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2002
Doctor Who: Excelis Decays

Doctor Who: ExcelisBig Finish Productions releases the third Doctor Who: Excelis audio drama, a limited series of interconnected stories spanning several of the Doctor’s regenerations. Sylvester McCoy and Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer) star. Read more (more…)

Stargate SG-1: The Other Guys

Stargate SG-1The 117th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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Witchblade: Veritas

WitchbladeThe 20th episode of Witchblade airs on cable channel TNT, based on the Top Cow comic book of the same name, starring Yancy Butler, David Chokachi and John Hensley. Victor Slezak (Blue Bloods, Treme, Hell On Wheels) guest stars. Read more (more…)

Stargate SG-1: Allegiance

Stargate SG-1The 118th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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Intellivision In Hi-Fi (soundtrack)

Intellivision In Hi-FiIntellivision Productions (a collective of programmers and designers who created the games for the iconic ’80s video game console) releases the album Intellivision In Hi-Fi at Classic Gaming Expo 2002, containing recordings of some of the system’s signature musical moments, and new renditions of some of the games’ musical themes. Read more (more…)

Witchblade: Parabola

WitchbladeThe 21st episode of Witchblade airs on cable channel TNT, based on the Top Cow comic book of the same name, starring Yancy Butler, David Chokachi and John Hensley. Eric Roberts (Heroes) guest stars. Read more (more…)

Röyksopp: Melody A.M.

album coverThe Röyksopp album Melody A.M. is released, featuring the singles “Epie” and “Remind Me”. Read more (more…)

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CONTOUR mission ends in pieces

CONTOURLaunched on July 3rd, NASA’s comet-chasing CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) space probe fails to respond to an all-important, critically-timed command that would send it toward its first rendevous with a comet. As NASA engineers attempt to regain contact, high-powered telescopes pick up what may be a cloud of the $159,000,000 space probe’s debris as it settles into a leisurely orbit around the sun. A definitive cause for the failure of the CONTOUR mission is never found.

Stargate SG-1: Cure

Stargate SG-1The 119th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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Witchblade: Palindrome

WitchbladeThe 22nd episode of Witchblade airs on cable channel TNT, based on the Top Cow comic book of the same name, starring Yancy Butler, David Chokachi and John Hensley. Read more (more…)

Julee Cruise: The Art Of Being A Girl

Julee Cruise - The Art Of Being A GirlWater Music releases Julee Cruise‘s third solo album The Art Of Being A Girl, her first solo project with no involvement from Angelo Badalamenti or David Lynch (though a new recording of “Falling”, the Twin Peaks theme song, is included as a hidden track). Read more (more…)

Stargate SG-1: Prometheus

Stargate SG-1The 120th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.

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Witchblade: Ubique

WitchbladeThe 23rd episode of Witchblade airs on cable channel TNT, based on the Top Cow comic book of the same name, starring Yancy Butler, David Chokachi and John Hensley. Kate Levering (Drop Dead Diva) and Grace Slick (lead singer of Jefferson Airplane) guest star. This is the final episode of the series, which is highly-rated, but unable to continue production due to Yancy Butler’s ongoing addiction issues. Read more (more…)

Sarah Jane Smith: The Tao Connection

Sarah Jane SmithBig Finish Productions releases the second Sarah Jane Smith audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Elisabeth Sladen, reprising her TV role in a story written by classic Doctor Who writer and producer Barry Letts. Read more (more…)

One giant can of whoop-ass for mankind

Get 'em BuzzAs Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin leaves a speaking engagement in Beverly Hills, a self-proclaimed skeptic accosts him, demanding that the astronaut swear on the Bible that he actually went to the moon. With a Japanese news crew’s cameras rolling, Aldrin proceeds to punch the man in the face. The heckler and self-proclaimed “ambush journalist” tries to file assault charges, though police decide in Aldrin’s favor – especially since this is the third time the man has ambushed Aldrin with his theory that all of the Apollo flights to the moon were hoaxes.

Actress Kim Hunter dies

ZiraActress Kim Hunter, who played Zira in Planet Of The Apes and two of its sequels, dies of a heart attack at the age of 79. She won an Oscar in 1952 as best supporting actress in A Streetcar Named Desire. Her career also included the legendary topical TV comedy That Was The Week That Was, guest shots on numerous episodes of Playhouse 90, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, Mission: Impossible, and many other films and TV appearances.

Paul Melancon: Camera Obscura

album coverThe Paul Melancon CD Camera Obscura is released, featuring the single “Jeff Lynne”. Read more (more…)

Firefly: The Train Job

FireflyFox airs the first episode of Joss Whedon’s science fiction series Firefly, starring Nathan Fillion. This episode is actually a replacement for the original pilot, written and produced late in production; strangely enough, the original pilot will also be shown during the course of the first season. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Lessons

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 123rd episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star in the seventh season premiere.

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Peter Gabriel: Up

album coverThe Peter Gabriel album Up is released, featuring the single “The Barry Williams Show”. Read more (more…)

Impact in Siberia

Destruction!An object from space, possibly as much as 300 feet in diameter, explodes in mid-air at night over the mountainous region near Bodaybo, a village in Irkutsk, Siberia, showering the land below with its fragments and destroying nearly 40 square miles of forest. Neither debris nor the actual “impact” site of the airborne explosion are discovered until 2003, when an expedition discovers the destroyed forest land, comparing the sight to the infamous 1908 Tunguska impact zone. Traces of tritium and slightly radioactive cesium and cobalt are discovered surrounding the impact area, possibly indicating a comet nucleus that broke up in Earth’s atmosphere. Despite the size of the object, it was not detected before its near-impact with Earth.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Beneath You

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 124th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star.

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Enterprise: Minefield

EnterpriseThe 28th episode of the Star Trek prequel spinoff Enterprise premieres on UPN. This episode depicts the first Starfleet encounter with the Romulans from a chronological standpoint. Read more (more…)

Firefly: Our Mrs. Reynolds

FireflyFox airs the third episode of Joss Whedon’s science fiction series Firefly, starring Nathan Fillion. Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) guest stars. Read more (more…)

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Space: 1999: Year Two (soundtrack)

Space 1999: Volume TwoSilva Screen Records releases the soundtrack album Space: 1999: Year Two, a collection of highlights from composer Derek Wadsworth’s pop-and-disco-styled reinvention of the show’s sound. Read more (more…)

BBC Radiophonic Music

BBC Radiophonic MusicBBC Music releases a CD reissue of the 1968 album BBC Radiophonic Music, featuring original works by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, primarily consisting of themes and jingles for use on radio and television. Read more (more…)

Quaoar

Hubble Space TelescopeNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spots an object beyond the orbit of Pluto, and approximately half the size of Pluto – the largest object discovered in the solar system in over 70 years. With a circular orbit that’s a billion miles further from the sun than Pluto, the body is determined to be approximately 800 miles in diameter. Quaoar is believed to be the largest Kuiper Belt object discovered to date, though its thunder will be stolen a few years later with the discovery of Eris and the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet.

STS-112

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on the 111th shuttle flight, an 11-day construction mission to the International Space Station. Another major structural truss is assembled and attached, serving the primary function of radiating built-up waste heat away from the station and into space. Aboard Atlantis for her 26th flight are Commander Jeff Ashby, Pilot Pamela Melroy, and mission specialists David Wolf, Piers Sellers, Sandra Magnus and Fyodor Yurchikhin.