London Weekend Television airs the sixth episode of the alternate-future-history series The Guardians, starring Gwyneth Powell and Cyril Luckham.
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BBC1 airs the 37th episode of Doomwatch. This episode no longer exists in the BBC’s archives. Due to its controversial content, the following episode, Sex And Violence, is never broadcast by the BBC, and production on the series is shut down before the planned 13th and final episode of the season can be filmed, effectively making Killer Doplhins the series’ broadcast swan song.
A thruster leak in the Skylab 3 crew’s Apollo command/service module forces NASA to consider a Skylab Rescue mission using a modified five-seater Apollo vehicle, mounted atop a Saturn IB and rolled out to the pad in readiness for the emergency flight. NASA brings in enough engineers and employees to have shifts working around the clock, seven days a week, to get the emergency mission ready for launch on September 9th. The thruster issue is later resolved, and the first-ever planned space rescue mission stands down. Astronauts Vance Brand and Don Lind are assigned to the rescue mission; both men later flew the Space Shuttle, though Brand will also fly in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The modified command/service module and Saturn rocket are retained in case a rescue is needed for the final Skylab flight, and then as an Apollo-Soyuz backup vehicle, before being retired and displayed at the Smithsonian and Kennedy Space Center.
The sixth and final episode of the science fiction sitcom Come Back, Mrs. Noah, created by the writing duo behind the perennial favorite Are You Being Served? and starring Mollie Sugden, is aired by the BBC. 
Midway releases the arcade video game Timber.
The 26th episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Douglas Henshall (Primeval), Catherine Zeta-Jones, Colin Baker (Doctor Who), and Daniel Craig (Skyfall) guest star.
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Edel Records releases the Electric Light Orchestra live album Live At Winterland 1976, an archival concert recording.
Showtime airs the 81st episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. This is a remake of the 1960s Outer Limits episode of the same name.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 29th episode of Stargate SG-1. Tony Amendola and Peter Williams guest star.
The tenth 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. Keir Dullea (2001: a space odyssey) and John Hensley (Nip/Tuck) guest star.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 18th episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, and Joe Morton.
Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi horror film District 9 is released, starring Sharlto Copley.
Syfy airs the 39th episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, and Joe Morton. Tamlyn Tomita (Babylon 5, Star Trek: Picard) guest stars.
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Australia’s Nine Network airs the 20th episode of K-9. The Australian-made series features no Doctor Who-related characters other than K-9.