ABC airs the 62nd episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Jean Allison, Ted Knight, and William Schallert guest star in the third season premiere.
ABC airs the 62nd episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Jean Allison, Ted Knight, and William Schallert guest star in the third season premiere.
ITV airs the 33rd episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael MacKenzie, Petra Markham, and Roy Holder. 
The 402nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This opens the show’s 13th season and shifts Doctor Who into the autumn months, where it remains for the rest of the 1970s. This is also the last UNIT story until the late 1980s.
ITV airs the 29th episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. Julian Fellowes (Knights Of God, and future creator of Downton Abbey) guest stars.
The 526th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the first story produced by John Nathan-Turner, who remains as showrunner through the series’ cancellation in 1989, and features a redesigned title sequence and – for the first time in the series’ history – a major revision to the theme tune. Adrienne Corri and Nigel Lambert guest star. Season 18 begins with this episode.
Taking off on a six-day satellite deployment mission, Space Shuttle Challenger also lifts the first African-American astronaut into orbit. A satellite deployment is carried out for India, along with continuing experiments to observe the performance of the shuttle in conditions of extreme cold with limited exposure to the sun. Aboard Challenger for this flight are Commander Richard Truly, Pilot Daniel Brandenstein, and mission specialists Dale Gardner, Guion Bluford, and William Thornton.
Space Shuttle Discovery makes its first flight into space on a mission to deploy three commercial communications satellites. Tested on this flight is a huge solar power panel which unfolds vertically from Discovery’s cargo bay, testing technology for space station designs still on the drawing board. Discovery’s crew for this flight consists of Commander Henry Hartsfield, Pilot Michael Coats, mission specialists Judy Resnick, Steven Hawley, Mike Mullane, and payload specialist Charles Walker.
Columbia Records releases the Toto compilation album Past To Present – 1977-1990, featuring the single “Out Of Love”; the album covers roughly the first half of the band’s career.
Big Finish Productions releases the second Sarah Jane Smith audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Elisabeth Sladen, reprising her TV role in a story written by classic Doctor Who writer and producer Barry Letts.
Big Finish Productions releases the 12th Dalek Empire audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring David Tennant and William Gaunt.
Big Finish Productions releases the 85th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford.
Big Finish Productions releases the 16th episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith. Alexander Siddig (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars in the second “season finale” of the Eighth Doctor and Lucie adventures.
The 804th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 105th episode since the series’ revival). Michelle Gomez and Nigel Betts guest star.
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Don Lind, a veteran of the Apollo, Skylab and space shuttle eras at NASA, dies at the age of 92. Born in Midvale, Utah, his service as a U.S. Navy pilot and a degree in nuclear physics brought him to the attention of NASA, and he was a member of the agency’s fifth astronaut class, many of whom went to the moon. Lind was considered for the crew of Apollo 20 until that mission’s cancellation. During the Skylab space station’s tenure, he was assigned to the crew of the Skylab Rescue contingency mission (which ultimately was deemed unnecessary) and then as a potential member of a fourth Skylab crew, whose mission was also cancelled. By the time Lind made his only spaceflight, aboard the shuttle Challenger in 1985, he had been waiting nearly two decades for a flight. He retired from NASA following his flight, and went on to teach at Utah State University.