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NBC picks up Star Trek

Star TrekNBC announces that it has added a new full-color hour-long science fiction series, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, to its fall 1966 schedule. Unusually, the show has produced two wildly different pilot episodes, with NBC having asked for specific changes to the series format as early as 1965, when it passed on the original pilot, The Cage. One change specifically requested between pilots by NBC, the omission of a “Satanic” alien character named Mr. Spock, doesn’t prevent the network from ordering 16 episodes from Desilu Studios.

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The Invaders: Nightmare

The InvadersThe seventh episode of Larry Cohen’s science fiction series The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes and produced by Quinn Martin’s QM Productions, premieres on ABC. Kathleen Widdoes guest stars.

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N1 Flight #1

N1The gigantic Soviet-made N1 rocket, Sergei Korolev’s answer to the American Saturn V launcher, lifts off for the first time with an unmanned Zond spacecraft intended for a lunar flyby. Barely 70 seconds after leaving the pad, the N1 explodes at an altitude of seven miles, but the Zond space probe is salvaged by its escape tower rockets. The Soviet Union is no closer to safely sending a crew of cosmonauts to the moon.

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PROBE

SearchNBC premieres the TV movie/series pilot PROBE, created by Leslie Stevens (The Outer Limits), starring Hugh O’Brian (The Life & Legend Of Wyatt Earp) and Burgess Meredith (Batman, The Twilight Zone), and guest starring Sir John Gielgud. The movie does well with audiences and gets a series pickup, though due to a conflict with a PBS series of the same name, it will be retitled “Search” when it returns on NBC’s fall 1972 TV schedule.

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Twilight Zone: Episode 19

The Twilight ZoneCBS airs the 19th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Steve Railsback (Lifeforce) stars in an episode comprised of two short stories, including an adaptation of the Greg Bear short story Dead Run.

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Misfits Of Science: The Avenging Angel

Misfits Of ScienceThe 15th episode of James D. Parriott’s lighthearted sci-fi series, Misfits Of Science, airs on NBC, starring Dean Paul Martin, Kevin Peter Hall, and Courteney Cox. Vic Polizos (Harlem Nights, Jericho) guest stars. NBC cancels the series due to falling ratings (after scheduling the series opposite the hit prime time soap Dallas); a final episode will be “burned off” later in the year.

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Crewed Spaceflight Mir Soyuz

Soyuz TM-23

Soyuz TM-23Russia launches the Soyuz TM-23 mission to the Mir space station. The crew, cosmonauts Yuri Onufrienko and Yury Usachov, remain aboard Mir for 193 days, returning to Earth in September 1996 with French spationaut Claudie André-Deshays.

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Sliders: The Exodus, Part 1

SlidersFox airs the 38th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks; Kari Wuhrer (Swamp Thing, MTV’s Remote Control) joins the cast. Roger Daltrey (Highlander, Witchblade) guest stars.

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The X-Files: Agua Mala

The X-FilesThe 130th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Jeremy Robert (Star Trek VI) and Darren McGavin (Kolchak: The Night Stalker) guest star.

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