Travel back in time

1992
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 (more…)

Storytellers To The Nation: A History Of American Television Writing

Storytellers To The NationContinuum publishes Tom Stempel’s non-fiction book Storytellers To The Nation: A History Of American Television Writing, chronicling the craft of writing for television from the medium’s inception through the end of the 1980s. Read more (more…)

Categories Books, Non-Fiction
Forever Knight: Hunters

Forever KnightCBS airs the 11th episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Rachel Luttrell (Stargate Atlantis) guest stars.

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Quantum Leap: Leaping Of The Shrew

Quantum LeapNBC airs the 76th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Brooke Shields guest stars.

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Peter Gabriel: Us

Peter GabrielPeter Gabriel releases the solo album Us through his own RealWorld label, including the singles “Digging In The Dirt” and “Steam”. The album reflects Gabriel’s past experiences with primal scream therapy. Read more (more…)

Simple Minds: Glittering Prize 81/92

Simple Minds - Glittering Prize (The Best of: 1982-1991)Virgin Records releases the Simple Minds compilation album Glittering Prize 81/92, a career retrospective covering from the band’s label debut (1980’s Empires and Dance) through their 1991 album (Real Life). Read more (more…)

Young Indiana Jones: Germany, Mid-August 1916

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe ninth episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Jason Flemyng (Primeval, Pennyworth) and Sean Pertwee (Gotham) guest star.

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R.E.M.: Automatic for the People

Automatic for the PeopleWarner Bros. Records releases R.E.M.‘s eighth album, Automatic for the People, featuring the singles “Drive”, “Everybody Hurts”, and “Man On The Moon”. Read more (more…)

Categories Music, Non-SoundtrackTags
Forever Knight: Dead Issue

Forever KnightCBS airs the 12th episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Natalie Radford (TekWar) guest stars.

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Quantum Leap: Nowhere To Run

Quantum LeapNBC airs the 76th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Michael Boatman (China Beach, Spin City) and Jennifer Aniston (Friends) guest star.

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Farewell to Pioneer Venus

VenusThe Pioneer Venus Orbiter, launched into orbit around Venus in 1978 and now the only surviving component of the Pioneer Venus mission, enters the cloudy planet’s dense, toxic atmosphere and disintegrates, its fuel supply too exhausted to keep it in orbit any longer. Originally intended to orbit Venus for only a year, Pioneer Venus has survived, fully functional, for nearly 14 years in Venusian orbit, continuing to study the planet and taking readings not only Venus but such objects as Halley’s Comet.

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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Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Barcelona, May 1917

Young Indiana Jones ChroniclesThe tenth episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Terry Jones (Monty Python) and Timothy Spall (Sweeney Todd, Red Dwarf) guest star in an episode directed by Jones.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Relics

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 129th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. James Doohan guest stars as Scotty in the last major original series callback during TNG’s run. Read more (more…)

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 (more…)

Forever Knight: Father Figure

Forever KnightCBS airs the 13th episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Illya Woloshyn (The Odyssey) guest stars.

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Doctor Who: The New Adventures: Love and War

Doctor WhoThe ninth Doctor Who New Adventures novel, “Love And War” by Paul Cornell, is published. A pivotal point in the young book series, “Love And War” sees the exit of TV companion Ace and the introduction of an older companion, archaeologist Professor Bernice Sumemrfield, for the seventh Doctor. Using a non-sequitur mention of the “Hoothi and their great gas dirigibles” from the television story The Brain Of Morbius as a starting point for this book’s enemy, author Cornell crafts a novel that forces the series to grow into more mature territory, with a truly unsettling adversary for the Doctor to fight. An audio version will be produced by Big Finish Productions 20 years later. Read more (more…)

Roy Orbison: King Of Hearts

King Of HeartsThe posthumous Roy Orbison album King Of Hearts is released, featuring a variety of singles, soundtrack songs, and collaborations with other artists not previously collected as an album. The single “I Drove All Night” is also released. (Orbison died in 1989.) Read more (more…)

Star Trek: Shore Leave / The Naked Time (soundtrack)

Star TrekGNP Crescendo releases a CD of music from the original Star Trek television series, presenting selections from the episodes The Naked Time by Alexander Courage and Shore Leave by Gerald Fried. Read more (more…)

Quantum Leap: Killin’ Time

Quantum LeapNBC airs the 77th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Connie Ray (The Torkelsons) guest stars.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Volume 3 (soundtrack)

TNGGNP Crescendo Records releases the third CD of Star Trek: The Next Generation soundtrack music, containing Dennis McCarthy’s music from the episodes Yesterday’s Enterprise, Unification, and Hollow Pursuits. Read more (more…)

STS-52

STS-52Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on the shuttle program’s 51st flight, a ten-day mission to launch Laser Geodynamic Satellite II and the cargo-bay-mounted U.S. Microgravity Payload experiment package. Aboard Columbia for her 13th flight are Commander James Wetherbee, Pilot Michael Baker, mission specialists Charles Veach, William Shepherd and Tamara Jernigan, and payload specialist Steven MacLean.

Highlander: Bad Day In Building “A”

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the fourth 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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Space Age (soundtrack)

Alien NationNarada Records releases a CD of Star Trek: The Next Generation composer Jay Chattaways’s music from the PBS documentary series Space Age. Though more percussive than his Star Trek scores, the documentary soundtrack bears strong similarities to his work on the hit science fiction series. Read more (more…)

Forever Knight: Spin Doctor

Forever KnightCBS airs the 14th episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Lisa Howard (Highlander, Earth: Final Conflict) guest stars.

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Quantum Leap: Star Light, Star Bright

Quantum LeapNBC airs the 78th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Morgan Weisser (Space: Above And Beyond) guest stars.

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Highlander: Free Fall

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the fifth 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: Deadly Medicine

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the sixth 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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