Doctor Who: The Destruction Of Time

Doctor WhoThe 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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It’s About Time: Shad Rack And Other Tortures

It's About TimeThe 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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Six Million Dollar Man: Return Of Death Probe Part 2

Six Million Dollar ManThe 94th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson.

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The Martian Chronicles: The Martians

The Martian ChroniclesNBC 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). Read more

Phobos 2 arrives at Mars

PhobosThe 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.

Nightmare Cafe

Nightmare CafeNBC 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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Quantum Leap: The Last Gunfighter

Quantum LeapNBC 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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Soyuz TM-27

Soyuz TM-27Russia 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.