The 85th and final episode of the science fiction anthology series Tales Of Tomorrow airs on ABC. Much of the second season is missing, including this episode.
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The 75th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the story now collectively known as The Chase, featuring the Doctor’s third struggle against the Daleks.
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The Soviet Union launches Venera 4, a space probe dispatched to the planet Venus. Venera 4 is equipped with a landing probe which it deposits into the planet’s dense atmosphere in October, and the probe’s findings stun scientists on Earth who had long considered Venus a near-twin of Earth: the atmosphere is predominantly carbon dioxide, with minimal oxygen and a pressure nearly 100 times Earth’s atmospheric pressure at sea level. The temperature within the Venusian atmosphere is found to soar past 800 degrees Fahrenheit, presenting a challenge for designers of the next round of vehicles to visit the planet. The Venera 4 landing probe is not equipped with cameras, and contact is lost with it before contact is made with the ground.
The 302nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Roger Delgado and Damaris Hayman guest star.
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The National Severe Storms Laboratory‘s 10cm Doppler weather radar begins full-time experimental operation in Norman, Oklahoma, just in time for the region’s active severe weather season. A surplus Air Force radar left over from the Distant Early Warning radar network (also known as the DEW Line) is installed and housed in a facility that’s also made of military surplus parts. There is no real-time display at first: researchers and meteorologists store the Doppler radar’s observations on computer tape that has to be processed and printed months after the fact, and compared to archived records from the existing WSR-57 radar at Norman.
NASA launches the Nimbus 6 satellite, designed to observe weather patterns from orbit and test new weather and climate detection technologies. In addition to continuing the microwave and infrared observations carried out by Nimbus 5, Nimbus 6 studies the amount of solar radiation reaching or reflected by Earth, and sends real-time observations to the experimental ATS-6 satellite, allowing NASA to test techniques and technologies that will be used in the shuttle-era TDRS (Tracking & Data Relay Satellite) system.
The sixth episode of children’s fantasy series King Of The Castle is broasdcast on HTV. The series is created by Bristol-based writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin (Sky, Doctor Who), and stars Philip Da Costa. Talfryn Thomas (Survivors) and Milton Johns (Doctor Who, The Empire Strikes Back) also star.
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The week-long syndication window opens for the 24th episode of The Next Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland.
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NBC airs the 19th episode of James D. Parriott’s time travel series Voyagers!, starring Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce. Kip Gilman guest stars as Alexander Graham Bell.
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Former ELO frontman, producer and songwriter Jeff Lynne releases his first solo album, Armchair Theatre, after several years of producing for other musicians. The album includes the singles “Every Little Thing” and “Lift Me Up”, and takes its name from a 1950s British television anthology series produced by Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. 
The 18th episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Susannah Doyle (Drop The Dead Donkey) and Richard Dormer (Game Of Thrones, Fortitude) guest star.
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The tenth episode of Escape From Jupiter airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-produced by ABC and Japanese network NHK, this children’s sci-fi series stars Steve Bisley (Mad Max).
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 70th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Eagle Records releases the Electric Light Orchestra album The BBC Sessions, collecting material the band performed on BBC Radio.
Big Finish Productions releases the ninth Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables. Nicholas Courtney reprises his role as the Brigadier, finally giving the sixth Doctor a full-length adventure alongside the beloved character.
Westwood Games and Electronic Arts release a soundtrack album from the PC strategy game Emperor: The Battle For Dune with pre-ordered copies of the game, featuring music by Frank Klepacki, David Arkenstone, and Jarrid Mendelson.
Following up on the success of the pilot movie the year before, first episode of Witchblade airs on cable channel TNT, based on the Top Cow comic book of the same name, starring Yancy Butler and David Chokachi. Peter Mensah (Spartacus: War Of The Damned) guest stars.
The 769th episode of Doctor Who (the 71st since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. This episode is written by Gareth Roberts, based on his own Tennant-era comic strip from Doctor Who Magazine, and guest stars comedian James Corden.
Actress Janet Waldo, the voice of Judy Jetson in the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons (as well as its 1980s revival) and the voice of Princess in Battle Of The Planets, dies at the age of 96. Her acting career began in the 1930s, and she was the star of the radio series Meet Corliss Archer in the 1940s and ’50s. She was also the voice of Penelope Pitstop, and Josie of Josie And The Pussycats fames, continuing to voice animated characters, appearing in person occasionally (on such shows as I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show), and guest starred in episodes of the late 1970s radio series Alien Worlds. She worked regularly until 2012.
Story: Original Split Enz bassist Mike Chunn, who played with the New Zealand supergroup in its formative art-rock-turned-theatrical-extravaganza phase (1972-77) charts the formation, the heady rise and eventual success of the group, with comments from all of his bandmates and his own insider perspective.
Review: Can there ever really be enough books about the musical career of the Finn Brothers? (For this reader: no. As it so happens, the first book ever reviewed in this section was a book on this very topic.) And strangely enough, the aforementioned book about Crowded House quoted this book heavily: primary source material if ever there was some. And source material doesn’t get much more primary than the memoir of one of the founding members of Split Enz.
Showtime broadcasts the seventh episode of The Man Who Fell To Earth, a series continuation of the 1976 David Bowie film, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Bill Nighy, Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy), and Jimmi Simpson (Westworld).
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