CBS airs the second episode of Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone. Ed Wynn stars in a script written by Serling.
CBS airs the second episode of Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone. Ed Wynn stars in a script written by Serling.
British broadcaster ABC airs the fifth episode of Pathfinders In Space, a follow-up series to Target Luna, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. Peter Williams stars in a script written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all seven episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
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The 86th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the only self-contained, single-episode story of entire original series, and the only one to feature neither the Doctor nor his companions. It is essentially an episode-length teaser for the upcoming 12-part story The Daleks’ Master Plan. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
UK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the 28th episode of Gerry Anderson’s Supermarionation science fiction series Thunderbirds, featuring the voices of Shane Rimmer, David Graham, Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, and Peter Dyneley.
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The fifth episode of the time travel sitcom It’s About Time, created by Sherwood Schwarz (I Dream Of Jeannie) and starring Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, and Imogene Coca, is broadcast on CBS.
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The 62nd episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Henry Jones guest stars.
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British broadcaster Thames Television airs the 131st episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Linda Thorson.
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Decca Records releases the eighth album by the Moody Blues, Seventh Sojourn (the seven, in this case, referring to the seventh album by the band since the addition of Justin Hayward and John Lodge in the 1960s). The album includes the singles “Isn’t Life Strange” and “I’m Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band”.
The sixth episode of Sid & Marty Krofft’s Far-Out Space Nuts airs on CBS, starring Bob Denver (Gillgan’s Island) and Chuck McCann (Herbie Rides Again).
The sixth episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV. Jeremy Kemp guest stars.
The 27th episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. Eric Laneuville (Room 222, St. Elsewhere) guest stars.
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ABC airs the fifth episode of Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, part of the Krofft Supershow Saturday morning children’s programming block. This is part one of a two-part story, each episode lasting only around 12 minutes.
NBC airs the fifth episode of Monster Squad, a live-action Saturday morning comedy starring Fred Grandy. Marty Allen guest stars as “Lorenzo Musica”, a joking reference to actor Lorenzo Music. Series creator Stanley Ralph Ross (Wonder Woman) also makes a brief on-screen appearance in an episode written by Chuck McCann (Far Out Space Nuts).
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The 433rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Judith Paris guest stars as Eldrad.
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The 30th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 airs on British broadcaster ITV, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Catherine Schell. Bernard Kay (Doctor Zhivago) and Guy Rolfe guest star.
CBS airs the fifth episode of Filmation’s live-action Saturday morning science fiction series Ark II. Helen Hunt (Mad About You, Twister) guest stars.
The 84th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Ted Cassidy guest stars.
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The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 25 into Earth orbit, with cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalyonok and Valery Ryumin set to become the first occupants of the new Salyut 6 space station. However, the crew is unable to successfully dock Soyuz 25 to Salyut 6, and after a fifth attempt to dock, the mission is aborted and the cosmonauts are recalled to Earth due to concerns about the remaining fuel in their vehicle. As a result, Soyuz 25 is the last all-rookie Soviet space crew until the 1990s.
Atari releases the two-player arcade game Football, a refined version of an internal project called Xs and Os that has been in development for some time. Though it’s a well-executed basic football game, Football’s real innovation is its trackball controller, giving players fluid analog control over their onscreen counterparts.
The sixth episode of the animated science fiction series Battle Of The Planets, Big Robot Gold Grab, airs nationwide in syndication. The series is a translation and English dub of the anime series Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman.
The 45th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, airs in syndication across the U.S.
CBS airs the third episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Louis Giambalvo guest stars.
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The tenth episode of the American-made Max Headroom series premieres on ABC, starring Matt Frewer and Amanda Pays. (This is the the American-made drama series, not the music video/talk show series featuring the same character.) W. Morgan Sheppard and Jenette Goldstein (Aliens) guest star.
The first episode of the horror anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares is broadcast in syndication in North America, hosted by Robert Englund in character as Freddy Krueger. The first episode, directed by Tobe Hooper, recounts the trial and execution of Krueger, as alluded to in the A Nightmare On Elm Street movie franchise.
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The 24th episode of the horror anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares is broadcast in syndication in North America, hosted by Robert Englund in character as Freddy Krueger.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 50th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Good tea. Nice house. John Anderson guest stars.
Fox Network airs the fourth episode of Kenneth Johnson’s sci-fi cop series Alien Nation, starring Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint. Lori Petty (VR.5, Tank Girl) guest stars.
One of Atari’s most innovative games of the 1990s is released for the Atari 7800 home video game system. Ninja Golf is a game parodying both the glut of current sports simulations and martial arts fighting games – at the same time. Players take a swing at the ball, and then a swing at their throwing-star-hurling enemies. Despite its cheeky humor and innovative play, Ninja Golf doesn’t make much noise at retail – it’s stealthy, like a ninja.
The first episode of She-Wolf Of London premieres in syndication in North America, a co-production between Universal Studios and British broadcaster HTV, and starring Kate Hodge and Neil Dickson. The premiere episode is written by series creators and renowned horror filmmakers Mick Garris and Tom McLoughlin. The series is part of a bid by Universal to enter the first-run syndicated drama market that has arisen in the wake of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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NBC airs the 56th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
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