Veteran television and film composer Jerry Goldsmith dies at the age of 75, after a lengthy battle with cancer. Known to genre fans and soundtrack listeners for an almost countless number of classic scores, his works range from Planet Of The Apes to Logan’s Run to The Omen to Star Trek: The Motion Picture and beyond. His television work includes the themes for such TV series as The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Perry Mason, The Waltons, and of course Star Trek: Voyager. His work earned 17 Oscar nominations, including a win for 1976’s The Omen, and five Emmy Awards (including one for Voyager). He began his classical music studies at the age of six, and studied under legendary composer Miklos Rozsa, eventually getting into the business as a typist in CBS’ music department and then beginning his career by creating music for CBS Radio Workshop, the music for which was usually performed live during broadcast. He then moved on to episodic TV work, including The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, Playhouse 90, Thriller, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Amazing Stories, and many others.
The 156th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge. 
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the second episode of Stargate Atlantis. Christopher Heyerdahl (Sanctuary) guest stars. (more…)
Parlophone Records releases the Finn Brothers’ single Won’t Give In from the forthcoming album Everyone Is Here. (more…)
The 157th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the third episode of Stargate Atlantis. Christopher Heyerdahl (Sanctuary) guest stars. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 11th Dalek Empire audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring David Tennant and William Gaunt. (more…)
La-La Land Records releases a 50th anniversary CD of Akira Ifukube’s soundtrack from the original 1954 Japanese version of Godzilla. (more…)
The 158th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the fourth episode of Stargate Atlantis. Christopher Heyerdahl (Sanctuary) guest stars. (more…)
A team of Ansari X Prize hopefuls suffers a major setback when their vehicle, the Rubicon 1, explodes after liftoff in an unmanned test flight. According to Eric Meier, one of the designers of the Rubicon 1, the $20,000 vehicle cannot be recovered or repaired, but must be completely rebuilt. Meier and his team intend to build a new craft and continue vying for the X Prize, whose deadline is the end of 2004. Two other teams, one Canadian and one American, have already announced dates for their qualifying flights.
The 159th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the fifth episode of Stargate Atlantis. (more…)
Mere weeks after entering orbit around the huge ringed planet, the Cassini is already making impressive discoveries at Saturn. NASA announces that Cassini images have uncovered two previously undiscovered moons in orbit of the ringed planet, and they’re among the smallest bodies that have yet been detected in space, each barely 2 miles in diameter. They’re given the provisional names s/2004 S1 and s/2004 S2, and await further verification of their size and orbits – and undoubtedly other members of Saturn’s family are waiting to be captured by Cassini’s cameras in the course of its planned four-year survey of the planet and its moons.
Renowned composer Elmer Bernstein dies at the age of 82. Best known for his non-genre work on such classic films as The Ten Commandments, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Magnificent Seven (and its numerous sequels), Animal House, True Grit and Airplane!, he also racked up quite a few genre credits, ranging from Ghostbusters to Heavy Metal to Saturn 3 and beyond. He also scored numerous specials and documentaries for National Geographic, IBM, and even the United Nations. He was nominated for 11 Oscars with one win (for Thoroughly Modern Millie), and was instrumental in the formation of the Varese Sarabande label, which deals almost exclusively in soundtrack releases.
Big Finish Productions releases the 60th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables. (more…)
The 160th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the sixth episode of Stargate Atlantis. Alan Scarfe guest stars. (more…)
The Finn Brothers album Everyone Is Here is released, featuring the singles “Won’t Give In”, “Nothing Wrong With You” and “Part Of Me, Part Of You”. (more…)
The Alan Parsons album A Valid Path is released, featuring guest appearances by Shpongle, Roger Waters, The Crystal Method and John Cleese (!). (more…)
The 161st episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the seventh episode of Stargate Atlantis. Colm Meaney (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 12th Dalek Empire audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring David Tennant and William Gaunt. (more…)
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The NASA/JPL Genesis mission, a 29-month trek through the solar system to gather solar particles and return them to Earth, ends in disaster when both of the parachutes – meant to slow the returning Genesis capsule down and give retrieval helicopters something to hook onto to bring the capsule to the ground safely – fail to open. As a result, the 420+ pound Genesis capsule slams into the Utah desert floor at nearly 200 miles per hour. The impact breaches not only the outer re-entry shell of the capsule, but the experiment canister within containing the fragile plates of gold, sapphire, diamond and other pure substances, all of which had been exposed to the solar wind to collect particles from the sun. Scientists begin picking through the debris to see what portions of those collection devices can be salvaged. Several pieces of the collection devices are salvageable, with at least two complete plates and fragments of several others, but many other plates are reduced to dust by the impact of landing.
The 162nd episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the eighth episode of Stargate Atlantis. Don S. Davis (Stargate SG-1) guest stars. (more…)
The soundtrack CD Space: 1999 Year One is released – five years to the day after the date the moon is blasted out of orbit, according to the series’ opening credits. (more…)
The 163rd episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the ninth episode of Stargate Atlantis. Colm Meaney and Robert Davi guest star. This is the first half of a cliffhanger which is resolved in January. (more…)
Wiley Books publishes the non-fiction book Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer by Gordon Laing, an illustrated history of the evolution of microcomputer hardware. (more…)
The 13th episode of the radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is first broadcast on BBC Radio, beginning a radio adaptation of Douglas Adams’ novel Life, The Universe, And Everything and reuniting most of the original radio cast (though even the late Peter Jones is represented via brief clips from the 1970s radio series before being “rebooted” to the voice of actor William Franklyn). Adapted by Dirk Maggs, this is the first Hitchhiker’s Guide radio project undertaken after Adams’ death in 2001. Toby Longworth guest stars. (more…)
Columbia Records Japan releases Bob Sakuma’s soundtrack from the early ’70s Tatsunoko anime series Space Knight Tekkaman . (more…)
The 14th episode of the radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is broadcast on BBC Radio, continuing Dirk Maggs’ adaptation of Douglas Adams’ novel Life, The Universe, And Everything with most of the original radio cast. Real-life BBC cricket commentators Henry Blofeld and Henry Trueman appear as themselves. (more…)
The Brian Wilson album Smile, based on songs and concepts from an unfinished Beach Boys album, is released. (more…)