Missing Cybermen Tomb unearthed

Doctor WhoIn what is hailed as the biggest missing episode find in the history of fans’ attempts to recover lost segments of Doctor Who, the complete four-part story The Tomb Of The Cybermen, completely missing from the BBC’s archives, is located in near-pristine condition in the archives of a Hong Kong broadcaster. Since the tapes’ audio is the original English soundtrack and the video requires little significant clean-up or restoration, the BBC’s home video department fast-tracks Tomb for a VHS release in May 1992. As of this find, only 110 half-hour episodes of black & white Doctor Who remain missing.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The First Duty

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 118th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Wil Wheaton guest stars as Wesley Crusher; Robert Duncan McNeill (Star Trek: Voyager) and Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian) also guest star. Read more

Doctor Who: Earthshock – Classic Music From the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 1 (soundtrack)

EarthshockSilva Screen Records releases Doctor Who: Earthshock – Classic Music From the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 1, the first reprint on CD of the now-out-of-print ’80s soundtrack album Doctor Who: The Music. The album includes compositions dating back to the 1960s and as recent as 1984 from BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Delia Derbyshire, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke, and Peter Howell. Material is added that was not present on the original vinyl release. Read more

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors – Classic Music From the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 2 (soundtrack)

The Five DoctorsSilva Screen Records releases Doctor Who: The Five Doctors – Classic Music From the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 2, the first reprint on CD of the now-out-of-print ’80s soundtrack album Doctor Who: The Music II. Music is featured from BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Jonathan Gibbs, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke, and Peter Howell. Read more

Star Wars: Dark Force Rising

Dark Force RisingTimothy Zahn’s novel “Star Wars: Dark Force Rising”, the second in a trilogy of officially licensed follow-ups to the original trilogy, is released by Bantam Books. As with the first installment of the new trilogy (which will become known years later alternately as the Zahn Trilogy or the Thrawn Trilogy), “Dark Force Rising” requires no Jedi mind tricks to wind up at the top of the bestseller lists.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Time’s Arrow, Part I

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 125th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This episode closes the series’ fifth season and is the first half of a cliffhanger resolved in the sixth season. Whoopi Goldberg and Jerry Hardin (The X-Files) guest star. Read more

Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Action Figures – Wave 1

Captain Picard figureCompletely unrelated to the brief series of toys released by Galoob durign the show’s first season, Playmates Toys begins to release a larger-scale series of action figures based on Star Trek: The Next Generation in late 1992, as the series’ sixth season is launched (and has become a TV favorite). The initial assortment of ten characters, a combination of Enterprise crewmembers and enemies for them to fight, is released, complete with copious accessories to make them popular with kids. But Playmates – whose biggest toy license previously has been Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – quickly finds that it has a new hit toy line on its hands, but the buyers are older than anticipated. Read more

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Time’s Arrow Part II

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 126th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, kicking off the sixth season. Whoopi Goldberg and Jerry Hardin (The X-Files) guest star. Read more

Highlander: The Gathering

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the first episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Christopher Lambert, star of the original 1986 Highlander film, and Richard Moll (Night Court) guest star. Read more

Highlander: An Innocent Man

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the second episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name.

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Highlander: Road Not Taken

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the third episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Soon-Teck Oh (Space Rangers) guest stars. Read more