Day: June 7, 1959

H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man: Man In Disguise

H.G. Wells' The Invisible ManThe 22nd 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. Deborah Watling (Doctor Who) stars.

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Vega 4: Mission Of Vega 4

Vega 4The Australian Broadcasting Corporation premieres the first episode of the science fiction series Vega 4, starring John Fassen (a veteran of ABC’s first genre series, The Stranger). This series is a follow-up to the 1966 series The Interpretaris.

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Doctor Who: The War Games, Part 8

Doctor WhoThe 251st 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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Soyuz 11

Soyuz 11After a tuberculosis scare forces Soviet space officials to ground the mission’s original crew, the backup crew of Soyuz 11 lifts off to become the first occupants of a manned space station. Experiencing none of the difficulties that plagued the earlier Soyuz 10 attempt to dock with Salyut 1, the Soyuz 11 crew stays aboard Salyut for 22 days, a new record for a manned space mission.

Skylab 2: risky repair job

SkylabTwo members of Skylab‘s first three-man crew undertake a three-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to take on the most difficult and dangerous part of the repairs to the space station: freeing a jammed solar “wing” required to provide almost half of the station’s electrical power. With no handholds and only tethers keeping them anchored to the station, astronauts Pete Conrad and Joseph Kerwin have a hard time even reaching the solar panel, and are knocked loose when, after overexerting themselves trying to manually pull the panel free, it jerks open; with only their tethers keeping them attached to Skylab, it’s a potentially life-threatening situation for both. Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, later admits that the Skylab repair spacewalk gave him much greater concern for his own survival.

Robin Of Sherwood: The Pretender

Robin Of SherwoodThe 23rd 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. Patricia Hodge (Holding The Fort, Miranda) and Paul Geoffrey (Excalibur) guest star.

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Soyuz TM-5

Soyuz TM-5Cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev, Viktor Savinykh and Aleksandr Aleksandrov lift off for a week-long visit to Soviet space station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-5. Numerous biological and astronomical experiments are conducted by the blended crew, and at the end of the week of joint activities, the Soyuz TM-5 crew use the older TM-4 capsule to return home, leaving the station crew with a newer vehicle.

Sliders: The Young And The Relentless

SlidersFox airs the 20th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. Laura Harris (24) and Gordon Michael Woolvett (Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda) guest star.

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Perversions Of Science

Perversions Of ScienceThe first three episodes of the adult-themed science fiction anthology series Perversions Of Science, based largely on stories published in Weird Science magazine, premieres on cable network HBO. (This is a spin-off from HBO’s popular Tales Of The Crypt series.) Keith Carradine and Adam Arkin guest star in Dream Of Doom, written by David S. Goyer. Jeremy London guest stars in Anatomy Lesson. Kevin Pollak, William Shatner (Star Trek), and Melanie Shatner gues star in Boxed In.

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Stargate SG-1: Redemption – Part 1

Stargate SG-1The 110th episode of Stargate SG-1 premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Corin Nemec. Tony Amendola and David Hewlett (Stargate Atlantis) guest star in the sixth season premiere.

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Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Episode 24

Hitchhiker's Guide To The GalaxyThe 24th episode of the radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is broadcast on BBC Radio, adapting the novel Mostly Harmless. Jonathan Pryce and Andrew Secombe guest star. Read more

Doctor Who: Forest Of The Dead

Doctor WhoThe 749th episode of Doctor Who (the 51st 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 second part of a two-part story. Read more

Soyuz TMA-02M

Soyuz TMA-02MPart of the 28th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-02M. Sergey Volkov, Satoshi Furukawa and Michael Fossum take up residence on the ISS for 167 days, becoming part of the Expedition 28/29 crews. All three return to Earth in November 2011 aboard the same vehicle.