Doctor Who: Colony In Space, Part 2
The 294th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado, John Ringham and Bernard Kay guest star.
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The 294th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado, John Ringham and Bernard Kay guest star.
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Salyut 1, the first orbiting space station in history is launched, unmanned, by the Soviet Union. With Salyut 1, the Soviet space program intends to vault ahead of the United States in a new space discipline (namely long stays in space and the study of human endurance in a zero-G environment), having lost the moon race. The first Salyut station will orbit Earth for less than a year.
BBC2 airs the 38th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by former Doctor Who producer John Wiles, the story stars Peter Copley and Maurice Roeves (The Nightmare Man). This episode, opening the series’ fourth and final season, no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The Soviet Union launches the Soyuz 10 mission, intended to become the first crew to occupy an Earth-orbiting space station. Flying a new modification of the Soyuz vehicle, fitted with a new system for docking to the Salyut 1 space station, are Vladimir Shatalov, Alexei Yeliseyev and Nikolai Rukavishnikov, but they won’t be the first space station crew in history: the Soyuz capsule fails to hard-dock to the station, making it impossible for them to enter. Soyuz 10 returns to Earth after two days, and even on the return journey the cosmonauts are sickened by toxic fumes in their environmental system. Salyut 1 remains in orbit, still unmanned.
The 295th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado, John Ringham and Bernard Kay guest star.
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The 20th episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. George Sewell and Grant Taylor guest star.
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The 296th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado, John Ringham and Bernard Kay guest star.
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The 297th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado, John Ringham and Bernard Kay guest star.
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NASA and JPL launch Mariner 8, the first of two identical “Mars ’71” orbiters designed to visit Mars. Where previous missions have simply flown past the red planet, Mariners 8 and 9 are intended to put themselves in orbit and remain there to map the majority of the Martian surface. The second stage of the Atlas-Centaur booster used to launch Mariner 8 fails, however, and the robotic Mars explorer crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. Some of its mission objectives are transferred to the identical Mariner 9, due for launch at the end of the month.
The 21st episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. George Sewell and Gabrielle Drake guest star.
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The 298th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado, John Ringham and Bernard Kay guest star.
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BBC2 airs the 43rd episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by Edward Boyd, the story stars Malcolm Tierney and Pamela Salem. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The 299th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Damaris Hayman guest star.
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The 300th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Damaris Hayman guest star.
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NASA and JPL launch Mariner 9, the only surviving specimen of two identical “Mars ’71” orbiters designed to visit Mars (Mariner 8 has already been launched and then lost in a launch accident). After nearly six months of travel, Mariner 9 will take up permanent residence around the red planet.
BBC2 airs the 45th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by Martin Worth, the story stars Anthony Bate. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The 301st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Damaris Hayman guest star.
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After a tuberculosis scare forces Soviet space officials to ground the mission’s original crew, the backup crew of Soyuz 11 lifts off to become the first occupants of a manned space station. Experiencing none of the difficulties that plagued the earlier Soyuz 10 attempt to dock with Salyut 1, the Soyuz 11 crew stays aboard Salyut for 22 days, a new record for a manned space mission.
The National Severe Storms Laboratory‘s 10cm Doppler weather radar begins full-time experimental operation in Norman, Oklahoma, just in time for the region’s active severe weather season. A surplus Air Force radar left over from the Distant Early Warning radar network (also known as the DEW Line) is installed and housed in a facility that’s also made of military surplus parts. There is no real-time display at first: researchers and meteorologists store the Doppler radar’s observations on computer tape that has to be processed and printed months after the fact, and compared to archived records from the existing WSR-57 radar at Norman.
The 302nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Damaris Hayman guest star.
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BBC2 airs the 47th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale, the story stars Patrick Troughton (Doctor Who). This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The 303rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Damaris Hayman guest star. This episode wraps up the eighth season.
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BBC2 airs the 48th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by Michael J. Bird, the story stars John Nettleton and June Ellis. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
Though the race to the moon has already been lost, the Soviet space program continues to refine its giant N1 rocket, conducting extensive modifications to nearly all of its systems. The third N1 to lift off almost immediately loses directional control, forcing ground controllers to signal it to self-destruct less than a mile off the ground. Its cargo is an unmanned Soyuz/Korabl combo – the Soviet answer to the Apollo command/service module and landing module – though this time there is no launch escape system, so the vehicle is destroyed along with its booster.
After a record-setting 22 day stay about Soviet space station Salyut 1, the crew of Soyuz 11 prepares to return home. As they undock and fire their retro rockets to bring their vehicle out of orbit, Soyuz depressurizes without warning, killing the crew – Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev – within a minute. (The cramped design of the Soyuz cabin makes no allowances for cosmonauts to wear spacesuits.) Soyuz flights will be grounded for two years until the vehicle can be redesigned to prevent another tragedy. Two members of the grounded prime crew, Alexei Leonov (the first man to walk in space) and Valery Kubasov, are later reassigned to the international Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.
BBC2 airs the 49th and final episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by David T. Chantler, the story stars Freddie Jones (Children Of The Stones, Dune). This final episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
London Weekend Television premieres the first episode of the alternate-future-history series The Guardians, starring Gwyneth Powell and Cyril Luckham. The series deals with a near-future Britain under the heel of a fascist regime, and a resistance movement attempting to undermine that government.
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The 22nd episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. George Sewell and Shane Rimmer (Thunderbirds) guest star.
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The 23rd episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. Susan Jameson and Michael Jayston (Doctor Who: The Trial Of A Time Lord) guest star.
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London Weekend Television airs the second episode of the alternate-future-history series The Guardians, starring Gwyneth Powell and Cyril Luckham.
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