Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 21st episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Gina Torres (Firefly, Cleopatra 2525) guest stars. 
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Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 21st episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Gina Torres (Firefly, Cleopatra 2525) guest stars.
The 825th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 126th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.
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Commercial spaceflight operator Blue Origin, owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, launches its second New Shepard flight. The uncrewed (but human-rated) capsule and its single-stage suborbital booster come in for soft landings near Blue Origin’s Texas launch facility, after refinements are made to the system of aerodynamic fins designed to keep the booster upright as it returns to the ground for a survivable landing. This is the first intact return of a space-flown booster to Earth. This is the first flight for the second New Shepard reusable capsule, as well as the first flight for the second New Shepard reusable booster; both will be reused again.
The first episode of the science fiction series The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), premieres on cable channel Syfy.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 22nd episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
The 826th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 127th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi.
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The 31st episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Neal McDonough (Boomtown), Stephen Amell (Arrow), and John Barrowman (Torchwood, Doctor Who) guest star in part of a crossover event designed to launch another DC Comics TV adaptation, Legends Of Tomorrow.
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The 77th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Grant Gustin (The Flash) guest stars.
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Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 23rd episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
The 827th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 128th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Maisie Williams (Game Of Thrones) guest stars in the ninth season finale.
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The Japanese space probe AKATSUKI, launched in 2010 but left in an orbit around the sun by an engine glitch, catches up with its original target, the planet Venus, and fires its attitude control thrusters. The lengthy engine burn slows AKATSUKI enough to be captured by Venus’ gravity, in an elliptical 13-day orbit that brings the probe within 250 miles of the Venusian clouds it was sent to study at its closest, and nearly a quarter million miles away from the planet at the furthest. Another engine burn is planned for March 2016 to circularize and shorten AKATSUKI’s orbit so it can begin its observations of the planet’s weather patterns.
The 32nd episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Mark Hamill (Star Wars, The Flash) guest stars.
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The 78th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Neal McDonough (Boomtown) guest stars.
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Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 24th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2) guest stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who audio story The Innocent as part of The War Doctor: Only The Monstrous box set, starring John Hurt, Jacqueline Pearce (Blake’s 7, Dark Season), and Carolyn Seymour (Survivors). This release marks the first audio story for an incarnation of the Doctor from the 21st century series rather than the 20th century series.
The second episode of the science fiction series The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), is broadcast on cable channel Syfy. François Chau (Lost) guest stars.
The third and fourth episodes of the science fiction series The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), is broadcast on cable channel Syfy. Kenneth Welsh and Chad L. Coleman (The Orville) guest stars.
The first Star Wars movie to be produced since Lucasfilm’s 2012 sale to Disney, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, premieres. Co-written and directed by J.J. Abrams, The Force Awakens stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac, alongside original trilogy stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, all reprising their roles. Seemingly universal anticipation for the continuation of the saga propels the movie’s box office take past a half-billion dollars within half a month of release.
Disney Music releases John Williams’ soundtrack from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, breaking with tradition by not making the soundtrack available until after the film’s premiere. For the first time in the history of the Star Wars film series, the soundtrack has been recorded with Los Angeles studio musicians rather than the London Symphony Orchestra (partly to accommodate composer Williams, now in his ’80s).
For the first time since a failed Dragon capsule launch to the International Space Station in June, SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 11 OrbComm mini-satellites. After the second stage separates to go on to successfully deploy the OrbComm satellites, the first stage performs three engine burns to return for a stable landing. For the first time (after two previous attempts on oceangoing unmanned barges), the Falcon 9 drops to a gentle landing at a designated landing zone at Cape Canaveral, potentially paving the way for rockets whose first stages can return home for refurbishing and relaunch.
Writer George Clayton Johnson, who co-wrote the 1967 novel Logan’s Run with William F. Nolan and wrote episodes of both The Twilight Zone and Star Trek, dies at the age of 86. As part of the legendary “Green Hand” collective of golden-age SF writers, Johnson penned his stories in the company of such fellow southern California writers as Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Jerry Sohl, Robert Bloch, and Rod Serling (who paid Johnson for his first produced television work). For The Twilight Zone, Johnson wrote such memorable stories as The Four Of Us Are Dying, A Penny For Your Thoughts and Kick The Can, and for Star Trek he wrote a monster story called The Man Trap, which became that series’ first aired episode. Logan’s Run was adapted into a glitzy big-screen romp – arguably the last major theatrical SF event before the age of Star Wars – in 1976.
The 828th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 129th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi. Alex Kingston and Matt Lucas guest star in the 2015 Christmas special. Following this episode, there will be no new Doctor Who until the 2016 Christmas special, though a spinoff, Class, will be broadcast in 2016.
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The fifth episode of the science fiction series The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), is broadcast on cable channel Syfy. Chad L. Coleman (The Orville) guest stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the first box set of an audio drama retelling of Patrick McGoohan’s groundbreaking 1967 series The Prisoner, starring Mark Elstob as Number Six. Celie Imrie (The Nightmare Man) guest stars in Departure And Arrival, the first story in the set, based on the original television episode Arrival.
Big Finish Productions releases the first box set of an audio drama retelling of Patrick McGoohan’s groundbreaking 1967 series The Prisoner, starring Mark Elstob as Number Six. Michael Cochrane guest stars in Your Beautiful Village, the second story in the set, which is largely an original story not based on a previously televised episode.
Big Finish Productions releases the first volume of The Diary Of River Song audio drama, a Doctor Who spinoff starring Alex Kingston.
The sixth episode of the science fiction series The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), is broadcast on cable channel Syfy. Chad L. Coleman (The Orville) and Elias Toufexis (Alphas) guest star.
A relatively routine spacewalk at the International Space Station is cut short when astronaut Tim Kopra notices a globule of water in the helmet of his spacesuit. Perhaps mindful of a far more serious incident in 2013, NASA calls off the spacewalk, ordering Kopra and fellow astronaut Tim Peake – the first British spacewalker – back inside the station.
The 33rd episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica) guest stars.
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The ninth and tenth episodes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Agent Carter, starring Hayley Attwell as Agent Peggy Carter, is broadcast on ABC. Kurtwood Smith (RoboCop, That ’70s Show) and Ray Wise (Twin Peaks) guest star in the second season premiere.