The 80th episode of the science fiction anthology series Tales Of Tomorrow airs on ABC, starring James Dean and Rod Steiger.
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The 151st episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Neville Brand and George Takei star.
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The 69th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Space Museum. Peter Craze and Jeremy Bulloch guest star.
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The 296th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado, John Ringham and Bernard Kay guest star.
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The 20th episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. George Sewell and Grant Taylor guest star.
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Warner Bros. Records releases – in Europe only – the Electric Light Orchestra live album The Night The Light Went On (In Long Beach) (over the objections of Jeff Lynne). 
The TV movie-of-the-week Future Cop airs on ABC, starring Ernest Borgnine (McHale’s Navy), Michael J. Shannon, and John Amos (Good Times), involving a veteran LAPD cop who is assigned a rookie trainee who turns out to be an android. The movie achieves a high enough rating to return as a short-lived series in 1977, though the show will also become the subject of a lawsuit over its premise.
The week-long syndication window opens for the 18th episode of The Next Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Martine Beswick (Thunderball, From Russia With Love) and Craig Littler (Jason Of Star Command) guest star.
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The Space Shuttle Enterprise, a full-sized, full-weight test article not intended for orbital flight, is mated to an external tank and a pair of solid rocket boosters and rolled out to Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral for engineering fit-checks of the redesigned launch pad (a hand-me-down from the Apollo era, where the same pad had launched all but one of the Saturn V rockets). Enterprise remains on the pad for over a month, providing the first photo opportunity of the full-size shuttle launch stack in all of its glory.
Corvus Systems, makers of hard disk drives for the Apple II and other microcomputers, releases the Corvus OmniNet, the first local area networking hardware/software bundle aimed at small businesses, schools, and even high-end home users. Since Corvus’ 5 and 10 megabyte hard disk drives for the Apple II had initial price tags in the $5,000 range, Corvus also created the OmniNet hub to allow small businesses and schools to maximize that investment by allowing multiple computers to access it. Forseeing the future of the business market, Corvus also makes OmniNet cards for the IBM PC. Though Ethernet is already in use at this time, its expensive hardware and installation is generally limited to large business customers.
BBC 1 premieres the first episode of the short-run series The Nightmare Man, written by former Doctor Who script editor Robert Holmes, directed by ’70s Doctor Who director Douglas Camfield, and starring many faces familiar to fans of that series. Not intended to be an ongoing series, this one-off four-part serial is commissioned to fill a gap in the BBC’s summer schedule.
Atari releases the arcade video game Arabian, developed by Sun Electronics.
NBC airs the first night of Kenneth Johnson’s heavily-promoted sci-fi miniseries V, starring Marc Singer, Faye Grant, and Jane Badler. The big-budget special effects and sci-fi concepts allow Johnson to slip the audience a story about resisting fascism; the ratings are high enough for NBC to already be considering a follow-up.
Virgin Records releases the Roy Orbison album In Dreams: The Greatest Hits, which consists entirely of new recordings of Orbison’s most popular songs (since the original masters are in legal limbo due to the bankruptcy of Monument Records, Orbison’s former label); the compilation is timed to land near the release of the David Lynch film Blue Velvet, which used “In Dreams” in a pivotal scene.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 40th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
After much pre-publicity billing it as – at long last – the Lucasfilm-authorized continuation of the storyline, Timothy Zahn’s novel “Star Wars: Heir To The Empire” is released by Bantam Books. Introducing Grand Admiral Thrawn, Talon Karrde and Mara Jade, among other characters later regarded by fans as mission-critical to the overall Star Wars storyline, the book also introduces the former Imperial capitol world Coruscant (a rare bit of naming that originates in non-movie media and is later carried over to “official” media). The first of a trilogy of novels, “Heir” forces its way to the top of the bestseller lists.
NBC airs the 49th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Jenny Gago (Alien Nation, Dangerous Minds) and James Sloyan guest star.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 19th episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name.
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The fourth episode of Escape From Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Steve Bisley (Mad Max).
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The 20th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. John Shea and Patrick Kilpatrick guest star.
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The week-long American syndication window opens for the 24th and final episode of Gerry Anderson’s sci-fi police series Space Precinct. With the series’ continuation dependent upon its American ratings, Space Precinct is not renewed for a second season after it fails to carve out a niche in a very crowded genre field in syndication. The series will air later in the UK.
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UPN airs the 12th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Carolyn Seymour (Survivors) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 66th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Andrew Robinson and Paul Dooley guest star.
SuperTracks releases the Doctor Who soundtrack, with music by John Debney, John Sponsler, and Louis Febre. As with many other SuperTracks releases during this period, this soundtrack is not studio-sanctioned.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 110th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Adrienne Wilkinson guest stars.
The 64th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Jayne Heitmeyer, Von Flores, and Richard Chevolleau.
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Pocket Books releases the post-TV-series sequel novel “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Avatar, Book One”, written by S.D. Perry.
The 97th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Clare Kramer guest stars.
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The 18th episode of James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee’s cyberpunk series Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly, airs on Fox. Rainn Wilson (The Office, Star Trek: Discovery) and Nana Visitor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.
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