Tales Of Tomorrow: The Fisherman’s Wife

Tales Of TomorrowThe 25th episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, airs on ABC, with each episode’s opening titles proclaiming that the series is produced “in cooperation with the Science-Fiction League of America”, a collective of sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon among its members. This episode is no longer in the archives and may be lost.

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Tornado Bulletin #2

Weather BulletinThe newly formed Weather Bureau-Army-Navy Severe Weather Unit‘s second attempt to warn the public that tornado formation is possible within a specific area strikes paydirt. Again covering a large area including portions of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, later expanded to include states east of this area, this forerunner of modern tornado watches is right on the money, predicting an outbreak of more than 20 tornadoes in Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and Kentucky. Despite the advance notification, the Severe Weather Unit has work to do in educating the public about its bulletins: over 200 deaths still occur as a result of the tornadoes.

The Twilight Zone: I Dream Of Genie

The Twilight ZoneThe 114th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Howard Morris, Patricia Berry, and Jack Albertson star.

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The Avengers: Lobster Quadrille

The AvengersBritish broadcaster ABC airs the 78th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. This, the series’ third season closer, is Blackman’s final appearance in The Avengers before departing the show to co-star in the James Bond film Goldfinger. This is also the last episode shot on videotape; future seasons will be shot on film after American reruns of this season turn The Avengers into an overseas hit.

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Doctor Who: Rider From Shang-Tu

Doctor WhoThe 18th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part five of the story now collectively known as Marco Polo. The entirety of this story has since been lost by the BBC archives.

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Ranger 9

RangerNASA launches the Ranger 9 lunar probe, built by Jet Propulsion Laboratory and intended to go directly to the moon, transmitting pictures of the surface back to Earth until it impacts the lunar surface. Despite NASA scientists’ insistence that the last Ranger probe carry scientific instruments and not just cameras, Ranger 9 is outfitted with cameras only; as a tradeoff, scientists get to nominate its target on the surface, selecting the crater Alphonsus, suspected to be a site of lunar volcanism. Ranger 8 functions flawlessly, sending live video back to Earth until impacting in the crater floor, and for the first time the terminal descent of one of the Ranger probes is broadcast live on TV. This concludes the Ranger program, as NASA now needs to switch its efforts to the unmanned Surveyor lunar landers to find out if the moon’s surface can support the weight of a manned lander. The basic architecture of the Ranger spacecraft is adopted as the heart of the ongoing Mariner planetary space probe series, up to and including the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn ’77 missions (later renamed Voyager) over a decade later.

The Invaders: The Ivy Curtain

The InvadersThe 11th 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 Warden (Crazy Like A Fox) and Susan Oliver (Star Trek) guest star.

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Doctor Who: Logopolis, Part 4

Doctor WhoThe 553rd 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.

This is Tom Baker’s final episode as the Doctor.

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Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator

Star Trek: Strategic Operations SimulatorSegaa releases the arcade game Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator in American arcades. The vector graphics coin-op, simulating the “tactical views” seen on the Enterprise in the first two Star Trek movies, is the first officially licensed Star Trek video game. It also reflects some corporate synergy: Sega was, at the time, also owned by Paramount Pictures parent company Gulf + Western. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

Twilight Zone: Episode 21

The Twilight ZoneCBS airs the 21st episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. William Peterson (CSI) and George Dzundza star in an episode comprised of two short stories, Need To Know and Red Snow.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Heart Of Glory

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 19th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This is the first episode of the series to focus on the Klingon race – a holdover from the original series and movies that series creator Gene Roddenberry had planned to avoid revisiting until co-producer (and fellow classic Trek producer) Bob Justman convinced him otherwise during pre-production, leading to the very late creation of a “Klingon Marine” named Worf. Read more

Space Station Fred

Space Station FreedomAt the insistence of Congress, NASA submits a significant redesign of the long-overdue and over-budget Space Station Freedom for approval. Where previous design changes tried to retain a massive “dual keel” allowing for experiment modules and other activities that could be performed a safe distance away from the station’s habitation modules, the new Space Station Freedom clusters all of its modules together in one place and removes the dual keel structure permanently. Scoffing at the truncated new design, critics refer to the newly-submitted proposal as “Space Station Fred” instead of “Space Station Freedom”.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Blood Oath

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 38th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Guest starring are three actors who played Captain Kirk’s Klingon adversaries in various episodes of the original Star Trek: John Colicos (Battlestar Galactica) as Kor, Michael Ansara as Kang, and William Campbell as Koloth. Read more

The Strangerers: Angels

The StrangerersThe sixth episode of the science fiction comedy series The Strangerers is broadcast on Sky One, created and written by Rob Grant (Red Dwarf), starring Mark Williams and Jack Docherty. Paul Darrow (Blake’s 7) guest stars.

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Stargate SG-1: Full Circle

Stargate SG-1The 131st episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec. Michael Shanks guest stars in the season six finale, which was originally envisioned as the end of the series and a jumping-off point into feature films, though the series would ultimately be renewed by Sci-Fi Channel.

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