ABC airs the 77th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Charles Bronson guest stars.
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ABC airs the 77th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Charles Bronson guest stars.
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The 104th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Mike Kellin, Simon Oakland, and Bill Bixby star in an episode written by Serling.
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The 135th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Robert Lansing and Mariette Hartley star.
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The first episode of Larry Cohen’s science fiction series The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes and produced by Quinn Martin’s QM Productions, premieres on ABC. John Milford guest stars.
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Surveyor 7, the last of NASA’s robotic moon landers, comes to a smooth landing on the moon’s Tycho Crater. Packed with more scientific instrument packages than any of its predecessors, Surveyor 7 studies the amount of dust kicked up by its retro rockets during landing, and lands closer to its planned target than any of the other Surveyors. Another experiment involves a test to see if a laser beam originated from Earth can be picked up by Surveyor’s cameras.
The 76th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris. Robert Foulk and Arte Johnson guest star.
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The 70th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. Frank Gorshin (Batman) guest stars. 
The 255th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Nicholas Courtney returns as the Brigadier, now a series regular, while Caroline John makes her first appearance as the Doctor’s companion, Liz Shaw. This is the first story to feature the Nestene Consciousness and its plastic servants, the Autons.
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NBC airs the 13th episode of Leslie Steven’s “spy-fi” series Search, starring Doug McClure and Burgess Meredith. Antoinette Bower guest stars.
The 25th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Donna Mills (Knots Landing) and Frank Aletter (It’s About Time) guest star.
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ABC airs the 12th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin.
The 419th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Philip Madoc guest stars as Solon.
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UK regional broadcaster HTV premieres the first episode of children’s paranormal series Children Of The Stones, starring Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7) and Freddie Jones (Dune). The series is filmed on location near the real stone circle at Avebury.
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 27 on a mission to the Salyut 6 space station – the first instance of three vehicles being docked together in space. Cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Oleg Makarov spend six days with the crew of Soyuz 26 board the station, although Dzhanibekov and Makarov swap capsules with the station crew, leaving the newer vehicle at the station for their eventual return. The crew of Soyuz 27 is in space for less than a week, but their spacecraft remains in orbit, connected to Salyut, for over two months.
Arista Records releases, just weeks after the movie’s premiere, John Williams’ soundtrack from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Sales are brisk, bolstered in no small part by the fact that Williams’ music is on the year’s second major science fiction blockbuster.
NBC airs the 13th episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.
The 543rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This story brings the E-space trilogy to a close and is written by science fiction novelist Stephen Gallagher. Clifford Rose and Kenneth Cope guest star.
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Sierra On-Line releases the computer game Mouskattack. Designed by John Harris, this is one of several titles Sierra will publish to get a Pac-Man-style game on the home computer market before Atari can release an official port. It is available for the Atari home computers.
The 11th episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. John Schuck (Holmes & Yoyo, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home) guest stars.
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The Alan Parsons Project releases its tenth album, Gaudi, including the single “Standing On Higher Ground”.
CBS airs the 50th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Ron Perlman, Jo Anderson, and Roy Dotrice. Daniel Faraldo guest stars.
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NBC airs the 21st episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Michael Stoyanov (Blossom) guest stars.
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The tenth episode of the superhero series The Flash, based on the DC Comics character, airs on CBS, starring John Wesley Shipp and Amanda Pays. Christopher Neame (Blake’s 7, Doctor Who) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 163rd episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Terry O’Quinn (Lost) guest stars.
The 125th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Victoria Jackson (UHF) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 99th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Kevin Smith guest stars.
The 121st episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.
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Astronomers put the red planet on red alert after predicting 1-in-75 odds for an asteroid to collide with Mars on or near January 30th. The asteroid, discovered in November 2007, is on a trajectory that poses no threat to Earth but has better-than-usual odds of packing quite a wallop for Mars. The impact, if it does happen, could take place on the equator, near the Opportunity rover’s stomping (or, perhaps, roving) grounds, though NASA says it would pose no risk to Opportunity. A crater as large as Arizona’s Meteor Crater could be carved out of the Martian surface by any direct hit that does happen. Scientists prepare to watch the event with keen interest, as this event would be potentially cataclysmic if Earth was in danger, but provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for observation on Mars.
NASA reveals that its Boeing-747-mounted SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) telescope, during a 2011 flight in which its sensitive infrared sensors were aimed at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, captured an image of the super-massive black hole at the heart of the galaxy. A disc of dust and gas circling the center of the galaxy – seven light years across – lights up the image. The black hole is believed to have a mass of over four million times that of Earth’s sun.
The 209th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Mitch Pileggi and Dean Haglund guest star.
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