The 60th episode of Sam Rolfe’s western series Have Gun – Will Travel is broadcast on CBS in the United States, starring Richard Boone. This episode is written by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, a frequent writer in the series’ early seasons. 
ABC airs the 83rd episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland.
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The 111th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Robert Sterling and Burgess Meredith star.
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The recently-rechristened Environmental Sciences Service Administration (previously the U.S. Weather Bureau) launches, with the help of NASA, weather satellite ESSA-2, intended to be the second in a constellation of spaceborne observers of Earth’s weather. Virtually identical to ESSA-1, ESSA-2 monitors Earth’s cloud cover for over four years; it is decommissioned in 1970, not because it stops working, but because a newer satellite utilizes the same telemetry frequency.
The eighth episode of Larry Cohen’s science fiction series The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes and produced by Quinn Martin’s QM Productions, premieres on ABC. William Windom (The Farmer’s Daughter, My World And Welcome To It) guest stars.
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The 82nd episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris. Stanley Adams guest stars.
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The 76th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. Jeff Corey guest stars. 
The 262nd 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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NBC airs the 19th episode of Leslie Steven’s “spy-fi” series Search, starring Tony Franciosa and Burgess Meredith. Tim O’Connor (Buck Rogers) and Terry Carter (Battlestar Galactica) guest star.
The 426th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Tony Beckley and John Challis guest star.
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The fourth episode of Supertrain airs on NBC, starring Edward Andrews and Patrick Collins. Loretta Swit (M*A*S*H), Roy Thinnes (The Invaders), Victor Buono (Batman, Man From Atlantis) and Billy Barty guest star.
The 550th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1, continuing a trilogy of stories themed around the Doctor’s regeneration and the reintroduction of the Master. Janet Fielding joins the cast as new companion Tegan. Anthony Ainley guest stars as the Master.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on a four-day Department of Defense mission, the specifics of which remain classified. The crew consists of Commander John Creighton, Pilot John Casper, and mission specialists Richard Mullane, David Hilmers and Pierre Thuot.
The 21st episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 169th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The long-awaited (and fan-demanded) second volume of The Carl Stalling Project is released by Warner Bros. Records. The album is another release of original soundtrack recordings from Stalling’s scoring sessions for the Warner Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies cartoons from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Jewel releases the album Pieces Of You, featuring the singles “You Were Meant For Me”, “Foolish Games” and “Who Will Save Your Soul?”.
SuperTracks releases a “composer promo” CD of Dennis McCarthy‘s soundtrack from the TV miniseries V: The Final Battle.
Showtime airs the 51st episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) guest stars.
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Fox airs the 39th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, Cleavant Derricks, and Kari Wuhrer. Roger Daltrey (Highlander, Witchblade) guest stars. This is John Rhys-Davies’ final appearance as a series regular, though one episode filmed prior to his two-part exit had yet to be shown, and would appear later.
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The 43rd episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2.
The 131st episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Carrie Hamilton (Fame) guest stars.
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The 61st 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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NASA’s NEAR-Shoemaker unmanned spacecraft, still on the surface of asteroid 433 Eros, sends its final signals to Earth before shutting down. Launched in 1996, NEAR-Shoemaker swung by asteroid 253 Mathilde before making its way to Eros via an Earth gravity assist maneuver. It orbited Eros for a year, having started its operations in close proximity to the asteroid a year later due to a technical problem in 1998 that nearly destroyed the space probe. Future asteroid missions such as Hayabusa and Dawn will refine the science of traveling to and studying asteroids.
Big Finish Productions releases the first Doctor Who: Excelis audio drama, a limited series of interconnected stories spanning several of the Doctor’s regenerations. Peter Davison, Katy Manning, and Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer) star.
The 128th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec.
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Big Finish Productions releases the 79th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
Big Finish Productions releases the seventh Sarah Jane Smith audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Elisabeth Sladen, reprising her TV role. Jacqueline Pearce and Stephen Greif (Blake’s 7) guest star.
NASA’s New Horizons probe, on a one-way trip to become the first probe to swing past distant Pluto, picks up speed dramatically as it slingshots past Jupiter. New Horizons sensors are trained on the giant planet to get the first look at Jupiter since Galileo swan-dived into its crushing atmosphere. New Horizons gains nearly 9,000 miles per hour as it swings past Jupiter, which will put it at Pluto in July 2015. New Horizons’ camera catches an erupting volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, spewing material 200 miles above the surface.
ABC airs the 57th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Mira Furlan (Babylon 5) and Cheech Marin (of Cheech & Chong fame) guest star.