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2:00 AM First Wave (SciFi) - The Decision
New Episode (and season finale)! Twelve Gua Assembly members gather for a secret meeting to discuss whether or not they should proceed with the Second Wave.

2:20 AM Creature (TMC)
Scientists looking for alien artifacts on a frozen planet find only trouble, dead Germans and evidence that the aliens are active and hungry.

4:20 AM Mars (Showtime Beyond)
Tense murder mystery/action flick set in a mining installation on Mars.

7:00 AM Babylon 5 (TNT) - Into the Fire
The Vorlons and Shadows realize that war is pointless and decide to leave the galaxy alone. Londo gets an unwelcome visit from Morden and his new skin condition.

7:10 AM Armageddon (Starz)
Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and others swagger their way through the tough business of saving the world from a big meteor.

8:00 AM Powers of Matthew Star (TVLand) - The Triangle
Leonard Nimoy directs this "classic" episode pitting Matthew against the Bermuda Triangle.

8:00 AM Babylon 5 (TNT) - Epiphanies
Bester returns to the station to warn Sheridan and company about one of President Clark's plots.

8:45 AM Deep Impact (Showtime Beyond)
A big comet threatens Tea Leoni, Robert Duvall and others in this film, which bears a curious resemblance to the legendary "When Worlds Collide."

11:00 AM Mystery Science Theater 3000 (SciFi) - Puma Man
Donald Pleasance leads an evil cult of Aztec puma-worshippers to greatness, Mike gets a new hairdo and becomes a superhero (again) and the robots build a singing effigy of South African folk troubadour Roger Whitaker.

12:00 PM Cocoon: The Return (FX)
After visiting aliens, a bunch of old people return to Earth, where they promptly begin to wrestle with questions of immortality and those ever-present bonds of family.

3:00 PM Deep Impact (Showtime Beyond)
See 8:45 a.m. listing for summary.

4:00 PM Farscape (SciFi) - The Flax
See 12:00 a.m. listing for summary.

5:25 PM Armageddon (Starz)
See 7:10 a.m. listing for summary.

6:00 PM First Wave (SciFi) - The Decision
See 2 a.m. listing for summary.

7:20 PM The Invader (MoreMax)
Mars needs women: An alien decides to impregnate a schoolteacher (Sean Young) in order to provide his dying race with females, all of whom have been wiped out by a rival species.

9:30 PM Repo Man (IFC)
Edgy film blends UFO paranoia, the web of synchronicity, mid-1980s Los Angeles and other strangeness, with Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton and a cameo appearance from punk band Circle Jerks.

Sunday, October 17

12:00 AM Femalien 2 (Cinemax)
Two female aliens fend off UFOlogists and the Men in Black while trying to track down a missing comrade who's gone native on Earth.

2:15 AM Repo Man (IFC)
See Saturday's 9:30 p.m. listing for summary.

3:30 AM Star Trek: The Animated Series (TVLand)
No episode title available.

8:00 AM Powers of Matthew Star (TVLand) - Mother
Matthew's mother comes to Earth in this episode written by Star Trek stalwart Walter Koenig.

10:00 AM Earth 2 (SciFi) - Flower Child
The colonists find some pretty flowers that make them sick.

11:00 AM Space: Above and Beyond (SciFi) - Eyes
The secretary-general is assassinated, forcing our heroes to guard the new leader of humanity from follow-up attacks.

12:00 PM Star Trek (SciFi) - The Conscience of the King
One of Kirk's old friends warns him that genocidal dictator Kodos the Executioner is now pretending to be a Shakespearean actor.

5:15 PM Star Wars: A New Hope (TBS)
One of the most beloved SF films of all time. Two robots, a large doglike creature and other galactic misfits band together to save a princess, blow up a space station and set the tone for other films to follow.

7:00 PM Dark Skies (SciFi) - The Awakening
See Saturday's 3 p.m. listing for summary.

7:10 PM Predator 2 (MoreMax)
Invisible, almost unstoppable alien thrill-killers face off in Los Angeles against Danny Glover, Gary Busey and Ruben Blades, among others.

8:00 PM The Outer Limits (SciFi) - Phobos Rising
After an explosion cuts off communication with Earth, colonies on Mars spiral into political chaos. With Joan Chen.

10:00 PM The Visitor (SciFi) - Miracles
The Visitor celebrates Christmas by helping a pregnant woman -- whose grandfather coincidentally learned how to manufacture antimatter -- give birth.