The 25th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Roddy McDowall (Planet Of The Apes) and Susan Oliver (Star Trek) star in Serling’s adaptation of a Paul Fairman short story.
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The 29th and final episode of the spy-fi series Adam Adamant Lives! airs on BBC1, starring Gerald Harper and Juliet Harmer. T.P. McKenna guest stars in the series finale, one of the only two second season episodes that now exists in the BBC’s archives.
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The 155th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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The 316th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Clive Morton guest star. This is the first appearance of the Sea Devils, identified here as an offshoot of the Silurian species.
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The 21st episode of The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV. 
Construction begins on Space Shuttle Orbiter Vehicle 102 (OV-102 for short), the shuttle orbiter that NASA intends to launch as early as 1977. But OV-102 encounters the inherent pitfalls of being the first of its kind: years of delays are ahead, with many of the delays linked to the complicated system of protective thermal tiles designed to bear the brunt of the shuttle’s punishing re-entry through the atmosphere. (The test orbiter, later named Enterprise, is never intended for spaceflight, so it only has to conform to the shape and weight of a returning shuttle for landing tests, and therefore it doesn’t face the same hurdles.) OV-102’s first flight won’t take place until 1981, leaving a six-year gap between manned American spaceflights; during this period OV-102 will be named Columbia.
ABC airs both parts of a two-part episode of Future Cop as its Friday night movie, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times). Albert Salmi and Gerrit Graham guest star.
The 56th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Carmen Argenziano (Stargate SG-1) guest stars.
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ABC airs the second episode of Stephen J. Cannell’s superhero comedy series The Greatest American Hero, starring William Katt, Connie Sellecca, and Robert Culp.
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Atari releases Video Pinball as a cartridge for the Atari 2600. Though sharing the same name as an earlier Atari arcade game, the home edition is a somewhat more elaborate simultaion of pinball.
ABC airs the fourth episode of the cop show spoof Police Squad, in color, starring Leslie Nielsen and created by the Zucker-Abrams-Zucker team behind the hit movie Airplane! William Shatner (Barbary Coast, T.J. Hooker) and Dr. Joyce Brothers guest star. The series is cancelled after this episode’s broadcast, leaving two episodes to be shown in July.
The 20th episode of the science fiction series The Powers Of Matthew Star airs on NBC, starring Peter Barton and Louis Gossett Jr. Jon Gries (Martin, The Pretender) guest stars.
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Geffen Records releases Peter Gabriel’s soundtrack to the movie Birdy. Many of the album’s tracks are instrumentals inspired by songs from Gabriel’s existing solo albums.
The 62nd episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Ben Murphy (Alias Smith And Jones, Gemini Man) stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 91st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The fourth episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Bernard Fresson and Jean Rougerie guest star.
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GNP Crescendo records releases the soundtrack compilation album The Best Of Godzilla: 1954-1975, with highlights from the various Toho Studios Godzilla movies’ early era.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 98th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Julie Caitlin Brown reprises her first-season role as Narn aide Na’Toth.
NASA scientists announce a startling find on one of Jupiter’s moons: a chemical which must be manufactured on Earth occurs naturally on the surface of Europa. The Galileo orbiter detects naturally-occurring hydrogren peroxide on the surface of the icy moon (a surface which most planetary scientists now believe covers an ocean of water or “slush” just beneath the crust), probably caused by the constant bombardment of radiation-charged particles from Jupiter itself. The hydrogen peroxide on Europa is also found to be very short-lived, quickly breaking down into gaseous oxygen and hydrogen.
The 50th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2.
The 139th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters and Alyson Hannigan also star. Juliet Landau guest stars.
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The fourth Afro-Celt Sound System album, Seed, is released, featuring the single “Rise Above It”.
The 173rd episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge. This is the eighth season finale.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 19th episode of Stargate Atlantis. Clayton Landey and Robert Davi guest star. This episode brings the first season to a close, continuing the “summer season / winter season” pattern already established by Stargate SG-1.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network airs the 25th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Sci-Fi channel airs the 12th episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 53rd episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Mark Sheppard guest stars. This episode concludes the third season; the fourth season doesn’t premiere until over a year later.
Part of the 39th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-12M. Aleksandr Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev and Steven Swanson take up residence on the ISS for 169 days, becoming part of the Expedition 39 and 40 crews. This crew returns to Earth in September 2014 aboard the same vehicle.
The 63rd episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) guest stars.
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Cable channel Disney XD airs the 55th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Tom Baker (Doctor Who), Lars Mikkelsen (House Of Cards, Sherlock), Genevieve O’Reilly (Rogue One) and Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2) guest star.