The 76th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
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The 76th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson.
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ABC airs the 20th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Ross Martin (The Wild Wild West) guest stars.
CBS broadcasts the eighth episode of the anthology series ‘Way Out, hosted by author Roald Dahl. Mark Lenard (Star Trek) stars.
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The 65th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Burgess Meredith stars in the second season’s finale, written by Serling.
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NASA’s first attempt to soft-land an unmanned space probe on another body in the solar system ends with a perfect landing: Surveyor 1 snaps photos from the moon’s surface, takes measurements of the local environment, and provides valuable engineering data about the surface that will prove helpful in constructing the much heavier Apollo lunar modules that will – it is hoped – take astronauts to the moon by the end of the decade.
BBC2 airs the 45th episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of The Unknown. Written by Martin Worth, the story stars Anthony Bate. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
The 352nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Stewart Bevan and Talfryn Thomas (Survivors) guest star.
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The 25th episode of the horror anthology series The Evil Touch airs on Australia’s Nine Network, hosted by Anthony Quayle (Strange Report). (The series will later appear in the U.S. and elsewhere in first-run syndication.) Harry Guardino (Dirty Harry) guest stars.
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ITV airs the 88th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Simon Cadell guest stars.
Hollywood Records releases the Queen album A Kind Of Magic. With no release of the movie’s score in the works, this album – featuring “Who Wants To Live Forever” and “Princes Of The Universe” – is the de facto soundtrack of the movie Highlander. 
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 11th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Annette O’Toole guest stars in an episode written by Alan Brennert.
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Fox premieres the 23rd and final episode of the military science fiction series Space: Above And Beyond. This concludes the two-part series finale.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 82nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Efram Zimbalist, Jr. guest stars.
The 12th episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head and Alyson Hannigan also star. David Boreanaz guest stars in the first season finale.
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Disney Music releases Jerry Goldsmith‘s soundtrack from the animated movie Mulan.
Space Shuttle Discovery becomes the last American shuttle to visit space station Mir during a ten-day mission launched on this date. The historic mission is marred slightly by a communications malfunction which makes live TV transmissions from orbit impossible. In addition to retrieving American science experiment packages from Mir, a cargo-bay-mounted experiment to detect dark matter is also conducted. Supplies are also off-loaded onto Mir. Aboard Discovery for her 24th flight are Commander Charles Precourt, Pilot Dominic Gorie, and mission specialists Wendy Lawrence, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Janet Kavandi and Valery Ryumin. Mir astronaut Andrew Thomas, the last American to visit the Russian station, returns to Earth aboard Discovery.
The 735th episode of Doctor Who (the 37th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. This is the conclusion of a two-part story, and is based upon the popular 1995 Doctor Who novel Human Nature by Paul Cornell.
Robert Justman, who along with Gene Roddenberry shepherded the original Star Trek from an untried pilot to its three years on the air (and came along for the ride with the inception and first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation), dies at the age of 81 from complications associated with Parkinson’s Disease. Originally an assisant director on the rejected pilot episode The Cage, he stuck around to become a producer and one of Roddenberry’s right-hand men. While at Desilu Studios (the makers of the original Star Trek, later bought by Paramount) he also produced the pilot episode of Mission: Impossible; his pre-Trek credits included several episodes of The Outer Limits, numerous Disney Sunday Movies, and The Adventures Of Superman.
The CW airs the 82nd episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Caity Lotz, Matt Ryan, Brandon Routh, and Tala Ashe. This is the fifth season finale.
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Streaming service Hulu premieres the 27th episode of the science fiction drama-comedy The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. Anne Winters (13 Reasons Why) joins the cast in the long-delayed third season premiere, the first episode to air as a streaming exclusive rather than on broadcast TV.