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Al Worden, astronaut, dies

Al WordenApollo 15 astronaut Al Worden dies at the age of 88. As the mission’s command module pilot, he was the only member of Apollo 15’s crew to not walk on the moon, though he does still hold the distinction of performing the furthest spacewalk from Earth, when he retrieved film cannisters from the body of the service module, requiring him to suit up and venture outside the vehicle while it was roughly halfway on its journey from the moon back to Earth. With the other members of the crew, he was embroiled in a seemingly minor scandal involving space-flown postal covers that turned out to almost be a career-ender once the astronauts were back on Earth; he made the jump to NASA’s Ames Research Center rather than returning to the Air Force, where he had been a past instructor at the Aerospace Research Pilot School, reporting directly to Colonel Chuck Yeager. After retiring from NASA, he made an unsuccessful run for Congress in 1982, and continued promoting the space program and science education.

Star Trek: Picard: Et In Arcadia Ego – Part 1

Star Trek: PicardStreaming service CBS All Access debuts the ninth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager) and Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.

Star Trek: Picard: Et In Arcadia Ego – Part 2

Star Trek: PicardStreaming service CBS All Access debuts the tenth episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, and Evan Evagora. Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager), Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star in the first season finale.

Honor Blackman, actress, dies

Honor Blackman in The AvengersHonor Blackman, who rose to fame portraying Cathy Gale in the second and third seasons of The Avengers, dies at the age of 94. Despite her success in The Avengers, she left her starmaking role behind to graduate to big screen spy antics in the James Bond film Goldfinger. Other movie roles included Jason And The Argonauts and Bridget Jones’s Diary, with TV roles in Danger Man, The Saint, Columbo, The Upper Hand, and a guest starring role in parts 9-12 of the 1986 Doctor Who story The Trial Of A Time Lord.

The Flash: Pay The Piper

The FlashThe CW airs the 131st episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. This episode is directed by Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1).

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Doctor Who: The Sun Makers (soundtrack)

Doctor Who: The Sun MakersSilva Screen Records releases Dudley Simpson’s score from the 1977 Doctor Who story The Sun Makers digitally and on CD. Unlike the previous Pyramids Of Mars release from the 1990s, which featured synthesizer recreations of Simpson’s music, this is a rare example of a complete original Simpson score from the composer’s 1970s heyday. Read more

The Flash: Success Is Assured

The FlashThe CW airs the 132nd episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Though not intended to be the season finale, this is the final episode of the sixth season, production of which has been shut down by the COVID-19 epidemic.

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Retrogram #7147: A Bunch Of Shows D.B. Cooper Missed

RetrogramtheLogBook.com releases the 15th episode of the Retrogram podcast, hosted by Earl Green, covering the following shows from the week of November 22nd, 1971:

  • Night Gallery: The Dark Boy / Keep In Touch – We’ll Think Of Something
  • Mission: Impossible: The Visitors
  • TV movie: Earth II

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Legends Of Tomorrow: The One Where We’re Trapped On TV

ArrowThe CW airs the 81st episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Brandon Routh, and Tala Ashe.

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Space Force: The Launch

Space ForceStreaming service Netflix debuts the first season of Space Force, including the first episode, The Launch, starring Steve Carell, John Malkovitch, and Tawny Newsome, and co-created by Carell. Guest stars include Larry Joe Campbell (The Orville), Lisa Kudrow (Friends) and the late Fred Willard, who died two weeks before the show’s premiere. The series is a satirical take on the recently formed Space Force of the U.S. Armed Forces. Read more

SpaceX Crew Dragon DM-2

NASA SpaceX Demo-2 launchThree days after weather caused a scrub of their initial launch attempt, astronauts Douglas Hurley and Bob Behnken lift off into orbit aboard SpaceX Dragon DM-2, the second demo mission of the Crew Dragon vehicle, and the first to carry humans to space. (A previous mission, DM-1, was an uncrewed test of the Crew Dragon.) They are the first American astronauts to lift off from American soil and reach orbit since the final crew of the space shuttle lifted off in 2011. (The launch takes place six years and one day after the Crew Dragon was first unveiled.)