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1996
Sliders: Invasion

SlidersFox airs the 21st episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. This episode marks the first appearance of the Kromaggs, a recurring enemy that will persist for the remainder of the series.

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The Outer Limits: Falling Star

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 40th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Sheena Easton and John Pyper-Ferguson (Caprica) guest star.

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Crowded House: Recurring Dream: The Very Best Of

Crowded HouseHaving announced the band’s breakup, Crowded House releases Recurring Dream, a final album – priamrily a greatest hits collection – with the band’s original lineup. Despite having left the band months before, drummer Paul Hester rejoins Neil Finn and Nick Seymour to record three new songs for the album. Read more (more…)

Sliders: As Time Goes By

SlidersFox airs the 22nd episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. This is the second season finale.

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The Outer Limits: Out Of Body

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 41st episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Peri Gilpin (Frasier), Victor Garber (Alias, The Orville), and William B. Davis (The X-Files) guest star.

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The Outer Limits: Vanishing Act

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 42nd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Jon Cryer (Sueprgirl, Two And A Half Men) guest stars.

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IREM Arcade Classics (Playstation import)

IREM Arcade ClassicsIREM, under its I’MAX imprint, releases the arcade compilation IREM Arcade Classics for the Sony Playstation in Japan only, containing the ’80s coin-op arcade games Motorace USA, Spartan-X, and the football game 10-Yard Fight. Read more (more…)

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Jason Falkner presents Author Unknown

Jason Falkner presents Author UnknownFormer Jellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner releases his first solo album, Jason Falkner presents Author Unknown. Read more (more…)

Namco Museum Volume 1 (“N”) (Playstation)

Namco Museum Volume 1Namco releases the arcade compilation Namco Museum Volume 1 for the Sony Playstation, including the ’80s arcade hits Pac-Man, Galaga, Pole Position, and Bosconian. (The same title was released to the Japanese market in 1995.) Read more (more…)

The Outer Limits: The Sentence

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 43rd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) guest stars in the second season finale.

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Twister (soundtrack)

TwisterAtlantic Records releases Mark Mancina’s soundtrack from the movie Twister (a separate CD contains the songs from the movie; this release is the score only). Read more (more…)

All aboard the Pluto-Kuiper Express

PKEWith NASA/JPL’s Pluto Fast Flyby mission cancelled, a new mission is proposed by several scientists and engineers, including veterans of the Voyager program, to send a small spacecraft to Pluto. Originally named Pluto Express, and later Pluto-Kuiper Express, the unmanned spacecraft would be armed with a handful of scientific instruments (as opposed to Pluto Fast Flyby’s camera-only proposal). Plans call for launch via a Delta Heavy rocket or from the cargo bay of a Space Shuttle in 2004, a Jupiter gravity assist flyby in 2006, and a Pluto flyby in 2012. Though there are early talks with the Russian space program about including landers or penetrators, that element of the mission is dropped soon afterward.

Soyuz TM-24

Soyuz TM-24Soyuz TM-24 is launched from Russia, on a mission to dock with the Mir space station. Aboard are cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri, who stay aboard Mir for 196 days, and visiting French spationaut Claudie André-Deshays, the first French woman in space, who stays aboard Mir for 16 days before returning to Earth with the station’s previous crew aboard Soyuz TM-23. Korzun and Kaleri will return to Earth in March 1997.

Clowns In The Sky: The Musical History of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (soundtrack)

Clowns In The SkyThe MST3K Info Club releases Clowns In The Sky: The Musical History of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a collection of original songs written and performed by the show’s cast, all from the Comedy Central era MST3K. Read more (more…)

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From Battleground to Final Conflict

Gene Roddenberry's Battleground EarthBroadcasting & Cable Weekly Magazine reveals that Majel Barrett Roddenberry and Tribune Entertainment have sealed a deal to produce a series first outlined by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in the 1970s, Battleground Earth. Budgeted at $1,000,000 per episode, the series will be based on a series pitch that nearly resulted in a pilot for 20th Century Fox in 1977, until Roddenberry’s attention was refocused on the impending TV revival of Star Trek for the never-launched Paramount Television Service, which then became Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Then in the 1980s, Kenneth Johnson’s V, following a very similar story outline, became a hit, leaving Battleground Earth unusable for a time. This series will premiere in syndication in late 1997 under the title Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict.

Star Trek: Voyager: Basics – Part II

Star Trek: VoyagerUPN airs the 42nd episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Brad Dourif guest stars; this is the beginning of Voyager’s third season. Read more (more…)

The Cape

The CapeThe first episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin. With cooperation from NASA, frequent location filming at Cape Canaveral, and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin as a technical consultant, and banking on the recent box office success of Apollo 13, the series focuses on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.

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R.E.M.: New Adventures in Hi-Fi

New Adventures in Hi-FiWarner Bros. releases R.E.M.‘s tenth album, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, featuring the singles “Bittersweet Me” and “E‐Bow the Letter”. Read more (more…)

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Star Trek: Voyager: Flashback

Star Trek: VoyagerUPN airs the 43rd episode of Star Trek: Voyager. This episode airs three days after the 30th anniversary of the original Star Trek’s premiere, and guest stars original series cast members George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney in a storyline paying homage to the Kirk era (specifically, to the opening scene of the movie Star Trek VI). Michael Ansara appears as Kang. Read more (more…)

Neverwhere: Door

NeverwhereThe first episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. The series will later be adapted into a novel by Gaiman.

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The Cape: In Friends We Trust

TimecopThe second episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin, and focusing on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.

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STS-79: fourth Shuttle-Mir mission

Space ShuttleAfter multiple delays, including the entire launch stack having to be rolled back into the safety of the Vehicle Assembly Building to protect it from two back-to-back hurricanes, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on the fourth mission to dock with the Russian Mir space station. Supplies are transferred to Mir, and numerous completed science experiments from Mir are loaded into the shuttle. Atlantis is flown by Commander William Readdy, Pilot Terrence Wilcutt, and mission specialists Thomas Akers, John Blaha, Jay Apt and Carl Walz. Blaha remains on Mir, taking the place of American astronaut Shannon Lucid, who has just set a new American space endurance record of 188 days in orbit; Lucid returns to Earth with the Atlantis crew.

Star Trek: Voyager: The Chute

Star Trek: VoyagerUPN airs the 44th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Robert Pine (the father of future big-screen Captain Kirk, Chris Pine) guest stars. Read more (more…)

Neverwhere: Knightsbridge

NeverwhereThe second episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It, Doctor Who) guest stars.

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Sliders: Rules Of The Game

SlidersFox airs the 23rd episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. This is the third season premiere.

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Lois & Clark: Lord Of The Flys

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of SupermanThe 66th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Simon Templeman, Justine Bateman, and J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star in the fourth season premiere.

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The Cape: No Fear

TimecopThe third episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin, and focusing on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.

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Alan Parsons: On Air

Eye In The SkyAlan Parsons releases a solo album, On Air, themed around the history of flight. Read more (more…)

Neverwhere: Earl’s Court To Islington

NeverwhereThe third episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It, Doctor Who) and Stratford Johns guest star.

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Sliders: Double Cross

SlidersFox airs the 24th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks.

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Lois & Clark: Battleground Earth

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of SupermanThe 67th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Simon Templeman, Justine Bateman, and J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.

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