Total Recall 2070: Meet My Maker

Total Recall 2070Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the 22nd and final 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.

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Crusade: War Zone

CrusadeTNT airs the first episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s short-lived Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade. Starring Gary Cole (Office Space) and Daniel Dae Kim (Lost), the series concerns an Earth ship scouring the galaxy for the cure to a biological weapon that has left Earth quarantined and the human race’s days numbered. Tim Thomerson guest stars. Read more

Sliders: The Unstuck Man

SlidersSci-Fi Channel airs the 70th episode of the science fiction series Sliders, starring Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, Robert Floyd, and Tembi Locke. Peter Jurasik (Babylon 5) guest stars in the fifth season premiere.

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DeForest Kelley, actor, dies

De KelleyActor DeForest Kelley, loved around the world for his portrayal of cranky-but-sympathetic Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy on Star Trek, dies at the age of 79 from cancer. A mainstay of western movies and TV guest roles since the 1940s, Kelley had first crossed paths with Gene Roddenberry guest starring in an episode of Boots and Saddles written by Gene; Kelley later starred as the lead in an unsold Roddenberry legal drama pilot, 333 Montgomery. He made enough of an impression that Roddenberry lobbied for him to be cast in Star Trek, though Desilu didn’t hire the actor for either of the pilot episodes. Kelley’s most recent appearance in the role of Dr. McCoy had been in 1991’s Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; he declined to take part in 1994’s Star Trek: Generations, though a role had been written for him. (He had already handed the baton off to The Next Generation in an unannounced cameo appearance in that series’ pilot.)

Pete Conrad, astronaut, dies

Pete Conrad, spacewalkingPete Conrad, the Apollo 12 commander who was the third human to walk on the moon, dies at the age of 69 from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident. Conrad went to the moon in November 1969, and flew two earlier Gemini missions, one of which was a new human endurance record at the time. Conrad later went on to set a new record for time spent by a human in space (28 days, unprecedented at the time) in 1973 as a member of the first Skylab crew. Conrad and fellow Skylab astronaut Joseph Kerwin performed an extended and very hazardous spacewalk to repair the station, which had been heavily damaged during launch a few weeks before its crew arrived.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Graduation Day Part 2

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 55th 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. Alexis Denisof (Angel), Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse), and Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star in the third season finale. This is David Boreanaz’ final episode as a series regular before his character is spun off to his own series.

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