8:00 AM Babylon 5 (TNT) - Grey 17 Is Missing
Garibaldi fights to escape from a religious cult while Delenn finds herself forced to fight for control of the Rangers.
11:00 AM Mystery Science Theater 3000 (SciFi) - Devil Doll
Tom Servo decides to throw a drunken frat party while the Satellite inmates watch this 1964 film about a voodoo ventriloquist who puts an heiress' soul into his dummy Hugo.
12:00 PM Gattaca (HBO)
In a future where genetic engineering is destiny, non-engineered "natural child" Vincent (Ethan Hawke) must impersonate a man of better chromosomes in order to join the space program. This beautifully photographed film was shot in and around several Frank Lloyd Wright buildings for a retro-futuristic feel, and also stars Uma Thurman, Jude Law and Ernest Borgnine.
1:00 PM Dark Skies (SciFi) - Dreamland
John and Kim team up with billionaire recluse Howard Hughes in Las Vegas to stop the aliens from using casino winnings to finance an invasion.
1:20 PM Martians Go Home (Encore)
Painfully "wacky" effort revolves around a songwriter (Randy Quaid) whose jingles are so infectious they call hordes of annoying little green men.
2:00 PM Farscape (SciFi) - Through the Looking Glass
4:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Second Wave
5:35 PM Alien 3 (TNT)
Most somber of the Alien saga, this installment shows the apocalyptic hand of director David 'Seven' Fincher. Bereft of her adopted daughter, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is marooned on an icebound penal colony where the only tools available in her crusade against the aliens are a small population of tonsured convicts (including Charles S. Dutton) and a thriving local lead-refining industry.
Sunday, September 12
8:00 AM Powers of Matthew Star (TVLand) - Accused
Matthew has to use his alien powers yet again, this time solving a crime when Walt (Louis Gossett Jr.) is mistakenly arrested.
10:15AM Tales From A Parallel Universe: I Worship His Shadow (Showtime Beyond)
The first of the four feature-length episodes of the "Lexx" saga introduces the cast, centering around their theft of a unique starship and battle against His Galactic Shadow, a gnostic galactic emperor. Enormous fun!
11:55 AM Starship Troopers (Showtime Beyond)
In this 1997 production based on Robert Heinlein's novel, heavily armed forces from Earth go off-world to battle alien "bugs" bent on planetary conquest. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, who is otherwise known in the science-fiction scene as the director of 'Robocop' and 'Total Recall'.
12:00 PM Alien Nation (SciFi) - The Night of Screams
Mitch Pileggi (Skinner from The X-Files) guest stars as "Jean Paul Sartre" in this episode otherwise noteworthy for a serial killer plot.
1:30 Contact (MoreMax)
Aliens help an aloof astronomer (Jodie Foster) work through her unresolved father-daughter issues, while a deeply religious Matthew McConaughey looks on in wide-eyed bewilderment. Also featuring James Woods, John Hurt and Tom Skerritt.
5:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Book of Shadows
Cade goes to Salem to see whether a murderous high school cheerleader is in league with aliens.
6:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Marker 262
Acting on a tip from Crazy Eddie, Cade investigates a "dead man's curve" in Missouri that may have extraterrestrial overtones.
6:05PM The Day Of The Triffids (Showtime Beyond)
Mutant plants make a bid to conquer the Earth after a freak meteor shower in this apocalyptic 1962 classic.
7:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Motel California
Pillar of the community has hallucinations of a dominatrix. Cade suspects she may be an alien plot.
7:45PM Starship Troopers (Showtime Beyond)
8:00 PM Predator (Encore)
Invisible alien stalks Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse 'The Governor' Ventura, Carl Weathers and others.
8:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Breeding Ground
Is the preppie girl an alien, or just an athletic arsonist?
9:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Cul-De-Sac
Cade gets mixed up with Nick Patterson, a teen-ager who thinks he saw an alien with the power of self-healing get up and walk away after being murdered.
10:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - Hypnotic
Cade wrestles with "alien abduction" phenomena -- is the psychologist in league with the aliens?
10:30 PM Stargate: SG-1 (Showtime Beyond) - Into the Fire
After the SG-1 team are jailed on Hathor's planet, only Hammond and Teal'C can save them.
11:00 PM Mystery Science Theater 3000 (SciFi) - Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
Lost episode! The inmates of the Satellite of Love mock one last film (a schlockfest about a wizard and his wife having to deal with modern times) in this episode, which was never aired during the series' original run.
11:50 PM Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (TBS)
The best of the six movies focused on the original Star Trek cast. The crew stumbles across the barren planet where they had unwittingly stranded Khan, a genetically engineered villain played wonderfully by Ricardo Montalban, during the 1967 episode Space Seed. Khan plots revenge against Kirk and the rest of the crew.
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