The 109th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Anne Francis stars.
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The 140th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Wally Cox stars.
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The sixth episode of Larry Cohen’s science fiction series The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes and produced by Quinn Martin’s QM Productions, premieres on ABC. Jack Lord (Hawaii Five-O) guest stars.
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The 80th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris. Leonard Stone guest stars.
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The 74th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. This episode sees Spock use a version of a Vulcan mind-meld on Kirk, urging him to “forget”; the later movies will reveal that this memory manipulation technique has an opposite number: “remember”… 
The 260th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Fulton MacKay, Paul Darrow (Blake’s 7) and Peter Miles guest star. This is the first story to feature the Silurians.
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The Soviet Union launches unmanned space probe Luna 20 toward the moon, another robotic lunar lander with the capability of gathering a lunar soil sample and returning it to Earth. Over 50 grams of lunar material, including rocky material from the mountainous region near Luna 20’s landing site, are returned to Earth in a shielded re-entry capsule. The lander continues to operate for three days after the sample container is launched back to Earth.
NBC airs the 17th episode of Leslie Steven’s “spy-fi” series Search, starring Tony Franciosa and Burgess Meredith. Craig Stevens guest stars.
ABC airs the 17th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on Jeff Rice’s novel and the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin. Erik Estrada (CHiPS) guest stars.
The 424th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Tony Beckley and John Challis guest star.
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UK regional broadcaster HTV premieres the sixth episode of children’s paranormal series Children Of The Stones, starring Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7). The series is filmed on location near the real stone circle at Avebury.
The second episode of Supertrain airs on NBC, starring Edward Andrews and Patrick Collins. Dick Van Dyke (The Dick Van Dyke Show) and Larry Linville (M*A*S*H) guest star.
NASA launches the unmanned Solar Maximum Mission satellite atop a Delta 3910 rocket, to study cyclical solar flare activity from Earth orbit. Built by Fairchild and relying on a magnetic reaction wheel system to maintain precise aim at the sun, “Solar Max” suffers malfunctions in orbit, and will be able to carry out only limited observations by November 1980. In 1984, Solar Max will become the first satellite to be repaired in-orbit by a visiting space shuttle crew. After repairs, the satellite will be released, with its life span in orbit having effectively doubled. It will remain in orbit, and functional, through 1989.
NBC airs the 18th episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Mary Woronov and Anne Lockhart guest star.
The 548th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the beginning of a trilogy of stories themed around the Doctor’s regeneration and the reintroduction of the Master. Sarah Sutton makes her debut as Nyssa. Anthony Ainley guest stars.
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Sega releases the arcade game Congo Bongo in American arcades. Using the same graphical approach as Zaxxon, Congo Bongo is a 3-D take on the oddly familiar theme of a man climbing a structure to capture an ape.
CBS airs the 18th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Martin Balsam and Larry Poindexter star in an episode comprised of three short stories, including a Harlan Ellison adaptation of an early Stephen King short story.
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At the request of astronomer Carl Sagan, NASA and JPL reawaken Voyager 1‘s camera for a last look back at Earth and its solar system, from a mind-boggling distance of 4,000,000,000 miles. The “last look” is actually composed of 60 separate photos, capturing most of the planets (with the exception of Mars and Mercury), including Earth – which takes up less than a single pixel in the image. Sagan points to the image as evidence of the fragility and uniqueness of Earth, and names his next book after the photo, “Pale Blue Dot”, also centered on that theme. 
NBC airs the 24th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
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The 13th episode of the superhero series The Flash, based on the DC Comics character, airs on CBS, starring John Wesley Shipp and Amanda Pays.
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The 19th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2. This is the first episode of Red Dwarf’s fourth season.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 167th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 35th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The 66th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and Lisa Ryder. Hayden Christensen (Star Wars Episode II, Star Wars Episode III) guest stars.
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Showtime airs the 49th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Don Franklin (seaQuest DSV, Seven Days) guest stars.
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The 41st episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2. Chris Barrie appears as Rimmer (sort of).
The 129th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Veronica Cartwright (Alien) guest stars.
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After orbiting the sun behind asteroid 433 Eros for a year since a failed thruster burn almost ended its mission, unmanned space probe NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) fires its engines successfully, slowing itself to fall into orbit around Eros. During the weeks leading up to the orbital insertion maneuver, NEAR observed the space around Eros to ensure that no satellites existed with which it might collide. NEAR’s close study of Eros officially begins, and further maneuvers bring it into an ever-closer orbit around the asteroid.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 104th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Kevin Smith and Musetta Vander guest star.
The 59th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Jayne Heitmeyer, Von Flores, and Richard Chevolleau.
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