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Science Fiction Theatre: Signals From The Heart
The 40th episode of the syndicated science fiction Science Fiction Theatre airs on stations across the U.S. Hosted by Truman Bradley, the episode stars Peter Hansen and Walter Kingsford, and is the first episode of Science Fiction Theatre’s second season. For budgetary reasons, the second season reverts to black & white filming (the first season was shot in color).
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The 101st episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
ABC airs the 12th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Patrick O’Neal guest stars.
CBS broadcasts the second episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. Marc Daniels (Star Trek) directs an episode starring Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian).
The 59th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Cliff Robertson and John Crawford star in an episode written by Serling.
Using the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico, a team of radio astronomers led by Gordon Pettengill makes the determination that Mercury rotates on its axis once every 59 Earth days, a much shorter “day” for Mercury than the previously estimated 88 Earth day rotation. Pettengill is a pioneer of radio and radar astronomy, and will go on to use both methods to study asteroids, Venus, and Earth’s moon.
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The 30th and final episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series The Time Tunnel airs on ABC, starring James Darren and Robert Colbert. Whit Bissell, and Lee Meriwether geust star in the last episode of the series, whose time travel coda – usually meant to hook viewers into the next week’s episode – instead loops around to the first episode, leaving Tony and Doug in a loop of perpetual reruns!
The Soviet Union launches unmanned space probe Luna 14 toward the moon, where it takes up a lunar orbit and returns scientific data on cosmic rays and gravitational variances. This is the last orbital mission of the Luna series; future Luna vehicles will be landers or landers with rovers, some with sample return capability.
This is the observed day of the internet’s birth, actually marking the day that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency chose the contractor to build the initial nodes and connections of the ARPAnet. Though the internet is ubiquitous from a 21st century perspective, its origins lie in a disquieting Cold-War-era concept of a distributed computer communications network whose operations could continue even if multiple nodes of the network have been disrupted or destroyed. ARPAnet, the forerunner to the modern internet, will become operational on an experimental basis later in 1969.
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The ninth episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC.
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ITV airs the third episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. This story had previously been adapted for Dahl’s 1961 American anthology series, ‘Way Out.
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ABC airs the 28th episode of Stephen J. Cannell’s superhero comedy series The Greatest American Hero, starring William Katt, Connie Sellecca, and Robert Culp. Chuck McCann (Far-Out Space Nuts) and Danny Wells (Super Mario Brothers Super Show) guest star.
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NBC airs the third episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Guy Stockwell and Michelle Joyner guest star.
CBS airs the 37th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. David Neidorf guest stars.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the third episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Charles Martin Smith, Kate Vernon (Battlestar Galactica), Tom Cavanagh (The Flash), and Martin Kemp guest star.
The fifth episode of the science fiction series VR.5 airs on Fox, starring Lori Singer (Fame), Michael Easton (Total Recall 2070), and Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy The Vampire Slayer).
The sixth episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head and Alyson Hannigan also star; Jennifer Sky (Cleopatra 2525) guest stars.
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Actor David Graf, forever known as Sergeant Tackleberry in the Police Academy series of films, dies of a heart attack at the age of 50. Graf made a number of guest appearances on TV series near and dear to SF fans, perhaps most notably in the role of aviator Fred Noonan in the original season finale of Star Trek: Voyager’s first season, The 37s (which was later relocated to the show’s second season by UPN). Mr. Graf also guest starred on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Quantum Leap, Lois & Clark and Beauty And The Beast, as well as appearing alongside ex-DS9er Terry Farrell in some recent episodes of Becker, a recurring role in The West Wing, and providing character voices for the Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force video game.
The 195th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, and Annabeth Gish. Burt Reynolds (Smokey & The Bandit, Cannonball Run) guest stars.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the