CBS airs the 17th episode of Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone. Everett Sloane stars in a Serling original about addiction to gambling.
CBS airs the 17th episode of Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone. Everett Sloane stars in a Serling original about addiction to gambling.
The 102nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the 12th and final episode of the mammoth 12-part story now collectively known as The Daleks’ Master Plan, and marks the Daleks’ final appearance in the first Doctor’s era. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
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The 20th 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. Frank Wilcox guest stars.
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The 77th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Diane Webber guest stars.
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The 308th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. David Troughton guest stars. This marks the first appearance of the Ice Warriors in color.
The third episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. John Saxon guest stars.
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The 22nd episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV.
The 444th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Russell Hunter, David Bailie and Pamela Salem guest star.
The 12th episode of Wonder Woman airs on ABC, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Roy Rogers guest stars.
The 94th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson.
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The second episode of the series Salvage 1 airs on ABC, starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins (Silver Spoons), and Trish Stewart. Richard Jaeckel (Spenser For Hire) and Richard Eastham (Wonder Woman) guest star.
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NBC airs the third installment of the lavish three-part miniseries based on Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. Adapted for TV by respected SF author Richard Matheson, the miniseries has already taken an embarrassing public beating by none other than Bradbury itself, inspiring NBC to yank the heavily-publicized off of the fall 1979 schedule and burn off the miniseries in January 1980 prior to the 1980 Winter Oympics. Rock Hudson, Barry Morse (Space: 1999) and Bernadette Peters star. The miniseries is a co-production between NBC and the BBC (who won’t air it until later in 1980).
ITV airs the 22nd episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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NBC airs the 25th episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Vic Perrin (The Outer Limits’ Control Voice) guest stars.
ITV airs the 108th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Benedict Taylor and Jim Broadbent guest star.
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The Soviet Union’s unmanned Mars probe Phobos 2 successfully arrives in orbit around the red planet after over half a year of interplanetary travel (and after the loss of its identical twin, Phobos 1). Phobos 2 begins taking pictures of both Mars and Phobos and begins a series of orbital maneuvers that will eventually lead it to a very close approach to Phobos, where it is expected to release a pair of surface landers, the first of their kind to study a Martian moon.
The 11th episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 airs on KTMA, an independent TV station in Minneapolis, starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh Weinstein.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 59th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Fox Network airs the 14th episode of Kenneth Johnson’s sci-fi cop series Alien Nation, starring Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint. Aubrey Morris (The Prisoner) guest stars.
NBC premieres the first episode of Wes Craven’s slightly supernatural series Nightmare Cafe, starring Robert Englund (V, A Nightmare On Elm Street), Jack Coleman (Heroes), and Lindsay Frost (Mancuso, FBI). Despite the title and Englund in the cast, Nightmare Cafe is unrelated to Craven’s A Nightmare On Elm Street films. Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) guest stars.
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NBC airs the 66th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. John Anderson guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 49th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
UPN airs the 30th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 14th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 83rd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Duncan Regehr (Wizards & Warriors) guest stars.
UPN airs the 56th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
GNP Crescendo records releases the soundtrack compilation album The Best Of Godzilla: 1984-1995, collecting music highlights from the more recent Toho Studios Godzilla films.
Russia launches the Soyuz TM-27 spacecraft on a mission to the Mir space station. Aboard are cosmonauts Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai Budarin; French spationaut Léopold Eyharts joins them for a 20-day before he returns to Earth with Mir’s previous crew. Musabayev and Budarin remain in orbit on Mir for 207 days, returning to Earth in August 1998 with cosmonaut Yuri Baturin. During their stay, further repairs were conducted to Mir’s solar power panels, which were damaged in a 1997 collision with a Progress unmanned cargo vehicle.
Showtime airs the 89th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Robert Hays (Starman, Airplane!) guest stars.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 37th episode of Stargate SG-1.