5:25 AM 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.
5:30 AM The Twilight Zone
(SciFi) - Elegy
Episode penned by the legendary
Charles Beaumont pits three astronauts against a strange alien planet where
everyone walks around in a frozen trance. Could they have gotten their
wish and come home?
6:00 AM First Man Into
Space (AMC)
Daring test pilot leaves
the atmosphere, gets a face full of meteor dust, becomes vampiric monster.
8:45 AM The Sender
(MoreMax)
Eric Roberts and Sherilyn
Fenn seek the aid of an SF writer (played by Dean Stockwell) after being
abducted by aliens and chased by unsympathetic Men In Black.
2:00 PM Star Trek
(SciFi) - The Omega Glory
Ravaged by space disease,
a Starfleet officer goes rogue and sets himself up as the military leader
of an innocent planet.
5:40 PM Close Encounters
of the Third Kind (Encore)
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.
9:00 PM The Outer Limits
(SciFi) - Heart's Desire
Mysterious alien bestows
his powers on Casper Van Dien and other inhabitants of a small Old West
town.
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