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Space on TV, Weekend Edition -2000Mar23
posted: 07:05 am ET
25 March 2000

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Sunday morning features a return visit from Commander Cain, arguably the greatest Battlestar Galactica character ever. Beyond that, it's rerun season for all our favorite science fiction shows, and the reality channels don't pick up the slack.

(all times Eastern)

Saturday, March 25

1:00 AM Lexx (SciFi) - Terminal
New in the United States! Kai kills Stanley in a fit of pique, leaving nobody around who can give orders to Lexx.


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Space on TV for Monday, March 27


Space on TV for Friday, March 24

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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