The 27th episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan.
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The 95th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Andy Devine and Milton Selzer star.
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ABC airs the 29th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Sam Wanamaker and Phyllis Love star in an episode written by Joseph Stefano.
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The 27th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris. Royal Dano guest stars.
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The 27th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Victor Buono guest stars as King Tut.
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The 29th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. This episode concludes the series’ first season, and introduces numerous “fascinating” differences between human and Vulcan physiology.
The 202nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This story sees the departure of Deborah Watling as the Doctor’s companion, Victoria Waterfield. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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ABC airs the 25th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall.
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Halfway between Earth and the moon, a fuel cell rupture in the Apollo 13 service module causes a massive explosion. The crew has to activate the landing module, Aquarius, to use it as a “lifeboat”; the oxygen and power reserves of the command module, Odyssey, have been compromised by the explosion and must be preserved for re-entry. The crew endures extreme cold and must ration consumables to survive. Fortunately, there’s enough fuel in Aquarius’ descent stage to put the combined vehicle on a free-return trajectory, looping it around the far side of the moon for an immediate return to Earth.
This mission is dramatized in both the We Interrupt This Mission episode of HBO’s 1998 series From The Earth To The Moon, as well as the 1995 movie Apollo 13.
BBC1 airs the ninth episode of Doomwatch. This episode, guest starring Richard Hurndall (Doctor Who: The Five Doctors), no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The 373rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This a sequel to 1972’s The Curse Of Peladon, with many cast members returning to reprise their roles.
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NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe, leaving the inner solar system en route to a grand tour of the outer planets, suddenly stops transmitting to Earth, failing to acknowledge commands sent by its ground controllers. Any chance of the probe conducting its studies of Jupiter and Saturn, let alone Uranus or Neptune, is in serious jeopardy. Discovering a problem with Voyager 2’s ability to compensate for the Doppler shift in signals coming from Earth, NASA engineers devise a workaround to compensate for this problem from the ground, saving the mission.
The seventh episode of a vastly retooled Battlestar Galactica (or, depending on how you look at it, the show’s 28th episode) premieres on ABC. Wolfman Jack guest stars.
The seventh album from Split Enz, Time + Tide, is released to a strong start, going gold within two weeks in Australia alone. With most of the songs written by Tim Finn, the album is surprisingly autobiographical. The album’s lead single, the sea-shanty-styled “Six Months In A Leaky Boat”, is chased off the airwaves by radio program directors when it’s interpreted as a commentary on the Falkland Islands War (despite the fact that the song was written and recorded months before the conflict ever took place).
Having received new orders from NASA, the still-functional Pioneer Venus Orbiter – launched in 1978 and in a high, looping orbit over Venus since it ceased active observations of the planet in 1981 – turns its instruments in the direction of Comet Encke, which is currently passing through the inner solar system. Rather than its cameras, the orbiter’s ultraviolet spectrometer is trained on the comet as Earth-based researchers try to determine the composition and rotational speed of Encke’s nucleus. The Pioneer Venus Orbiter will continue to observe other comets through the late 1980s.
The 13th episode of Richard Carpenter’s fanciful retelling of the Robin Hood legend, Robin Of Sherwood, airs on ITV, starring Michael Praed, Mark Ryan, Judi Trott, and Nickolas Grace. Jeremy Bulloch (The Empire Strikes Back, Chocky) and John Abineri (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7) guest star in the second season finale. Due to scheduling conflicts with a role he has taken on Broadway, Michael Praed has opted to leave the show, hence the fatalistic ending, but showrunner Richard Carpenter weaves hints into this episode of a replacement for both the character and the lead actor.
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The second episode of The Max Headroom Show premieres, starring Matt Frewer. (This is the music video/talk show series, not the American-made drama series featuring the same character.)
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The 21st episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Cindy Morgan (Tron, Caddyshack) and James Avery (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) guest star in an episode directed by Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back).
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The 73rd episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Juice Newton guest stars.
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NOAA’s GOES-8 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral into a geosynchronous orbit now designated GOES-EAST to monitor weather patterns over the United States; its predecessor, GOES-7, takes up the GOES-WEST position. GOES-8 is a major design evolution in the GOES weather satellite series, incorporating new hardware, some of which proves to be less sturdy than is required for an extensive orbital tour of duty. GOES-8 will remain in the GOES-EAST orbit until it is retired from active weather-watching duty in 2003 and shut down in 2004.
The tenth episode of the sci-fi crime series TekWar, based on William Shatner’s novel series, airs as part of the Universal Action Pack syndication package. Greg Evigan, William Shatner, and Maria del Mar (Mercy Point) star. Conrad Coates guest stars.
ABC airs the eighth episode of Hypernauts, created by Christy Marx (Jem) and Ron Thornton (the visual effects artist behind the CGI of Babylon 5), and starring Marc Daniel (Fast Track) and Carrie Dobro (Crusade). The episode is written by David Bennett Carren (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Space Precinct, TekWar). ABC pulls the series from its Saturday morning schedule after this episode, leaving five episodes unaired in the United States (including one written by D.C. Fontana of Star Trek fame). These episodes air and receive home video releases abroad, but remain unseen in the U.S.
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The 92nd episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Joseph Fuqua guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 141st episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Stephen McHattie guest stars as a Romulan with an uncanny eye for spotting a fake.
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The national syndication window opens for the 17th episode of the posthumous Gene Roddenberry science fiction series Earth: Final Conflict. Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Star Trek) guest stars.
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Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the 14th episode of Art Monterastelli’s sci-fi series Total Recall 2070, starring Michael Easton and Cynthia Preston, very loosely based on the 1990 film Total Recall.
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the 133rd episode of The Outer Limits. Anthony De Longis guest stars.
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The 795th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 97th episode since the series’ revival). The Ice Warriors make their first television appearance since the early 1970s. David Warner and Liam Cunningham guest star.
Welsh-born actor Gareth Thomas, who starred as Roj Blake in the BBC’s influential space opera Blake’s 7 in the late 1970s, dies at the age of 71. A classical stage actor who starred in a series of cult genre series in the 1970s and 80s, including Star Maidens, Children Of The Stones, and Knights Of God, Thomas had more recently revived Blake for Big Finish’s audio revival of the series, as well as appearing in an episode of Torchwood.
The first season of a reimagined Lost In Space series premieres on the Netflix streaming service. As with the 1960s series, the new show follows the exploits of the Robinson family as they are stranded on an alien planet with a shifty passenger known only as Dr. Smith, though the story is generally given a more serious, mysterious tone than the light-hearted family-hour viewing of the original show. Molly Parker, Toby Stephens, Maxwell Jenkins, Mina Sundwall, and Parker Posey star. The new series gains enough of a following for Netflix to quickly green-light a second season, which will not premiere until late 2019.
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