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Thunderbirds: Edge Of Impact

ThunderbirdsUK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the fifth 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 Evil Touch: Seeing Is Believing

The Evil TouchThe seventh episode of the horror anthology series The Evil Touch airs on Australia’s Nine Network, hosted by Anthony Quayle (Strange Report). (The series will later appear in the U.S. and elsewhere in first-run syndication.) Robert Lansing guest stars.

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Luna 23

Luna 23The Soviet Union launches the unmanned space probe Luna 23 toward the moon, intended to gather surface samples from the Mare Imbrium region for return to Earth. The sample collection hardware is unable to complete its task after landing, and ground controllers are only able to receive partial scientific data from the lander, whose batteries run out within three days of landing. It won’t be until 2012, when NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs Luna 23’s landing site from orbit, that the truth will be learned: the lander tipped over on its side during a descent mishap, leaving it intact but unable to gather a soil sample.

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Wonder Woman: The Queen And The Thief

Wonder WomanThe 20th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Juliet Mills (Nanny and the Professor), David Hedison (Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea), and John Colicos (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica) guest star.

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Texas Instruments out of computer business

TI 99/4aAfter a six-month loss totaling over $200,000,000, Texas Instruments puts its computer division out of its misery immediately, ending all manufacturing and support for the TI 99/4a home computer. Prices on the remaining stock of TI computers drop well below the $100 mark, and the company lays off thousands of employees; third-party software and peripheral vendors such as Milton Bradley take a hit by the end of the year as a result. Company executives describe TI’s losses in 1983 so far as the worst that the company has ever suffered.

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Superboy: Young Dracula

SuperboyThe 30th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Lloyd Bochner guest stars in an episode co-written by comics writer Cary Bates and producer Ilya Salkind.

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The Cape: Buried In Peace

TimecopThe eighth episode of the science fiction series The Cape airs in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen and Adam Baldwin, and focusing on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.

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Gil Melle, TV & film composer, dies

Andromeda StrainGil Melle, the composer who created the sound of several seminal ’70s supernatural series, dies at the age of 72. He was responsible for the main title music of such shows as Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, as well as scores for individual episodes of shows like Kolchak, Columbo and The Six Million Dollar Man. On the big screen, he created the memorably abstract electronic soundtrack for The Andromeda Strain, and he was also consistently employed to write music for TV movies, including Gene Roddenberry’s pilot movie The Questor Tapes.