The 277th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Most of the regular and recurring cast members double as “fascist alternate universe” versions of themselves; Olaf Pooley and Christopher Benjamin guest star.
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The 278th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Most of the regular and recurring cast members double as “fascist alternate universe” versions of themselves; Olaf Pooley and Christopher Benjamin guest star. This is the last appearance of Caroline John as series regular Liz Shaw, despite the character not getting a send-off scene.
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Toho releases the ninth Godzilla movie, Monster Zero. 
ITV premieres the first episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. David Prowse (Star Wars) guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
ITV airs the second episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. David Prowse (Star Wars) guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
ITV airs the third episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. David Prowse (Star Wars) guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
ITV airs the fourth episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. Vernon Dobtcheff guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
ITV airs the fifth episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. Vernon Dobtcheff guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
ITV airs the sixth episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. Vernon Dobtcheff guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
After the Congressional budget for the fiscal year of 1971 delivers a major blow to the budget for continued space exploration, NASA cancels Apollo 18 and 19, having already taken Apollo 20 off the schedule to use its Saturn V to launch a space station into Earth orbit. Both lunar landing missions are scrapped purely due to budgetary concerns, rather than to repurpose their hardware for other missions. The Saturn V rockets constructed to send these two missions to the moon become very large, expensive museum pieces. Barring any changes to crew rosters or destination, Apollo 18 would have taken Dick Gordon, Vance Brand and Harrison Schmitt to Copernicus crater, while Apollo 19 would have seen astronauts Fred Haise, William Pogue and Gerald Carr exploring the Hadley Rille, which became Apollo 15’s destination.
ITV airs the seventh episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. Vernon Dobtcheff guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
The Soviet Union launches unmanned space probe Luna 16 toward the moon, the first success in the Soviet space program’s ongoing attempt to mount a robotic sample return mission. The lander’s drill-equipped sample collection arm gathers a 35 millimeter, 100-gram core sample of lunar soil, which is then packed into a shielded return capsule for direct return to Earth (seen here after landing). Now claiming that they advocate robotic sample return missions without putting human lives at risk, the Soviets can at last claim a lunar first – the first robotic return to Earth of a soil sample from another body in the solar system.
ITV airs the eighth episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
ITV airs the first episode of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson’s sci-fi series UFO, starring Edward Bishop. In a departure from the Andersons’ previous “Supermarionation” puppet-based shows, UFO is an hour-long live-action show produced with an eye toward breaking into the American TV market.
Decca Records releases the sixth album by the Moody Blues, A Question Of Balance, featuring the singles “Question” and “Melancholy Man”. Thanks to the band’s large following, the album – the second to be released by the band in 1970 – is an international bestseller.
ITV airs the ninth episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
The second episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. George Sewell and Jean Marsh (Doctor Who, Upstairs, Downstairs) guest star.
The first episode of the modern-day science fiction series The Immortal premieres on ABC, starring Christopher George. Carol Lynley and Glenn Corbett guest star.
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The 21st episode of the children’s sci-fi series Phoenix Five airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, starring Mike Dorsey, Damien Parker, and Patsy Trench (Science Report: Alternative 3), with Owen Weingott as recurring villain Platonus.
ITV premieres the first episode of Timeslip, a time travel adventure series aimed at younger viewers. (Though produced in color, later purges at ITV’s archive facility leaves future generations with only black & white copies of this and most other episodes.)
ITV airs the tenth episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
The third episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. Wanda Ventham, Lois Maxwell, and Alexis Kanner (The Prisoner) guest star.
ABC airs the second episode of the modern-day science fiction series The Immortal, starring Christopher George. Ross Martin (The Wild Wild West) guest stars.
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The United States government reorganizes ESSA (the Environmental Science Services Administration) into NOAA or the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, an agency responsible for weather prediction and research and for functions involving oceanic conditions, coastal fisheries, and then-current investigations of a potential Alaskan oil pipeline.
ITV airs the 11th episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
The fourth episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. Drewe Henley (Star Wars) guest stars.
ABC airs the third episode of the modern-day science fiction series The Immortal, starring Christopher George. Jack Albertson guest stars.
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ITV airs the 12th episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
The fifth episode of Gerry Anderson’s live-action UFO series airs on ITV, starring Edward Bishop and Michael Billington. Philip Madoc guest stars.
ABC airs the fourth episode of the modern-day science fiction series The Immortal, starring Christopher George. Susan Howard guest stars.
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