The 13th episode of the science fiction drama series Men Into Space airs on CBS, starring William Lundigan. Warren Stevens and Simon Oakland guest star.
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The 26th episode of Sydney Newman’s spy series The Avengers, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee, airs on UK broadcaster ABC. This episode is now missing from the archives, but will be recreated in audio form in the 21st century by Big Finish Productions. This, the last episode of the show’s first season, is the last to include Hendry in the cast.
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ABC airs the 14th episode of Leslie Stevens’ anthology series The Outer Limits. Michael Tolan and Olive Deering star in what is generally regarded as one of the series’ most memorable episodes.
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UK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the 14th 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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ABC broadcasts the 17th and final 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 187th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Patrick Troughton plays a double role, starring as both the Doctor and as the ruthless dictator Salamander, in a story set in Earth’s future. Previously missing from the BBC’s archives, a copy of this episode was recovered in Nigeria in 2013.
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The 16th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series The Time Tunnel airs on ABC, starring James Darren and Robert Colbert. Whit Bissell and Lee Meriwether geust star.
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The 12th episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. Wanda Ventham and David Collings guest star.
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NBC premieres the third episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Serling himself. Agnes Moorhead (Bewitched) guest stars. 
The 330th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the series’ first “multi-Doctor” celebratory story, featuring Patrick Troughton as the second Doctor, with appearances by William Hartnell as the first Doctor (though Hartnell’s participation in the story has been significantly reduced due to his failing health; he never appears on set with his successors, appearing only in pre-recorded film inserts). Stephen Thorne guest stars as Omega. Oddly, given the timing of this episode’s broadcast, the “tenth anniversary story” begins airing closer to the ninth anniversary of Doctor Who’s premiere than its tenth.
The 25th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Frank Gorshin (Batman) guest stars.
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The 497th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1, continuing the Key To Time storyline. Philip Madoc, Glyn Owen and John Abineri guest star.
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HESware releases the resource management game Project Space Station for the Apple II home computer, designed by Lawrence Holland (X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter). The game involves using a fleet of two space shuttles – Columbia and Challenger – to build the U.S. space station.
The 38th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs.
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GNP Crescendo records releases the soundtrack compilation album The Best of Star Trek: Volume One, collecting music highlights from the original Star Trek TV series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager in time for the 30th anniversary of the franchise.
The 13th 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 106th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Louise Fletcher guest stars. This is the first episode of DS9 to feature the new uniform style introduced in the movie Star Trek: First Contact.
NASA’s Cassini space probe successfully completes a slingshot maneuver past Jupiter, a necessary milestone on the unmanned robot’s long journey to Saturn. While in the neighborhood, Cassini conducts tandem studies of Jupiter with the still-operational Galileo probe, which – despite numerous major malfunctions – has still survived three years longer in Jovian space than it was expected to. As large as Jupiter is, Cassini will still be lending its electronic eyes and ears to studies of the largest planet well into January. Cassini will reach Saturn’s neighborhood in 2004.
Big Finish Productions releases the 103rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher.
Big Finish Productions releases the seventh Doctor Who audio drama in its Companion Chronicles range (short stories performed audiobook style with one or two actors). Nicholas Courtney and Toby Longwirth star.
Big Finish Productions releases the eighth Doctor Who Unbound audio drama, a limited series of unconnected audios that are also unconnected to the larger continuity of the Doctor Who universe. David Warner (Tron, Time Bandits) stars as an alternate Doctor, with Nicholas Courtney returning as the Brigadier.
Big Finish Productions releases the 155th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and Julie Cox.
Milan Records releases the soundtrack from the 2016 science fiction miniseries Mars by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.
Lakeshore Records digitally releases Alex Somers & Sigur Ros‘ soundtrack from the Black Mirror episode Hang The DJ.
Fox airs the 13th episode of the science fiction comedy-drama The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane, opening the show’s second season. Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) and Will Sasso (Mad TV) guest star.
Songwriter and occasional actor Neil Innes, best known for his association with Monty Python, The Rutles, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, dies unexpectedly at the age of 75. The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band’s hit “I’m The Urban Spaceman” brought him into the orbit of the Beatles, and he contributed a background track to their 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour. His participation in a later parody of the Beatles, the Rutles, led to TV specials and well-received albums, which counted among their fans and participants the former members of the Beatles themselves. Innes contributed material to the shortened final season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which made him one of only two members outside of the Python troupe to write material for the show (the other was future Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy creator Douglas Adams); his work with the Pythons continued into their feature films in the 1970s and early ’80s; he was also a cast member in the Pythons’ live performances during this period.
Streaming service Amazon Prime releases the 51st episode of the science fiction series The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham).