The 66th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson. Janine Perreau guest stars in the fourth season premiere.
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Destiny and the Raven, the pilot script for an unproduced series, Warrior: The Life Of Sam Houston, is completed by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry for Screen Gems, the television production arm of Columbia Pictures. This will become the first Roddenberry pilot committed to film, starring Gregg Palmer and George Keymas, though it will not result in a series; a second pilot script, titled Exile, will remain unfilmed. The series concept, under the working title The Man From Texas, has been in development since at least September 1957. 
The seventh episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This episode is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions.
The 24th episode of the spy-fi series Adam Adamant Lives! airs on BBC1, starring Gerald Harper and Juliet Harmer. This episode, directed by Ridley Scott (Alien), is missing from the BBC’s archives.
British broadcaster ABC airs the 110th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.
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The 104th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Lawrence Montaigne guest stars.
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The fourth episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man) guest stars.
Mated to its Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, Space Shuttle Enterprise goes airborne for the first time in the first of a series of “captive-inert” test flights. During these flights, there is no crew aboard Enterprise, nor are any of the test shuttle’s systems powered up; the flights are intended to make sure that the combination of the 747 and the Enterprise is capable of being flown safely. Further “captive-inert” flights are carried out over a ten-day period.
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Cupertino businessman Larry Jones incorporates Mythicon, a new video game software publisher focused entirely on providing games for the Atari VCS. With the knowledge that the market for VCS software is already becoming flooded, Mythicon’s business model involves selling games for a price point just under $10 each, and distributing them in grocery stores and drug stores rather than the usual retail chain outlets. Only three games – all three regarded as some of the worst yet produced for the VCS – are released before Mythicon closes up shop.
The 16th episode of the science fiction series The Powers Of Matthew Star airs on NBC, starring Peter Barton and Louis Gossett Jr. Scott Hylands (Night Heat, V) guest stars.
The 57th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Bruce Weitz (Hill Street Blues) stars in an episode written by J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah, Sense8).
The 15th episode of the syndicated Alexander and Ilya Salkind-produced Superboy series, starring John Haymes Newton and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Gary Lockwood (2001: a space odyssey, The Lieutenant) guest stars.
The 16th 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. Brett Cullen guest stars.
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The 37th 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). Ginger Lynn guest stars.
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Fox airs the 20th episode of the sci-fi western, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, and Christian Clemenson. Billy Drago (The Untouchables) and Richard Herd (V) guest star.
The 17th 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 Jerry Hardin. The trio of conspiracy theorists known as “The Lone Gunmen”, played by Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund, and Tom Braidwood, make their first appearance here; they’ll eventually gain enough popularity to get their own short-lived spinoff.
The 38th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos.
The 59th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. John Shea and Billy Dean guest star.
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