The 15th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This is one of only three first season episodes that still exists in its entirety.
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The 164th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the second Doctor’s second and final encounter with the Daleks, and this story also introduces Deborah Watling as new companion Victoria Waterfield. This is the only remaining intact episode of this story; the other six episodes were erased by the BBC.
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The third Planet Of The Apes film, Escape From The Planet Of The Apes is released in theaters, starring Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Eric Braeden, and Ricardo Montalban. The third movie in the series ditches the far-future setting for something unexpectedly modern-day. 
The 325th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado guest stars as the Master; future Star Wars star David Prowse appears as the Minotaur.
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The 12th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. William Jordan and Caskey Swaim star.
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ITV airs the third episode of the HTV West-produced children’s fantasy series Into The Labyrinth, co-created by Bob Baker (Sky, Doctor Who, K-9) and starring Ron Moody and Pamela Salem.
The 26th episode of the syndicated Alexander and Ilya Salkind-produced Superboy series, starring John Haymes Newton and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Newton, Scott Wells and James Calvert makes their final appearances as, respectively, Superboy/Cark, Lex Luthor and T.J. White in the first season finale; both Clark and Luthor are recast for season two.
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The 22nd episode of the horror anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares is broadcast in syndication in North America, hosted by Robert Englund in character as Freddy Krueger. This episode concludes the series’ first season.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 97th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The 11th episode of RoboCop: The Series airs in syndication, starring Richard Eden, Yvette Nipar, Blu Mankuma, and Andrea Roth. Nigel Bennett (Forever Knight, Lexx) guest stars.
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Man…Or Astroman?‘ releases the live album Destroy All Astromen!, featuring a rendition of the opening theme from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Capitol Records releases the Paul McCartney solo album Flaming Pie, featuring the singles “The World Tonight” and “Beautiful Night”.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 102nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on the first of only three 1999 shuttle flights, a ten-day mission to continue preparing the International Space Station for full-time duty. 80 hours are spent inside the station, transferring supplies into the existing modules for future crews, and spacewalks are conducted to perform necessary tasks outside the station. Aboard Discovery for her 26th flight are Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Rick Husband, and mission specialists Ellen Ochoa, Tammy Jernigan, Daniel Barry, Julie Payette and Valery Tokarev.
The 719th episode of Doctor Who (the 21st since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1.
The 20th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-14. Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne and Robert Thirsk take up residence on the ISS for 188 days, becoming half the ISS’ first six-person crew. All three crew members return about the same Soyuz capsule in December 2009.
The 836th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 137th episode since the series’ revival). Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Matt Lucas star. Nigel Hastings guest stars.