The 21st episode of the syndicated science fiction Science Fiction Theatre airs on stations across the U.S. Hosted by Truman Bradley, the episode stars James Craig and Steve Brodie.
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The 61st episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson. Lawrence Ryle guest stars.
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CBS airs the first episode of Bruce Geller’s “spy-fi” series Mission: Impossible, starring Steven Hill, Barbara Bain (Space: 1999), Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, and Martin Landau (Space: 1999, Ed Wood). Together with NBC’s recent pickup and premiere of Star Trek, Mission: Impossible becomes a mainstay of CBS’ prime-time schedule, and marks a major turnaround in the fortunes of Lucille Ball’s Desilu Studios. 
The 128th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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The 85th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Victor Jory guest stars in the fourth season premiere.
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On schedule, the Space Shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, California to much public fanfare, a ceremony including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the cast who played the crew of the Enterprise’s fictional namesake (William Shatner was conspicuously absent). The timing of the rollout, ironically, was intended to roll the test shuttle – originally named Constitution – out of the hangar on Constitution Day during the bicentennial year.
Having tried to find a suitable script for a big-screen relaunch of Star Trek virtually since the cancellation of the television series, Paramount – riding the coattails of the much-publicized unveiling of the Space Shuttle Enterprise – issues a press release announcing that the first Trek movie is finally underway – in this case, a still-in-development script called Star Trek: Planet Of Titans, featuring a radically redesigned Enterprise concept by illustrator Ralph McQuarrie, whose other recent genre work – designs for the yet-to-be-released Star Wars – has yet to make him a household name.
The 38th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Dale Robinette (The Doctors) guest stars.
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The second episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. The still-cutting-edge Fairchild Video Entertainment System “guest stars” as the Academy’s computer, beating Peepo at Tic-Tac-Toe.
The 456th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. The Rutans, shapeshifting mortal enemies of the Sontarans, appear for the first and only time in the original series.
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The three-hour premiere movie kicking off Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Battlestar Galactica airs on ABC… only to be interrupted by a live special report covering the ratification of the Camp David peace accords. The full movie is shown after the interruption, however, making its planned three-hour time slot a four-hour time slot. Despite this, the audience seems to stick with the show, the first major TV American science fiction series to try to venture into Star Wars territory.
The 11th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
Mattel Electronics releases the Checkers cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
The 29th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, airs in syndication across the U.S.
The first episode of the science fiction series The Powers Of Matthew Star premieres on NBC, starring Peter Barton and Louis Gossett Jr. Judson Scott (The Phoenix, V) and Susan Ruttan (L.A. Law) guest star.
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Software company Imagic, which started out marketing games for the Atari VCS before branching out into the Intellivision, Colecovision, home computer and even Odyssey² markets, nixes plans to sell public stock in the company. Shortly afterward, 40 of Imagic’s 170 employees are laid off, with every indiciation that more employees will follow as the company tries to stay afloat. Potential investors are told that Imagic’s initial public offering has been delayed until early 1984, but stock in the company is never sold.
NBC airs the 17th episode of the Marvel animated series Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, starring the voices of Dan Gilvezan, Kathy Garver, and Frank Welker, opening the third season.
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Activision releases Park Patrol for Commodore 64 home computers
The Soviet Union launches the Soyuz T-14 mission, carrying a crew of three cosmonauts intended to become the next long-term occupants of space station Salyut 7. The crew consists of Vladimir Vasyutin, Georgi Grechko and Alexander Volkov, though Grechko only remains until September 26th, returning to Earth with the Soyuz T-13 crew. Two months into the crew’s stay on Salyut, however, Vasyutin becomes seriously ill. Communications between the station and ground controllers are carried out on a scrambled frequency for a week, at which point the crew is recalled to Earth, ending an occupancy that was meant to last for half a year. Soyuz T-14 returns to Earth, carring Vasyutin, Volkov and Soyuz T-13 crew member Viktor Savinykh home on November 21st, once again leaving Salyut 7 unoccupied for several months.
CBS premieres the first episode of the animated series Superman, starring the voices of Beau Weaver and Ginny McSwain, and comprised of two stories: Destroy The Defendroids and The Adoption.
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Fox airs the fourth episode of the sci-fi western, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, and Christian Clemenson. John Pyper-Ferguson (Caprica) guest stars.
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The second episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, and guest starring Jerry Hardin and Seth Green.
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The 44th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Bruce Campbell and Peter Boyle guest star in the third season premiere.
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UPN airs the 70th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 81st episode of the science fiction series Sliders, starring Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, Robert Floyd, and Tembi Locke. Paul Sand guest stars.
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Sci-Fi Channel premieres the 18th episode of Farscape.
The Paul Melancon CD Camera Obscura is released, featuring the single “Jeff Lynne”.
The 53rd episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN. Robert Rusler (Babylon 5) guest stars.
The 163rd episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Sci-Fi Channel airs the ninth episode of Stargate Atlantis. Colm Meaney and Robert Davi guest star. This is the first half of a cliffhanger which is resolved in January.