The 725th episode of Doctor Who (the 27th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Tracy-Ann Oberman guest stars. This is the conclusion of the second season of the new series, and sees Billie Piper’s exit as a series regular. The end of the episode introduces Catherine Tate as future companion Donna Noble, leading into the 2006 Christmas episode. This episode is the first to pit the Daleks against the Cybermen. 
Benbella Books releases the non-fiction Star Trek essay anthology “Boarding The Enterprise”, edited by and featuring contributions from David Gerrold. Other contributors include Norman Spinrad, D.C. Fontana, Paul Levinson and Eric Greene. (theLogBook.com webmaster Earl Green aided with this book’s fact-checking and editing.) (more…)
A scaled-down proof-of-concept model of an inflatible space station module designed by NASA in the 1990s, Genesis I is launched (with no occupants, or, indeed, an airlock to allow access) by Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace. Genesis I is a testbed for a privately-operated space station whose pressurized modules (inflated from within by the supply of breathable air) would be much cheaper to launch than pre-fabricated structures such as the International Space Station. With several cameras monitoring every angle of the station, the module fully inflates in just ten minutes.
The 194th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks. Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars in the season ten premiere. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 41st episode of Stargate Atlantis. Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars in the third season premiere. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the first episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino (Earth 2), Joe Morton (Mercy Point), and Matt Frewer (Max Headroom). (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.) (more…)
The 195th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks. Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 42nd episode of Stargate Atlantis. (more…)
American Records releases Tom Petty‘s final solo album, Highway Companion, featuring the single “Flirting With Time”. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the second episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino (Earth 2), Joe Morton (Mercy Point), and Matt Frewer (Max Headroom). (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.) (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 84th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables. (more…)
The 196th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks. Stargate Atlantis regulars Joe Flanagan, Torri Higginson, and David Hewlett guest star in this crossover episode. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 43rd episode of Stargate Atlantis. Richard Kind (Spin City) guest stars. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the third episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.) Tamlyn Tomita (Babylon 5, Star Trek: Picard) guest stars.
The 197th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 44th episode of Stargate Atlantis. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the fourth episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.)
The 198th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 45th episode of Stargate Atlantis. David Odgen Stiers (M*A*S*H) guest stars. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the fifth episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.) Saul Rubinek guest stars.
Film Score Monthly releases Alan Silvestri’s soundtrack from the TV series CHiPS, focusing on highlights from the second season. (more…)
Impressed with the progress shown by the commercial spaceflight industry, NASA signs agreements with SpaceX, a venture started by PayPal founder Elon Musk, and Oklahoma-based Rocketplane Kistler (RPK) to begin developing spacecraft that can deliver cargo and, later, astronauts to the International Space Station. RPK’s bid eventually collapses in financial scandal, though SpaceX goes on to create Dragon, the first privately-funded vehicle to visit the ISS in 2012.
The 199th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks. (The numbering works only in syndication and reruns, where Children Of The Gods is broken into two episodes.) (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 46th episode of Stargate Atlantis. Richard Dean Anderson (Stargate SG-1) and Alan Ruck (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Twister) guest star. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the sixth episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 47th episode of Stargate Atlantis. Robert Davi guest stars. (more…)
The trade paperback collection Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl? is published. (more…)
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases a 2-CD limited edition set of soundtrack music from the 1980s anthology series Amazing Stories, featuring music by Jerry Goldsmith, David Newman, Craig Safan, Bruce Broughton, and other composers. This is the second volume of three collections of music from Amazing Stories. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the seventh episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.)
Big Finish Productions releases the 85th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford. (more…)
TV Eyes releases its self-titled debut album. The ’80s-styled album is the combination of the talents of Brian Reitzell and former Jellyfish members Roger Joseph Manning Jr. and Jason Falkner. (more…)
Essential Records releases the seventh Jars Of Clay album, Good Monsters, featuring the single “Dead Man (Carry Me)”. (more…)
The first webisode of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a serialized story set immediately prior to the third season of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel’s website, an early streaming video experiement for the network that also promotes the show’s upcoming return. (more…)
Sci-Fi Channel airs the eighth episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, and Matt Frewer. (In the UK and elsewhere, this series is retitled A Town Called Eureka.)
The second webisode of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a serialized story set immediately prior to the third season of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel’s website. (more…)