Day: January 3, 1961

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Franchises Television Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone: In His Image

  • January 3, 1963

The Twilight ZoneThe 103rd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. George Grizzard and Gail Kobe star in the fourth season premiere. Though technically cancelled at the end of its third season, CBS offers Rod Serling the chance to revive the series at midseason to replace – ironically – the hour-long series that took its place on the schedule. This necessitates a brief experiment, for the remainder of the shortened fourth season, in making The Twilight Zone an hour-long show over Serling’s protest.

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Doctor Who Television

Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space, Part 1

  • January 3, 1970

Doctor WhoThe 254th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC, the first of the series’ seventh season. Nicholas Courtney returns as the Brigadier, now a series regular, while Caroline John makes her first appearance as the Doctor’s companion, Liz Shaw. As of this story, the Doctor is exiled on Earth indefinitely by the Time Lords, unable to travel in space or time in the TARDIS.

This is Jon Pertwee’s first episode as the Doctor, and the first Doctor Who episode filmed in color. Due to a BBC studio strike, the story is filmed entirely on location, a rarity for Doctor Who.

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Doctor Who Television

Doctor Who: Arc Of Infinity, Part 1

  • January 3, 1983

Doctor WhoThe 580th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Leonard Sachs and Michael Gough guest star; for the first and only time to date in the series, the next actor to play the Doctor appears in a small guest role (Colin Baker). This episode is the beginning of the 20th anniversary season of Doctor Who, and brings back Omega, the villain of 1973’s The Three Doctors, in a story set on the Time Lord planet of Gallifrey.

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Television

Babylon 5: A Call To Arms

  • January 3, 1999

Babylon 5Cable channel TNT premieres A Call To Arms, the fourth and final Babylon 5 TV movie produced for TNT. The movie features a mixture of familiar Babylon 5 characters as well as new characters who would later appear in the spinoff series Crusade; A Call To Arms is effectively a two-hour pilot for Crusade, which would premiere later in 1999.

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Doctor Who Television

Matt Smith is the Doctor

  • January 3, 2009

Doctor WhoThe BBC, having masterfully kept its casting decision under wraps for over a week, broadcasts a special edition of the making-of series Doctor Who Confidential, announcing that 26-year-old Matt Smith will be the eleventh Doctor. The youngest actor ever to play the part, Smith’s casting attracts controversy on the basis of little more than a few rushed, disjointed interview segments in Doctor Who Confidential. His first appearance as the eleventh Doctor is virtually an entire year away at the time of the announcement.

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Crewed Spaceflight

From the makers of the moon lander…

  • January 3, 2013

Golden Spike Lunar LanderThe recently formed Golden Spike company, focusing on commercial space exploration and exploitation, announces a contract with aerospace company Northrup Grumman – whose engineers designed and built NASA’s Apollo lunar landers in the 1960s – to do a design study for a new generation of lunar landing hardware. The contract only covers a design, which will need to be finalized so companies hoping to build the lander can bid on the actual construction contract.

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: My Struggle III

  • January 3, 2018

The X-FilesThe 208th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Mitch Pileggi, Annabeth Gish, William B. Davis, Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) and Robbie Amell (The Tomorrow People, The Flash) guest star in the season eleven premiere.

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