The 85th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
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The 85th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
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The 15th episode of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, based on Wells’ story, airs on ITV; this episode will air in October 1959 in the U.S. on CBS. Lisa Daniely stars.
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ABC airs the 52nd episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Albert Salmi guest stars.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs the second episode of the science fiction series The Stranger, starring Ron Haddrick.
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The 32nd episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. George Sanders guest stars in the first season’s finale, and the final episode to be broadcast in black & white.
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The 244th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Jane Sherwin, David Savile and Philip Madoc guest star. This is Patrick Troughton’s final story as the incumbent Doctor, the final Doctor Who story of the 1960s, and the final story made in black & white.
Salyut 1, the first orbiting space station in history is launched, unmanned, by the Soviet Union. With Salyut 1, the Soviet space program intends to vault ahead of the United States in a new space discipline (namely long stays in space and the study of human endurance in a zero-G environment), having lost the moon race. The first Salyut station will orbit Earth for less than a year.
ITV premieres the first episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Though originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings originally made to sell to foreign markets. It is these recordings that will eventually get a DVD release in the 21st century.
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The 12th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. France Nuyen and George Takei (Star Trek) guest star.
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The 398th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This story marks the Cybermen’s first story since the Troughton era, and closes out both the series’ 12th season and the “Nerva” plotline.
The third episode of The Amazing Spider-Man airs on CBS, starring Nicholas Hammond and Robert F. Simon. Theodore Bikel guest stars.
ITV airs the 17th episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. Elaine Stritch and Shane Rimmer (Thunderbirds) guest star.
ITV airs the 37th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Stuart Whitman guest stars.
The fifth episode of Brian Daley’s radio drama adaptation of the science fiction blockbuster Star Wars airs on National Public Radio stations in the U.S. Mark Hamill stars as Luke Skywalker, Anthony Daniels stars as C-3PO, and Bernard “Bunny” Behrens stars as Ben Kenobi.
The Soviet Union launches the last of the Salyut space stations, Salyut 7, into Earth orbit. Reflecting an ongoing significant rethink on space station construction, Salyut 7 is intended from the outset to be docked with additional modules to expand its habitable and working space. It also sets a new endurance record of its own, remaining in orbit for nearly a decade.
The 16th episode of Richard Carpenter’s fanciful retelling of the Robin Hood legend, Robin Of Sherwood, airs on ITV, starring Jason Connery, Mark Ryan, Judi Trott, and Nickolas Grace. Jeremy Bulloch (The Empire Strikes Back, Chocky) guest stars.
The 96th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Erin Gray (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century) guest stars.
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The third episode of the science fiction police series Mann & Machine, co-created by Dick Wolf and Robert de Laurentiis, is broadcast on NBC, starring David Andrews and Yancy Butler.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 12th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Fox airs the fifth episode of Sliders, Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series.
The 83rd episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher.
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The eighth and final episode of the time-travel/crime series Crime Traveller is broadcast on BBC1, created and written by Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War), starring Michael French (Casualty) and Chloe Annett (Red Dwarf).
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The 113th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under, Almost Human) guest stars.
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Pay cable channel HBO airs the fifth episode of the docudrama From The Earth To The Moon, chronicling NASA’s quest to reach the moon, and two episodes debut each Sunday of the show’s run. Dann Florek, Kieran Mulroney, and Alan Ruck (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) guest star in an episode covering the evolution of the lunar module and the flights of Apollo 9 and 10.
Pay cable channel HBO airs the sixth episode of the docudrama From The Earth To The Moon, chronicling NASA’s quest to reach the moon, and two episodes debut each Sunday of the show’s run. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Tony Goldwyn (Ghost, Scandal), and Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride) guest star in an episode covering Apollo 11 and the first lunar landing.
The 40th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Lisa Howard, Von Flores, and Richard Chevolleau.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 86th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Ted Raimi guest stars.
The 18th episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 167th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode continues a tightly-serialized eight-episode run-up to the series finale. Louise Fletcher guest stars.