The 57th episode of the 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 36th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson. Carleton Young guest stars.
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The 88th 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 46th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, making the Daleks the first recurring enemy in the series’ history. 
ABC airs the 42nd episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Robert Duvall and Steve Ihnat star in the first part of the original series’ only two-part episode.
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The 41st episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. John Cassavetes and Whit Bissell guest star.
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The 29th 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. Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H) guest stars.
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Written and directed by science fiction author Michael Crichton, Westworld debuts in theaters, mashing up familiar western tropes with a tale of cyborgs gone mad. Richard Benjamin (Quark), James Brolin, and Yul Brynner guest star; Majel Barrett (Star Trek) and Dick Van Patten play cameo roles. A hit for MGM, Westworld will spawn many attempts to follow up on its success, from the 1976 movie Futureworld to numerous TV revivals well into the 21st century. 
Construction begins on Space Shuttle Structural Test Article 099 (STA-099), a full-sized structural model of the shuttle built for stress and thermal testing. Four years later, NASA decides to abandon plans to refit the test shuttle Enterprise for space duty at great expense, instead opting to upgrade the STA-099 airframe into a spaceworthy vehicle, which will eventually be named Challenger. While the refit will still be expensive, it takes less time and money than a complete teardown and rebuild of Enterprise’s airframe, which was never intended for flight outside the atmosphere.
The 65th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Henry Darrow, BarBara Luna, and Bernie Kopell (The Love Boat) guest star.
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At a distance of nearly 60,000,000 miles from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft cross the orbit of Mars as the twin space probes continue their outbound race toward Jupiter. Moving at 13 miles per second, Voyager 1 will overtake its identical twin, Voyager 2, at the end of 1977, with both spacecraft expected to reach Jupiter in 1979. From here, they will plunge through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, though fears of damage occurring in this part of space have been allayed by the successful asteroid belt passage of Pioneers 10 and 11 in the early 1970s.
NBC airs the 11th 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 airs the seventh episode of James D. Parriott’s time travel series Voyagers!, starring Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce. John Anderson guest stars as Abraham Lincoln, and Alex Hyde-White (The Fantastic Four) guest stars as Charles Dickens.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the seventh episode of George A. Romero’s Tales From The Darkside anthology series. Nile Lanning and Eric Jason guest star.
The 32nd episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) guest stars in an episode directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the eighth episode of Friday the 13th: The Series, starring John D. LeMay, Wendy Robie and Chris Wiggins. Philip Akin (War Of The Worlds: The Series, Highlander: The Series) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 26th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, beginning the series’ second season. This episode introduces Diana Muldaur as the Enterprise’s new chief medical officer, Dr. Katherine Pulaski, and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan. The script is actually a holdover from the aborted 1977 attempt to relaunch the original Star Trek on a Paramount network that never came together; the barely-reworked script is dug up in an attempt to get filming started as soon as possible after the end of the Writers’ Guild strike.
Reprise Records releases the Chicago compilation album Greatest Hits, 1982-1989, gathering the band’s most popular 1980s radio hits.
The 14th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2.
Writer and series creator J. Michael Straczynski takes to the GEnie online message service to announce that his science fiction series, Babylon 5, has gotten the go-ahead from Warner Brothers and will be the cornerstone of a new television network. He promises that the series will begin with one or two two-hour movies to set up the premise, with a series to follow in 1993, as well as revealing that the show’s visual effects will be accomplished with computer generated graphics rather than miniature models.
The second episode of Dark Season premieres on CBBC (the BBC’s children’s programming block). This is the first drama series created and written by future Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies, and is one of the earliest acting jobs in Kate Winslet’s career.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the eighth episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name.
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The ninth episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Tracy Scoggins (Babylon 5) and Sonny Bono (The Sonny & Cher Show) guest star.
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Reprise Records releases the Mike Oldfield album The Songs Of Distant Earth.
The 22nd and final episode of RoboCop: The Series airs in syndication, starring Richard Eden, Yvette Nipar, Blu Mankuma, and Andrea Roth. Cliff De Young guest stars in the series finale.
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The week-long American syndication window opens for the eighth episode of Gerry Anderson’s sci-fi police series Space Precinct.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 54th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Jonathan Frakes guest stars as Tom Riker, the “duplicate” of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Commander Riker, introduced in that series’ Second Chances episode.
Featuring a variety of rare tracks, outtakes, rehearsals and live performances, and accompanied by a media blitz that includes a heavily hyped TV special, Volume 1 of The Beatles Anthology is released, featuring the new single “Free As A Bird”.
The tenth 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. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team) and Downtown Julie Brown guest star.
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The ninth 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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