The third episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, based on the comic by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel. George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, and Jack Larson star. Phillip Pine guest stars.
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The 50th episode of ABC’s 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 29th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson. Lawrence Dobkin guest stars.
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The 82nd episode of Sam Rolfe’s western series Have Gun – Will Travel is broadcast on CBS in the United States, starring Richard Boone. This episode is written by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, a frequent writer in the series’ early seasons. 
The first episode of the British science fiction series A For Andromeda, created and written by John Elliot and astronomer Fred Hoyle, premieres on the BBC, starring Esmond Knight and Julie Christie. Despite being considered a seminal early British science fiction series, much of A For Andromeda, including this episode, no longer exists in the BBC’s archives.
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Astronaut Wally Schirra is the third American to orbit Earth, aboard the Mercury 8 capsule (nicknamed Sigma 7). He remains in orbit for just over nine hours in the cramped quarters of the Mercury spacecraft before splashing down.
ABC airs the 35th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Peter Lind Hayes and Joan Freeman star.
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The 35th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Philip Pine guest stars.
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The 22nd episode of Larry Cohen’s science fiction series The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes and produced by Quinn Martin’s QM Productions, is broadcast on ABC. Richard Anderson (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman) guest stars.
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The United States government reorganizes ESSA (the Environmental Science Services Administration) into NOAA or the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, an agency responsible for weather prediction and research and for functions involving oceanic conditions, coastal fisheries, and then-current investigations of a potential Alaskan oil pipeline.
The 60th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Flip Wilson guest stars.
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ITV airs the third episode of Raven, starring Phil Daniels (Quadrophenia) and Shirley Cheriton (EastEnders). 
The second episode of the animated science fiction series Battle Of The Planets, Rescue Of The Astronauts, airs nationwide in syndication. The series is a translation and English dub of the anime series Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman.
The 23rd 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 Auto Racing cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
The 41st episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, airs in syndication across the U.S.
Pinball manufacturer Stern Electronics establishes a firm foothold as a maker of video games with the paranoia-inducing coin-op Berzerk. Featuring voice synthesis disturbingly similar to the voices of Battlestar Galactica’s Cylon warriors, and a bouncy, smiling killer named Evil Otto who appears with little or no warning, Berzerk becomes a cult classic (even meriting a serenade on Buckner & Garcia’s 1982 album Pac-Man Fever).
NBC airs the fourth episode of the Marvel animated series Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, starring the voices of Dan Gilvezan (Transformers), Kathy Garver (Family Affair), and Frank Welker (Scooby-Doo, Transformers, The Smurfs).
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NBC premieres the first episode of James D. Parriott’s time travel series Voyagers!, starring Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce. Ed Begley Jr. guest stars as Wilbur Wright in the pilot episode, written and directed by Parriott.
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The inaugural flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis takes the newest orbiter on a four-day Defense Department mission (the specifics of which remain classified). Manning Atlantis for this flight are Commander Karol Bobko, Pilot Ronald Grabe, and mission specialists David Hilmers, Robert Stewart and William Pailes.
China Records releases the Art of Noise album Below The Waste, the group’s final album of new material for a decade. Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens feature on the single “Yebo!”
Russia launches the Soyuz TM-20 mission to space station Mir, carrying cosmonauts Alexander Viktorenko and Yelena Kondakova, and German astronaut Ulf Merbold, who will remain for only a month to conduct experiments in orbit. A glitch in the automated docking system forces Viktorenko to assume manual control for the docking with Mir, a problem which will plague future Mir crews. Viktorenko and Kondakova remain aboard Mir for 169 days, returning to Earth in March 1995 with the new space endurance world record holder, Dr. Valery Polyakov, who has spent 437 days in orbit.
The 26th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. Stephanie Morganstern guest stars.
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The week-long American syndication window opens for the first episode of Gerry Anderson’s sci-fi police series Space Precinct, produced in the UK with an international cast. Ted Shackelford and Rob Youngblood star; Bert Kwouk guest stars. The series will not air in the UK until a later date.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 47th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Salome Jens guest stars; former Star Trek: TNG cast member Jonathan Frakes directs.
The fifth episode of science fiction series Deadly Games is broadcast on UPN, starring James Calvert, Cynthia Gibb, and Chrstopher Lloyd (Taxi, Back To The Future); Leonard Nimoy serves as the series’ executive producer. Anthony Michael Hall and Kathy Ireland guest star.
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The fourth episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It, Doctor Who) guest stars.
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Ballantine Books releases a slightly revised American edition of David Bassom’s non-fiction behind-the-scenes book “Creating Babylon 5“, originally published in 1996 in the UK. The book features an introduction by series creator J. Michael Straczynski, extensive interviews with the show’s cast and crew, brief episode synopses, and numerous photos. A sticker is affixed to the cover after printing (but before nationwide distribution) to remind purchasers that the series is moving to cable network TNT in 1998.
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the tenth episode of Stargate SG-1.
The second episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series.
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