The week-long national syndication window opens for the 60th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Michael O’Hare guest stars as Jeffrey Sinclair, the original commander of Babylon 5, in a two-part story which clears up the mysteries left dangling at the end of the first season episode Babylon Squared. 
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Nintendo releases the role-playing game Super Mario RPG for the Super NES, a game developed with Square. With a bare minimum of references to the rest of the Super Mario franchise, this is the first attempt to move Mario into RPG territory. (more…)
EMI Records releases the career-spanning compilation Back To The Story, collecting Idle Race‘s complete recorded output, along with material from Mike Sheridan & The Nightriders (before a change of personnel resulted in a change to the name of the band). (more…)
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 22nd episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Hudson Leick guest stars as Callisto, and Ted Raimi (seaQuest DSV) makes his first appearance as Joxer. (more…)
The 24th episode of Lawrence Hertzog’s paranoid spy-fi thriller Nowhere Man, starring Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), airs on UPN. (more…)
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 93rd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Jeffrey Combs makes his first appearance in the recurring role of Weyoun. (more…)
After a seven-year gap since the BBC cancelled the original series, Fox premieres Doctor Who: The Movie as its Tuesday Night Movie (and, if ratings prove to be a success story, a backdoor pilot for a series). Depicting the seventh Doctor’s regeneration into the eighth (Paul McGann), this is effectively the 698th episode of Doctor Who, and guest stars Yee Jee Tso and Eric Roberts as the Master. US ratings ultimately prove to be a disappointment, and this remains the only televised adventure of the eighth Doctor (though this incarnation of the Time Lord is carried forward in novels, comics and audio stories). Doctor Who does not make a full return to TV until 2005. (more…)
Virgin Publishing releases the 50th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Happy Endings by Paul Cornell. (more…)
Virgin Publishing releases the 22nd Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, The Sands of Time by Justin Richards, featuring the TARDIS team of the fifth Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan. (more…)
The 70th and final episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and Lisa Ryder. Geraint Wyn-Davies directs the series finale.
The 73rd episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Peter Donat (Time Trax) and Roy Thinnes (The Invaders) guest star in the third season finale.
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Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 36th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2) guest stars.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on the 77th shuttle mission, a ten-day flight to perform experiments in the cargo-bay-mounted SPACEHAB module, and a test of a free-flying inflatible antenna system. The crew also communicates with astronaut Shannon Lucid aboard Mir, though Endeavour and Mir are in different orbits. Aboard Endeavour for her 11th flight are Commander John Casper, Pilot Curtis Brown, and mission specialists Daniel Bursch, Mario Runco, Marc Garneau and Andrew Thomas.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 61st episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Michael O’Hare guest stars as Jeffrey Sinclair, the original commander of Babylon 5, in a two-part story which clears up the mysteries left dangling at the end of the first season episode Babylon Squared. As in previous seasons, the final five episodes of the season are held back until the fall. (more…)
UPN airs the 41st episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Brad Dourif guest stars; this is the finale of Voyager’s second season. (more…)
The 25th and final episode of Lawrence Hertzog’s paranoid spy-fi thriller Nowhere Man, starring Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), airs on UPN. Hal Linden guest stars in the series finale. (more…)
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 94th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (more…)
EMI Records releases Common Ground: The Voices of Modern Irish Music, an all-star album of Irish-themed music largely (but not exclusively) performed by Irish artists. (more…)
Fox airs the 18th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. Isaac Hayes (South Park) and Paul McGillion (Stargate Atlantis) guest star.
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Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 37th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.
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Fox premieres And If They Lay Us To Rest…, the 22nd episode of the military science fiction series Space: Above And Beyond. This is part one of the two-part series finale. (more…)
Fox airs the 19th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. Mel Torme (father of series creator Tracy Torme) and Donnelly Rhodes (Battlestar Galactica) guest star.
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Baen Books publishes the sixth novel in the Honor Harrington series, “Honor Among Enemies” by David Weber. (more…)
Fox premieres the 23rd and final episode of the military science fiction series Space: Above And Beyond. This concludes the two-part series finale. (more…)
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 23rd episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. (more…)
Fox airs the 20th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. Laura Harris (24) and Gordon Michael Woolvett (Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda) guest star.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 95th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The episode is directed by series regular Avery Brooks. (more…)
The feature-length 32nd episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on cable channel The Family Channel, starring Corey Carrier and Sean Patrick Flanery. Michael Gough (Batman, Doctor Who) guest stars. This is the final episode/TV movie of the series.
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Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 38th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Mel Harris (thirtysomething) and Geraint Wyn Davies (Forever Knight) guest star.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 96th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Andrew Robinson, Salome Jens and Robert O’Reilly guest star in the final episode of the show’s fourth season. (more…)
Virgin Publishing releases the 51st book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, GodEngine by Craig Hinton. (more…)
Virgin Publishing releases the 23rd Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, Killing Ground by Steve Lyons, featuring the TARDIS team of the sixth Doctor and Grant Markham. (more…)
Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on the 78th shuttle mission, a Spacelab flight lasting nearly 17 days and devoted to the effects of microgravity on various forms of life. The crew also tests maneuvers under consideration for a future Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission which could safely boost Hubble’s orbit without damaging it. Aboard Columbia for her 20th flight are Commander Terence Henricks, Pilot Kevin Kregel, flight engineer Susan Helms, mission specialists Richard Linnehan and Charles Brady, and payload specialists Jean-Jacques Favier and Robert Thirsk.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 39th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Robert Patrick (Terminator 2, The X-Files) and Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.
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