The 86th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
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The 86th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
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The 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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ABC airs the 53rd episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Albert Salmi, Alf Kjellin, and Andrew Prine guest star.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs the third episode of the science fiction series The Stranger, starring Ron Haddrick.
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The 59th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris. This episode concludes the series’ second season.
The 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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ITV 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 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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The 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 fourth episode of The Amazing Spider-Man airs on CBS, starring Nicholas Hammond and Robert F. Simon. Morgan Fairchild guest stars. 
Casablanca Records releases Lenny & Squiggy present Lenny and the Squigtones, an album combining spoken-word comedy and ’50s rock pastiches performed by Michael McKean and David Lander in their characters best known to the general public from recurring appearances on Laverne & Shirley.
The first episode of Time Express premieres on CBS, starring Vincent Price and Coral Browne. Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Gay Rowan (The Starlost), and John de Lancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star. 
ITV airs the 18th episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. Joan Collins guest stars.
ITV airs the 38th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Michael Kitchen guest stars.
The sixth 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, and Perry King stars as Han Solo.
CBS premieres the made-for-TV movie The Phoenix, starring Judson Scott and E.G. Marshall. Serving as a prospective series pilot, The Phoenix proves popular enough to merit a series pickup, though that series will last only a few weeks in the spring of 1982.
A 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.
The 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.
The 97th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Sherman Howard and Bill Mumy (Lost In Space, Babylon 5) guest star.
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The 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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Space 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.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 145th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Norman Lloyd (St. Elsewhere), Linda Thorson (The Avengers) and Maurice Roeves (The Nightmare Man) guest star.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 13th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 36th episode of Babylon 5. First season Julie Caitlin Brown returns in an unrelated guest role (minus Narn makeup).
Fox airs the sixth episode of Sliders, Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series.
Fox 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 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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The 84th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher.
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The 114th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Glenn Morshower guest stars.
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