The 91st episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson. This is the fifth season finale.
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An episode of the military anthology series West Point is broadcast on CBS in the United States. This episode is an early TV script written by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, one of the series’ staff writers. 
The 21st episode of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, based on Wells’ story, airs on ITV; this episode will air in November 1959 in the U.S. on CBS.
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ABC airs the 58th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Carl Esmond guest stars.
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The 250th 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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The 12th 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. James Sikking (Hill Street Blues) guest stars in the first season finale.
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ITV airs the 23rd episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. Richard Johnson guest stars.
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ITV airs the 43rd episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Gary Burghoff (M*A*S*H) and Damian London (Babylon 5) guest star.
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The 11th 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. Brock Peters stars as Darth Vader and Bernard “Bunny” Behrens stars as Ben Kenobi. 
The 22nd 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. Bryan Marshall (The Long Good Friday, The Spy Who Loved Me) guest stars.
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The Soviet Union launches the Kristall module, whose pre-programmed systems bring it to the Mir space station for an automated docking. With facilities for material science experiments, additional gyroscopic stabilizers to keep Mir properly oriented, and other equipment, Kristall also features an extended docking port intended to allow the Soviet-made Buran shuttle to dock at Mir. In time, that docking port will allow a space shuttle to berth at Mir… but not the one its designers anticipate.
This is the last expansion made to Mir prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the last new module to arrive for five years.
After three years of joint development on a CD-ROM peripheral for Nintendo’s new video game system, Sony and Nintendo part ways, leaving the public and the press confused over what will happen next. Hours after Nintendo unveils the specs and price point for its Super Nintendo Entertainment System to the press, Sony announces that it will release a new system called the Play Station in 1992, which will play both SNES cartridges and disc-based systems made by Sony. Of course, Sony’s development curve isn’t that simple, and the first Sony video game system won’t arrive until a few years – and a whole generation of computer game hardware – later.
Fox airs the 19th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. Mel Torme (father of series creator Tracy Torme) and Donnelly Rhodes (Battlestar Galactica) guest star.
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The 85th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Tim Thomerson (Quark) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 173rd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode concludes both the seventh season and the series as a whole, wrapping up most of the show’s major storylines and paying off developments in the previous eight episodes. Louise Fletcher and James Darren guest star.
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 13th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah.
Big Finish Productions releases the 57th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables.
Big Finish Productions releases the ninth Dalek Empire audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring David Tennant and William Gaunt.
Reverberations Records releases the album Homemade Spaceship: The Music Of ELO by Parthenon Huxley, a member of The Orchestra (the successors to ELO Part II). The album covers numerous classic ELO songs, but with radically different arrangements.
Big Finish Productions releases the 69th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford.
The 23rd episode of the radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is broadcast on BBC Radio, the beginning of Dirk Maggs’ adaptation of Douglas Adams’ final Hitchhiker’s Guide novel, Mostly Harmless. Jonathan Pryce, Rula Lenska, Mitch Benn, and Andrew Secombe guest star.
Big Finish Productions releases the sixth Gallifrey audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Lalla Ward and Louise Jameson.
Big Finish Productions releases the 82nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
Big Finish Productions releases the ninth Gallifrey audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Lalla Ward and Louise Jameson. This story closes Gallifrey’s second “season”.
Big Finish Productions releases the 95th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Nicola Bryant.
The 748th episode of Doctor Who (the 50th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. Alex Kingston guest stars as River Song, the character’s first appearance in the series (and her last adventure chronologically). This is the first part of a two-part story.
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on the 123rd shuttle flight, a two-week mission to install a major laboratory module to the International Space Station. The pressurized module of Japan’s Kibo laboratory joins the unpressurized section installed on a previous flight, complete with its own robotic arm controlled inside. Aboard Discovery for her 35th flight are Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Ken Ham, mission specialists Karen Nyberg, Ron Garan and Mike Fossum, and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, who remains on the International Space Station. Station astronaut Garrett Reisman returns to Earth aboard Discovery.
Big Finish Productions releases the 19th episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith.
Big Finish Productions releases the 134th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Frazer Hines. Alexander Siddig (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Primeval) guest stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama Crime Of The Century, audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred star in a story originally intended for the unmade 1990 season of Doctor Who.