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H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man: The Big Plot

H.G. Wells' The Invisible ManThe 26th and final episode of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, based on Wells’ story, airs on ITV; this episode will air in December 1959 in the U.S. on CBS. Barbara Shelley stars. The role of the invisible man himself, Dr. Peter Brady, has been played in voice-over by actor Tim Turner without on-screen credit in all 26 episodes.

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The Andromeda Breakthrough: Gale Warning

The Andromeda BreakthroughThe second episode of the British science fiction series The Andromeda Breakthrough, created and written by John Elliot and astronomer Fred Hoyle as a follow-up to 1961’s A For Andromeda, is broadcast on the BBC, starring Peter Halliday, Susan Hampshire, John Hollis (The Empire Strikes Back), and Mary Morris. Unlike A For Andromeda, this series exists in the BBC archives in its entirety.

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Vega 4: Dive Into Danger

Vega 4The Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs the fifth episode of the science fiction series Vega 4, starring John Fassen (a veteran of ABC’s first genre series, The Stranger). This series is a follow-up to the 1966 series The Interpretaris.

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Project UFO Sighting 4026: The Atlantic Queen Incident

Project UFOThe 24th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. Morey Amsterdam guest stars.

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Astronomy Science & Technology Uncrewed Spaceflight Voyager

Voyager 2 and the lost moon of Neptune

LarissaFirst spotted by Earth-based telescope observations in 1981, Neptune’s fourth-largest natural satellite was so tiny and dark that follow-up observations to confirm the discovery were unsuccessful…at least until Voyager 2 sights it on approach to the eighth planet, finding a tiny moon whose orbit corresponds to the theoretical orbit of the body originally sighted in 1981. In 1991, the International Astronomical Union will name this moon Larissa.

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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures: As The Dude Turns

Bill & Ted's Excellent AdventuresFox airs the second episode of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures, starring Evan Richards, Christopher Kennedy, and Rick Overton (playing the roles played in the 1989 movie by Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, and George Carlin, respectively). Kelly Rutherford (Melrose Place, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.) and Mark La Mura guest star.

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Pathfinder Uncrewed Spaceflight

Red planet rover, please come over

PathfinderSojourner, the original Mars rover, rides out on the Martian surface, getting close-up looks at nearby rocks and demonstrating technologies that are vital to upcoming Mars missions, including automatic hazard detection and avoidance. Sojourner’s ability to “see” obstacles and navigate around them without advice from ground controllers will be essential to later Mars rovers, since it takes seven minutes for a signal to reach Earth, and seven more minutes for instructions to return. The rover captures the public imagination and is even immortalized as a Hot Wheels toy.