The fifth episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. Roger Delgado (Doctor Who) guest stars in episode that is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions.
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The 22nd episode of the spy-fi series Adam Adamant Lives! airs on BBC1, starring Gerald Harper and Juliet Harmer. Jean Marsh (Doctor Who, Upstairs, Downstairs) guest stars in an episode that is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
British broadcaster ABC airs the 108th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.
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The 102nd episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Terry Becker guest stars.
BBC2 airs the 30th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by Donald Bull, the story stars Milo O’Shea and Clive Morton. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
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The 53rd episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Stefanie Powers (Hart To Hart) and Andre the Giant guest star.
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The video game division of #1 toy maker Mattel closes its doors immediately after the parent company announces that it lost well over $300,000,000 over the course of 1983, with all of thoses losses occurring within its video game business. The remaining stock of Mattel’s Intellivision video game system and its software are liquidated, and the entire electronics division is laid off. The popularity of its Masters Of The Universe toys and perennial favorites such as Hot Wheels and Barbie are barely enough to keep the entire company out of bankruptcy court.
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The 55th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Esai Morales stars in a remake of a classic Twilight Zone episode written by George Clayton Johnson (Logan’s Run).
The 13th episode of the syndicated Alexander and Ilya Salkind-produced Superboy series, starring John Haymes Newton and Stacy Haiduk, airs. The episode is written by Eisner Award-winning comic writers Mike Carlin (currently editor of DC’s Superman comics) and Andy Helfer.
The 14th episode of the horror anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares is broadcast in syndication in North America, hosted by Robert Englund in character as Freddy Krueger. Brad Pitt guest stars.
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The 35th episode of the science fiction crime drama Super Force is broadcast in syndication in North America, starring Ken Olandt, Larry B. Scott, and Patrick Macnee (The Avengers). Tristan Rogers (General Hospital) and Janet Gunn (Silk Stalkings) guest star.
Fox airs the 18th episode of the sci-fi western, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, and Christian Clemenson.
The 15th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, and guest starring Callum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica).
The 36th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos.
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NASA reveals recent findings from the unmanned Galileo orbiter touring Jupiter and its moons, including the discovery of a tenuous atmosphere surrounding the outermost large moon of Jupiter, Callisto. The thin layer of carbon dioxide surrounding Callisto completes the set: Galileo has detected an atmosphere of one kind or another around each of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, some of which are large enough to be planets. As for how the atmosphere is sustained in the extremely hostile environment around Jupiter, scientists speculate that the CO2 could be emitted from beneath Callisto’s own crust.
Showtime airs the 110th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Antonio Sabato Jr. (Earth 2) guest stars.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 87th and final episode of the science fiction series Sliders, starring Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, Robert Floyd, and Tembi Locke. Roy Dotrice (Beauty And The Beast) and Jennifer Hetrick (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star in the series finale.
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the