The eighth episode of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, based on Wells’ story, airs on ITV; the series will be shown later in the U.S. on CBS.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 58th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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The eighth episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Richard Carlson guest stars.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 84th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.
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The 37th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris.
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The 220th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Kevin Stoney guest stars as Tobias Vaughn, and Nicholas Courtney returns as the freshly-promoted Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, head of the newly created UNIT. This is the last Cybermen story until 1975.
This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives, but has been replaced on DVD with an animated reconstruction.
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ABC broadcasts the eighth episode of the Filmation animated series Fantastic Voyage, based on the 1966 movie of the same name. Marvin Miller, Ted Knight, and Jane Webb lead the voice cast.
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ABC airs the 33rd episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Guy Stockwell guest stars.
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ITV airs the seventh episode of the mystery/spy-fi series Strange Report in the U.K., starring Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, and Anneke Wills (Doctor Who). (The series is an international co-production and airs in the United States on NBC.) Zienia Merton (Space: 1999) guest stars.
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The ninth episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne.
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The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 16, a six-day manned space mission to test modifications to the Soyuz vehicle design ahead of 1975‘s Apollo-Soyuz Test Project international flight. Cosmonauts Anatoly Filipchenko and Nikolai Rukavishnikov test the new Soyuz docking mechanism and solar panels, and new rendezvous/docking equipment intended to assist with the Apollo-Soyuz flight as well as to prevent “wasted” missions such as Soyuz 15.
The ninth episode of Land Of The Lost premieres on NBC, as Rick Marshall finds himself having to depend on the help of a Sleestak to escape more aggressive Sleestaks.
The 44th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Lee Majors directs an episode featuring pro football players Larry Csonka, Mike Henry, Tom Mack, and Earl Faison; Dick Butkus and Carl Weathers (Rocky, Predator 2, The Mandalorian) guest star.
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Atari introduces its first-person driving game Night Driver, the first video game to attempt to simulate depth in its display. Introduced in black & white, Night Driver will later gain even more popularity in color on Atari’s first programmable home video game system.
The 19th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. Michael Strong guest stars.
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The sixth episode of Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking science documentary series Cosmos premieres on PBS. A popular history of science and scientific theory vs. tradition and superstition, segueing into Sagan’s field of expertise (astrophysics), Cosmos is a major milestone in American documentary filmmaking and the popularization of science and the scientific method (and makes an instant celebrity out of Sagan).
ITV premieres the second episode of the sitcom Astronauts, concerning a fictional British space station crew aboard Skylab. Each episode is written by former Goodies cast members/writers Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.
BBC1 premieres the 45th episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7. Lynda Bellingham (All Creatures Great & Small) guest stars.
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The 664th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Stubby Kaye and Don Henderson (Star Wars) guest star.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the sixth episode of Friday the 13th: The Series, starring John D. LeMay, Wendy Robie and Chris Wiggins.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the sixth episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This is the first episode after Encounter At Farpoint to feature future Star Trek: DS9 regular Colm Meaney as a yet-to-be-named crewman.
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The 674th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Though not generally known outside of the inner circle of the cast and crew, this story is intended to be a surreal parody of the Thatcher administration.
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The first novel based on the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, is published. Written by series creators and writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (under the collective pseudonym Grant Naylor), the book features familiar events and scenes, but is generally played out on a more expansive canvas than a BBC television studio would allow.
NBC airs the 36th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Heather McAdam (Salvage One, Sisters) guest stars.
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The third episode of the science fiction crime drama Super Force is broadcast in syndication in North America, starring Ken Olandt, Larry B. Scott, and Patrick Macnee (The Avengers).
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 132nd episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whoopi Goldberg and Michelle Forbes guest star.
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Having successfully kicked off a series of action figures and other toys based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Playmates Toys goes into the 1993 Christmas season with a product that sends longtime Trek fans salivating: a box set of the complete Enterprise bridge crew from classic Star Trek, packaged in a cardboard replica of the bridge complete with captain’s chair, in the same scale as the growing lineup of TNG characters. With toys based on the relatively new Deep Space Nine spinoff on the horizon in 1994, it’s suddenly the best time ever to be a Star Trek toy collector.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 23rd episode of Babylon 5, opening the second season and introducing Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan. Robert Rusler also joins the cast as space fighter jock Warren Keffer. Robert Foxworth (The Questor Tapes) guest stars.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, observing M16 (also known as the Eagle Nebula), takes what may be its most famous image: towering clouds of rapidly-evaporating interstellar gas which scientists theorize are the birthplace of new stars. The huge, light-years-long hydrogen clouds are dubbed evaporating gaseous globules, or EGGs; astronomers also call the structure a stellar nursery. The image quickly becomes a mainstay of the media, making appearances in Babylon 5 and the movie Contact.
The 98th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. John Finn and William B. Davis guest star in the fifth season premiere.
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