Legendary television writer/producer Steven Bochco dies at the age of 74. Widely associated with TV police dramas, including the genre-changing shows Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, Bochco created numerous popular series, including L.A. Law and Doogie Howser M.D. He also had numerous genre credits, ranging from co-writing the 1972 sci-fi cult classic Silent Running (a very early entry in his career), to co-creating (with Harve Bennett) two 1970s TV iterations of H.G. Wells’ timeless story, The Invisible Man and Gemini Man. He also wrote an episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone, and created a series pilot, NYPD 2069, which aired as a one-off TV movie in 2004. (Another series pilot, Vampire, went no further than the pilot stage in 1979.)
The CW airs the 50th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and Tala Ashe. Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who), Neal McDonough, and John Noble (Fringe) guest star.
Korean-born actor Soon-Teck Oh dies as a result of a chronic illness at the age of 85. Arriving in the United States in 1959 as a college graduate with a degree in international relations, he was drawn into show business, gaining high visibility in the 1974 James Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun. He guest starred on countless American TV series, including The Invaders, The Wild Wild West, 
The 132nd episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW.
Comedian and actor Chuck McCann, a familiar TV face from his start in children’s television in New York in the 1950s to his near-ubiquity in both television shows and commercials in the 1970s and 1980s, dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 83. He continued to be a fixture on children’s television nationally, including a stint on the Sid & Marty Krofft Saturday morning kids’ sci-fi comedy 
The CW airs the 85th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Danny Trejo, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes (Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back), Paul McGillion (Stargate Atlantis) and Morena Baccarin (Firefly, V) guest star in an episode directed by Smith.
The 24th 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, opening the series’ third season.
The first season of a reimagined Lost In Space series premieres on the Netflix streaming service, 
The first season of a reimagined Lost In Space series premieres on the Netflix streaming service, 
The first season of a reimagined Lost In Space series premieres on the Netflix streaming service, 
The first season of a reimagined Lost In Space series premieres on the Netflix streaming service, 
The first season of a reimagined Lost In Space series premieres on the Netflix streaming service, 
The first season of a reimagined Lost In Space series premieres on the Netflix streaming service, 
The first season of a reimagined Lost In Space series premieres on the Netflix streaming service, 
For Record Store Day 2017, Silva Screen Records releases 
Commercial spaceflight operator Blue Origin, owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, launches its eighth New Shepard flight. The uncrewed (but human-rated) capsule includes several commercial and research payloads, as well as a telemetry test dummy nicknamed “Mannequin Skywalker”, designed to record potential spaceflight stresses on future human passengers. An apogee of 351,000 feet is reached for the first time. As with past missions, both the capsule and its single-stage suborbital booster come in for soft landings near Blue Origin’s Texas launch facility. This is the second flight for the third New Shepard reusable capsule, as well as the second flight for the third New Shepard reusable booster.