NBC airs the 52nd episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. This is the third season finale, and is nearly the end of the series, but a fan letter-writing campaign helps convince NBC to renew the series.
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The 78th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Sherman Howard and Justina Vail (Seven Days) guest star in the third season finale.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 97th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. 
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After three years of joint development on a CD-ROM peripheral for Nintendo’s new video game system, Sony and Nintendo part ways, leaving the public and the press confused over what will happen next. Hours after Nintendo unveils the specs and price point for its Super Nintendo Entertainment System to the press, Sony announces that it will release a new system called the Play Station in 1992, which will play both SNES cartridges and disc-based systems made by Sony. Of course, Sony’s development curve isn’t that simple, and the first Sony video game system won’t arrive until a few years – and a whole generation of computer game hardware – later.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 98th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Michelle Scarabelli (Alien Nation) guest stars; Patrick “Picard” Stewart directs this episode. (more…)
Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on a nine-day mission with – for the first time in the shuttle program – a crew that’s nearly 50% female. Columbia carries the Spacelab module into orbit for a series of life sciences and biology experiments, the first flight devoted to such experiments since the Skylab era. Aboard Columbia for this flight are Commander Bryan O’Connor, Pilot Sidney Gutierrez, and mission specialists James Bagian, Tamara Jernigan, Rhea Seddon, Drew Gaffney and Millie Hughes-Fulford.
ELO offshoot band Electric Light Orchestra Part II releases its self-titled debut album (with the placement of “Part II” on the cover no doubt leaving some confusion as to whether or not this is the original band; it’s actually a new group formed by former ELO drummer Bev Bevan). (more…)
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 99th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whoopi Goldberg and Tony Todd guest star. This episode ends the fourth season. (more…)
GNP Crescendo Records releases the second CD of Star Trek: The Next Generation soundtrack music, containing Ron Jones’ music from the fan favorite two-part story The Best Of Both Worlds. (more…)
GNP Crescendo releases a CD of music from the original 
With no new series in sight on TV, Virgin Publishing begins its long-awaited line of original print fiction with the first Doctor Who New Adventures novel, “Timewyrm: Genesys” by John Peel. The first book in a four-book cycle of linked stories, the novel picks up where the television series left off, featuring the seventh Doctor and Ace. Three further books are already in the works in the Timewyrm series, with other authors lining up for a chance to write later books in 1992 and beyond.
The Moody Blues release the album Keys Of The Kingdom, featuring the single “Bless the Wings (That Bring You Back).” This is the group’s first album of the 1990s, and the last studio album of new material until 1999. (more…)
Capitol Records releases the third Crowded House album, Woodface, featuring the singles “Chocolate Cake” and “Weather With You”, and adding Neil Finn’s brother (and fellow Split Enz alumnus) Tim Finn to the lineup. (more…)
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on a satellite deployment and science mission lasting nearly nine days. The fourth TDRS (Tracking & Data Relay Satellite) is launched, and several experiments are performed on board, including materials processing experiments. Atlantis’ crew consists of Commander John Blaha, Pilot Michael Baker, and mission specialists Shannon Lucid, James Adamson and David Low.
The World Wide Web is born as Tim Berners-Lee shows off his concept for implementing hypertext, consisting of cross-linked documents, on the internet. At the time of his demonstration, the net’s primary functions are Gopher, Telnet and Usenet, but as those services do not provide a simple, user-friendly experience for providing amusingly captioned cat pictures to the public, “the web”, also known as “the WWW”, quickly gains traction and prominence. While the internet’s infrastructure can trace its origins to the 1960s and ARPAnet, this marks the dawn of the public-facing internet (which now, of course, includes the site you are reading right now).
Virgin Publishing releases the second novel in the Doctor Who New Adventures series, “Timewyrm: Exodus” by early ’70s Doctor Who script editor Terrance Dicks. This book continues the four-part Timewyrm cycle and revisits the War Lord last seen in the 1969 TV story The War Games, and long before the TV episode Let’s Kill Hitler, places the Doctor in the company of Hitler. This is Dicks’ first Doctor Who prose which is not a direct adaptation of a television story. (more…)
Nintendo releases the city-building game SimCity for the Super NES, a game developed with MAxis. (more…)
The first episode of a reimagined version of the 1970s series Land Of The Lost premieres on ABC, starring Joseph Bottoms (The Black Hole). (more…)
Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on a five-day mission to deliver the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) into a low Earth orbit, where the satellite spends over a year studying the outer layers of Earth’s atmosphere. UARS also focuses on study of Earth’s ozone layer. Other experiments are carried out aboard the orbiter by Commander John Creighton, Pilot Kenneth Reightler, , and mission specialists Mark Brown, Charles Gemar and James Buchli.
EMI Records releases the Electric Light Orchestra 2-disc set Early ELO: 1971-1973, gathering the band’s early material as well as alternate mixes and an unreleased song. (more…)
Chrysalis Records releases The Best Of Spandau Ballet, a career retrospective of the band’s heyday. (more…)
NBC airs the 53rd episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. This is the fourth season premiere.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 100th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Todd and Denise Crosby guest star. This episode is the beginning of the show’s fifth season. (more…)
NBC airs the 54th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Neal McDonough (Star Trek: First Contact, Arrow, Legends Of Tomorrow) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 101st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Paul Winfield (Star Trek II) and Ashley Judd guest star. 
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NBC airs the 55th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
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The Soviet Union launches its last space mission, Soyuz TM-13, carrying cosmonauts Alexander Volkov, Toktar Aubakirov and the first Austrian in space, Franz Viehböck, to space station Mir. After a week in space, Aubakirov and Viehböck return to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-12 with incumbent station crewmember Anatoly Artsebarksky, while Volkov stays for 175 days (alongside Krikalev, who will have been in space for 10 months by the time he returns to Earth in 1992). During Volkov and Krikalev’s stay aboard Mir, the Soviet Union collapses; they instead return to Earth as Russian citizens.
The 79th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Bill Mumy (Lost In Space, Babylon 5) guest stars in the fourth season premiere.
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The 24th episode of the science fiction crime drama Super Force is broadcast in syndication in North America, starring Ken Olandt, Larry B. Scott, and Patrick Macnee (The Avengers). Musetta Vander guest stars in the second season premiere.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 102nd episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Michelle Forbes guest stars as Ensign Ro. This episode introduces the Bajorans, continuing the setup for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (more…)
NBC airs the 56th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
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The 80th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Bill Mumy (Lost In Space, Babylon 5) guest stars.
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The 25th episode of the science fiction crime drama Super Force is broadcast in syndication in North America, starring Ken Olandt, Larry B. Scott, and Patrick Macnee (The Avengers). Musetta Vander guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 103rd episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. (more…)
NBC airs the 57th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
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