In one of those absurdities so common to the science fiction genre, Tuesday brings cult actor Casper Van Dien in not one but two encounters with aliens: an Outer Limits episode and Starship Troopers.
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2:00 AM 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.
9:20 AM Starship Troopers (Showtime Beyond)
Heavily-armed forces from Earth go off-world to battle alien "bugs" bent on planetary conquest. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, who is otherwise known in the science fiction scene as the director of Robocop and Total Recall.
1:00 PM The Twilight Zone (SciFi) - The Long Morrow
An astronaut (Robert Lansing) on a 40-year mission puts himself in suspended animation in order to stay youthful for the woman he left behind.
1:25 PM Stargate SG-1 (Showtime Beyond) -
One Hundred Days
A stargate accident leaves O'Neill trapped on an alien planet without hope of rescue.
2:00 PM Star Trek (SciFi) - The Ultimate Computer
Clever new automation system malfunctions, forcing Starfleet to try to blow up the Enterprise.
4:00 PM
Barbarella (MoreMax)
Very, very French. Futuristic superheroine (Jane Fonda) embarks on mission of utopian violence, loses clothes several times. Climaxes in neo-Freudian "happening."
6:00 PM Around the Galaxy (Science) - Life on Mars?
John Lithgow hosts this look at the renewed possibilities for microscopic life on the Red Planet.
6:15 PM Starship Troopers (Showtime Beyond)
Heavily-armed forces from Earth go off-world to battle alien "bugs" bent on planetary conquest. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, who is otherwise known in the science fiction scene as the director of Robocop and Total Recall.
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