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Thunderbirds: Desperate Intruder

ThunderbirdsUK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the eighth 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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Doctor Who Television

Doctor Who: Day Of Armageddon

Doctor WhoThe 92nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the mammoth 12-part story now collectively known as The Daleks’ Master Plan. Short-lived TARDIS traveler Katarina becomes the first companion in the history of Doctor Who to die, and future series star Nicholas “The Brigadier” Courtney appears as Bret Vyon. This episode is one of only three parts of this story not missing from the BBC’s archives.

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Thunderbirds: End Of The Road

ThunderbirdsUK 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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Thunderbirds: The Uninvited

ThunderbirdsUK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the 10th 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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Luna Uncrewed Spaceflight

Luna 8

Luna 8Soviet engineers and space scientists come achingly close to succeeding in landing a robotic lunar lander on the moon’s surface. Luna 8, the latest in a long line of problem-plagued would-be moon explorers, lifts off. A new, improved version of the nearly 3,500-pound spacecraft, Luna 8 manages to last longer than the previous three attempts at Luna landers, but loses control mere minutes from a safe touchdown, crashing into the moon instead. The Soviet Union will finally achieve a safe landing on the moon just two months later with Luna 9.

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Crewed Spaceflight Gemini

Gemini 7

Gemini 7Gemini 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.

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Television

Thunderbirds: Sun Probe

ThunderbirdsUK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the 11th 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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Crewed Spaceflight Gemini

Gemini 6

Gemini 6Delayed from its original launch date in October, Gemini 6 had been intended to be the first American space docking mission. An unmanned Agena rocket, launched ahead of Gemini 6 to serve as its docking target, had exploded during liftoff, and the October Gemini 6 mission had been scrubbed as a result. Instead, the crew of Gemini 6 – Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford – are launched on a one-day mission to become the rendezvous target for the already-launched Gemini 7. The two manned vehicles close to within mere feet of each other – a first for human spaceflight.

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Thunderbirds: Operation Crash-Dive

ThunderbirdsUK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the 12th 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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Thunderbirds: Vault Of Death

ThunderbirdsUK broadcaster ATV Midlands airs the 13th 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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Doctor Who Television

Doctor Who: The Feast Of Steven

Doctor WhoThe 97th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Though this is part seven of the mammoth 12-part story now collectively known as The Daleks’ Master Plan, it is completely disconnected from the ongoing Dalek plotline and is a standalone with comedy elements; this is the first Doctor Who Christmas episode, and the only episode in the series’ history in which the Doctor completely breaks down the fourth wall and addresses the viewer, wishing “a happy Christmas to all of you at home” (!).

This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.

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