The eighth episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan.
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UK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the ninth 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 11th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series The Time Tunnel airs on ABC, starring James Darren and Robert Colbert. Nehemiah Persoff, Michael Ansara, and Lee Meriwether geust star.
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ABC broadcasts the 12th episode of the Filmation animated series Journey To The Center Of The Earth, very loosely based on the 1959 movie of the same name. Ted Knight, Pat Harrington Jr., and Jane Webb lead the voice cast.
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The 182nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Continuing the icy theme of the fifth season, this is the first story to feature the lumbering Ice Warriors from the planet Mars. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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The 21st episode of The Sixth Sense airs on ABC, starring Gary Collins. Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky & Hutch) guest stars in an episode directed by John Newland (One Step Beyond).
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The 11th 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.) Darren McGavin (Kolchak: The Night Stalker) guest stars.
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The tenth episode of the British comedy series Robert’s Robots airs on ITV licensee Thames Television, starring John Clive (A Clockwork Orange, Yellow Submarine) as eccentric inventor Robert Sommerby and Nigel Pegram as one of his robot creations.
The 1972 Space Cooperation Agreement, whose most obvious effect is the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project earlier in the year, bears more fruit in the form of the first unmanned international research mission. American experiments are launched aboard a Soviet Cosmos satellite for the first time, along with experiment packages prepared by French, Czech, Polish, Romanian, and Hungarian scientists. Cosmos 782, the third “Biocosmos” flight, ends after 19 days, with the experiments landed safely in Siberia at the conclusion of the flight.
NBC airs the made-for-TV movie Alien Lover as that week’s NBC Mystery Movie, starring Pernell Roberts and, in one of her earliest TV appearances, Kate Mulgrew. 
The 37th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 airs on British broadcaster ITV, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Catherine Schell.
Nippon Columbia releases the first volume of Hiroshi Miyagawa’s soundtracks from the TV series Space Battleship Yamato (better known in the western world as Star Blazers).
CBS airs the 12th episode of the Space Academy spinoff series Jason Of Star Command, starring Craig Littler, Sid Haig, and James Doohan (Star Trek). Julie Newmar (Batman) guest stars.
The 492nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1, continuing the Key To Time storyline.
The eighth episode of The Amazing Spider-Man airs on CBS, starring Nicholas Hammond, Robert F. Simon, Chip Fields and Ellen Bry. Andrew Robinson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
ABC airs the 12th episode of Stephen J. Cannell’s superhero comedy series The Greatest American Hero, starring William Katt, Connie Sellecca, and Robert Culp.
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Better known for making jukeboxes and speakers, Rock-Ola continues trying to make inroads into the video game industry by releasing Fantasy in the United States. The arcade game, originated in Japan by SNK, is one of the very first coin-op games to allow players to insert additional coins to continue from the location of their previous game’s end within a set amount of time. With several screens requiring players to develop completely different strategies on the fly, Fantasy doesn’t gain much of a following; many arcade operators gut and convert their Fantasy machines into other games. (This is your webmaster’s all-time favorite arcade game.)
ABC airs the Lucasfilm TV movie The Ewok Adventure, starring Eric Walker, Warwick Davis, Fionnula Flanagan, and Aubree Miller. Written by veteran animation writer Bob Carrau and directed by John Korty (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman), this is the first live-action TV set in the Star Wars universe since the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special. The movie will become known by the alternate title Ewoks: Caravan of Courage outside of the United States.
CBS airs the 24th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Armin Shimerman guest stars.
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The 34th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Michael J. Pollard and Richard Kiel guest star in an episode co-written by comics writer Denny O’Neil.
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China Records releases the Art Of Noise remix collection The FON Mixes, featuring existing Art Of Noise songs remixed by an all-star lineup of producers and remixers.
The second episode of Roger Price’s reboot of his 1970s science fiction series The Tomorrow People is broadcast on ITV in the U.K. (and will appear later on Nickelodeon in North America), starring Kristian Schmid and Christian Tessier. Hugh Quarshie (Highlander, Star Wars Episode I) guest stars.
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The 59th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and Lisa Ryder. David Hemblen (Captain Power, Earth: Final Conflict) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 70th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
The 12th episode of The Cape airs in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen and Adam Baldwin, presenting a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 105th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 110th and final episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Claudia Christian returns as Ivanova in an episode filmed before the actress allowed her contract to lapse in 1997 (at a time when it appeared that Babylon 5 would end with its fourth season). Though further TV movies and direct-to-video movies are produced, as well as the spinoff series Crusade, this is the end of the main Babylon 5 storyline, and also marks the directorial debut of series creator J. Michael Straczynski. 
UPN airs the 100th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Scarlett Pomers (Reba) guest stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the 26th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. Stephen Greif (Blake’s 7) guest stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the 38th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant, and Caroline Morris.