The 19th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Dick York (Bewitched) and Ron Masak (Laserblast) star in an episode written by Serling.
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The Soviet Union launches Venera 1, the first interplanetary space probe. Bound for Venus, Venera 1 returns measurements and observations taken during its three-month flight, but loses contact with ground controllers just as it makes its closest approach to Venus at a distance of 62,000 miles from the planet. It falls into an orbit around the sun after falling silent.
The 104th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Massacre. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
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The 79th 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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The fifth episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Joseph Campanella guest stars.
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The 310th 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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Fearing that the relatively sleek, aerodynamic design of the still-unflown American Space Shuttle is a hint that the vehicle could see use as an orbital bomber, the Kremlin orders the creation of the Soviet Space Shuttle program, though work on the vehicle, codenamed Buran (“Snowflake”), is primarily a crash program within the country’s defense department rather than the civilian branch of its space program. Within months, it is concluded that Buran will closely copy the American shuttle design due to the soundness of its aerodynamic design.
The 446th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Russell Hunter, David Bailie and Pamela Salem guest star.
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The fourth 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 Sam Groom (Police Surgeon, Otherworld) guest star.
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CBS unleashes a particularly virulent strain of Pac-Man Fever into record stores, courtesy of rock group Buckner & Garcia, and there is no cure in sight. With musical odes to the arcade games Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Defender, Frogger, Asteroids, Berzerk, Centipede, and even the relatively obscure coin-op Mouse Trap, this album’s release probably marks the high point of the video game industry “boom” – the apex at which public awareness of video games is at the saturation point, having seeped into the rest of pop culture.
NASA informs the project managers of the Galileo and Magellan interplanetary probes – both of which were due to be launched via space shuttle – that their planned launches are obviously off the schedule due to the destruction of space shuttle Challenger and her crew. Further changes in the shuttle program in the wake of the tragedy will have far-reaching effects, including the cancellation of propulsion modules that would have allowed, for example, Galileo to be put on a direct trajectory toward Jupiter. The Galileo mission plan will undergo significant changes, including the loss of a planned visit to asteroid 29 Amphitrite, and both missions will eventually begin from the cargo bay of space shuttle missions in 1989.
CBS airs the 16th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Bruce Abbott (Re-Animator) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 61st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Fox Network premieres the 16th episode of Alien Nation. Branscombe Richmond (Renegade) guest stars.
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The 34th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. John Shea and Denise Crosby guest star.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 51st episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Aubrey Morris (The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 85th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Tony Todd guest stars.
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The 65th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and Lisa Ryder.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 16th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess.
Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 14th episode of Lexx.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 39th episode of Stargate SG-1. Peter Williams guest stars as Apophis.
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Showtime airs the 91st episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Ted Shackelford (Space Precinct) and Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.
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The 81st episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Jayne Heitmeyer, and Von Flores.
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NASA’s NEAR-Shoemaker unmanned spacecraft gently touches down on the surface of asteroid 433 Eros, the first human-made space vehicle to land on such a body. Ground controllers are surprised to discover that NEAR-Shoemaker survives the landing, which was originally meant to end the mission; a two-week mission extension allows scientists to get readings from instruments that are now mere inches from Eros’ surface.
The 114th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star.
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The 40th episode of the Star Trek prequel spinoff Enterprise premieres on UPN. Jeffrey Combs, Suzie Plakson and Gary Graham guest star.
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British toymaker Character Options releases a wave of action figures based on various versions of the Cybermen as seen in the classic Doctor Who series, including Cybermen from The Tenth Planet (1966), Tomb Of The Cybermen (1967), The Invasion (1969) and the recently-aired Christmas special The Next Doctor (2008).
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a 4-CD box set containing selections of soundtrack music from all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, including variations on the series’ Emmy-winning main theme and several popular fan-requested pieces of music from the show’s seven year history, including a “lost album” assembled in 2000 but never released.
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