The 67th episode of the syndicated science fiction Science Fiction Theatre airs on stations across the U.S. Hosted by Truman Bradley, the episode stars Bruce Bennett and Michael Fox.
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After months of lobbying the U.S. Air Force and the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) for help in funding a large-aperture radar/radio telescope dish for studies of Earth’s ionosphere and the space that lies beyond, Cornell University’s Bill Gordon publishes a report in the journal of the School of Electrical Engineering. Gordon’s report, setting out the basic parameters for the project, includes a reflector dish diameter of one thousand feet – a daunting prospect from a structural engineering perspective. Sites in Texas and upstate New York are considered before a natural limestone “bowl” south of the city of Arecibo, Puerto Rico emerges as a promising candidate site.
ABC airs the 33rd episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Norma Crane and Grant Williams guest star.
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The 77th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. John Dehner and Walter Brooke star.
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British broadcaster ABC airs the 36th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman.
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The 12th 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 40th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek premieres on NBC. Julie Newmar takes a break from the Batcave to guest star in an episode focusing on the prime directive (and Kirk’s typical willingness to break with that most sacred of Federation laws). 
ABC airs the ninth episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Paul Fix guest stars.
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Fly Records releases the third album by Birmingham rock group The Move, Looking On. The group sports an elegant, elaborate new sound on this outing, having recruited budding songwriter/performer Jeff Lynne from another local band, the Idle Race. Lynne’s interaction with Move frontman Roy Wood will lead to the formation, a year later, of the Electric Light Orchestra.
NASA’s Mariner 9 Mars orbiter becomes the first spacecraft to provide relatively close-up images of Mars’ innermost, larger moon, Phobos, from over 3,500 miles away. The irregular shape and heavily cratered surface of Phobos point up its likely origins as an asteroid that long ago came close enough to Mars to be captured into an orbit. Phobos (and its still unseen-at-close-range smaller sibling, Deimos) will be imaged at much closer range later in the 1970s by the Viking orbiters.
Electric Light Orchestra‘s self-titled debut album is released in the UK, though it proves to be the last released collaboration between founders (and former Move members) Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne; Wood leaves the band after an unpromising live debut. The album is released in the US in March 1972, where a phone call to clarify the album’s title results in a misunderstood written note that leads to the American release going out under the unintentional title No Answer.
NBC airs the 17th episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Serling himself. Bardford Dillman, Louise Sorel, Steve Lawrence, and Donald Moffat (Logan’s Run) guest star in an episode that includes an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “Pickman’s Model”.
NBC airs the 11th episode of the supernatural anthology series Ghost Story, produced by 1960s horror movie mogul William Castle and starring Sebastian Cabot. Hal Linden and Mike Farrell guest star. (This series will be retitled Circle Of Fear in 1973.)
ABC airs the 13th episode of the DC animated series Super Friends, starring the voices of Norman Alden, Casey Kasem, Ted Knight, and Olan Soule.
The 13th episode of the animated Star Trek series premieres on NBC, with a script by original series writer Margaret Armen.
The 11th episode of the short-lived Canadian-made science fiction series The Starlost, The Astro Medics, premieres.
The 14th episode of Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries is broadcast on ITV licensee Anglia Television, starring Jack Cassidy and Rona Newton-John, with Welles providing his customary introductory and closing narration.
NBC airs the ninth episode of The Invisible Man, starring David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, Colditz), Melinda Fee, and Craig Stevens.
Midway introduces its own first-person car racing arcade game, Datsun 280 ZZZAP! (with permission from Datsun for the product placement, a video game first).
The 23rd episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Don Marshall (Land Of The Giants) guest stars.
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The 13th and final episode of the British-German science fiction series Star Maidens premieres on ITV in the UK. (Not all regional ITV affiliates carry the show at a specific time; this episode guide reflects the dates for the broadcast premieres of each episode on Scottish TV.)
The 44th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Nicolas Coster and Brian Tochi (Space Academy) guest star.
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The 22nd episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Shelley Fabares guest stars.
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Pocket Books releases the movie novelization “Star Trek: The Motion Picture“, written by Gene Roddenberry. This is Roddenberry’s only piece of Star Trek prose fiction.
The 519th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. David Daker and Peter Craze guest star in a strangely-timed (just before Christmas?) anti-drug story.
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Days before the film’s theatrical premiere, Pocket Books publishes Gene Roddenberry‘s novelization of the movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the Star Trek creator’s sole foray into Star Trek print fiction.
The Odyssey² video game console’s answer to Space Invaders, Alien Invaders – Plus!, hits stores. Though patterned after the familiar layout of the arcade game, the Odyssey edition offers some interesting variations, especially once the player runs out of protective shields.
Mattel Electronics releases the Loco Motion cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, based on the Konami arcade game of the same name.
The Alan Parsons Project releases its ninth album, Stereotomy, including the single “Limelight”.
Mindscape releases RACTER for the Apple II home computer, a program originally promoted as an early example of artificial intelligence, but whose packaging claims it to be a parody of artificial intelligence.