Alan Parsons releases the live album The Very Best Live, featuring several familiar Alan Parsons Project singles in a live performance and three new studio tracks. 
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Alan Parsons releases the live album The Very Best Live, featuring several familiar Alan Parsons Project singles in a live performance and three new studio tracks.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on an almost-ten-day mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir. The first docking proves to be a chore, as the Mir crew has to move one of the station’s modules to a different docking port to accomodate the shuttle. The historic docking – the first joint operation between the two countries since the Apollo-Soyuz mission almost exactly 20 years earlier – results in the largest man-made object in space to date. Aboard Atlantis are Commander Robert Gibson, Pilot Charles Precourt, and mission specialists Ellen Baker, Bonnie Dunbar and Gregory Harbaugh; cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin are transported to Mir aboard Atlantis to become part of Mir Expedition 19, while Expedition 18 crew members Norman Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov and Gannady Strekalov return to Earth after more than three months aboard Mir.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 15th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Michael Dorn (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
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Ron Howard’s big-screen dramatization of Apollo 13, based on the book Lost Moon co-written by Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell and starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, and Ed Harris, premieres.
The 14th episode of the sci-fi crime series TekWar, based on William Shatner’s novel series, airs as part of the Universal Action Pack syndication package. Greg Evigan, William Shatner, and Maria del Mar (Mercy Point) star. With ratings low compared to the other Universal Action Pack offerings, the series is cancelled, with the remaining episodes scheduled to be “burned off” early the following year.
The 45th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1) guest stars.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 156th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Jason London, Saul Rubinek, and Alyssa Milano (Charmed) guest star.
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Boxtree Books publishes the non-fiction book The Making of Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7 by Adrian Rigelsford, chronicling the 1978-81 BBC space opera.
Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the 70th shuttle flight, a nine-day mission to deploy a TDRS (Tracking & Data Relay Satellite) for NASA. The flight has seen many delays, including repairs made necessary by woodpeckers poking holes in the shuttle’s external fuel tank! The crew – consisting of Commander Terence Henricks, Pilot Kevin Kregel, and mission specialists Nancy Jane Currie, Donald Thomas and Mary Ellen Weber – conducts material and medical experiments after the deployment of the final satellite in the TDRS constellation.
The 46th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 17th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Marlee Matlin and Larry Drake guest star.
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ELO offshoot band Electric Light Orchestra Part II – now including original ELO members Bev Bevan, Kelly Groucutt, violinist Mik Kaminski and orchestral arranger & keyboardist Louis Clark – releases its second studio album (and its third album total), Moment Of Truth.
Virgin Publishing releases the 40th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Sky Pirates! by Dave Stone.
Virgin Publishing releases the 12th Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Christopher Bulis, featuring the TARDIS team of the first Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara.
The 47th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 18th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek) guest stars in an episode directed by his son, Adam Nimoy.
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The self-titled debut CD by Ben Folds Five is released, featuring the single “Underground”.
The 48th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. This is the second season finale; the third season will see the series move to U.S. cable channel USA Network.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 19th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team, Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) guest star in an episode written by Manny Coto (Odyssey 5, 24, Star Trek: Enterprise).
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Universal Music releases Merril Bainbridge‘s debut album, In The Garden, featuring the single “Mouth”.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 20th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Perry King (Riptide, NPR’s Star Wars radio adaptation) and Mimi Kuzyk (Hill Street Blues) guest star.
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Virgin Publishing releases the 41st book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Zamper by Gareth Roberts.
Virgin Publishing releases the 13th Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, Invasion of the Cat-People by Gary Russell, featuring the TARDIS team of the second Doctor, Polly, and Ben.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 21st episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Beginning a tradition that will last much of the series’ run, the first season finale is a clip show whose bookend segments attempt to weave all of the season’s stories together into a larger narrative.
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UPN airs the 16th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the first episode of the show’s second season. Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue) and David Graf (Police Academy) guest star.
The first episode of Lawrence Hertzog’s paranoid spy-fi thriller Nowhere Man, starring Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), premieres on UPN. Michael Tucker (L.A. Law) and Megan Gallagher guest star in the series premiere, directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
Baen Books publishes the fifth novel in the Honor Harrington series, “Flag In Exile” by David Weber.
The Doctor Who-related fan production Downtime is released on VHS, starring Elisabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney, and Deborah Watling reprising their Doctor Who roles. Doctor Who TV alumni Geoffrey Beevers and John Leeson appear as new characters original to this production; another character new to this production is the Brigadier’s daughter, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. This story follows up on Doctor Who’s Yeti stories of the 1960s.
Russia launches the Soyuz TM-22 mission to space station Mir, carrying cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Avdeyev from Russia, and Thomas Reiter from Germany. The three space travelers settle in for a 179-day stay aboard Mir, from which they will return early in 1996.
UPN airs the 17th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Aron Eisenberg (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.