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Pathfinders In Space: Convoy To The Moon
British broadcaster ABC premieres the first episode of Pathfinders In Space, a follow-up series to Target Luna, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. Peter Williams stars in a script written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all seven episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
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The 82nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as 
The first episode of the time travel sitcom It’s About Time, created by Sherwood Schwarz (I Dream Of Jeannie) and starring Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, and Imogene Coca, premieres on CBS. The series involves two astronauts thrown back in time to the prehistoric era, and a comedy of errors ensues as they try to get along with the primitive neighbors with whom they find themselves stranded. Richard Donner (Superman: The Movie, Ladyhawke, Lethal Weapon) directs the series premiere.
Despite an in-flight fuel pressure glitch that threatens to make this the third failure for the Surveyor program, 
London Weekend Television airs the tenth episode of the alternate-future-history series The Guardians, starring Gwyneth Powell and Cyril Luckham.
The second episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series 
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NBC premieres the first episode of Monster Squad, a live-action Saturday morning comedy series imagining Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman as a crime-fighting team led by Walter (Fred Grandy, a year before he would set sail on The Love Boat). (Though similar in concept, the series is unrelated to the late theatrical movie of the same name.)
The 23rd episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. William Campbell (Star Trek) guest stars in the third season premiere.
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The 80th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Pamela Hensley (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century) guest stars in the fifth season premiere.
The 59th and final episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Jared Martin (The Fantastic Journey, War Of The Worlds), Marc Alaimo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Ike Eisenmann (The Fantastic Journey, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan) guest star in the series finale.
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The International Cometary Explorer satellite – originally launched as International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 in 1978 – reaches the culmination of a series of complex orbital changes: a flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner, within 5,000 miles of the nucleus, primarily to sample and study the comet’s plasma tail and the interaction between that and the solar wind. ISEE-3 was not equipped with cameras at launch, so no imagery of the comet is obtained. The success of this flyby emboldens mission planners who hope to send it onward to study Halley’s Comet early in 1986, as part of a backup plan to use existing NASA spacecraft to study Halley in lieu of a specialized vehicle that would’ve been launched by space shuttle in 1986 (cancelled in the wake of the Challenger disaster).
Catalogued, restored, remastered, and released for the first time ever, 
Warner Bros. releases 
The 49th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, and Nigel Bennett. Lisa Ryder (Andromeda) joins the cast as a regular in the third season premiere, directed by Geraint Wyn-Davies.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 
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Syfy airs the 42nd episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, and Joe Morton. Matt Frewer (Max Headroom) guest stars in an episode directed by Morton.
Australia’s Nine Network airs the