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The 803rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 104th episode since the series’ revival). This episode opens the show’s eighth full season since its revival, and is the first full episode with Peter Capaldi as the twelfth Doctor. Dan Starkey and Michelle Gomez guest star. 
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The 804th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 105th episode since the series’ revival). Michelle Gomez and Nigel Betts guest star.
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The 805th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 106th episode since the series’ revival). Tom Riley, Ben Miller (Primeval), and Trevor Cooper (Star Cops) guest star.
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The creator and programmer of Lode Runner, Douglas E. Smith, dies at the age of 53. A spare-time creation that became an all-consuming passion for Smith, Lode Runner sparked a nearly unprecedented bidding war among major computer game publishers in 1983. At the time of Smith’s death, Lode Runner has been ported to most major game and computer systems over the past 31 years.
The 806th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 107th episode since the series’ revival).
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The science fiction-themed comedy film Space Station 76 premieres, starring Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, and Matt Bomer.
The 807th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 108th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Keeley Hawes guest stars.
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The unmanned Mangalayaan space probe arrives, intact and functioning, in Mars orbit, making India the first country on Earth to successfully reach Mars on its first attempt. (A high failure rate among past Mars missions has plagued both the Russian and American space programs.) A 23-minute engine burn slows Mangalayaan down enough to be captured by Mars’ gravity, but leaves the vehicle with twice the fuel reserves expected for its projected six-month mission.
Part of the 40th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-14M. Upon arriving in orbit, one of the Soyuz solar panel “wings” fails to deploy, only unfolding properly once the vehicle has docked at the ISS. Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Yelena Serova and Barry Wilmore take up residence on the ISS, becoming part of the Expedition 40 and 41 crews. This crew returns to Earth in March 2015 aboard the same vehicle.
Doctor Who audio actress Maggie Stables, who originated the role of the first TARDIS traveler unique to the audio medium, dies after a lengthy illness. First appearing in a guest role in Big Finish Productions’ inaugural Doctor Who story, The Sirens Of Time, in 1999, Stables was quickly cast as Dr. Evelyn Smythe, a new companion for the sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) who defied the series’ convention of casting young actresses in such roles. Ms. Stables reprised the role intermittently, making her final appearance in a trilogy of stories released by Big Finish early in 2011; the character appeared in animated form in a 2002 webcast, but never appeared on television.
The 808th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 109th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Nigel Betts guest stars.
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Cable channel Disney XD premieres the first full episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga, featuring a cell of rogue Rebels fighting the totalitarian Empire. Though technically in the same continuity as its predecessor, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Rebels is the first Disney-produced Star Wars project following the studio’s acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012. The first episode is roughly 43 minutes in length, a typical length for hour-long US television drama, but most future episodes (except for select “event” stories) will run 22 minutes long.
The 809th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 110th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.
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The first episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero, premieres on the CW, starring Grant Gustin. The series has been developed for TV by Greg Berlanti, creator of Arrow and past TV successes including Everwood and Eli Stone, and is part of the CW’s “shared universe” of DC Comics adaptations frequently referred to by fans as the Arrowverse. Stephen Amell (Arrow) guest stars; Barry Allen’s father is played by John Wesley Shipp, who played The Flash in his last TV series during the 1990-91 season.
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The 47th 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), Grant Gustin (The Flash), and Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) guest star in the third season premiere.
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The 810th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 111th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. John Sessions guest stars.
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Cable channel Disney XD premieres the second episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Anthony Daniels (Star Wars) and Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure) guest star.
The second episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. William Sadler (Roswell, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey) guest stars.
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The 48th 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 Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) guest star.
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The 811th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 112th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.
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Cable channel Disney XD premieres the third episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
The third episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW.
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The 49th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) guest stars.
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The 812th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 113th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.
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Cable channel Disney XD premieres the fourth episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.
The fourth episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Wentworth Miller (Prison Break) and Bruce Harwood (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen) guest star.
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An unexpected malfunction destroys Orbital Sciences’ unmanned Cygnus cargo spacecraft a mere six seconds after its Antares booster rocket leaves the ground. Supplies and experiments bound for the International Space Station aboard the S.S. Deke Slayton (named after the late Mercury and Apollo/Soyuz astronaut) are destroyed in the explosion, along with several small secondary satellite payloads. Orbital Sciences and NASA begin an investigation into the accident, and cleanup of debris and damage at the Wallops Island launch facility begins.
The 50th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Katrina Law (Spartacus) guest stars.
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Virgin Galactica’s suborbital tourist spacecraft SpaceShip Two is launched on its first rocket-powered test since January 2014, this time using a modified rocket engine and a fuel mixture different from its previous test flights. Within seconds of its release and the firing of its engine, things go disastrously wrong: an explosion rips through the vehicle, which tumbles into the Mojave Desert from an altitude of 50,000 feet. One of SpaceShip Two’s pilots, Michael Alsbury, is killed on impact; the other pilot ejects from the vehicle and parachutes to the ground, though he is still severely injured. Virgin Galactic and the National Transportation Safety Board begin an investigation into the accident; though this first flightworthy SpaceShip Two model, the VSS Enterprise, is destroyed, another is under construction.