The 27th episode of the syndicated science fiction Science Fiction Theatre airs on stations across the U.S. Hosted by Truman Bradley, the episode stars William Talman, Virginia Grey, and Craig Stevens.
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The 134th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This concludes the first story to feature the Cybermen, and is the first episode in the show’s history in which the Doctor regenerates. The new Doctor, Patrick Troughton, is glimpsed briefly at the end of the episode.
In perhaps the most painful example of episode wiping in the show’s history, this episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives, though the scene of the Doctor’s first regeneration has since been recovered. 
ITV broadcasts the fifth episode of The Prisoner, produced, occasionally written by, and starring Patrick McGoohan. Anton Rodgers guest stars as Number Two.
The 90th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Jock Gaynor guest stars.
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Island Records releases the debut album by White Noise, an ad hoc early electronic music group including David Vorhaus and members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
ABC airs the sixth episode of the modern-day science fiction series The Immortal, starring Christopher George. Lynda Day George (Mission: Impossible) guest stars.
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The fifth episode of the animated science fiction series Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman airs on Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV. This series will later be heavily edited – primarily for violence – and dubbed into English as Battle Of The Planets.
NBC airs the 33rd episode of Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Rod Serling. Sandra Dee guest stars.
The 42nd episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on NBC. Dan O’Herlihy (Colditz, Whiz Kids) and Marc Alaimo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.
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The eighth episode of Filmation’s Saturday morning science fiction series Space Academy airs on CBS. Just in time for Halloween, the Academy is haunted by a spirit from a doomed planet.
The 47th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 airs on British broadcaster ITV, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Catherine Schell.
The 462nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Wanda Ventham, Denis Lill and Scott Fredericks guest star.
The seventh episode of Glen A. Larson’s science fiction series Battlestar Galactica airs on ABC. This episode is part two of a two-part story; Roy Thinnes (The Invaders) guest stars.
Having just opened up its American branch, Japanese video game manufacturer Nintendo introduces its first arcade game, the virtually-unknown space shooter Radar Scope. The game fails to make a splash, and many of the Radar Scope cabinets in Nintendo’s warehouse are later converted into their next (and far more profitable) game, which involves a plumber saving a woman from a gorilla.
Reese Communications publishes the first issue – and, if it doesn’t sell well, likely the only issue – of Electronic Games Magazine, the first periodical devoted to video games and other electronic forms of entertainment. Video Magazine columnists Bill Kunkel and Arnie Katz (operating under the pseudonym Frank Laney Jr. in order to protect his more “serious” writing work) propose the magazine after a string of successful video-game-focused issues of Video, and, with Katz’ wife Joyce Worley joining in the writing and editing duties, become the first video game journalists, inventing such now-common terms as “playfield”, “screenshot”, and “Easter egg”. Though the first issue could have been a one-off experiment, the magazine goes monthly by the end of spring 1982.
ABC airs the 31st episode of Stephen J. Cannell’s superhero comedy series The Greatest American Hero, starring William Katt, Connie Sellecca, and Robert Culp. Jeremy Kemp guest stars in the third season opener.
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Telesys releases the video game cartridge Fast Food for the Atari 2600 home video game system, just in time for the Christmas buying season. A glut of new releases for the 2600 by the end of the year, many from third-party companies like Telesys, causes some consumer confusion which has unexpected consequences for the entire industry.
The sixth episode of the science fiction series The Powers Of Matthew Star airs on NBC, starring Peter Barton and Louis Gossett Jr. John Crawford (The Waltons) and Robert Davi (The Goonies, Die Hard) guest star.
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NBC airs the 23rd episode of the Marvel animated series Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, starring the voices of Dan Gilvezan, Kathy Garver, and Frank Welker.
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Midway releases the arcade video game Pac-Land, a game placing Pac-Man in a side-scrolling 2-D world similar to that of Super Mario Bros.
The sixth episode of the Hammer Studios-produced horror anthology series Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense airs on ITV; the series will be shown later in the U.S. under the title Fox Mystery Theatre. Michelle Phillips (Knots Landing) and W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom) guest star.
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Mute Records releases the Depeche Mode album Some Great Reward, featuring the single “People Are People”, which becomes the group’s signature song for years to come.
The 41st episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs in syndication. Barbara Stock (Spenser: For Hire) stars.
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CBS airs the seventh episode of the animated series Superman, starring the voices of Beau Weaver and Ginny McSwain, and comprised of two stories: The Hunter and Little Runaway. Rene Auberjonois (Benson, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and Peter Cullen (Transformers) guest star.
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The fourth episode of the syndicated Alexander and Ilya Salkind-produced Superboy series, starring John Haymes Newton and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 79th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
NASA/JPL’s Galileo space probe, looping repeatedly through the inner solar system to gain a speed boost from a series of gravity assists from Earth and Venus, passes the asteroid 951 Gaspra, the first human-made spacecraft to visit such a body. Where humanity’s previous knowledge of asteroids was limited at best, Galileo’s findings are startling, with photos showing a small rocky body pummeled by ancient impacts, almost to the point of shattering it. Also discovered is a magnetic field generated by the core of the asteroid itself, something planetary scientists did not expect to find at all. Galileo will loop back toward Earth, picking up a critical speed boost to Jupiter from one last flyby of its home planet.
Fox airs the tenth episode of the sci-fi western, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, and Christian Clemenson.
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The seventh 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 Rob LaBelle.
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UPN airs the 74th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.