Andrian Nikolayev becomes the third Soviet cosmonaut to reach orbit. Aboard Vostok 3, Nikolayev remains in orbit for almost four days, long enough to become the first space traveler from Earth to have company while in orbit.
British broadcaster ABC airs the seventh episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of This World. Adapted by Bruce Stewart from a story by Katherine Maclean, the story stars Roger Avon, and is introduced by Boris Karloff (in much the same way that Rod Serling introduced episodes of The Twilight Zone). This episode no longer exists in the archives.
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The seventh episode of the spy-fi series Adam Adamant Lives! airs on BBC1, starring Gerald Harper and Juliet Harmer. Colin Jeavons guest stars.
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ITV airs the 17th episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
Ballantine Books publishes the third in a trilogy of original novels based on the Star Wars characters Han Solo and Chewbacca, Han Solo and the Lost Legacy by Brian Daley. All three books chronicle the misadventures of everyone’s favorite Corellian smuggler and his Wookiee sidekick – and avoid clashing with the recently-released sequel The Empire Strikes Back by setting these events before Star Wars itself.
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With one unprofitable flop behind it, the American branch of Nintendo has a lot riding on its second arcade game. Fortunately, it strikes gold with Donkey Kong, the coin-op which launches the careers of both Shigeru Miyamoto and a plumber named Mario (though in this game, he’s known as “Jumpman”). Nintendo is now in America to stay.
ITV airs the 25th episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. Valentine Dyall (Doctor Who’s Black Guardian) guest stars.
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ITV airs the 95th episode of the anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected. Tom Smothers, Susan Strasberg, and Robert Loggia guest star.
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NASA announces the confirmation of what are believed to be partial rings around planet Neptune, as discovered in images taken by the unmanned Voyager 2 space probe. The ring arcs are found in close proximity to several new satellites, also spotted in Voyager 2 images, which are too small to have been seen form Earth-based telescopes. Ground-based telescopes had led scientists to believe that they would find partial rings, or complete dark rings, at Neptune; at this time, however, and at a distance of 13 million miles, what the project scientists don’t expect is that the rings will be revealed to completely encircle the planet within mere weeks.
Warner Bros. Records releases Angelo Badalamenti‘s soundtrack from the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
CBS airs the eighth episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. James Hong guest stars.
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Christopher Franke’s soundtrack to the Babylon 5 TV movie In The Beginning is released on Sonic Images Records.
Christopher Franke’s third wave of “episodic” soundtracks from the series Babylon 5 is released by Sonic Images Records. Individual CDs with the complete scores from the episodes Chrysalis, The Coming Of Shadows, War Without End Part 1, War Without End Part 2, Whatever Happened To Mr. Garibaldi?, The Long Night, Lines Of Communication and Endgame are released.
TNT airs the tenth episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s short-lived Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade. Tony Amendola (Stargate SG-1) guest stars.
Showtime airs the 126th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 72nd episode of Stargate SG-1. Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.
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Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 36th episode of Farscape. Wayne Pygram guest stars as Scorpius.
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the 143rd episode of The Outer Limits.
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The second episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series Masters Of Science Fiction, drawing on the genre’s literary greats and hosted by Professor Stephen Hawking, is broadcast. Terry O’Quinn (Lost) stars in an adaptation of a Howard Fast short story. William B. Davis (The X-Files) guest stars.
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Intrada releases a 4-CD set of original episode scores from the second season of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, featuring music by Bruce Broughton, John Cacavas, Herbert Don Woods, and series theme composer Stu Phillips, among others. This marks the first release for any soundtrack material from the show’s second season.
Streaming service CBS All Access premieres the second episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). Jess Harnell (Animaniacs) guest stars.
The first episode of the Marvel animated series What If…? premieres on the Disney+ streaming service, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Hayley Atwell (Captain Carter), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), and Samuel L. Jackson (Captain Marvel).
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Russia launches the Luna 25 uncrewed spacecraft on a mission to land near the south pole of the moon. This is the first mission in the Luna program, which has been dormant since the 1970s; if successful, the mission will be the first Russian soft-landing on the moon in almost 50 years. Much like India’s Chanrayaan-3 mission, launched a few weeks earlier, Luna 25 is intended to search for signs of water in the shaded areas of the lunar south pole, which could be a necessary resource for future crewed missions and possible long-term habitation of the moon.
