Day: April 26, 1957

H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man: The Vanishing Evidence

H.G. Wells' The Invisible ManThe 16th 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. James Raglan stars.

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Doctor Who: The War Games, Part 2

Doctor WhoThe 245th 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.

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Escape Into Night: Episode 2

Escape Into NightITV broadcasts the second 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.

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The Six Million Dollar Man: Run, Steve, Run

Six Million Dollar ManThe 13th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. This is a clip show featuring highlights from earlier episodes, and concludes the first season.

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Doctor Who: Revenge Of The Cybermen, Part 2

Doctor WhoThe 399th 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.

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The Chernobyl disaster

Chernobyl disasterA major accident at the #4 reactor of the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear power facility, near the border of Ukraine and Belarus, causes a significant release of radioactive material into the air. Much of the material has immediate consequences for the nearby city of Pripyat, but the effects are felt both elsewhere in the Soviet Union and in Europe. Worse still, the Soviet government tries to cover up the incident, until the mounting evidence of a major incident forces them to admit, two days after the fact, that a core meltdown occurred and that the resulting release of radioactive material has international reach and consequences. Some emergency workers die of massive radiation exposure, and an increase is seen in other illnesses, including cancer, in exposed human populations nearby. Over 100,000 people are evacuated from nearby areas. Premature deaths and genetic mutations are observed in nearby wildlife for years after the incident. The costs of mitigation and containment of the toxic reactor site will become a major factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union a few years later. The exclusion zone established around the facility may be a safe place for humans to live again for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years.

Robin Of Sherwood: The Inheritance

Robin Of SherwoodThe 17th 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. Cyril Cusack and David Rappaport (Time Bandits, The Wizard) guest star.

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Mann & Machine: Water, Water Everywhere

Mann & MachineThe fourth 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. Curtis Armstrong (Revenge Of The Nerds) and Mitchell Ryan guest star. The series is cancelled due to low ratings after this episode, with the five remaining produced episodes “burned off” over the summer.

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STS-55

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle Columbia lifts off on a mission lasting nearly ten days, carrying the Spacelab laboratory module in its cargo bay. This flight, Spacelab D-2, includes medical and material experiments, with one experiment controlled by an Apple Macintosh computer carried into orbit. Amateur radio messages are exchanged with the crew of the Mir space station. Aboard Columbia for her 14th flight are Commander Steven Nagel, Pilot Terence Henricks, mission specialists Jerry Ross, Charles Precourt and Bernard Harris Jr., and payload specialists Ulrich Walter and Hans Schlegel.

Sliders: In Dino Veritas

SlidersFox airs the 16th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks.

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The X-Files: Avatar

The X-FilesThe 70th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Jennifer Hetrick (Star Trek: The Next Generation and Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1) guest star.

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