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Tales Of Tomorrow: The Duplicates

Tales Of TomorrowThe 40th episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, airs on ABC, with each episode’s opening titles proclaiming that the series is produced “in cooperation with the Science-Fiction League of America”, a collective of sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon among its members. This episode stars Darren McGavin (Kolchak: The Night Stalker).

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Tales Of Tomorrow: Ahead Of His Time

Tales Of TomorrowThe 41st episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, airs on ABC, with each episode’s opening titles proclaiming that the series is produced “in cooperation with the Science-Fiction League of America”, a collective of sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon among its members. This episode is written by, and stars, Paul Tripp.

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Tales Of Tomorrow: Sudden Darkness

Tales Of TomorrowThe 42nd episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, airs on ABC, with each episode’s opening titles proclaiming that the series is produced “in cooperation with the Science-Fiction League of America”, a collective of sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon among its members. This episode is missing from the archives and may be lost.

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Tales Of Tomorrow: Ice From Space

Tales Of TomorrowThe 43rd episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, airs on ABC, with each episode’s opening titles proclaiming that the series is produced “in cooperation with the Science-Fiction League of America”, a collective of sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov and Theodore Sturgeon among its members. This episode features Paul Newman, and closes the first season (though the second season will begin mere weeks later).

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Tales Of Tomorrow: A Bird In Hand

Tales Of TomorrowThe 44th episode of ABC’s science fiction anthology series, Tales Of Tomorrow, airs on ABC. Beginning with the second season, the series no longer claims to have ties to the Science-Fiction League of America. Much of the second season is missing, including this episode.

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The Adventures Of Superman: Superman On Earth

The Adventures Of SupermanThe first episode of The Adventures Of Superman premieres in syndication on TV stations across the United States, based on the comic by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel. George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, and Jack Larson star. Robert Rockwell guest stars as Jor-El in a retelling of Superman’s origin story.

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Atomic Energy Science & Technology

Operation Hurricane

Operation HurricaneOperation Hurricane, the first test detonation of a British-built atomic bomb, takes place aboard a Royal Navy frigate anchored near the Monte Bello Islands off of the western Australian coast. The detonation has a yield of 25 kilotons, and is remotely detonated aboard the frigate to gauge the damage that would result from a scenario in which a nuclear device is smuggled into a sea port aboard a ship. This is a continuation of Britain’s own nuclear weapon development program initiated during World War II, and makes the U.K. the third nuclear-armed nation on Earth.

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Ivy Mike

Ivy MikeThe United States conducts the first-ever successful test of a thermonuclear bomb at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean as part of Operation Ivy. The explosion resulting from the first hydrogen bomb test has a yield equivalent to 10 megatons of TNT, with a three-mile blast radius, stripping vegetation from the ground in the surrounding area. There is significant radiological fallout from the event, and one pilot assigned to fly a jet fighter through the area an hour after the detonation loses control of his plane, crashes, and dies due to residual radiation interfering with his instruments and controls. Traces of the previously undiscovered (but theorized) elements einsteinium and fermium are found afterward.