Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases the first-ever soundtrack from 2009 Planet Of The Apes: The Series, featuring music and the series title theme by Lalo Schifrin, and additional music by Earle Hagen. 
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Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases the first-ever soundtrack from 2009 Planet Of The Apes: The Series, featuring music and the series title theme by Lalo Schifrin, and additional music by Earle Hagen.
China returns to Earth orbit with the launch of Shenzhou 6, which, unlike China’s previous manned space shot in 2003, is broadcast on live TV. Taikonauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng orbit Earth for five days. During this mission, the Shenzhou spacecraft displays a previously untested ability to change its orbit. According to some press accounts, the live broadcast of the launch – an unusual step for China’s space program – is accompanied by the sound of the original 1970s theme from Battlestar Galactica.
ABC airs the 28th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Cynthia Watros become series regulars; DJ Qualls guest stars.
ABC premieres the fourth episode of Shaun Cassidy’s sci-fi/horror series Invasion, starring William Fichtner (Contact), Eddie Cibrian, and Lisa Sheridan.
Mute Records releases Depeche Mode‘s 11th album, Playing The Angel, featuring the singles “john The Revelator” and “Suffer Well”.
ABC airs the third episode of Frank Spotnitz’ sci-fi/horror series Night Stalker, a re-imagining of the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, starring Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen).
As part of its repeat of the entire series (which has now attained cult status), Sci-Fi Channel airs the 13th episode of Joss Whedon’s science fiction series Firefly, starring Nathan Fillion. (This is an episode left unaired from the series’ original run on Fox, not a newly produced episode.) Richard Burgi (The Sentinel) guest stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the second Cyberman audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff.
ABC premieres the fifth episode of Shaun Cassidy’s sci-fi/horror series Invasion, starring William Fichtner (Contact), Eddie Cibrian, and Lisa Sheridan.
ABC airs the 29th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost.
ABC airs the fourth episode of Frank Spotnitz’ sci-fi/horror series Night Stalker, a re-imagining of the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, starring Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). William Lucking guest stars.
As part of its repeat of the entire series (which has now attained cult status), Sci-Fi Channel airs the 14th and final episode of Joss Whedon’s science fiction series Firefly, starring Nathan Fillion. (This is an episode left unaired from the series’ original run on Fox, not a newly produced episode.) Richard Burgi (The Sentinel) guest stars.
ABC premieres the sixth episode of Shaun Cassidy’s sci-fi/horror series Invasion, starring William Fichtner (Contact), Eddie Cibrian, and Lisa Sheridan.
ABC airs the fifth episode of Frank Spotnitz’ sci-fi/horror series Night Stalker, a re-imagining of the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, starring Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). Tony Todd guest stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the 75th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher.
Meco Monardo releases the instrumental cover album Star Wars Party (which will be reissued under various other titles in the years to come).
Television writer and producer Michael Piller, credited by many for the success of the revived Star Trek franchise (and co-creator of spinoff series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager) dies at the age of 57 after a prolonged battle with cancer. Piller, who had previously been a producer on Simon & Simon and the SF series Probe, joined Star Trek: The Next Generation as the head of the writing staff for the third season in 1990, replacing Maurice Hurley. Piller was generally credited with bringing a more friendly vibe to the show’s writing sessions and with finding new talent, such as fan writer Ronald D. Moore. Piller also wrote the popular two-part episode The Best Of Both Worlds and many others, and went on to create Deep Space Nine with Rick Berman and Voyager with Berman and fellow Next Generation veteran Jeri Taylor. Piller created the short-lived series Legend for UPN, starring Richard Dean Anderson (pre-SG-1) and John de Lancie, and later formed a production company with his son Shawn, where he developed the recent version of The Dead Zone for TV, as well as ABC Family Channel’s Wildfire, starring DS9 alumnus Nana Visitor.
The first attempt to maneuver the unmanned space probe Hayabusa close enough to scoop up a sample of material from the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa is aborted by ground controllers at the Japanese space agency, JAXA. The spacecraft’s navigational system finds it difficult to maintain a precise lock on the elongated asteroid, so its automatic safety systems abort the approach to preserve Hayabusa intact. Another attempt to bring Hayabusa close enough to gather material from Itokawa’s surface will be made a week later.
Greg Edmonson’s soundtrack to the series Firefly is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
ABC airs the 30th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Malcolm David Kelley guest stars as Walt.
ABC premieres the seventh episode of Shaun Cassidy’s sci-fi/horror series Invasion, starring William Fichtner (Contact), Eddie Cibrian, and Lisa Sheridan.
ABC airs the sixth episode of Frank Spotnitz’ sci-fi/horror series Night Stalker, a re-imagining of the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, starring Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). ABC cancels the series after this episode, leaving four episodes unaired (which will later appear on Sci-Fi Channel and on the DVD release); this also means that the series ends with part one of what was intended to be a two-part story.
East Side Digital releases the Rediscovering Lost Scores soundtrack compilations, featuring Wendy Carlos’ music from The Shining, Tron, Woundings and more.
A second attempt is made by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency to bring its unmanned space probe, Hayabusa, close enough to gather a sample of surface material from asteroid 25143 Itokawa. It attempts to deploy a mini-rover called Minerva to explore Itokawa from the surface, but a glitch results in a trajectory that leaves Minerva tumbling into space, never to reach Itokawa. Hayabusa lands on Itokawa’s surface itself, though mission controllers don’t realize this for several more days. Contact is lost with Hayabusa for a short while, and when it is regained, the vehicle has left the surface and gone into safe mode.
ABC airs the 31st episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Brett Cullen guest stars.
ABC premieres the eighth episode of Shaun Cassidy’s sci-fi/horror series Invasion, starring William Fichtner (Contact), Eddie Cibrian, and Lisa Sheridan. Elizabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) guest stars.
Rolenta Press publishes Confessions Of The Game Doctor, the memoirs of Bill Kunkel (1950-2011), one of the founding editors of Electronic Games Magazine.
David Tennant and Billie Piper star in a “special scene” written and filmed for the BBC’s Children In Need telethon. Not a spoof sketch, the short “mini-episode” bridges the gap between The Parting Of The Ways and the upcoming Christmas special, The Christmas Invasion. Though it can be considered an official part of the storyline, this is not considered a standalone episode of Doctor Who.
Joel Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the pilot movie of Stargate Atlantis is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
