There's lots of space on TV today, allowing fans of the genre to sate their urges on two of the four original Lexx movies, a new Stargate episode, and the Sci Fi Channel's usual Friday night programming.
(all times Eastern)
12:15 AM 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.
5:45 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."
7:20 AM Tales From A Parallel Universe (Showtime Beyond) - I Worship His Shadow
The first of the four feature-length episodes of the
Lexx saga introduces the cast, centering around their theft of a unique starship and battle against His Galactic Shadow, a gnostic galactic emperor. Enormous fun!
1:00 PM The Twilight Zone (SciFi) - The Invaders
Agnes Moorhead spends a half hour expressing her mute rage and frustration as tiny spacemen invade her rural home.
2:00 PM Lost in Space (SciFi) - A Visit to Hades
After Dr. Smith's musical efforts cause a diabolical criminal great pain, Smith, Don and Judy spend some time in an extradimensional "Hell."
2:30 PM Space Truckers (Cinemax)
Shady agencies hire interplanetary teamster Dennis Hopper to take a shipment of deadly robots to Earth. Unusual effort by cult favorite Stuart "Reanimator" Gordon also features Stephen Dorff and George Wendt.
5:00 PM Star Trek (SciFi) - The Alternative Factor
The hapless Lazarus must defeat his antimatter twin, even though the two men will wreak enormous havoc if they touch.
5:30 PM Tales From A Parallel Universe (Showtime Beyond) - I Worship His Shadow
For summary, see 5:45 a.m. listing.
8:00 PM Village of the Damned (Starz)
Remake of the classic film maintains original focus on what happens when an alien force turns the children of a British village blond and evil.
8:00 PM
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.
10:00 PM Stargate SG-1 (Showtime) - Foothold
New episode! The team returns from a mission, only to find that the people at Stargate Command are not who they appear to be.
10:00 PM
First Wave (SciFi) - Speaking in Tongues
An alien going by the name "Elton" causes trouble with his televangelist ways, forcing Cade to investigate.
10:00 PM Species II (Showtime Beyond)
An astronaut undergoes a mating frenzy after being infected by alien DNA on Mars. The object of his attention: "Eve" (Natasha Henstridge), the rehabilitated alien/hybrid menace from the first film.
10:30 PM 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.
11:00 PM Lifeforce (MoreMax)
Evil space vampires ride the space shuttle back from Halley's Comet, setting up shop in London where they do untold damage. The only hope Britain (if not all humanity) has is to capture their vampire queen before it's too late!
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