The 30th episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan.
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The 98th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Cliff Robertson and George Murdock star.
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ABC airs the 32nd episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Vera Miles and David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, The Invisible Man) star in the first season finale.
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The 33rd episode of Batman airs on ABC. Burgess Meredith guest stars as the Penguin. 
NASA’s fourth Lunar Orbiter satellite lifts off for its one-week trek to the moon. Placed into an orbit that takes it over the moon’s poles instead of its equator, Lunar Orbiter 4 is able to map virtually all of the near side of the moon over a period of two weeks. Plans to have Lunar Orbiter 4 map the far side are thwarted by mechanical failures and problems with the probe’s camera optics.
The 205th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This story sees the return of the Cybermen and the introduction of Wendy Padbury as the Doctor’s new companion, Zoe. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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The 376th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the final story of the third Doctor’s era.
The 36th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Elisha Cook Jr. (Rosemary’s Baby, Star Trek, Batman) guest stars in the final episode of season two, and the final episode to air on ABC. (NBC will pick the series up for a third season.)
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The 33rd episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Markie Post (Night Court) guest stars.
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The tenth episode of a vastly retooled Battlestar Galactica (or, depending on how you look at it, the show’s 31st episode) premieres on ABC. This is the final episode of the original Battlestar Galactica. Dirk Benedict stars as Starbuck.
The Alan Parsons Project releases its sixth album, Eye In The Sky, including the hit singles “Eye In The Sky”.
The fourth 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.) Roger Daltrey (The Who) guest stars.
The 22nd episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. John Lithgow (2010: The Year We Make Contact, Buckaroo Banzai, Harry And The Hendersons) guest stars.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on a four-day mission to launch the long-delayed interplanetary probe Magellan, which is sent to Venus via an Interial Upper Stage booster module. For the first time, one of a shuttle’s five onboard computers fails and is replaced in an in-orbit repair procedure. Aboard Atlantis for this flight are Commander David Walker, Pilot Ronald Grabe, and mission specialists Norm Thagard, Mary Cleave and Mark Lee. The launch of Magellan, a mission originally conceived in 1972, marks the beginning of the first American interplanetary mission since 1977.
The 75th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Marc Macaulay (Burn Notice) appears in an episode written by Gerard Christopher.
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The 20th episode of Dracula: The Series airs in syndication, starring Bernard Behrens, Geordie Johnson, and Mia Kirshner. Geraint Wyn Davies (Forever Knight) guest stars in an episode whose running time consists largely of clips from previous episodes.
The 20th episode of the superhero series The Flash, based on the DC Comics character, airs on CBS, starring John Wesley Shipp and Amanda Pays. Bill Mumy (Lost In Space, Babylon 5) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 121st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 11th episode of Babylon 5.
The 95th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Steven M. Porter guest stars.
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The national syndication window opens for the 21st episode of the posthumous Gene Roddenberry science fiction series Earth: Final Conflict. (Though the 20th to air, the show’s distributor, Tribune Entertainment, skips over a critical episode, holding that show back to air during the July ratings sweeps.) Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Star Trek) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 67th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Hudson Leick and Kevin Smith guest star.
The 20th episode of the sequel series Team Knight Rider airs in syndication, starring Brixton Karnes, Christine Steel, Duane Davis, and Nick Wechsler. William Christopher (M*A*S*H) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 144th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Weeks ahead of the movie’s premiere, stores across America open at midnight as the first merchandise from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace goes on sale, ranging from action figures to the movie’s soundtrack (whose track titles offer major spoilers for the film’s storyline). Heavily featured in advance promotion, any items with the face of Darth Maul sell faster than nearly anything else.
Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the 17th 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. The series will air on the American pay cable channel Showtime later in the year. Henry Gibson (The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Innerspace) guest stars.
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The 52nd episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Alexis Denisof (Angel), Eliza Dushku (Dollhous), and Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.
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Star Trek: Voyager executive producer Rick Berman announces that UPN and Paramount have asked him to initiate the development of the next Star Trek series, though it won’t premiere until after Voyager has completed its run (whose seventh season will wrap up in spring 2001). Few details are available at this stage, other than that the network wants a series more accessible to a general audience, not just Star Trek fans, and the show may not even bear the words “Star Trek” in its title.
Big Finish Productions releases the eighth Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Nicola Bryant. Georgia Moffatt, Davison’s daughter (and future Doctor Who TV guest star), makes an early career appearance.
The 207th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks.