(all times Eastern)
3:30 AM Orion's Key (Cinemax)
Dispensable 1996 pulp-adventure update pits archaeologists against a powerful alien buried in Africa.
9:00 AM The X-Files: Fight the Future (Cinemax)
In their big screen debut, Scully and Mulder travel to the ends of the earth, from the deserts of Texas to the icy plains of Antarctica, out to stop the alien menace and menaced by bees every step of the way.
1:00 PM Lost in Space (SciFi) - The Great Vegetable Rebellion
Dr. Smith picks a flower on an uncharted planet, prompting a giant carrot to take revenge by turning the Robinsons into plants in one of the fits of dementia that made this series legendary.
5:45 PM Strange Invaders (MoreMax)
This spoof of 1950s monster movies revolves around a search for a missing woman and the eternal tension between aliens and tabloid reporters.
7:00 PM Star Trek (SciFi) - Day of the Dove
An alien presence inside the Enterprise's computer forces the crew to fight Klingons in order to satisfy its violent tastes.
9:00 PM Until the End of the World (SciFi)
The decaying orbit of "the Indian nuclear satellite" provides an apocalyptic backdrop to this now only slightly dated vision of 1999 as seen nearly years ago. Although it now seems unlikely that any satellites -- Indian, Russian or otherwise -- are poised to fall on Paris, most of the stylish ideas in this film (starring William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Jeanne Moreau and Max von Sydow) still hold up.
10:00 PM Nightline in Primetime: Brave New World (ABC) - Looking for Life
A look at the search for extraterrestrial life, featuring a discussion of what we can learn from alien microbes, lunar tourists, a dramatized Voltaire short story and other segments.
11:00 Star Trek (SciFi) - Day of the Dove
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