Oh (Space Rangers) guest stars.
CBS airs the 13th episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Illya Woloshyn (The Odyssey) guest stars.
The ninth Doctor Who New Adventures novel, “Love And War” by Paul Cornell, is published. A pivotal point in the young book series, “Love And War” sees the exit of TV companion Ace and the introduction of an older companion, archaeologist Professor Bernice Sumemrfield, for the seventh Doctor. Using a non-sequitur mention of the “Hoothi and their great gas dirigibles” from the television story The Brain Of Morbius as a starting point for this book’s enemy, author Cornell crafts a novel that forces the series to grow into more mature territory, with a truly unsettling adversary for the Doctor to fight. An audio version will be produced by Big Finish Productions 20 years later.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 130th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The posthumous Roy Orbison album King Of Hearts is released, featuring a variety of singles, soundtrack songs, and collaborations with other artists not previously collected as an album. The single “I Drove All Night” is also released. (Orbison died in 1989.)
GNP Crescendo releases a CD of music from the original Star Trek television series, presenting selections from the episodes The Naked Time by Alexander Courage and Shore Leave by Gerald Fried.
NBC airs the 77th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Connie Ray (The Torkelsons) guest stars.
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GNP Crescendo Records releases the third CD of Star Trek: The Next Generation soundtrack music, containing Dennis McCarthy’s music from the episodes Yesterday’s Enterprise, Unification, and Hollow Pursuits.
Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on the shuttle program’s 51st flight, a ten-day mission to launch Laser Geodynamic Satellite II and the cargo-bay-mounted U.S. Microgravity Payload experiment package. Aboard Columbia for her 13th flight are Commander James Wetherbee, Pilot Michael Baker, mission specialists Charles Veach, William Shepherd and Tamara Jernigan, and payload specialist Steven MacLean.