CBS airs the 18th episode of Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone. Kenneth Haigh stars in an episode written by Richard Matheson.
CBS airs the 18th episode of Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone. Kenneth Haigh stars in an episode written by Richard Matheson.
The 103rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first part of the story now collectively known as The Massacre. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
The third of five Lunar Orbiter satellites is launched to the moon by NASA, and once in orbit, Lunar Orbiter 3 achieves an unmanned spaceflight first: it’s the first unmanned space probe to image another unmanned space probe (in this case, Surveyor 1, which has been on the moon since 1966). A mechanical fault prevents Lunar Orbiter 3 from returning roughly a quarter of its images to Earth.
The 21st 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. Alan DeWitt and Karen Valentine guest star.
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The 78th 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.
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After nearly a year of examining the problems that nearly doomed the crew of Apollo 13, the third lunar landing is achieved by the crew of Apollo 14, commanded by Alan Shepard, the only one of the seven original Mercury astronauts to walk on the moon; lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell joins him on the surface while Stu Roosa orbits in the command module Kitty Hawk. The Apollo 14 lunar module, Antares, makes the most accurate landing of the Apollo program in the Fra Mauro highlands (the landing site originally assigned to Apollo 13), where soil samples are collected, instruments are deployed, and Shepard becomes the first human being to hit a golf ball on the moon.
The 309th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. David Troughton guest stars. This marks the first appearance of the Ice Warriors in color.
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The fourth episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Carol Lynley and Larry Linville (M*A*S*H) guest star.
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The unmanned Mariner 10 space probe swings past the planet Venus at a distance of less than 4,000 miles, its cameras capturing a completely opaque sphere whose clouds reveal no surface. But when viewed through ultraviolet filters, Venus suddenly reveals an immense amount of atmospheric detail. Mariner 10’s UV views of Venus are the best images available until the dual Pioneer Venus mission of the late 1970s; meanwhile, Mariner 10 speeds past the planet en route to Mercury.
The 445th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Russell Hunter, David Bailie and Pamela Salem guest star.
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The third 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 Mako (Conan The Barbarian) guest star.
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Berkley Books publishes the novelization Battlestar Galactica 2: The Cylon Death Machine by Glen A. Larson and Robert Thurston, a print adaptation of the television story The Gun On Ice Planet Zero.
ITV airs the 24th episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. Again owing to scheduling conflicts with the two increasingly in-demand stars, the series will not resume until later in the year.
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NBC airs the 26th episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.
The Alan Parsons Project releases its eighth album, Vulture Culture, including the single “Let’s Talk About Me”.
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz TM-2, the first manned launch of a newly uprated version of the Soyuz capsule. Cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Aleksandr Laveykin travel to the Mir space station, where Laveykin remains for 174 days before departing in July, but Romanenko sets a new space endurance record, remaining in orbit for 326 days. Romanenko’s return to Earth just before the end of 1987 marks the end of Expedition 2’s occupancy of Mir.
CBS airs the 15th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Isabella Hofmann guest stars.
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The Black Adder special sketch Blackadder: The Cavalier Years airs on BBC1, starring Rowan Atkinson, as part of the annual Comic Relief telethon.
The 12th episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 airs on KTMA, an independent TV station in Minneapolis, starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Josh Weinstein.
Reprise Records releases the extended Depeche Mode CD single Enjoy The Silence, containing the song as heard on the album Violator and numerous remixes and B-sides.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 60th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. John de Lancie, Whoopi Goldberg and Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) guest star.
Fox Network airs the 15th episode of Kenneth Johnson’s sci-fi cop series Alien Nation, starring Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint. Angela Bassett (How Stella Got Her Groove Back, What’s Love Got to Do With It) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 50th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Walter Koenig (Star Trek) guest stars.
The 64th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and Lisa Ryder. Geraint Wyn-Davies directs.
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UPN airs the 31st episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Brad Dourif guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 15th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess.
The 15th episode of Lawrence Hertzog’s paranoid spy-fi thriller Nowhere Man, starring Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), airs on UPN.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 84th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Casey Biggs makes his first appearance in the recurring role of Damar.
Programmer Nicola Salmoria releases the earliest version of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME, a freeware PC program which allows users to obtain dumps of the original 1970s and 1980s arcade game ROM chips which MAME interprets, emulating the original hardware architecture to allow play of those games with remarkable fidelity to the original graphics and sounds. This kick-starts a golden age of computer emulation of classic video games and game systems, with the average desktop computer now sporting enough memory to allow for accurate emulation. The release of MAME also ignites an ongoing controversy about the legality of downloading games whose original manufacturers are no longer exploting their intellectual property (or, in some cases, no longer exist as corporate entities).
Pocket Books releases the Star Trek non-fiction book “Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series”, written by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, detailing the extent of the pre-production efforts that Paramount and Gene Roddenberry put into a 1970s revival of the original Star Trek that ultimately went unmade.