X-Files fans have been looking forward to Sunday's new episode for months, while the smaller and less vocal community of Futurama viewers is also in for a treat. Otherwise, the usual flood of weekend movies should satisfy all but the most demanding space addicts.
(all times Eastern)
Saturday, November 6
12:00 AM
Farscape (SciFi) - Back and Back and Back to the Future
Crichton has visions of the future while a sexy alien goes on a seduction-and-murder spree.
12:45 AM Project Shadowchaser III (MoreMax)
A communications satellite orbiting Mars faces the wrath of a long-lost mining freighter that has returned with an apparent vengeance.
2:00 AM Five Million Years to Earth (AMC)
Better known under its British title, "Quatermass and the Pit," film deals with the apocalyptic ramifications of a Martian spaceship being dug up under London. Harrowing climax, stolid plotting.
2:00 AM PM
First Wave (SciFi) - Speaking in Tongues
An alien going by the name "Elton" causes trouble with his televangelist ways, forcing Cade to investigate.
7:00 AM Babylon 5 (TNT) - Conflicts of Interest
Garibaldi gets a job with the bad guys on Mars, Ivanova's broadcast career gets off the ground; raiders attack innocent aliens.
8:00 AM Powers of Matthew Star (TVLand) - Matthew Star: D.O.A.
Matthew's body gets stolen while he's off astrally projecting.
8:00 AM Babylon 5 (TNT) - Rumors, Bargains and Lies
The Non-Aligned Worlds get tricked into teaming up with Babylon 5 and Delenn defuses trouble among the Minbari.
9:00 AM Mystery Science Theater 3000 (SciFi) - The Space Children
Mike and Tom Servo share a very special (and very mercenary) kiss, Crow tries out a line of Jackie Coogan fashions, and some kids make a radical anti-nuclear statement.
11:35 AM Tales from a Parallel Universe (Showtime Beyond) - Eating Pattern
Third installment of the
Lexx series takes the crew to an apparently barren planet where humans play addictive video games and cannibalism plays a sinister role. Shocking, controversial and darkly funny -- a perfect environment for guest star Rutger Hauer.
1:10 PM Star Hunter (Showtime Beyond)
Predator rip-offs stalk a bus full of football players in this marginally inspired creature feature, to which Roddy McDowell and Stella Stevens lend their unique talents
3:00 PM Dark Skies (SciFi) - Mercury Rising
At Cape Canaveral, Kimberly meets an acquaintance from the alien ship, causing some stress to her marriage. Meanwhile, pursuit, as always, is close behind.
4:00 PM
Farscape (SciFi) - Back and Back and Back to the Future
For summary see 12:00 a.m. listing.
4:45 AM Star Hunter (Showtime Beyond)
For summary, see 1:10 p.m. listing.
6:00 PM
First Wave (SciFi) - Marker 262
For summary see 2 a.m. listing.
7:00 PM Tales from a Parallel Universe (Showtime Beyond) - Eating Pattern
For summary, see 11:35 a.m. listing.
8:35 PM Star Hunter (Showtime Beyond)
For summary, see 1:10 p.m. listing.
Sunday, November 7
12:45 AM Orion's Key (MoreMax)
Dispensable 1996 pulp-adventure update pits archaeologists against a powerful alien buried in Africa.
12:45 AM Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (TBS)
Ricardo Montalban pontificates, forces will-sapping worms into the ears of Kirk's friends, and otherwise raises a ruckus, only to be defeated by three-dimensional thinking, a nebula and some photon torpedos.
2:30 AM Space Marines (TBS)
Deep-space adventure pits titular military group against rival pirates, but rarely rises above the level of pulp.
3:10 AM Flash Gordon (TBS)
Unfortunate Dino De Laurentis production gets lost in campy territory while Brian Blessed, Tim Dalton, other luminaries look on in bemused horror. Soundtrack by Queen.
3:30 AM Star Trek: The Animated Series (TVLand)
No episode title available.
