The tenth episode of the syndicated horror anthology series 13 Demon Street airs on stations across the U.S., hosted by Lon Chaney Jr. (The Wolf Man), and created (and frequently written and directed) by Curt Siodmak.
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CBS airs the 13th episode of Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone. Philip Pine and Beverly Garland star in Serling’s adaptation of a story by George Clayton Johnson (Logan’s Run), featuring music by a young Jerry Goldsmith.
British broadcaster ABC airs the fourth episode of Pathfinders To Mars, a follow-up series to Pathfinders In Space, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. George Colouris and Gerald Flood (City Beneath The Sea) star; the script is 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 six episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
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The 98th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part eight of the mammoth 12-part story now collectively known as The Daleks’ Master Plan. The Doctor’s time-traveling nemesis The Monk returns, becoming only the second recurring enemy in the history of the show. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
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The 17th 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, is broadcast on CBS.
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The 73rd episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Lyle Bettger guest stars.
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BBC2 airs the 25th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Adapted by Robert Muller from a story by Isaac Asimov, the story stars David Healy as Powell and Brian Davies as Donovan. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives, and marks the end of Irene Shubik’s tenure as producer, as well as the last episode of the series to be made in black & white. The robot costumes from this story will be reused in the later Doctor Who story The Mind Robber.
The 304th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Nicholas Courtney and Aubrey Woods guest star in the first episode of the ninth season, and the first appearance of the Daleks since filming in color began.
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The 440th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This story introduces the Doctor’s new companion, the bright but primitive Leela (Louise Jameson). Leslie Schofield (Star Wars) guest stars.
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The 91st episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Eric Braeden (Escape From The Planet Of The Apes) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 57th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Andreas Katsulas (Babylon 5) guest stars in the first spec script bought from future Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ronald D. Moore.
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The 31st episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. John Rubinstein guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 81st episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Brock Peters (To Kill A Mockingbird) and Robert Foxworth (The Questor Tapes) guest star, with Foxworth choosing this role over his established recurring Babylon 5 character.
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Sci-Fi Channel premieres the eighth episode of Lexx.
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Lone Eagle Books releases the Star Trek non-fiction book “The Music of Star Trek”, written by Jeff Bond.
Actor Ray Walston, best known for his starring role as My Favorite Martian but also famous for recurring roles on Picket Fences and both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager, dies at the age of 86. His appearances on Picket Fences earned him two successive supporting actor Emmy awards in 1995 and 1996. Walston also made countless appearances in other television shows, ranging from both the theatrical version and the short-lived TV spinoff of Fast Times At Ridgemont High, to the miniseries based on Stephen King’s The Stand, episodes of Buck Rogers, Mission: Impossible, Amazing Stories, Night Court, Friday The 13th: The Series, Ally McBeal, and Touched By An Angel, and even a one-off attempt to revive ALF.
Smithsonian Books publishes General Thomas Stafford’s non-fictional memoir of his time in NASA, “We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race“, co-written with Michael Cassutt. The book details Stafford’s involvement in several NASA missions, from the Gemini program through the high-profile flights of Apollo 10 to the moon and the international Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission.
Capitalizing on the popularity of Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 in a recent Doctor Who episode, CBBC premieres The Sarah Jane Adventures‘ first episode. Though popular with the target audience, a full series doesn’t appear until the fall, after some reworking of the series concept.
BBC3 premieres the 12th and 13th episodes of Russell T. Davies’ science fiction series Torchwood, a more adult-themed spinoff of Doctor Who. These back-to-back episodes bring the series’ first season to a close.
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The 758th episode of Doctor Who (the 60th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. This is the second part of the final story of David Tennant’s era, with an unusually grim storyline for its holiday airdate. Bernard Cribbins, John Simm (Life On Mars) and Timothy Dalton guest star. This also marks the end of Russell T. Davies’ tenure as showrunner, though he continues to work on the Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures spinoffs.
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NASA’s New Horizons space probe, operated by Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab, passes within 2,200 miles of the mysterious Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, a tiny fragment of leftover material from the birth of the solar system. Previously seen only as a tiny pixel even by the powerful lens of the Hubble Space Telescope, nothing was known of 2014 MU69 prior to the flyby, which revealed it as a contact binary: two bodies which had become gravitationally fused together. As 2014 MU69 (informally nicknamed Ultima Thule in a public poll conducted by the New Horizons public outreach team) is a billion miles further away than Pluto, and with New Horizons continuing outward at 30,000 miles per hour, signals between Earth and New Horizons take at least six hours to reach their destination, so the downlink of data from the flyby would take until 2020 to complete.
The 853rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 154th episode since the series’ revival). Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill star. Charlotte Ritchie (Call The Midwife), Nikesh Patel (Artemis Fowl), and Daniel Adegboyega (Skyfall, Transformers: The Last Knight, Nightflyers) guest star in an episode featuring the return of the Daleks.
The 854th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 155th episode since the series’ revival). Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill star. Lenny Henry (Neverwhere) and Stephen Fry guest star in the premiere of the modern series’ 12th season; Sacha Dhawan (An Adventure In Space And Time) guest stars as a new incarnation of the Master.
