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The 22nd episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Claude Akins and Barry Atwater star in an episode written by Serling that is generally regarded as one of the high points of the entire series.
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The ninth 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.
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The 26th episode of the spy-fi series Adam Adamant Lives! airs on BBC1, starring Gerald Harper and Juliet Harmer. Along with much of the rest of the second season, this episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
British broadcaster ABC airs the 112th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. Ronnie Barker (The Two Ronnies) guest stars.
BBC2 airs the 34th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by Brian Hayles (creator of Doctor Who’s Ice Warriors), the story stars Bernard Horsfall and Geoffrey Palmer. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The seventh episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Lucie Arnaz and Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man) guest star.
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NBC airs the 41st episode of Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Rod Serling. Lesley Ann Warren guest stars in Leonard Nimoy’s directorial debut.
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The 55th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Nehemiah Persoff guest stars.
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As it nears its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe detects the first likely signs of a ring system around Jupiter’s equatorial region. Barely visible until Voyager 1 is behind the planet and can see them through scattered sunlight, the rings are only about 20 miles thick, but are over 150,000 miles in diameter. The lead time between Voyager 1’s visit and Voyager 2’s later flyby allows ground controllers to plan a better observation campaign for Voyager 1’s sister ship, and the rings are observed in more detail by the later Galileo and New Horizons missions.
The 18th episode of the science fiction series The Powers Of Matthew Star airs on NBC, starring Peter Barton and Louis Gossett Jr. John Vernon (Animal House) guest stars.
CBS airs the 19th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Josh Blake guest stars.
The 59th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Pamela Bellwood (Dynasty) stars in an episode written by Christy Marx (Jem And The Holograms).
The 17th episode of the syndicated Alexander and Ilya Salkind-produced Superboy series, starring John Haymes Newton and Stacy Haiduk, airs.
The 43rd 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. 
The first episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles premieres to great fanfare on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flannery. Margaret Tyzack (Quatermass) and Oliver Ford Davies (Star Wars Episode I) guest star in the feature-length series premiere.
NBC airs the 68th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Carla Gugino (Chicago Hope, Threshold) guest stars.
Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on the 61st shuttle mission, a two-week visit to Earth orbit carrying two cargo-bay-mounted experiment systems operated primarily from the ground. Crew members participate in experiments involving the side-effects of long-term space travel. The crew for Columbia’s 16th flight consists of Commander John Casper, Pilot Andrew Allen, and mission specialists Pierre Thuot, Charles Gemar and Marsha Ivins.
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Crew members of space station Mir and Russian ground controllers practice manual remote control of an unmanned Progress supply vehicle near the station. Where most previous Progress spacecraft have automatically docked using the KURS radar system, Russia is now seeking alternatives, as the Ukraine-made KURS hardware is proving too expensive to keep buying for non-reusable vehicles. During Mir Commander Vasily Tsibliev’s attempt to redock Progress M33, the remote control signal is interrupted, leaving the ten-ton Progress barreling toward the station. Fortunately, it narrowly misses Mir, though the remote control issue will resurface more dramatically with the next Progress craft to visit the space station.
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