4:00 AM 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.
5:00 AM The Visitor
(SciFi) - Fear of Flying
The Visitor teams up with
a discredited scientist.
7:00 AM Babylon 5
(TNT) - Darkness Ascending
The evil Lise arrives, while
Lyta tries her hand at diplomacy. Other horrors -- both internal and otherwise
-- confront poor Lennier.
7:45 AM Cocoon: The Return
(Starz)
The old people (Don Ameche
and others) return to Earth, where they must wrestle with questions of
immortality and those ever-present bonds of family.
9:00 AM Mystery Science
Theater 3000 (SciFi) - Danger Diabolik
John Phillip Law, super-burglar,
must steal some gold for his lovely Italian girlfriend.
11:00 AM Space: Above
and Beyond (SciFi) - Stay With the Dead
It looks like the Wild Cards
were killed in battle, but West, the only survivor, thinks differently.
11:30 AM Wing Commander
(Cinemax)
Peculiar adaptation of popular
video game can most charitably be described as "the future where Nokia
won the corporate wars, inaugurating a new golden age of Finnish fashion."
Earnest young fliers cash in on Starship Troopers phenomenon, fight
nefarious aliens.
12:00 PM First
Wave (SciFi) - Target
117
The Gua send one of their
best warriors to evaluate Cade
Foster, who is trapped with Eddie on a small island.
2:00 PM Farscape
(SciFi) - Vita Mortis
New episode! D'argo's moment
of pleasure could bring a lifetime of pain.
8:00 PM Star Trek: The
Motion Picture (Family)
Stately update of an episode
from the original series reunites Kirk, Spock and company in a struggle
to understand just what a robotic probe wants with us.
9:45 PM Project Shadowchaser
III (Cinemax)
A communications satellite
orbiting Mars faces the wrath of a long-lost mining freighter that has
returned with an apparent vengeance.
Sunday, March 26
9:00 AM Battlestar Galactica
(SciFi) - The Living Legend
Encounter with another battlestar,
the Pegasus, commanded by the legendary Commander Cain (Lloyd Bridges)
sparks a bittersweet reunion among the fragmented survivors of humanity.
(first part of two)
10:00 AM Earth 2 (SciFi)
- The Boy Who Would Be Terrian King
Weird fast-forward episode
deals with terrorist activities in the colonists' future.
11:00 AM Star Trek
(SciFi) - By Any Other Name
Aliens from Andromeda turn
the Enterprise crew into cubes. It's up to Kirk to speak to their female
leader's softer side!
12:05 PM Close Encounters
of the Third Kind (TMC)
Musical aliens get up close
and personal with Francois Truffaut (as a thinly-disguised Jacques Vallee),
Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, J. Allan Hynek and other Earth people, while
"tinkerbell" brings up the rear. A classic example of Steven Spielberg's
sensibilities circa 1977.
12:50 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.
6:00 PM Star Trek: Insurrection
(Showtime)
Picard and the rest of the
Next Generation crowd find an Arcadian planet where strange radiation makes
them act and feel like adolescents. This distracts them from their work.
7:00 PM First
Wave (SciFi) - Deepthroat
An astronomer sees something
he shouldn't have seen, but the photos he takes lead Cade
to a new ally and aliens in the Senate.
7:00 PM Futurama
(Fox) - Fry and the Slurm Factory
Our friends learn where
popular soft drinks come from. Meanwhile, Bender runs amok.
7:10 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.
8:00 PM Soldier (HBOPlus)
Kurt Russell fights a cadre
of genetically engineered super-warriors. At stake is a backwater community
of colonists from Earth.
9:00 PM The X-Files
(Fox) - Hungry
A mutant fast-food employee
struggles against his craving for human brain matter.
10:00 PM First
Wave (SciFi) - Deepthroat
An astronomer sees something
he shouldn't have seen, but the photos he takes lead Cade
to a new ally and aliens in the Senate.
11:00 PM Stargate SG-1
(Showtime Beyond) - Maternal Instinct
Series archenemy Apophis
returns to reclaim his son, a baby with powers far beyond those of even
the Goa'uld.
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