Big Finish Productions releases the 180th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. 
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Big Finish Productions releases the 180th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
The 30th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow) guest stars.
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A Doctor Who short, a prelude to the events of the 50th anniversary special Day Of The Doctor, is made available on the BBC Red Button service.
The BBC debuts the Doctor Who minisode The Last Day on the internet as part of the promotional build-up to the much-anticipated 50th anniversary special, Day Of The Doctor.
BBC2 broadcasts the movie An Adventure In Space And Time, starring David Bradley, Brian Cox and Jessica Raine, chronicling the genesis and the early years of Doctor Who (and celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary). Numerous past stars of the series make cameo appearances in other roles. The movie is written by Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss, who had originally proposed the project a decade earlier.
The 801st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 103rd episode since the series’ revival). This is the show’s 50th anniversary special, starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, and John Hurt, with past Doctors putting in appearances via archive footage; Tennant’s co-star Billie Piper also appears, though not as Rose Tyler. This is the first episode since 1976 to feature the shape-shifting Zygons, and it adds a major plot twist to the Time War.
The University of Nebraska Press publishes Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011, a comprehensive history of the American Space Shuttle program written by Rick Houston. The book is part of University of Nebraska Press’ Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight series.
The 31st episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow) and Grant Gustin guest star in an episode intended to launch another DC character into a spinoff series, The Flash.
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The 32nd episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow) and Grant Gustin (The Flash) guest star.
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China successfully lands the unmanned lunar lander Chang’e 3 on the surface of the moon, only the third country on Earth to achieve a controlled lunar landing (and the first soft landing of a man-made space vehicle on the moon since the 1970s). With Chang’e 3 confirming that its solar panels have properly deployed, preparations are made to deploy its robotic lunar rover, Yutu, the first lunar rover since 1973, breaking a four-decade drought in exploring the surface of the moon.
Big Finish Productions releases a bonus Doctor Who audio drama starring Colin Baker. (This title was initially exclusive to Big Finish’s subscription program, as an incentive for those whose subscriptions included Afterlife.)
Big Finish Productions releases the 181st Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
The 802nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 104th episode since the series’ revival). This Christmas-themed episode sees the exit of Matt Smith as the eleventh Doctor (revealed during the story to actually be the thirteenth and final Doctor), but bends the long-standing mythos surrounding regeneration in time to introduce Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor. The production staff behind the scenes will remain largely intact for the transition into the Capaldi era.
Silva Screen Records releases a 4-CD box set compiling selections from Doctor Who soundtracks across the series’ 50-year history. This set is effectively a sampler of the label’s much larger limited edition 11-CD set.
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the second full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama, kicking off a new Blake’s 7 “season” in audio form. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Sally Knyvette, and Brian Croucher reprise their roles from the television series’ second season.
Having successfully demonstrated a working model of the Cygnus unmanned cargo spacecraft in 2013, Orbital Sciences delivers its first Cygnus vehicle under a new commercial resupply contract with NASA. The S.S. C. Gordon Fullerton (named for one of the earliest Shuttle astronauts, now deceased) cargo ship lifts off from Wallops Island, carrying nearly 2,800 pounds of supplies and equipment to the International Space Station. It will remain docked at the ISS for 36 days.
Basta Records releases Raymond Scott Rewired, an album of remixes and mash-ups of the music of bandleader and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott (1908-1994), ffeaturing remixes by the Bran Flakes, Evolution Control Committee, and Go Home Productions.
Big Finish Productions releases the 182nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
Big Finish Productions releases the 14th Doctor Who audio drama in its Fourth Doctor Adventures range, starring Tom Baker and Mary Tamm. David Warner guest stars.
The 33rd episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow) guest stars.
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The 34th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow) guest stars.
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A team of scientists publishes a report in the journal Nature revealing that, using Doppler observations, they have achieved a very basic map of the “weather” patterns on the dim brown dwarf star Luhman 16B, discovered in 2013 at a distance of only 6.5 light years from Earth’s solar system. The observations reveal that the high temperature is likely to be 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, with a very good chance of violent storms raining molten iron onto Luhman 16B’s surface in the forecast.
The 35th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow) and Nicholas Lea (The X-Files) guest star.
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Intrada re-releases the complete Laurence Rosenthal score from the 1979 movie Meteor (previously given a very limited CD release in 2008 by La-La Land Records).
The 36th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow), Alex Kingston (Doctor Who), and Nicholas Lea (The X-Files) guest star.
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The second episode of the fan-made internet series Star Trek Continues premieres. Guest stars include Fiona Vroom, Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk), Erin Gray (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century), and Daniel Logan (Star Wars Episode II).
Big Finish Productions, under license from B7 Media, releases the third full-cast Blake’s 7 audio drama. Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, and Sally Knyvette reprise their roles from the television series’ second season.
Big Finish Productions releases the audio drama box set Doctor Who: Dark Eyes 2, featuring the episode The Traitor, starring Paul McGann and Nicola Walker.
Director Cliff Bole, a Hollywood veteran with episodes of such classic shows as The Six Million Dollar Man, MacGyver, and Spenser: For Hire under his belt, dies at the age of 75. Best known for his very frequent returns to the Paramount lot, Bole directed episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, including the all-time fan favorite TNG two-parter The Best Of Both Worlds (1990). He also directed other genre shows such as The X-Files, Supernatural, and Millennium.
Shuttle astronaut Dale Gardner, who flew aboard space shuttle Challenger’s STS-8 mission in 1983 and the STS-51A mission aboard Discovery in 1984, dies unexpectedly. As a Mission Specialist aboard both flights, he participated in the risky task of manually retrieving a wayward satellite that was considered too large a target to risk snagging with the shuttle’s remote manipulator arm on the Discovery mission. Using one of the Manned Maneuvering Units that would fall out of favor during post-Challenger-disaster safety reviews, Gardner manually captured the satellite and helped to berth it in Discovery’s cargo bay (and then held up a “for sale” sign for the camera). Gardner left NASA and returned to the Air Force and then to civilian life following the Challenger disaster, and had recently retired just over a year before his death. He was 65.