The fifth episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures premieres on BBC iPlayer, the second half of a two-part storyline. 
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The fifth episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures premieres on BBC iPlayer, the second half of a two-part storyline.
Warner Bros. Records releases Steve Jablonsky‘s soundtrack from the live-action Transformers movie.
La-La Land Records releases a long-awaited expanded edition of David Arnold‘s soundtrack from the American-made 1998 Godzilla movie.
The second episode of BBC Radio’s adaptation of Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently novels is first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, starring Harry Enfield as Dirk.
The sixteenth full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-11. Yuri Malenchenko and Peggy Whitson take up residence on the ISS for 196 days. Arriving with them on the ISS for a ten-day stay is Malaysian space tourist Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, who returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-10 with the Expedition 15 crew. Like other “space tourists” before him, he has paid for his own Soyuz seat and mission training. When Malenchenko and Whitson return in April 2008 with South Korean astronaut Yi So-Yeon, the Soyuz suffers a dangerous malfunction, failing to jettison its service module; the result is an off-balance spacecraft that re-enters the atmosphere nose-first, exposing under-insulated portions of the vehicle to the heat of re-entry and forcing the crew to endure 10 Gs. The vehicle lands nearly 300 miles off-course and Yi So-Yeon suffers neck and spinal injuries in the landing; the head of the Russian space program doesn’t improve matters by blaming these events on an “old Russian superstition” that having more women than men in a vehicle is bad luck. NASA and Russian space engineers begin investigating the mishap, finally arriving at the more plausible explanation of a malfunctioning spacecraft.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 63rd episode of Stargate Atlantis. Christopher Judge (Stargate SG-1) guest stars.
The sixth episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures premieres on BBC iPlayer, the first half of a two-part storyline.
Harper publishes the non-fiction book Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN by Susanne Daniels and Cynthia Littleton, who had first-hand knowledge of both short-lived television networks’ dealings.
The seventh episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures premieres on BBC iPlayer, the second half of a two-part storyline.
Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the 120th shuttle flight, a 15-day mission to deliver a new module to the International Space Station. The module in question is the Harmony node, which adds space for further modules to be added by future shuttle missions. Aboard Discovery for her 34th mission are Commander Pamela Melroy, Pilot George Zamka, mission specialists Douglas Wheelock, Scott Parazynski, Stephanie Wilson and Paolo Nespoli, and ISS Expedition 16 crewmember Daniel Tani, who remains on the station. Among the items stowed away aboard the shuttle are the screen-used lightsaber prop wielded by Luke Skywalker in Return Of The Jedi.
La-La Land Records releases Bear McCreary’s soundtrack from the third season of Sci-Fi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica reboot. The third season soundtrack CD includes the fan-requested Galactica version of Bob Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower”, which has become integral to the storyline.
The eighth episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures premieres on BBC iPlayer, the first half of a two-part storyline. Juliet Cowan and Jane Asher guest star.
Big Finish Productions releases the 101st Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher.
Big Finish Productions releases the fifth Doctor Who audio drama in its Companion Chronicles range (short stories performed audiobook style with one or two actors). Peter Purves and Tony Millan star.
Big Finish Productions releases the 15th Dalek Empire audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Noel Clarke and Maureen O’Brien (though neither is reprising their existing Doctor Who characters).
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 65th episode of Stargate Atlantis.
The ninth episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures premieres on BBC iPlayer, the first half of a two-part storyline. Juliet Cowan and Jane Asher guest star.
Silva Screen Records releases a CD of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the third season of new Doctor Who. Most of the music comes from the mid-season two-parter Human Nature / The Family Of Blood and the three-part season finale, Utopia / The Sound Of Drums / Last Of The Time Lords.
Expansion Team Records releases the album Robo Sapiens by Malibu (a pseudonym for former Jellyfish member Roger Joseph Manning Jr.); the album was released several months earlier in Japan.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 66th episode of Stargate Atlantis. Danny Trejo guest stars.
Rhino Records releases the album The Rootin’ Tootin’ Luton Tapes by Split Enz, a collection of demos, alternate takes, and unreleased songs recorded during the band’s infamous lost year in the U.K. A special fan club edition adds an entire extra disc of material.
A veteran of the musical stage on both sides of the Atlantic, Doctor Who/Torchwood cast member John Barrowman‘s album Another Side is released.
The tenth episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures premieres on BBC iPlayer, the first half of a two-part storyline.
The fan-produced Star Trek production Star Trek: Intrepid releases a short vignette. The UK-based production is shot almost entirely in front of green screen with computer-generated backgrounds added in post production.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 67th episode of Stargate Atlantis.
As part of its annual Children In Need telethon, BBC1 airs a Doctor Who “mini-episode”, Time Crash, starring David Tennant and Peter Davison. This is the first guest appearance of one of the classic series Doctors in the new series, which gets both the short and the charity a great deal of publicity. Ironically, the short is directed by Graeme Harper, who also directed Davison’s final regular episode in the role in 1984 – so Davison’s final Doctor Who director remains unchanged. 
The 11th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures premieres on BBC iPlayer, the second half of a two-part storyline concluding the show’s first season.
Verity Lambert, the original producer of Doctor Who when it launched in 1963, dies at the age of 71. When she took the reins of the still-in-development series, she was 28, the youngest BBC producer at that time, and the only female producer at the BBC at the time. Though she frequently butted heads with Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman, including commissioning the first Dalek story over his objections that the show should feature “no bug-eyed monsters,” he ultimately relented and gave her free rein. She remained with the series for a year and a half, going on to produce a string of other shows, including Adam Adamant Lives!, John Cleese’s Clockwise series, and Jonathan Creek. Following stints at the BBC, Thames Television and EMI, she founded her own production company, Cinema Verity, which at various points was again attached to Doctor Who during the abortive attempts to turn the series into a film franchise in the 1980s and early ’90s.
The direct-to-DVD movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor is released, chronicling the Battlestar Pegasus’ escape from the destruction of Caprica. Aired in edited form later on Sci-Fi Channel, the movie also includes some hints toward the plotline of the fourth season, which will premiere in 2008. Michelle Forbes stars as Admiral Cain.
