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The 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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The 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.
ABC airs the 86th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Lois Maxwell (the James Bond films’ original Miss Moneypenny) guest stars.
The 114th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Howard Morris, Patricia Berry, and Jack Albertson star.
The 18th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part five of the story now collectively known as 
British 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.
NASA 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 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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NBC airs the 21st episode of Leslie Steven’s “spy-fi” series Search, starring Tony Franciosa and Burgess Meredith. Sebastian Cabot (Ghost Story) and Diana Muldaur (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.
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CBS 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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At 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”.
The second episode of RoboCop: The Series airs in syndication, starring Richard Eden, Yvette Nipar, Blu Mankuma, and Andrea Roth. Chris Wiggins (Friday The 13th: The Series) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for 
Showtime airs the 54th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Jason Priestly (Beverly Hills 90210) guest stars and directs.
The 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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Silva Screen Records releases Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 
The CW airs the 31st episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. John Barrowman (Torchwood) and Neal McDonough guest star.
The CW airs the 63rd episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Melissa Benoist (Supergirl) and John Barrowman (Torchwood) guest star in a musical episode.
The 217th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Mitch Pileggi, Annabeth Gish, and William B. Davis guest star in the season eleven finale. 
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