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13: Demon Street: The Photograph
The seventh episode of the syndicated horror anthology series 13 Demon Street airs on stations across the U.S. Hosted by Lon Chaney Jr. (The Wolf Man), and created (and frequently written and directed) by Curt Siodmak (The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man Returns), the series was filmed in Sweden with a motley mixture of American, British, and Swedish actors, with mostly Swedish talent behind the scenes. John Crawford (The Poseidon Adventure) guest stars.
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CBS airs the 
The 94th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part four of the mammoth 12-part story now collectively known as 
Gemini 7 is launched with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell aboard, on a grueling two-week endurance mission which also sees the first manned space rendezvous. The 14-day flight sets a new space endurance record that stands for five years – none of the lunar landing missions will last that long – and the astronauts function well throughout the flight, though some of Gemini 7’s systems begin to fray at the edges toward the end of the mission. Eleven days into Gemini 7’s flight, Gemini 6 is launched on a one-day mission to act as the rendezvous target, and the two manned vehicles close to within mere feet of each other – a first for human spaceflight.
The 13th episode of the time travel sitcom It’s About Time, created by Sherwood Schwarz (I Dream Of Jeannie) and starring Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, and Imogene Coca, is broadcast on CBS.
The 70th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. William Smithers guest stars.
Deram Records – an offshoot of UK label Decca – releases the 
The 14th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series 
ABC airs the 
NBC airs the 13th and final episode of Monster Squad, a live-action Saturday morning comedy starring Fred Grandy. Vito Scotti guest stars.
CBS airs 
NBC airs the second episode of Darkroom, a horror anthology hosted by James Coburn. The series features multiple stories per episode; this installment includes The Bogeyman Will Get You, guest starring Helen Hunt (Mad About You, Twister) and Randy Powell (Logan’s Run), and Uncle George, guest starring Claude Akins and June Lockhart (Lost In Space).
CBS airs the 29th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. David Greenlee (Beauty And The Beast) stars in The Toys Of Caliban, marking a single-story departure for a series that has thus far worked at least two or three stories into each episode.
CBS airs the tenth episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Richard Herd (V) guest stars.
Bantam Books publishes the short story collection 
The 32nd episode of the horror anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares is broadcast in syndication in North America, hosted by Robert Englund in character as Freddy Krueger. Sharon Ferrell guest stars.
The ninth episode of She-Wolf Of London is broadcast in syndication in North America, a co-production between Universal Studios and British broadcaster HTV, and starring Kate Hodge and Neil Dickson. Pippa Haywood (The One Game) guest stars.
NBC airs the fifth episode of the science fiction series Earth 2, starring Debrah Farentino, Clancy Brown, and Antonio Sabato Jr. 
The 30th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Dick Van Patten, Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, and Denise Richards guest star.
NASA/JPL’s low-cost 
The ninth episode of the sequel series Team Knight Rider airs in syndication, starring Brixton Karnes, Christine Steel, Duane Davis, and Nick Wechsler. David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, The Invisible Man, NCIS) guest stars.
The second episode of children’s science fiction series Aquila premieres on BBC1, starring Ben Brooks and Craig Vye. The series is adapted by Andrew Norriss from his own novel of the same name. 
Showtime airs the 85th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Adam Baldwin (Firefly) guest stars.
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off to begin the construction of the International Space Station. Endeavour conducts a rendezvous with the already-launched Zarya module and attached the Unity station module to it. The two modules’ external connections are completed during a spacewalk, and the station is powered up for the first time on December 7th. Endeavour’s 13th crew is Commander Robert Cabana, Pilot Frederick Sturckow, and mission specialists Nancy Currie, Jerry Ross, James Newman and Sergei Krikalev. Cabana and Krikalev are the first humans to enter the International Space Station, but since the fledgeling facility lacks long-term habitation facilities, it is left unmanned at the end of the 12 day mission.
The 76th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Jayne Heitmeyer, and Von Flores.
JAXA’s unmanned Hayabusa spacecraft fires its ion engines to depart asteroid 25143 Itokawa, embarking on a five-year trek back to Earth to return surface samples it obtained of the asteroid. Hayabusa has experienced numerous technical glitches, and continues to experience further problems, including a total loss of contact with Earth for several weeks. Only two out of the vehicle’s four ion engines are still functional, and its battery system is only partially reliable, but it is carrying its precious cargo of the first sample material from an asteroid back to Earth.
Silva Screen Records releases a long-awaited CD of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 
The 17th and 18th episodes of Joss Whedon’s futuristic “spy-fi” series Dollhouse air on Fox, starring Eliza Dushku. Alexis Denisof (Angel), Summer Glau (Firefly, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Ray Wise (Twin Peaks) guest star. As the series has now been cancelled, Fox is “burning off” episodes at a rate of two per week.
The 
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a comprehensive 15-CD box set containing every note of music ever recorded for the three original seasons of Star Trek, a music collection long thought to be an impossibility due to decades of rumors of lost and damaged tapes. Over a year of work on restoration, remixing and remastering reveals that all of the show’s music – even tapes that, by musicians’ union regulations, should have been destroyed in the 1960s – still exists and can be licensed and released.