5:10 AM Invaders from Mars (TBS)
Not even the cult presence of Bud "Harold & Maude" Cort and the inimitable Karen Black save this remake of the 1953 classic from failing to measure up to the original. Beautiful to watch, though.
7:55 AM Tales from a Parallel Universe (Showtime Beyond) - Giga Shadow
Fourth in the series, which Showtime Beyond is apparently showing in random order. The
Lexx crew fight one of His Galactic Shadow's predecessors to get Kai the proto-blood he needs to stay mobile. With Malcolm McDowell, who was paid in rugs for his efforts. Bizarre and satisfying.
8:00 AM Powers of Matthew Star (TVLand) - The Racer's Edge
Matthew enjoys the pleasures of Earth's motorbike-racing industry, but terrorists loom.
10:00 AM Earth 2 (SciFi) - After the Thaw
Weird things happen after the colonists dig up the body of a Terrian who had been frozen for millennia.
11:00 AM Space: Above and Beyond (SciFi) - Hostile Visit
The Wild Cards manage to capture a Chig bomber but a Trojan Horse mission goes bad. (first part of two)
11:50 AM Tales from a Parallel Universe (Showtime Beyond) - Supernova
Part two of the original four-part
Lexx saga. Our heroes fight a cannibal woman and are perplexed by Tim Curry as "The Poet Man."
12:00 PM Star Trek (SciFi) - By Any Other Name
Sinister aliens from Andromeda turn the Enterprise into bullion cubes but their beautiful leader, unused to human emotions, makes the mistake of falling in love with Kirk.
1:00 PM Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (SciFi)
Robert Culp stars in otherwise forgettable alien-abduction thriller.
2:00 PM
SpaceCamp (HBOPlus)
Lea Thompson and other lovable moppets get more than they bargained for when a space shuttle accidentally launches with them aboard. Kate Capshaw serves as den mother.
2:15 PM Tales from a Parallel Universe (Showtime Beyond) - Giga Shadow
For summary, see 7:55 a.m. listing.
5:25 PM Stargate SG-1 (Showtime Beyond) - Seth
The SG-1 team confronts an ancient Goa'uld religious leader on Earth
5:40 PM Total Recall (TBS)
Arnold Schwarzenegger battles Sharon Stone, genre favorite Michael Ironside and the nature of human consciousness in order to bring freedom to Mars. Helmed by Paul Verhoeven, from a Philip K. Dick story.
6:00 PM Alien 3 (FX)
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 waste-refining industry.
6:10 PM Tales from a Parallel Universe (Showtime Beyond) - Supernova
For summary, see 11:50 a.m. listing.
7:00 PM Dark Skies (SciFi) - Dark Day's Night
Loengard and Kimberly try to figure out what the Hive wants with the Beatles as the fateful "Ed Sullivan" appearance nears.
8:30 PM Futurama (Fox) - When Aliens Attack
New episode! Aliens demand to see the final episode of classic 20th-Century television series, "Single Female Lawyer." If they don't get it, they'll destroy the Earth. Meanwhile, Bender runs amok.
8:30 PM Roger Corman Presents (Showtime Beyond) - Last Exit to Earth
Sometimes Mars needs men, apparently. "Alien super-vixens" come to our helpless planet to scare up some male contributors to their sagging gene pool.
9:00 PM The X-Files (Fox) - The Sixth Extinction
New episode! The Cancer Man takes the stage, Mulder's newfound telepathy continues to be mistaken for insanity and Scully's stunt double gets a workout. That creepy Diana Fowley (Mimi Rogers) also continues to cause trouble.
10:00 PM The Visitor (SciFi) - Going Home
Special Thanksgiving episode allows a husband to reunite with his wife, taken from him by aliens.
10:30 PM Stargate SG-1 (Showtime Beyond) -
Past and Present
The SG-1 team must escape from a prison built to simulate the fires of Hell, but the team's adventures take a back seat to machinations among the alien System Lords. (final part of two)
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